Human Rights for Everyone

12/21/2025

A retired Tennessee policeman who spent more than a month in jail over an anti-Trump Facebook post is suing the authorities responsible for his arrest.

“In America, we do not jail people for political speech,” the lawsuit states. https://wapo.st/4j5nmkN

12/21/2025

12/21/2025

12/21/2025

Cardinal Pizzaballa of Jerusalem:
I keep being told I need to be neutral Come with me to Gaza, speak to my people who lost everything, and then tell me I have to be neutral It doesn't work.

12/21/2025

On the sixth night of Hanukkah, we honored the legacy of Jewish writer and anarchist Emma Goldman (1869-1940), Z”L. Known as the “mother of anarchy,” Emma’s distrust of violent authority began in her home country of Lithuania, when she recalled witnessing a peasant being brutally whipped in the street.

In 1885, Emma and her sister made the choice to flee escalating political violence against Jews and immigrated to Rochester, New York. There, Emma married her first husband and began factory work. Shortly after, she divorced her husband and moved to NYC, where she met radical thinkers who introduced her to ideas like anarchism and anti-capitalism.

Emma became an accomplished public speaker in her early 20s. Her speeches addressed a variety of topics facing working class New Yorkers: workers rights, strikes, the state, violence, and feminism. She was imprisoned several times for “inciting riots,” agitating against the draft, and distributing information about birth control. Emma used her time in prison to study midwifery. She founded the anarchist Mother Earth magazine, and allegedly said, “If I can’t dance I don’t want to be in your revolution.”

Emma opposed the Zionist movement, believing a Jewish state would not serve Jews any better than other states, and insisted that Jews in Palestine must never have more rights than Palestinians. She continued to fight for revolutionary causes worldwide after she was deported from the U.S. for her activism in 1919.

The Israeli government’s genocide of Palestinians is not over, it is expanding. With funding and support from the US, the Israeli state is entrenching the long-term illegal control and annexation of territory in Gaza. In the face of vicious repression and escalating state violence here in the United States, we renew our commitment to ending the genocide. Our anti-Zionist Jewish ancestors give us strength. May their legacy light the path toward liberation.

Originally from Dwell in Revolution: Ancestors for Judaism Beyond Zionism, a zine and portrait project by , , . Art by:

12/19/2025

No more fear: 'Track AIPAC' website, a sign of rapidly changing US public positions on Palestine and Israel

"AIPAC is on the ropes. It's being defeated and losing its hold on the American public," said David Frank, a professor of communication and political rhetoric at the University of Oregon.

"Track AIPAC is [a] grassroots [organization] identifying how powerful AIPAC is. The founders wanted to show how much money is going to each member of Congress. They want to make the money toxic, so that even the recipients of smaller donations will want to return the money," he added.

"As people become more aware of US military and financial support for Israel, they naturally want to understand which political actors shape these policies. AIPAC's unusually large electoral spending in recent cycles has intensified that scrutiny," an associate professor of political science at Stonehill College told The New Arab.

Read more: https://www.newarab.com/news/track-aipac-website-major-shift-us-public-views-israel