Mike Africa Jr, the son of two MOVE 9 members imprisoned for the past four decades in a the death of a Philadelphia policeman, said supporters have stepped up efforts to free the i

"Democratic party leaders are as always firmly behind their Israeli clients, and their party machinery remains under lock and key."

Despite repeated protests, the Philadelphia Orchestra is going ahead with a planned trip to Israel to join in the apartheid state’s independence anniversary celebrations.

The logic of Zionism compels Israel to massacre scores of unarmed Palestinians in Gaza, said journalist and scholar Vijay Prashad.