Kevin Hadduck had never met a Palestinian until five years ago when a student studying Latin walked into his office. This chance encounter led to Hadduck’s “Beloved Brother, Beloved Sister,” a book of poems from voices in Gaza.
Big Week for BDS The Irish writer Sally Rooney has rejected an Israeli publisher’s request…
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid visited Washington and Democratic leaders embraced him and offered empty statements about the Palestinian future. Nancy Pelosi and the Israel lobby group Democratic Majority for Israel were thrilled by the restoration of bipartisan support for Israel that Trump and Netanyahu threatened.
In a new report, Israeli human rights group B’Tselem detailed the harrowing tale of a Palestinian teenager who was kidnapped and tortured by a group of Israeli settlers in the occupied West Bank this summer. The youth was burned, beaten, and handed over to Israeli soldiers unconscious.
Israel’s last attack on Gaza was too much for even Sen. Menendez, says Samer Khalaf, president of the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee. “It was so bad what they were doing that he finally realized, Wait a minute, something is wrong here.” But don’t expect political conversions from pro-Israel congresspeople. Just baby steps.
Hundreds of workers at Google and Amazon are demanding that the companies cut ties with the Israeli military.
A photo of an armed Israeli soldier, surrounded by dozens of his fellow soldiers, standing on the back of a Palestinian man as he lie face down in the ground went viral on Palestinian social media this week.
The photo was taken in the midst of a brutal Israeli crackdown on activists as they attempted to escort a group of Palestinian farmers to their land in order to harvest their olive trees in the al-Ras area west of Salfit, in the northern occupied West Bank.
The new two-state bill in the House promoted by progressive Congresspeople describes Israel as the “national home of the Jewish people.” This language is “unacceptable” to Palestinians, says Jafar Farah of the Mossawa Center in Haifa, because it prolongs discrimination embodied by the fact that Palestinians are not permitted to build a university in Nazareth over 40 years of demanding that right.
The “Battle of Cable Street” has become part of British lore as a stand against fascism, but its true history shows the country’s enduring legacy of white supremacy and colonialism.
As Mondoweiss has grown over the last 15 years we’ve had a number of landmarks, but none gives us greater pleasure than to announce this news: We’ve hired a full time Gaza correspondent, the great young writer Tareq S. Hajjaj!
As Tareq begins his position with us, our focus is on making sure we can back him and his work to the absolute highest degree. We need your help to do that. By Sunday we are hoping that 100 Mondoweiss readers will step up as new monthly donors – and a group of generous donors has agreed to match your entire first year of donations.