Musicians speaking out against Israel has become a mainstream topic as artists are using famous festival stages to express their opposition against the ongoing genocide. Consequences followed swiftly, with Manchester’s RADAR cancelling Bob Vylan’s performance and Kneecap facing legal action after Glanstonbury. In the electronic…
The following is part 2 of our article series documenting conditions at Dheisheh refugee camp in the occupied Palestinian West Bank, where independent journalist and Unicorn Riot contributor Brendan Dunn, spent time in 2023 and 2024 collecting stories from Palestinian activists resisting the ongoing Israeli…
As the genocide in Gaza rages on, Palestinians in the occupied West Bank struggle to survive. 19 refugee camps in the West Bank are home to over 900,000 displaced Palestinian people expelled from their homelands. Dheisheh refugee camp is one of these camps, where Unicorn…
Minneapolis, MN — Former Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett visited Minneapolis on June 6 to speak at a banquet for the Center of the American Experiment, a right-wing think tank based in the suburb of Golden Valley. Around 100 people initially gathered to protest the…
It's impossible to think of Greater Boston without acknowledging the importance of its students and universities. When campus encampments sprung up across the country, it came as no surprise when many began in Greater Boston.
Berlin, Germany — In the middle of the night on Sunday, March 17, a group of anarchist Palestinian solidarity activists spray painted a building in downtown Berlin containing the offices of two entities currently contributing to the ongoing genocide in Gaza. The activists used a…
Jenin, West Bank –The city of Jenin and its camp for displaced Palestinians witnessed a large-scale Israeli military operation, which experts and residents described as the largest “most violent” raid in recent times, on June 20. Two weeks later, on July 3, Israeli forces carried…
Over the year, Unicorn Riot has published dozens of stories bringing context to the Palestinian struggle. This report features three newly published videos from the summer that showcase three different struggles against land seizures in the occupied West Bank of Palestine; Beit Dajan, Tarqumiya and Masafer Yatta.
Al-Nabi Samuel, Palestine – Every Friday for the past two months in the Palestinian village of al-Nabi Samuel, Israeli forces have been suppressing vigils organized by Palestinian residents. Just six miles northwest of occupied Jerusalem, Nabi Samuel is one of several villages that the Israeli…
Gaza City, Gaza, Palestine – Over the course of three days, at least 44 Palestinians were killed by Israeli airstrikes targeting leaders and sites of the Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) movement in the Gaza Strip. Starting on August 5, 2022, Israel began what they called…
Occupied West Bank, Palestine – Palestinian protests against Israeli settlement expansion and land confiscations in the northwestern regions of the occupied West Bank are frequently being met with violence by Israeli forces who are also conducting violent and often deadly raids on a near-daily basis.…
Silwad, Occupied West Bank, Palestine – On April 14, 2022, Omar Muhammad Alyan, age 20, was killed during confrontations with Israeli occupation forces who stormed Silwad, a town east of Ramallah in the Occupied West Bank. Alyan was one of three Palestinians killed in the…
Jenin Refugee Camp, West Bank, Palestine – Over a dozen Palestinians have been killed, hundreds injured, and 200 detained in Jenin since the beginning of the year. Amidst a spate of attacks by Palestinians and Arab-Israelis inside Israel, the Israeli Defense Forces (IDF) have launched…
Nablus, Occupied West Bank, Palestine – Israel Defense Forces (IDF) opened fire on Palestinian civilians during confrontations on March 25, 2022. The clashes happened amid olive tree groves in Beita, a village south of Nablus in the occupied northern West Bank. At least 33 Palestinians…
On July 27th, Palestinians and allies held protests in East Meadow, Long Island and Brooklyn as part of the Defund Racism campaign targeting US settler organizations that support the theft of Palestinian land. The Long Island protest was outside the home of Yaakov Fauci, an…
St. Paul, MN – Local organizers have accused the State of Minnesota of “funding the wall” between both the Mexico-USA border and further between Palestine and Israel. Anti-war and migrant justice activists turned up the pressure on Minnesota legislators to divest an estimated $1.25 million…
