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When 100 Democrats voted last week to block 3.3 million in U.S. aid to Israel, it was the clearest sign yet that lawmakers are responding to voters' overwhelming sentiment. But it still remains unclear whether this will lead to actual policy change.
As the political power of Israel's far right grows, Palestinian citizens of Israel are torn about how to respond. Should they pursue representation in the government, or are electoral politics under Israeli rule completely futile?
An extensive new Palestinian Feminist Collective report traces Israeli sexual violence against Palestinians from the 1948 Nakba to Gaza today, showing it isn't incidental abuse but a deliberate tool of ethnic cleansing and control.
In a Le Monde op-ed, Oman's Badr al-Busaidi argues the West's decades-long policy of containing Iran was always misguided, and that the true threat comes from Tel Aviv. Al-Busaidi pushes for a new security order built around regional states.
The church’s action follows resolutions by two other religious bodies at their summer meetings — the Presbyterian Church (USA) and the American Academy of Religion — both of which named Israel’s war on Gaza a genocide.
Israeli settlers have begun to escalate their colonization of Palestinian homes and lands in areas of the West Bank under ostensible Palestinian control, setting a dangerous precedent for Israel to completely take over the territory.
Israeli real estate companies are marketing land belonging to Palestinians in the West Bank to Jewish American buyers. We spoke to the Palestinians who are being displaced in order to make way for new Jewish settlement construction.
For nine days, Fatima Abu Khammash searched for her missing son across Gaza's Israeli-controlled zone. When they refused to hand over his body, she crossed the line herself, finding a mother's uneasy peace in what she carried back.
Marco Rubio's campaign to dismantle the ICC isn't about sovereignty. It's the latest U.S. move to shield Israeli officials wanted for war crimes from accountability, following a pattern used by fascist regimes to gut independent judiciaries.
Unlike the Zionist claim that Israel has a right to exist, my assertion is rooted in international law. Of course, given Israel’s propensity for violating such laws, it’s no surprise they’re still claiming a right that has no basis in reality.
