Forty years ago, Israel used assassinations, sabotage, and targeted strikes to set back Iraq’s nuclear program. Today it is following a similar playbook in Iran.

Family and supporters of Palestinian hunger striker Maher al-Akhras have joined him in a hunger strike as they have been prevented by Israeli security forces from visiting him in what may be his final days. His steadfast example is mobilizing more and more people to his support.

In a pre-election maneuver, the Trump administration just pressured Sudan into partially normalizing relations with Israel — with not even an exchange of ambassadors — but experts warn that the move could backfire, and jeopardize Sudan’s fragile democracy.

This week, the rates of active COVID-19 cases continued to drop with around a 12% decrease in active Palestinian cases.

Biden surrogates are giving no oxygen to the progressive criticism of Israel. They are running Biden to Trump’s right on the issue, saying that by removing forces from Syria, Trump left Israel with “no one to rely on” and his politicization of the issue in the U.S. undermines support for “the Jewish state.”

46 years ago, the Arab League led the way in recognizing the PLO as “the sole, legitimate representative of the Palestinian people,” but today those same states are leading the drive toward normalization with Israel. The Arab League appears to have abandoned the Palestinians.

With shared interests in arms, oil, and countering Iran, Azerbaijan and Israel have established a close strategic partnership over the past decade and a half. Today, the victims of this alliance are the children, women, and men in Nagorno-Karabakh, who are being killed by Israeli drones and banned cluster munitions.

“If you’re looking for a key sign of what occupation is about, it’s what’s happening in the olive groves,” human rights monitor Ghassan Daghlas tells Mondoweiss.

Former Israeli ambassador Michael Oren says Joe Biden “deeply supports Israel,”
but he warns US Jews of “major policy differences” between Biden and Israel, on Palestine and Iran, and Iran threatens Israel’s children’s future. If Biden gets in, Israel is prepared to deal with him as it did with Obama.

Two resolutions designed to crack down on pro-Palestine activism at Butler University failed to pass the Student Government Association.