This Saturday, a Palestinian man stabbed an Israeli Jew close to the Damascus Gate in Jerusalem (inflicting moderate wounds). He then ran towards Border Police officers who shot him several times – notably twice when he was already laying on the ground, incapacitated. Politicians all over the mainstream political spectrum hailed the act of murder.

Openly demanding that the U.S. abandon talks with Iran, Israeli PM Naftali Bennett has just violated his deal with Biden that differences are to be worked out behind closed doors. He does so because the “special relationship” between the countries gives him power: the Israel lobby works inside the U.S. to make sure there is no daylight between the White House and Israel and to immunize apartheid. But the American people want distance.

“Today’s vote clears a path for our full membership to collectively determine how we can do our part to support the academic freedom and education rights of Palestinian scholars and students, not to mention Israeli scholars facing attacks from their own government for criticizing its policies,” said MESA President Dina Rizk Khoury.

Palestinians have reimposed a state of emergency in an attempt to prevent the spread of the omicron variant.

DSA is overhauling its endorsement process over Bowman saga, but they won’t expel him from the organization.

The largest official Protestant association of churches released in late October “Focus: Palestine,” a digital textbook that places the Israeli occupation of Palestine in historical, political, and theological contexts.

Yumna Patel speaks with Palestinian farmers working to bring in their olive crop as the harvest season winds down, and captures some of the sounds of the olive harvest.

This DSA’s BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group responds to the backlash against its call to expel Jamaal Bowman from the organization.

Palestinian filmmaker Ahmed Mansour’s new film, “Angel of Gaza,” tells the story of a Gazan family’s experience with war, separation, and diaspora through a focus on the family’s young daughter. Nadia Yaqub writes that the film raises troubling political questions about the steadfastness which for decades has been a cornerstone of Palestinian resistance. What does it mean for the Palestinian struggle that families like Malak’s must leave Palestine to survive?

The Israel lobby group J Street initially joined an international chorus condemning Israel’s designation of Palestinian human rights orgs as “terrorist.” Then in November, the group took a delegation of six Members of Congress to Israel and Palestine and met with several Palestinian civil society and human rights groups– but none of the six designated groups– and on that trip, the delegation was briefed by Israeli government officials about the “secret evidence” in support of the terrorist designation, a source who was not on the trip tells me. Rep. Rosa DeLauro’s disclosure statement from the trip supports that assertion: She says the delegation received “briefings on Israel security” from “senior” government officials.