Elizabeth Warren has built a reputation as the presidential candidate with a plan for everything, but does she have a plan for Palestine? Michael Arria follows her shifting positions on U.S. policy towards the Israeli occupation.

It’s been two years since Haneen Adi, an English literature and writing teacher at Ramallah’s Birzeit University, has left the occupied West Bank. Israel has refused to renew Adi’s visa to stay and teach in the West Bank since November 2017 and she is not alone. Adi is one of dozens of international academics at Palestinian universities in the occupied territory who has been denied a visa by Israel in recent years. Now, Birzeit, which has ranked within the top three percent of universities worldwide, is fighting back.

History shows that those committing atrocities on the world stage don’t wake up one day and spontaneously end their crimes. Israel won’t end Palestinian oppression on its own, outside pressure is the only hope. Robert Lord writes, “Sanctions are not yet a serious topic of discussion in U.S. political discourse. And they need to be. The best hope for Palestinians is a change in American public opinion.”

If the United States goes to war with Iran, you are unlikely to hear the word “oil” uttered by top Trump administration officials, but make no mistake: that three-letter word lies at the root of the present crisis, not to speak of the world’s long-term fate.

The “Philistine-Palestinian” debate has been brought to the forefront again, this time by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Archaeologist Dr. David Wengrow said a report being pushed by Netanyahu was a “clear-cut case where modern genetic studies are being (mis)used to revive outdated arguments about ancient migrations that have their origin in racial theory.”

In a new interview with The Hollywood Reporter, Israeli-American media producer and Democratic mega-donor Haim Saban declares that he loves every Trump challenger besides Bernie Sanders and blames the Vermont Senator for stoking anti-Israel within the Democratic Party.

Following July 4th, Nada Elia, “So, on this colonial independence day, I for one recommitted to remember that a lesser evil is still evil, and that consenting to evil, any evil, anywhere, is what results in Trump and Netanyahu ordering tanks in the streets and children in cages.”

“There is no peace without equality and there is no equality without peace,” Kohavi Shemesh always said, pointing out precisely the paradox of life in a Zionist state. Shemesh, one of the founders of the Black Panthers movement in Israel, died on April 13, 2019 at 75.

Mondoweiss speaks with Palestinian businessman Sam Bahour, a vocal critic of the US “Deal of the Century”, about last month’s “Peace to Prosperity” conference in Bahrain, what he thought of the conference, its implications, and his predictions for the future of American-led peace negotiations. 

Tuesday July 9th marked the fifteenth anniversary of the International Court of Justice (ICJ) decision to declare the Israeli separation wall in occupied Palestinian territory as illegal under international law.