Israeli forces shot and killed Palestinian teenager Oday Salah in the northern occupied West Bank district of Jenin on Thursday morning, just 24 hours after two Palestinians and one Israeli soldier were killed in confrontations in Jenin. The Palestinian Ministry of Health reports that 149 Palestinians have been killed since the beginning of the year, 34 of whom were from the Jenin area. 

Marvel Studios announced that little-known Israeli superheroine Sabra will join the next installment of its Captain America movie series. The character – Israeli police officer by day, super-powered Mossad agent by night – is a quintessential reflection of the Israeli apartheid system.

An Israeli delegation recently traveled to Washington, D.C. to pressure the Biden administration into accepting its terror designation for six Palestinian human rights groups.

UN Special Rapporteur Mary Lawlor calls Israeli attacks on Palestinian human rights organizations an “atrocity.” “It’s as simple as that,” Lawlor tells Mondoweiss, “Israel does not want human rights defenders documenting and publicizing the attacks and injustice done to the Palestinians. So, this is their tactic.”

United Nation’s Special Rapporteur’s Francesca Albanese and Mary Lawlor condemn Israel’s attacks on Palestinian civil society organizations.

While he was working on his land, a group of Israeli settlers armed with sticks, metal pipes, and M16s attacked Hafez Huraini and his son Muhammad. Hafez was badly injured, and both of his arms were broken. When a Palestinian ambulance arrived to evacuate him, the settlers slashed the tires, but the Israeli soldiers arrested Huraini, claiming he had hurt one of the settlers.

The bond between the U.S. and Israel is in the “souls” and “DNA” of Americans because we are both democracies facing terrorists, US Ambassador Tom Nides says. And so he does not mention the 17 children Israel killed in Gaza last month, even as he praises Israel for keeping the besieged Strip “relatively calm.” Nor does he mention Israel’s killing of Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh in May in the occupied West Bank.

We must support Dr. Rabab Abdulhadi, who has been systematically undermined by the administration of San Francisco State University for her work championing Palestinian liberation

If there was any doubt as to the extent Israeli apartheid infiltrated the most personal and intimate aspects of the lives of Palestinians then those doubts ought to be banished by a story this week.

Movements like BDS are the only force capable of counteracting the massive power imbalance between the Palestinians and their Israeli oppressors.