Over 16,000 housing units were damaged during the recent Israeli attacks on Gaza, and 1,800 units were completely destroyed. While that destruction is immense, what those numbers don’t capture is what else was lost in those places — the irreplaceable photos, keepsakes, and possessions and that made each a home.

Israel’s settler-colonial project in Sheikh Jarrah and Silwan reminds Philip Farah of how his family’s history reflects the ongoing Nakba.

Read the letter Khalida Jarrar sent to be read at her daughter Suha’s funeral after Israel refused her request to be released from prison to attend.

A quarter of Jewish voters polled by the Jewish Electorate Institute said they believed Israel is an apartheid state. This number rises to 38% for voters under 40.

Right-wing Israel supporters booed Biden deputy assistant Erika Moritsugu as she addressed the “No Fear Rally,” an event billed as a stand against antisemitism but seemed largely focused on defending Israel.

Liberal Zionist groups ran away from a rally in DC equating criticism of Israel with antisemitism– as even an organizer admits that Israel is just too “divisive” an issue in the Jewish community these days. The event had a rightwing religious feeling. The Washington Post said “hundreds” attended the affair.

Noura Selmi recounts the nightmares that have plagued her since the fighting ended in Gaza. “The ceasefire was declared and life is trying to be normal again,” Selmi writes. “Unfortunately, the rockets are still following me in my sleep.”

Palestinian activists, human rights workers, Israeli military, and Jewish settlers have all trained their lens on Israeli state violence—some to contest Israeli military rule, others to consolidate it.

The secret is out. Yair Lapid’s call for a Jewish majority in Israel shows that Israel’s raison d’etre is Jewish supremacy. Jews in Israel have spent immense effort and time over the last 70 years, trying to find another meaning for a “Jewish state”, and failed. A Jewish state is one in which the Jew is master and everyone else should be thankful for what rights he deigns to grant them.

Israel has denied a request to release Palestinian parliamentarian Khalida Jarrar following the sudden death of her daughter. Israel reportedly is not even allowing Jarrar a phone call with her family.