Anger can move one to action, but bitterness? Nada Elia struggles with the world’s, and her own, reaction to the invasion of Ukraine.

Last week all 25 Jewish congresspeople took the highly unusual step of condemning Paul O’Brien, director of the U.S. branch of Amnesty International, for remarks opposing Israel’s definition as “a state for the Jewish people” and questioning Jewish support for Israel. The Congress members were acting strategically: trying to discredit the recent Amnesty report that Israel practices “apartheid.” But they and O’Brien have raised a key issue. Just how many American Jews oppose the idea of a Jewish state?

Architect Elias Khuri tells the story of a home built around 12 olive trees in the Galilee village al-Mashhad. The home reflects Palestinian architectural heritage and the Palestinian tie to the land.

Prices are rising in Gaza due to the war in Ukraine. “What do I have to do with this war that is making the price of flour go up nine shekels?” a beleaguered taxi rider in Gaza city asks.

This year’s Israeli Apartheid Week is taking place in the context of increased repression from the UK government, but students continue to pave the way for a positive, powerful and collective resistance.

Palestinians are evidently not entitled to the same rights as other people. This is the only Western standard that has been applied in the last hundred years.

On March 18th, 2022, the National Political Committee of the Democratic Socialists of America officially dechartered the DSA’s BDS and Palestine Solidarity Working Group. This disciplinary action constitutes the latest development in an antagonistic relationship between the Working Group and the highest political body of the DSA in the fallout over the organization’s relationship to Rep. Jamaal Bowman.

Thomas Nides, Joe Biden’s ambassador to Israel, spoke to Americans for Peace Now last week and made clear his stance with the Israeli government. He won’t buck Israel by pushing to reopen the American consulate in Jerusalem for Palestinians. “Jerusalem is the capital of Israel… I’m not going to reverse the clock.” Though Nides did reverse Trump’s policy of U.S. officials visiting illegal West Bank settlements. “I said that and my phone blew up,” Nides related. In the past he never had a twitter account. “Now I’m like a Kardashian with everything I say.”

American society does not treat enslavement with the same response as the Jewish Holocaust, Rev. Graylan Scott Hagler writes, but his method is comparative, which is not the method one wants to use when discussing crimes against humanity. Rather than unifying diverse peoples around common forms of political pain and suffering, the comparative method used in this way divides them.

“Regime change in Iran shouldn’t be a taboo” is an idea that gets traction in the Washington foreign policy establishment. Ukraine’s brave resistance to Russian invasion ought to dispel that idea forever. Even people who don’t like their rules won’t accept foreign control.