Despite their complicity in genocide, attempts to rehabilitate the Biden administration officials who helped arm and enable Israel’s assault on Gaza are already underway. Our union must refuse to collaborate with these former officials, and it must refuse to endorse candidates who support or are supported by these officials. These aren’t leaders who will fight for the working class.
Category: Resources
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CWA Journalists and Media Workers for Palestine
Israel’s targeting and killing of media workers across the region has has made this the deadliest conflict on record for journalists.
Since October 2023, Israel has killed at least 260 journalists, many of them deliberately targeted.
The press are also under attack in Lebanon and Yemen. In September 2025, Israel struck a newspaper office in Yemen, killing 31 journalists—the deadliest massacre of media workers in 16 years.
How does this affect us here?
- Palestinian American workers, as well as other Arab or Muslim workers, have reported being discriminated against in newsrooms. They face higher standards to achieve “neutrality” and are suspected of being too biased to do good work because of their identities.
- Our colleagues with loved ones in Palestine, Lebanon, Iran, and other places in the region do live in fear and anxiety. Some have even lost family members themselves.
- Newsrooms have been censoring reporting about Palestine. These employers are shutting down the autonomy of rank-and-file reporters and producing biased work, which breaks down the trust they have with their readers.
- Journalists have been disciplined or even fired from their jobs for expressing their beliefs or “showing bias.”
Resources and further reading
- 2025 Survey from the Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Association (AMEJA)
- Arab and Middle Eastern Journalists Notice a Troubling Change (Columbia Journalism Review)
- Journalists say U.S. newsrooms treat Palestine with fear and contempt (Prism Reports)
- A Reporter Was on a Flotilla Bound for Gaza. Israel Detained Him—and Some Twenty Other Members of the Press. (CJR)
- It’s Not Complicated (Sara Yasin, The Key magazine)
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Palestine Is a Labor Issue
Every day, even amid a so-called “ceasefire,” Israel murders Palestinians with weapons built in our backyards. Palestinians in Gaza remain under forced starvation and siege, and are rebuilding their homes from the rubble of a genocide that our government helped carry out.
The struggle for a free Palestine continues–and so must our solidarity.
Here in the U.S., ICE is kidnapping our loved ones and neighbors and wreaking havoc on communities. Millions are already suffering or living in a state of fear amid attacks on our health care and food programs, and our wages remain far behind our needs.
But everywhere you look, ordinary people are daring to organize and fight for a better world for all of us. As workers, we have an essential role to play in creating that world.
Why is solidarity with Palestine a labor issue?
- When our government is responsible for genocide and occupation, workers can and must step up. You can look to our union siblings in Italy as role models in their labor action for Palestine!
- Labor bodies in Palestine, such as the Palestinian General Federation of Trade Unions-Gaza (PGFTU-Gaza) and the Palestinian Journalists Syndicate, have called on U.S. workers to uphold the Boycott, Divest, and Sanctions (BDS) picket line. That means pressuring our bosses and union leadership to make sure the companies or institutions we work for and our union dues stop funding occupation and genocide.
- It is our labor that builds and ships weapons Israel uses to murder Palestinians, that perpetuates the lies of the war machine through corporate media, and that keeps the U.S. economy running.
- Our struggles can’t be separated. Our government continues to support Israel not just because of AIPAC, but because it is designed to do so. In order to sustain itself, the same system of capitalism that keeps our wages down and our rent high propels genocide, war, displacement, and large-scale suffering in Palestine and across the world.
Ultimately, we have a common enemy: The U.S.-led billionaire class and their henchmen in our government. They care about profit above all else, and if we build power to withhold our labor, we can force real change.
What can workers do?
Start by talking to any coworkers you think might be on the same page. Odds are, you have at least one ally. Once you gather your forces, you can talk about what kinds of demands make sense for your employer, and who else you might convince to support your cause. Your power will always be greatest when you do things collectively–and the best way to do that is by forming a union.