Genocide unfolds in Gaza with mounting death toll, only made possible by the unconditional military support from the U.S. In addition, unauthorized bombing continues in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq.

Please join actions upcoming this weekend and next:

Sat. Feb. 17: Join DSA to say "No Money for Massacres" at one of their tables:
Grand Army Plaza 10:00 am to 12:00 noon
Newkirk Plaza 12:00 noon to 2:00 pm
Sat. Feb. 17, 1:00 pm @ Union Square Global March for Rafah
Wed. Feb. 21, 11:00 am: Webinar: Two Years On: What is the Path Forward in Ukraine?
(Quincy Institute, with Anatol Lieven, George Beebe, and Michael Kimmage.) Register here.)
Thurs. Feb. 22, 3:00 pm: Dump AIPAC!
Sat. Feb. 24, 11:00 am to 1:00 pm: Join BFP at Grand Army Plaza to mark two years since the start of the Ukraine war, with no end in sight. Call for ceasefire and negotiations to end the Ukraine war, an end to the Gaza genocide, and an end to the unauthorized bombing in Yemen, Syria, and Iraq. We'll be distributing this flyer and talking with our neighbors.

Scroll down for recent resources on Ukraine and Gaza.

Photo Credit: Matt Weinstein

What was the state of health care in Gaza before the October assault?
What is the impact on civilians of the massive bombing and dislocation of Gaza?
What is International Human Rights law, and has it been violated?
Have war crimes been committed?
Has the war reached the level of genocide?
What can we do?

Speaker Dr. Alice Rothchild, author, filmmaker, and physician, is focused on human rights and social justice. She has made many trips to Israel, the West Bank and Gaza, most recently in August 2023. She's a member of Jewish Voice for Peace Health Advisory Council, the mentor liaison for "We Are Not Numbers" and on the board of the Gaza Mental Health Foundation.

Sponsor: Brooklyn For Peace
Co-sponsors: Peace Action Bay Ridge, Peace Action New York State, NYC War Resisters League, Tree of Life Educational Fund, United for Peace and Justice, World Can't Wait
Email bfp@brooklynpeace.org if your organization would like to co-sponsor.

Register here.

In two recent articles, William Hartung of the Quincy Institute and Michael Klare of The Nation approach the increasing threat of nuclear catastrophe from distinctly different perspectives.

Hartung offers a more hopeful take, drawing on the history of successful antinuclear campaigns over the decades and proposing the unification of racial, economic, environmental and antinuclear movements as the way to move forward.

In the face of the new three-way nuclear arms race between the US, Russia and China, and the potential nuclear flashpoints in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Taiwan, the South China Sea, the Korean Peninsula, and the Middle East, Klare sees a massive, specifically anti-nuclear movement as essential.

William Hartung - Strangelove Days: The Seeds of a New Disarmament Movement

Michael T. Klare - Surviving an Era of Pervasive Nuclear Instability

Why US strikes will only embolden the Houthis, not stop their Attacks on Ships in the Red Sea

In “Informed Comment,” University of Sydney’s Sarah G. Phillips details three convincing reasons why the US/British attacks on Houthis are actually broadening their popularity after years of opposition in Yemen.

Palestinian and Other Resistance In Times of Catastrophe

In this video lecture, the Swedish environmental activist and author Andreas Malm ties the Palestinian resistance to the movement for climate justice and argues passionately that, while civilian deaths are deplorable, uprisings against oppression are justified.

Letter of Resignation from the Jewish People

In an old (2005) but still highly relevant article, NYU’s Bertell Ollman argues that Zionist nationalism actually reverses Judaism’s ancient opposition to idolatry and increases antisemitism.

The Price of Netanyahu's Ambition

In the New Yorker, David Remnick explains in some detail how, amid war with Hamas, a hostage crisis, the devastation of Gaza, and Israel’s splintering identity, the Prime Minister seems unable to distinguish between his own interests and his country’s.