New Year's Eve Standout in Boston

As people from all over the greater Boston area came into the city for its annual “First Night” event, they could not avoid seeing these signs. Since we know the ceasefire is a lie, the speakers energized us for the work we will carry on together in the New Year. 

All photos by S.K. Jacoby

Fighting g fascism in America during a genocide in Palestine

We must insist on drawing connections across time and place — from the Holocaust to Gaza, or ICE detention to Israeli prisons — to disrupt the normalization of authoritarianism at every turn.

By Amahl Bishara December 30, 2025

“These times make me think of 1933,” my neighbor commented as our sons zoomed down a hill on their bikes. This was a common sentimentin the early months of President Donald Trump’s second term — how to stop a leader with fascist tendencies who had gained power through a democratic process. 

But it wasn’t our usual neighborhood conversation. Rümeysa Öztürk, a graduate student at Tufts University, where I teach, had recently been kidnapped by masked U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents for writing an op-ed in our student newspaper in support of Palestinian rights and student governance. The alarming video of the incident had left us all shaken.

My neighbor explained that his great-grandparents had come to the United States from Europe in the decades before the Holocaust. But other branches of his Jewish family had stayed and were entirely wiped out. This time, he expected, my publicly Palestinian family was more at risk than his. I think I nodded blandly. For many months, my mind had been with Palestinians in Gaza, where a genocide was underway. His concern for my family seemed to me both alarming and abstract.

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Pentagon Announces $8.6B Contract for Boeing to Make F-15s for Israel

The contract will provide Israel with 25 F-15 fighter jets, with the option for 25 more.

By Sharon Zhang ,

TRUTHOUT December 30, 2025

The Pentagon announced that it’s awarded Boeing with a nearly $8.6 billion contract to provide Israel with F-15 fighter jets this week, as Israel lists several dozen humanitarian groups that it’s banning from Gaza as part of its ongoing genocide, including Doctors Without Borders.

The contract involves the design, manufacturing, and delivery of 25 new F-15IA jets, with the option for 25 more. The work will be carried out at Boeing’s plant in St. Louis, Missouri, and is expected to be finished by the end of 2035, the Department of Defense said in a statement.

Israel had signed a $5.2 billion deal to buy F-15s in late 2024, with the cost potentially having been increased due to the option for more jets, Defense News writes. The contract is part of the U.S.’s F-15 Israel Program.

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Statement by the Humanitarian Country Team of the Occupied Palestinian Territory on international NGOs

The UN and its partners are urging the Israeli authorities to reconsider today's announcement on international NGOs, which are an essential part of the life-saving humanitarian operation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory.

For more information, see: https://www.ochaopt.org/content/un-agencies-and-ngos-call-immediate-lifting-impediments-humanitarian-access-and-ngo-operations-occupied