Civil rights

MLK was clear: Anti-Zionism is antisemitism - opinion

The question is not what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would say today – he already told us. The question is whether we are prepared to listen.

DR. MARTIN Luther King, Jr. addresses the crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.
Claudette Colvin, who was attending Booker T. Washington Magnet High School in 1955 when she was arrested for not giving up her seat on a Montgomery city bus, visits the school in Montgomery, Alabama, US February 3, 2005.

Claudette Colvin, US civil rights pioneer who defied bus segregation, dies at 86

US Secretary of Health and Human Services Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks with US Vice President JD Vance (not pictured) during the inaugural Make America Healthy Again (MAHA) summit in Washington, DC, US, November 12, 2025.

Kennedy seeks to cut US children's access to gender-affirming care

VIEW OF Independence Hall, the site of the signing of Israel’s Declaration of Independence. The document promises that democratic Israel would uphold full social and political equality of all its citizens, the writer says.

Israel won't be democratic without equality for all citizens, including Palestinians - opinion


MLK honored by American Zionist Movement

"I solemly pledge to do my utmost to uphold the fair name of the Jews- because bigotry in any form is an affront to us all" - Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

DR. MARTIN Luther King, Jr. addresses the crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.

Iran: U.S. presence in Syrian civil war a 'mistake from the start'

Trump said in a tweet on Thursday that "Russia, Iran, Syria & many others are not happy" about the planned U.S. withdrawal.

Iran's President Hassan Rouhani together with his counterparts, Russia's Vladimir Putin and Turkey's Tayyip Erdogan, attend a joint news conference following their meeting in Sochi, Russia November 22, 2017

No Holds Barred: Will Clinton, Schumer, Booker finally condemn Farrakhan?

"But what I did not hear at all last week was that radical antisemites from the left, like Louis Farrakhan, had contributed to a culture of hatred of the Jewish people."

NATION OF ISLAM leader Louis Farrakhan addresses of marchers at the Mall in Washington, DC, during the ‘Million Man March’ in 1995

In the Israel of our dreams, all are welcome to buy a slice of pizza

That all changed for me when, for the first time in my life, I was denied service and thrown out of a pizza shop in the city center of Jerusalem for being who I am.

Jerusalem pride parade, 2 August 2018.

Saudi Arabia seeks death penalty for woman activist -rights groups

Among the detainees is Israa al-Ghomgham, whom Saudi activists said was the first woman to possibly face the death penalty for rights-related work.

While moving into the future, Saudi Arabia remains far behind in equal rights for women and human rights

Speaking truth to power

James Loeffler traces the Jewish roots of the world’s human rights organizations

Amnesty international billboard

Saudi Arabia retaliates over Canadian civil rights criticism

In sharp response: Riyadh gave the Canadian ambassador 24 hours to leave.

SAUDI ARABIA Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman

China's story of Xizang

After the Democratic Reforms in 1959, millions of serfs became the real masters of Xizang.

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Letter from America: RFK’s finest moment

Fifty years later that speech, which unfolds like the movements of a quartet written in the key of compassion and understanding, stands in stark contrast to the discourse we find in the public square today in the United States and around the world.

Robert F. Kennedy sits alongside the motorcade in this 1968 file photograph.

Getting Martin Luther King’s message across

The More than Music troupe brings students to the table with the civil rights leader.

The Colorado-based More than Music troupe.