I was able until now to get myself out of sadness when I needed to. This time is different because I’m the one who lost his beloved one, my father. My rock, my idol. The one who I always brought out my best for, to keep him proud. 

An NPR report on Israel’s killing of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian-American journalist, makes clear that Israel is withholding information from the public 6 weeks later. “The army declined to answer NPR’s questions about what the suspected soldier told investigators, what orders soldiers were given, and what footage the army has of the incident.”

Mainstream pro-Israel groups and politicians have made the Boston Mapping Project into a punching bag. Many are using the Mapping Project to bash the campaign targeting Israel with boycott, divestment and sanctions (BDS) and to affirm the center-right pro-Israel line that anti-Zionism is antisemitism. A group of Congress members even stated that the project was likely to result in “violent attacks by supporters of the BDS movement” against Jews and Jewish organizations. The FBI has met with Jewish groups in Boston and said it is “tracking” the project over these concerns.

According to the WCC’s governing body, the “occupation continues to contradict the equal human dignity and human rights of Palestinians while the response of the international community continues to reflect egregious double standards.”

Zainab al-Qolaq lost 22 family members during the 2021 war in Gaza. Now, she keeps their memory alive through painting.

Israel can’t manage to put together a stable government is because Jewish Israelis largely refuse to form a government with the representatives of a major bloc of the Israeli electorate – Palestinian citizens of Israel.

The worldwide movement to immediately release Ahmad Manasra from Israeli prison is gathering momentum through an international campaign initiated by the Palestine-Global Mental Health Network.

In response to Jonathan Greenblatt’s recent attack on the Palestinian rights movement, over 30 organizations declare “ADL: your lies will never silence the movement for Palestinian liberation!”

Lina Abu Akleh, niece of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, talks to Mondoweiss about the family’s quest for justice for Shireen, who was killed by Israeli forces in Jenin on May 11, 2022.

Lina shares her memories of the tragic days of Shireen’s death, as well as what Shireen meant to her as an aunt, friend, and role model. Lina tells Mondoweiss that in order to honor Shireen’s legacy we should continue to talk about Palestine every single day. “Talking about Shireen is talking about Palestine,” she says.

Pressure mounts on Joe Biden to stand up for Shireen Abu Akleh 6 weeks after Israeli forces killed the Palestinian-American journalist. A letter from 24 senators demands that the FBI and State Department undertake an investigation of the killing and rejects Israeli claims that it can do so. Six weeks have passed and there has been “no significant progress” toward establishing a transparent investigation. The “only way” for there to be a “credible” investigation is for the U.S. to undertake it, the senators say. AIPAC, Israel’s U.S. mouthpiece, urged senators not to sign the letter.