–Kathy Kelly, a peace activist and author, co-coordinates the Merchants of Death War Crimes Tribunal and is board president of World Beyond War. She contributed this article to The Palestine Chronicle.
By Kathy Kelly Hopefully, this piercing question, along with all the themes raised at the Young Voters’ Congress, will convince activists to remain in the streets. On November 3, 2026, US voters sent an urgently […]
By Kathy Kelly The latest US weapon sale to Israel further confirms US complicity with Israel’s genocidal war crimes against Palestinians. After spending millions of dollars redecorating the White House and transforming D.C. monuments, President […]
By Kathy Kelly Count Bernadotte’s principled humanitarian work may have cost him his life, but we can choose to continue his legacy. In September of 2025, during a Saturday vigil in Stockholm’s Odenplan Square, Isak […]
By Kathy Kelly I hope the Buddhist monks’ message will be instilled in the hearts and minds of innumerable people, stretching across borders and reaching future generations. On May 23, in Poulsbo, WA, hundreds of […]
By Kathy Kelly Two years after Hind Rajab was killed by Israeli fire, Palestinian children in Gaza continue to die from violence, siege, and deliberate deprivation of basic survival needs. January 29th, 2026, marks the […]
By Kathy Kelly Who are the criminals? Israel and its partner, the United States, egregiously flaunt international law, committing numerous war crimes in the Occupied Palestinian Territory. On Thursday, December 25, 2025, during Israel’s ongoing […]
By Kathy Kelly While Israel’s genocide against Palestinians in Gaza continues, the Israeli government paves the way for a ‘Gazafication’ of the West Bank. Israel and its partners continue to wage genocide against the Palestinian […]
By Kathy Kelly The silence we allow ourselves today may soon be involuntary and absolute. Let us summon up a fraction of Dr. Safiya’s, of young Mohammad’s, of Sophie Scholl’s, and Hussam al-Masri’s courage and […]
By Kathy Kelly Pope Francis was speaking about the children of Gaza, who have been orphaned, maimed, sickened, starved, forcibly displaced, traumatized, and buried under fire and rubble. In 2022, Pope Francis created a will […]
By Kathy Kelly Despite the efforts of peace activists across the country, a child in Yemen dies every ten minutes from preventable causes—and the Democratic Representatives in the Senate and the House from New York […]
By Kathy Kelly President Trump’s most recent statements, coupled with his withdrawal of the United States from the UN Human Rights Council, underscore the urgent need for the UNGA to hold an emergency meeting. At […]
By Kathy Kelly In a way, Israel has already removed itself from norms maintained by the UN Charter as it has consistently flouted UN treaties, Resolutions and Advisory opinions. The Biblical Book of Job chronicles […]
By Kathy Kelly I believe their love for Hind Rajab guides the movement so desperately needed to resist militarism. On April 30, when Columbia University student protesters took over Hamilton Hall, they renamed it “Hind’s Hall,” […]
By Kathy Kelly If we can’t find the morality to stop supplying weapons for ongoing Israeli onslaughts against Gaza and its places of healing, we may find we have created a world in which no-one […]
By Kathy Kelly We can’t help but ask whether Israeli officials see the potential for widespread disease as motivation for families to leave Gaza, accepting massive ethnic cleansing that would displace them beyond Gaza’s borders. […]
By Kathy Kelly (War Made Invisible: How America Hides the Human Toll of Its Military Machine by Norman Solomon, The New Press, 2023) Following a string of United States “forever wars,” a profusion of well-written, […]
By Kathy Kelly Sometimes, I needed to pause and recall my own presumptive conclusions about experiences in prisons and war zones when I had recognized a defining reality, which was that we would eventually return […]
By Kathy Kelly A Gazan Ph.D. candidate studying in India, Mohammad Abunahel steadily refines and updates a map on the World BEYOND War website, dedicating a portion of every day to continue researching the extent and impact […]
By Kathy Kelly The extraordinary March 10, 2023 announcement that China’s top diplomat, Mr. Wang Yi, helped broker a rapprochement between Saudi Arabia and Iran suggests that major powers can benefit from believing that, as Albert […]
By Kathy Kelly Days after a US warplane bombed a Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, killing forty-two people, twenty-four of them patients, the international president of MSF, Dr. Joanne Liu […]
By Kathy Kelly President Joe Biden’s foreign policy advisors are applauding themselves for devising a “sensitive” itinerary as he plans to embark on a trip to the Middle East on July 13. In a Washington […]
By Kathy Kelly During visits to Kabul, Afghanistan, over the past decade, I particularly relished lingering over breakfasts on chilly winter mornings with my young hosts who were on their winter break from school. Seated […]
By Kathy Kelly Monday, October 11, marked the official closure of the UN Group of Eminent Experts on Yemen (also known as the Group of Experts or GEE). For nearly four years, this investigative group […]
By Kathy Kelly Earlier this week, 100 Afghan families from Bamiyan, a rural province of central Afghanistan mainly populated by the Hazara ethnic minority, fled to Kabul. They feared Taliban militants would attack them in […]
By Kathy Kelly “Pardon Daniel Hale.” These words hung in the air on a recent Saturday evening, projected onto several Washington, D.C. buildings, above the face of a courageous whistleblower facing ten years in prison. […]
By Kathy Kelly Since March 29, in Washington, D.C., Iman Saleh, age 26, has been on a hunger strike to demand an end to the war in Yemen. She is joined by five others from […]
By Kathy Kelly Thirty years ago, when the United States launched Operation Desert Storm against Iraq, I was a member of the Gulf Peace Team. We were 73 people from fifteen different countries, aged 22 […]
By Kathy Kelly In 1565, Pieter Bruegel the Elder created “The Massacre of the Innocents,” a provocative masterpiece of religious art. The painting reworks a biblical narrative about King Herod’s order to slaughter all newborn boys in Bethlehem for fear […]
By Kathy Kelly For many, the seventy-fifth anniversary of the atomic attack on Hiroshima, August 6, was a day for quiet introspection. I recall a summer morning following the U.S. 2003 “Shock and Awe” invasion of […]
By Kathy Kelly On Thursday, June 25, President Trump’s re-election efforts took him to the “battleground” state of Wisconsin, where he toured the Fincantieri Marinette Marine shipyard. He railed against the Democrats as a scarier enemy than Russia […]
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