If Israel is ever chosen to host the World Cup, the world must must know: Israel has as much respect for football as it does for Palestinian lives

The Department of Education has announced an investigation into Berkeley Law School over a student group bylaw challenging Zionism.

The Palestinian village of Ma’alul was destroyed during the Nabka in 1948. Rawan Bisharat discusses her connection to the village and how she and other descendants are practicing their return to the land despite Israeli laws prohibiting it.

Israeli settler violence against Palestinians soared in 2022. Palestinians say the worrying trend will only worsen as right-wing extremists make their home in Israel’s new government.

Tom Friedman deplores the Israel lobby for assisting Netanyahu in preventing any U.S. president from taking action on Palestinian disenfranchisement. “AIPAC and American Jewish organizations who have done Bibi’s bidding…at every turn used their power and influence to still the hand of any [U.S.] administration wanting to have a more serious and energetic and vigorous policy. And for that they will have to answer to history,” the New York Times columnist says. He said this effect is now working on the Biden administration.

As the U.S. correspondent at Mondoweiss, I spend a lot of time shedding light on the excessive amounts of money the Israel lobby spends on US politics. AIPAC’s Super PAC spent over $26 million on elections this year alone, mainly in the Democratic primaries. Thanks to our donors, Mondoweiss was there to cover it all.

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This week the White House announced that it was beginning to develop a national strategy to combat antisemitism. It’s too soon to know what this effort will look like, but there are concerns it will include the IHRA working definition of antisemitism, which has been used to target critics of Israel.

Jordan Peterson interviews Netanyahu and allows him to rant against Palestinians and misrepresent history: Israel did not create “a single refugee” in 1948, the neighboring Arab armies did that by telling the Palestinians to flee. This has always been Jewish land, the bible says so; though before Jews returned to it, it was just a “barren dump” and “wasteland” and “ruin.” There was no such thing as Palestinians. They were “southern Syrians” till Zionism built a “miracle” in the desert and they emigrated to the land.

Josh Ruebner talks about how Israel factored into the 2022 U.S. midterm elections and what we should expect from the new congress on Palestine.

Journalists in Gaza often face an internal conflict where you feel split between the pleasure of being able to tell people’s true stories and the concern that you might be judged for it because of who you are.