Kathy Kelly Archives - Palestine Chronicle

Pope Francis’s Legacy of Love and Peace Remembered on the Day of His Funeral

April 26, 2025

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 […]

The Real Outrage in Yemen: More US Strikes, More Civilian Deaths, More Silence

March 30, 2025

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 […]

Trump’s Vision for Gaza: A ‘Riviera’ Built on Ethnic Cleansing

February 8, 2025

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 […]

An Effort to ‘Rethink’ – When Will the General Assembly Suspend Israel?

November 16, 2024

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 […]

Hind Rajab and the Student Protests – Unfurling Love from the Window

May 12, 2024

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,” […]

Wounds of Hatred and Sorrow: Israel is Assaulting Hospitals in Gaza with Full US Support

February 20, 2024

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 […]

Predicting Pestilence: WHO Says Disease Could Be Deadlier than Airstrikes in Gaza

December 5, 2023

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. […]

Norman Solomon’s ‘War Made Invisible’ Refutes Collusion with War Makers – Book Review

June 19, 2023

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, […]

Brotherhood and Friendship in a Time of War: Reflections on ‘The Mercenary’ – Book Review

May 30, 2023

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 […]

Organizing Resistance to US Militarism: To End All Wars, Close All Bases

May 7, 2023

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 […]

Blood Does Not Wash Away Blood: Words are Stronger than Weapons

March 14, 2023

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 […]

Peace Activists Take on the Pentagon: Decry the Merchants of Death

January 2, 2023

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 […]

Biden’s Middle East Trip: No Starvation for Oil

July 13, 2022

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 […]

‘Thank You for Hearing Our Pain’: Afghan Economy Collapses Due to US Sanctions

February 13, 2022

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 […]

Abandoning Yemen? UNHRC Action Silences Yemeni Victims of Human Rights Abuses

October 16, 2021

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 […]

Reckoning and Reparations in Afghanistan

July 18, 2021

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 […]

Why Daniel Hale Deserves Gratitude, Not Prison

July 10, 2021

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. […]

Hunting in Yemen: The Grotesque War

April 11, 2021

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 […]

No Blood for Oil: Pope Francis Should Kiss Iraqi Soil

March 4, 2021

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 […]

About Suffering: A Massacre of the Innocents in Yemen

January 20, 2021

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 […]

Hiroshima: Our Survival at Stake

August 9, 2020

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 […]

Inked in Blood: When the World Becomes Our Battleground State

June 27, 2020

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 […]

Weapons that Protect White Privilege Prevent Sustainable Community Change

June 10, 2020

By Kathy Kelly In her poem, “The Revolution Will Rhyme,” Buffalo Black Lives Matter activist Jillian Hanesworth writes about the movement for change we now see sweeping across the world. It will not be developed just to […]

‘Our Disaster’: US Role in Yemen’s Humanitarian Crisis

June 2, 2020

By Kathy Kelly An entire generation of Yemeni children has suffered the traumas of war, many of them orphaned, maimed, malnourished, or displaced. The United Nations reports a death toll of 100,000 people in that nation’s […]

My Friend Steve Kelly: Trident Program is the Crime

April 5, 2020

By Kathy Kelly On April 4, 2020, my friend Steve Kelly will begin a third year of imprisonment in Georgia’s Glynn County jail. He turned 70 while in prison, and while he has served multiple […]

Vigil for Peace in Yemen, a New Norm

March 28, 2020

By Kathy Kelly For the past three years, several dozen New Yorkers have gathered each Saturday at Union Square, at 11:00 a.m. to vigil for peace in Yemen. Now, however, due to the coronavirus, the […]

US Sanctions against Iran: Stop Tightening the Thumb Screws, A Humanitarian Message

March 18, 2020

By Kathy Kelly US sanctions against Iran, cruelly strengthened in March of 2018, continue a collective punishment of extremely vulnerable people. Presently, the US “maximum pressure” policy severely undermines Iranian efforts to cope with the […]

Camp Bucca, Abu Ghraib and the Rise of Extremism in Iraq

October 29, 2019

By Kathy Kelly On October 27, President Trump announced the death of Abu Bakr Al- Baghdadi and three of his children. President Trump said Al-Baghdadi, the founder of ISIS, was fleeing U.S. military forces, […]

Death, Misery and Bloodshed in Yemen

October 18, 2019

By Kathy Kelly Writing about his visit to the world’s largest weapons bazaar, held in London during October, Arron Merat describes reading this slogan emblazoned above Raytheon’s stall: “Strike with Creativity.” Raytheon manufactures Paveway laser-guided bombs, fragments […]

The Ongoing Dread in Gaza: So Many Names, So Many Lives

July 24, 2019

By Kathy Kelly “I felt shaky and uneasy all day, preparing for this talk” – Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian from the territory of Gaza Jehad Abusalim, a Palestinian now living in the United States, grew […]

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