This week Israel did the unconscionable and shut down the offices of seven Palestinian human rights groups that are doing valiant work in the occupied territory. People ask why Israel would do such a thing, and the simple answer is Zionism.

A recent J Street critique of AIPAC encapsulates the moral bankruptcy of liberal Zionism.

After experiencing so many wars, we’re so damaged that we don’t feel like we’ll ever recover.

It has been over one hundred days since Israel killed veteran Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh and assaulted the crowds of Palestinian mourners and pallbearers at her funeral. Since then, Shireen’s Al Jazeera colleagues have joined her family, fellow Palestinian journalists, members of Congress, politicians worldwide, human rights groups, and press unions to demand that the Biden administration hold Israel accountable for her murder. The last thing they wanted was for their calls to still be unmet after one hundred days. Worse, they have been ignored and dismissed.

It is no surprise that Israel, and particularly BDS, has become a hot-button issue in the Democratic primary for New York’s 10th district.

Critics of U.S. aid to Egypt ask why ask pointedly why the Biden administration is giving $1.3 billion to a military regime that has an estimated 60,000 political prisoners, one of the highest totals in the world. The answer is that the U.S. has been bribing Egypt for the past 4 decades to maintain peace with Israel, and this year’s military aid is just the latest payoff.

The abuse of antisemitism is nothing new, but we tend to forget that the Israel lobby is only able to get away with its baseless smears because of a deep-seated anti-Palestinianism.

While Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz was launching his assault on seven Palestinian NGOs on Thursday, Prime Minister Yair Lapid was pressing the United States closer to an attack on Iran that could send the entire region into an unprecedented conflict. 

Alex Cosh talks to Canadians for Justice and Peace in the Middle East’s Michael Bueckert about the Canadian government’s non-response to Israel’s recent attack on Gaza.

In response to an Israeli raid on Palestinian organizations, the Biden administration has finally said it doesn’t share the Israeli position that the organizations are “terrorist” groups, but it also won’t question or criticize Israeli actions.