"Five months of violence, displacement, starvation, and disease on top of nearly 17 years of a blockade have caused relentless mental harm to children in Gaza," said Save the Children. In addition to killing, maiming, and forcibly displacing hundreds of thousands of Palestinian children, Israel’s genocidal assault on Gaza has wrought tremendous psychological damage upon kids in the embattled strip, as detailed by a Save the Children report published Tuesday. The charity’s report – entitled Trapped and Scarred: The Compounding Mental Harm Inflicted on Palestinian Children in Gaza – examines how “five months of violence, displacement, starvation, and disease on top of nearly 17…

Xi Jinping's crackdown on the "disease" of separatism encouraged local Chinese officials to sweep up as many detainees as possible for internment camps in the Muslim-majority region of Xinjiang, where they faced what the U.S. has described as genocide. Officials in the region, hoping to satisfy the Chinese president's drive for draconian "reforms," were incentivized to intensify the policy of repression, which escalated from "thought eradication" to mass internment, reeducation and sterilization under the guise of combating extremism, according to a new report. The report, based on files obtained from Xinjiang Police Security Bureau and other local security sources, was released…

"CROSSING IS PROHIBITED, TRESPASSING OR TOUCHING THE FENCE ENDANGERS YOUR LIFE!” The large orange sign in front of the high-voltage electrified barrier leaves no ambiguity: touch it and die. It sits on a desolate patch of sandy grass in front of a 40-foot-high wall of gray cement, one that extends another 18 feet into the ground and is topped by triple rows of barbed wire, like a crown of thorns. Beyond the electrified fence, the prison walls, and a Kafkaesque assortment of surveillance balloons, armed patrols, tanks, drones, and watchtowers, is the entry point for Rafah, Gaza’s southernmost city. Today, that entry point, located in Egypt…

With the humanitarian situation in Gaza increasingly desperate, the United States said Friday that it would join some of its Arab and European allies in delivering emergency relief from the sky.   The amount of aid brought into the territory by truck has plummeted during nearly five months of war, and Gazans are facing dire shortages of food, water and medicines.  A frenzied scramble for food from a truck convoy delivering aid to northern Gaza left more than 100 people dead on Thursday, according to the Hamas-run territory's health ministry, after Israeli forces opened fire on the crowd.  With most aid…

I recently visited the home of Malcolm X in Queens, New York, which was firebombed a week before his assassination on February 21st, 1965. Along with my uncle, my father, and Martin Luther King, it was one of four assassinations of the 1960s that devastated the soul of our nation. Malcolm’s death was especially tragic because it came at a moment where the arc of his life had swung toward viewing all people as part of the brotherhood of humanity. The central revelation that transformed him was a trip to Mecca where he saw people of every race, creed and…