A new regime takes over in Washington and just like that the monotonous press conference is back. Out go the carnival barkers gripped by imperial bluster, in come the liberal interventionists well-versed in DC doublespeak.

Many seem to see Netanyahu as an illiberal, corrupt, anti-democratic leader. But we must also see, that he is part of a regime that itself is illiberal, corrupt and anti-democratic. It’s always been the case. Who is the new hope? Gideon Sa’ar who is even to the right of Netanyahu? Naftali Bennett who is even to the right of Sa’ar? Or Yair Lapid, who is to their left, alas with the “principle” which says “maximum Jews on maximum land with maximum security and with minimum Palestinians”?

In Sonia Nimr’s imagined historical fable set in Palestine hundreds of years ago, Qamr and her family embark on daring adventures across empires in a quest to remove a curse that hangs over their village, running into pirates, kings and kidnappers.

The Biden administration has announced its plans to reinstate millions of dollars in aid to UNRWA, nearly three years after the Trump administration halted US funding for the agency. While Biden’s moves so far have been praised by the Palestinian leadership, the administration has made clear that it will not reverse some of the most controversial of Trump’s policies, including moving the US embassy to Jerusalem, or oppose normalization agreements between Israel and other Arab nations in the region.

On March 29, activists with the Yemeni Liberation Movement (YLM) launched a hunger strike in Washington DC to demand that the United States end its support for the Saudi-led blockade on Yemen. Michael Arria spoke with spoke with YLM organizer Monica Isaac about the strike, the Biden administration’s response, and how activists have pushed ending the Yemen blockade into the political conversation.

Playing the “antisemitism” card against progressives is the Israel lobby’s weapon of choice. But we can fight back, here’s how.

Tom Friedman says that Israel and the US are in the same boat, trying to build “pluralistic.. idealistic” societies. This is a rhetorical strategy to suppress the apartheid charge against Israel from a leading human rights group. And Friedman has freely acknowledged that his job entails promoting Israel. “Israel had me at hello,” he has said.

Even as Israel attacked an Iranian cargo ship in the Red Sea, Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu used a speech at the Israeli Holocaust memorial to warn the world that a deal with Iran was “useless,” akin to making a deal with Nazis, and that Israel would take into its own hands its security against the “existential” threat that he claims Iran poses.

Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez wasn’t exactly clear about her position on Israel/Palestine during a live streamed conversation with the head of the Jewish Community Relations Council of New York.

Peter Beinart’s call for equality seeks to reform Israel as a Jewish project instead of repudiating its system of racial supremacy, placing Jewish identity above Palestinian rights.