This collection of words, testimonies, and scripts is not simply a broadcast—it is a record of truth. Today we traced the crimes of settlers in the West Bank, the genocide unfolding in Gaza, and the silence of governments that enable Israel’s destruction. We named Zionism for what it is: an ideology of erasure, a system of violence that has brought misery and insecurity to millions.

We remembered the fallen children like Hind Rajab, doctors who healed under fire, journalists who carried the truth, activists who gave their lives, and allies aboard the Freedom Flotilla. We honored the voices of conscience across the globe, from students in American universities to Jewish thinkers who dismantled Zionist myths, to everyday workers who marched in solidarity.

We spoke of resistance: resistance in olive trees, in sand, in memory, in testimony. Resistance in refusing silence, in exposing lies, in carrying forward the flame of justice. And we named the enablers—the Western powers whose weapons, money, and silence sustain apartheid.

This is not polite avoidance. This is bold testimony. It is urgent truth‑telling. It is unapologetic solidarity. The struggle for Palestine is not confined to one land, one people, or one moment. It is shared. It is global. And it is sacred.

Stay with us.
This is This Week in Palestine.
And this is where the silence ends.

As always, we turn our gaze to Gaza.
not only to the bombs that fell,
not only to the ceasefire that never came,
but to the plans whispered in Washington and echoed by Donald Trump.

Trump’s vision for Gaza is not peace.
It is profit.
It is reconstruction for investors,
skyscrapers rising over rubble,
contracts signed over graves.

And he is not alone.
He is supported by guarantor states that remained silent,
by senators like Ted Cruz who cloak Zionism in scripture,
by leaders who normalize relations while hospitals burn.
They stand with him—
not with the people.

But against this agenda, we honor the voices who refused silence.
We honor Rachel Corrie, Shireen Abu Akleh, Issam Abdallah.
We honor doctors like Ghassan Abu Sitta and Mona El‑Farra,
who healed under fire.
We honor students from Columbia, Harvard, Berkeley, and Boston College,
who marched, who occupied, who spoke.
We honor Americans like Angela Davis, Cornel West, Chris Hedges,
and Jewish voices of conscience—Noam Chomsky, Norman Finkelstein, Ilan Pappé—
who exposed the myths and defended the dignity of Palestinians.

These are the names, the lives, the legacies that stand against Trump’s Gaza vision.
They remind us that Gaza is not a blank canvas for empire.
It is a home.
It is a people.
It is a struggle for truth.

So tonight, as Trump and his allies dream of skyscrapers over rubble,
we remember the fallen,
we honor the resistors,
and we declare:
Palestine is not for sale.
Palestine is not for profit.
Palestine is for its people.

Stay with us.
This is This Week in Palestine.
And this is where the silence ends.

The 56th Annual National Day of Mourning – Plymouth, MA

The 56th Annual National Day of Mourning was held on Thanksgiving Day, November 27, 2025, at Cole’s Hill in Plymouth, Massachusetts. Since 1970, Indigenous people and allies have gathered here each year to mourn ancestors lost to colonization and to challenge the myth of Pilgrims and Native harmony. The tradition began when Wamsutta Frank James of the Wampanoag Nation was prevented from delivering a speech that told the truth about genocide and land theft. In response, he and others created a day of remembrance and protest that has continued for more than half a century, organized by the United American Indians of New England.

This year’s gathering drew hundreds despite the cold weather. The atmosphere was solemn yet defiant, filled with drumming, prayers, and speeches that reminded participants that Thanksgiving is not a simple holiday of gratitude but a day that must confront the truth of colonization. Speakers described the genocide of millions of Native people, the theft of land, and the erasure of cultures. They called for Land Back, climate justice, and resistance to racism, sexism, homophobia, and the destruction of the Earth introduced by colonization.

A powerful theme of the 56th Day of Mourning was solidarity with Palestinians. Speakers declared that from Turtle Island to Palestine, colonialism is a crime. They emphasized that both Indigenous Americans and Palestinians face settler colonialism, displacement, and attempts at erasure, and that their struggles are interconnected. Calls were made to stand with Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, linking the Thanksgiving myth to the propaganda that obscures Palestinian dispossession.

The gathering was both a remembrance and a rallying cry. It affirmed Indigenous survival despite centuries of violence and underscored the importance of truth-telling and solidarity. By explicitly connecting Indigenous resistance with Palestinian liberation, the Day of Mourning revealed a profound truth: from Plymouth Rock to Gaza, the struggle against settler colonialism is shared, and the fight for justice is global.