Canada’s Foreign Affairs minister and its top diplomats in Ramallah and Tel Aviv have all made anti-Palestinian comments in the last month.
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The Israeli military has changed its rules of engagement to allow its forces to fire on Palestinians who have thrown stones or firebombs even when they no longer pose any danger. The rules will only be applied to Palestinian stonethrowers, though Jewish settlers run riot in the West Bank. The new rule is a sop to Israeli settlers, the IDF’s clientele.
Losing a loved one is heartbreaking. But for Rabab Abdulhadi, losing her father was particularly devastating not only because she loved him so much but also because personal tragedies under occupation and continuous curfew and siege are multiplied.
Seven U.S. foreign policy hawks, with decades of disaster behind them, are urging the Biden administration to threaten a military attack on Iran.
Three Palestinian young people share the tremendous challenges they face due to the Israeli occupation.
Writing for Mondoweiss has had ever-refreshed meaning for me not just because we have worked for the liberation of Palestinians, and worked against militarist American policy, but because I feel I am working to redeem my community from a long nightmare: its commitment to militant nationalism. And I am incredibly thankful that your support allows me and our entire staff to continue in this crucial task.
A review of Mondoweiss’s coverage of the COVID-19 pandemic in Palestine over the last 19 months.
When a former Jewish professional asked David Harris of the AJC about the emotional drain on people like herself of advocating for Israel with young people who don’t buy the story, the tonedeaf CEO responded: I live in a bubble… My grandchildren all are proud of Israel… And the Polish national anthem is pessimistic but the Israeli one is called “Hope.”
After an Israeli official tells an American diplomat that the country will treat settler violence against Palestinians “severely,” Prime Minister Naftali Bennett leaps in to defend the settlers, his political base. “There are marginal elements in every community… but we must not generalize about an entire community.”