Why won’t the U.S. mainstream media report on Jewish supremacists in Israel?

There are horrifying images from Jerusalem last night of a mob of racist Jews saying the city belongs to them and Arabs should burn. The young American Jewish group “IfNotNow” labeled the mob a “pogrom,” in another assertion of moral leadership over community elders who ignore the violence.

Once more, the holy month of Ramadan arrives while its tragedies are still festering, this time a surge in coronavirus cases in the occupied Palestinian territory.

Palestinians in Jerusalem are reeling from a night of racist, anti-Arab violence that left over a hundred Palestinians wounded and dozens detained, following an ultra-right wing Israeli demonstration in the city during which Jewish mobs chanted “death to Arabs.”

California Rep. Ro Khanna advocates for a progressive foreign policy, but does that extend to Palestine?

Biden will have little choice but to turn up the heat on Israel for human rights violations given shift in establishment opinion in DC and mass movement to address racial inequities in U.S. And human rights group B’Tselem’s recent report that Israel is an apartheid regime will soon be echoed by a global human rights organization, according to a Carnegie Endowment panel.

Democratic Majority for Israel It’s been a rough couple weeks for the lobbying group Democratic…

Mondoweiss is one of the few news organizations that covers the struggle for Palestinian rights in a U.S. context, and this has been a challenging year financially. Fortunately, during the current spring fundraising drive many of you have stepped forward to help us meet a $30,000 challenge. Inspired by your generous support, a Mondoweiss supporter has sent us a “flash match” challenge: If we can raise another $5,000 by this weekend, this friend will double it. This is a great time to leverage your gift so that it goes three times as far.

COVID-19 did not invent systematic injustice, but it has exposed and sharpened injustices already there. Israel’s refusal to vaccinate Palestinians is but the latest chapter of its decades-long practice of colonialism, ethnic cleansing, military occupation and, of course, apartheid against the Palestinian people. The U.S. is itself a settler-colony with centuries of systematic racism to its name, and the tolls of COVID-19 remain systematically centered around Indigenous, Black and brown people. There is a name for this, and it’s medical apartheid. It’s time to take a stand to end all military funding to an apartheid regime overseas and to demand the end to apartheid right here.

At its conference, J Street sought to triangulate support for the “Jewish state” and the progressive left as political bedfellows. But there is an inherent contradiction there, and simply hoping for the two-state solution to arrive some day — after Israel has rejected a Palestinian state for its entire existence — may get J Street access in the Democratic Party but won’t preserve its alliances on the left.