Journalism in Palestine becomes a battlefield where the only way to tackle all the injustices swallowing this speck of the world, is to give justice to the story.
From July 13 to 16, President Joe Biden will visit the governments of Israel and Saudi Arabia, deepening his complicity in their human rights abuses. As Black and Palestinian organizers in the U.S. who visited Palestine last week, we see President Biden’s widely criticized trip for what it is: a war crimes tour. If Biden cares about human rights at all, he should #CancelTheTrip—as thousands of grassroots activists have demanded—and stop funding the weapons behind their war crimes.
In a decisive vote, 266-116, commissioners attending last week’s General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church (USA) approved a resolution titled, “On Recognition That Israel’s Laws, Policies, and Practices Constitute Apartheid Against the Palestinian People.”
Joe Biden’s upcoming trip to Israel and the West Bank is an opportunity to pave a new U.S. approach, much like Robert Kennedy did 56 years ago when he visited Apartheid South Africa.
Joe Biden’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia will attempt to sweep Shireen Abu Akleh and Jamal Khashoggi under the rug.
Al Khader Sports Club is calling on the Uruguay national soccer team to decline Israel’s offer for it to train in the occupied Palestinian territory.
The mainstream media also has to take its share of the blame for the way it has covered AIPAC, DFMI, and the Democratic party’s approach to elections. Mondoweiss is an antidote to that coverage. Can you support Mondoweiss at this crucial moment?
July 8, 2022 marked the 50th anniversary of the assassination of Ghassan Kanafani, a towering figure in Palestinian cultural and political life. Haidar Eid writes that Kanfani’s fiction remains essential because it is characterized by a realism that moves us towards a new perception and understanding of art, revolution, and, of course, Palestine.
A new poll shows that young Democrats want the U.S. to lean toward Palestine not Israel by nearly three-to-one. Yet the family of Shireen Abu Akleh, a Palestinian American journalist killed by Israel, wrote to Biden today that the “United States has been skulking toward the erasure of any wrongdoing by Israeli forces…. It is as if you expect the world and us to now just move on…”
In her book “Sambac Beneath Unlikely Skies,” Heba Hayek shares the poignant logic of exile through fragmented stories of a girlhood.