A British schoolboy was lately questioned by police on “anti-radicalization” grounds because he was wearing a pro-Palestinian badge. The move appears to reflect British government efforts to crack down on the BDS campaign, or boycott, divestment and sanctions

Steven Salaita was smeared as anti-Semitic for saying that Zionism is pervasive in the establishment, but his point is proven by the anger from leading law firm Milbank, Tweed at Harvard Law School for giving $500 of its gift to a Palestinian solidarity group, resulting in the withdrawal of the entire gift

The death of seven Hamas fighters in late January when a tunnel collapsed on them brought attention once again on military tunnels in Gaza. Yehia Mousa, a Hamas official said its tunnels have tripled in number since the end of the 2014 conflict. “It is a must that we should take the time to develop our military tunnels. They are a strategic asset that we can never give up,” Mousa told Mondoweiss.

“Racist, nauseating and reminiscent of dark historical periods” — a question on an engineering exam at Ben Gurion U in Israel likens non-Jewish African refugees to rats

In her new book, Dying to Forget, historian Irene Gendzier examines unexamined archives to reinterpret the dominant narrative of U.S. foreign policy during the creation of the state of Israel, and rewrites the history of that crucial hinge-point in the history of the middle east.

On Feb. ​10, Israeli forces installed a section of fence a few hundred meters long, lined with barbed wire, along a dirt path taken by school children in the southern occupied West Bank district of Bethlehem’s Tuqu village. Mondoweiss spoke to some of the students and teachers who take the path to school everyday, and witnessed children as young as five getting caught in the barbed wire.

We believe that it is crucial for Jews and non-Jews alike to be actively engaging with and supporting BDS, write “Nit In Aundzer Nomen” (Yiddish for “not in our name”), a group of Jewish students from McGill

In 1994, when she was in her 40s, Hillary Clinton had a dream of revenge against Henry Kissinger for Vietnam– skewering him with the nihilistic phrase, “Light at the end of the tunnel.” But by 2009 she was good friends of the man Bernie Sanders calls a war criminal. What happened?

William Booth, the Washington Post’s Jerusalem bureau chief, was conducting interviews by the Damascus Gate outside of the Old City’s walls in Jerusalem this afternoon when Israeli border police detained him, accusing the journalist of incitement. His detention comes at a time of tense words from the Israeli government aimed at the foreign press corps in Israel, and increased governmental scrutiny of Israeli journalists.

Sabith Khan says we need to address the root cause of xenophobia and racism to tackle Islamophobia in the ‘public sphere,’ but what goes on in the ‘private sphere’ is far more important.