It is a fiction to argue that there is any “co-existence” or that there are “mixed cities” inside Israel. It is a reality of ghettos and apartheid: an ongoing colonial project of Jewish supremacy. The reality of settler-colonialism, of Judaizing Palestine, is present in Lydda, “inside Israel” as much as it is in Sheikh Jarrah, in the occupied territory.

For decades Israelis have basked in the light of success. Israelis lived under – or upon – a volcano, believing themselves to be immune from standard legal and societal norms. Their control of over six million Palestinians seems to be safe from intervention, criticism or challenge. May 2021 has shattered such bizarre illusions.

Photos from the last day in Gaza, where 28 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli airstrikes.

Emergency protests are being planned worldwide in solidarity with Palestine. See this list compiled by Samidoun: Palestinian Prisoner Solidarity Network and get involved.

This month we’re excited to share Mahmoud Shukair’s “Praise for the Women of the Family,” a delightful novel set in the tumultuous time after the Nakba (the Palestinian exodus from what is now Israel), portraying the rapid advance of modernity and the growing conflict in 1950s Palestine.

The era of Israeli impunity in U.S. politics may finally be ending, as Sen. Van Hollen praises UN report on Palestine and Rep. Watson Coleman calls for Israeli “accountability.” And a report on a tense call between a top Biden aide and his Israeli counterpart left Israelis fulminating that the U.S. should “stay out” of the Jerusalem crisis.

The massive escalation of violence in Palestine has come at a very convenient time for Benjamin Netanyahu, and it follows a very recognizable pattern of events and developments which have helped him keep his grip on power in Israel.

We deplore Israel’s violation of sacred space during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. We are horrified by the mob violence and the paramilitary police who enable it. This is not a ‘clash’ between two opinions, this is occupation, apartheid, and settler-colonialism at work. We call for an end to Israel’s impunity. These are crimes. We must begin to respond to them as crimes.

The death toll in the Gaza Strip reached 26, nine of them children, the Gaza Ministry of Health reported on Tuesday, following a night of Israeli airstrikes on the besieged territory. Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz said, “For every day that they shoot at Israeli citizens, we will send them back years.”

In many countries, governments and corporations are deeply complicit with Israel’s decades-old regime of military occupation, settler-colonialism and apartheid, just as they were complicit in the apartheid regime in South Africa. Israel can only sustain this regime of oppression with international complicity. Here are the 5 most effective things YOU can do to challenge this complicity and support the Palestinian struggle for freedom, justice and equality.