Israeli forces demolished a Palestinian primary school in the Masafer Yatta area of the southern occupied West Bank on Wednesday, under the pretext that the school was built “illegally” in an active Israeli military firing zone. 

Following the demolition, an Israeli army spokesperson claimed that the school itself was a hoax and that it was an unoccupied building being used as a publicity stunt. But Palestinians from Masafer Yatta say the school, which was built with funding from the Palestinian Authority and EU, was built to give much-needed education access to school children living in remote areas of the occupied West Bank.

The last thing Netanyahu’s longtime enablers in the U.S. want to do is call attention to the madness going on in Israel. The most “pro-Israel” journalists in America would prefer Israel implode than have an embarrassing public debate about what’s happening in the Jewish state.

The incoming Israeli government is by far the most right-wing and racist government in Israeli history, and that’s saying a lot. And so far the messaging from the Biden administration seems to be that its policy towards this new government will be one of benign neglect.

Once again the “New York Times” launders the dark forces gaining power in Israeli politics. Tensions in the occupied Palestinian West Bank are already at their highest level in years, and yet Israel’s security policy is now in the hands of a fascist who was considered so extreme that he wasn’t even allowed to serve as a foot soldier in the Israeli army when he was younger.

We are beginning to see how Israel’s next far-rightwing government will make things difficult for the White House through the de facto annexation of the West Bank. And the early indications from Joe Biden’s administration indicate a continuation of the weak responses that have characterized his policy toward Israel for decades.

Palestinian youth and resistance fighters in Nablus continue to resist settler-colonial encroachment and pay the price for it. Two Palestinians died during recent clashes with the Israeli army near Joseph’s tomb, while a resistance fighter succumbed to wounds sustained last summer within the same 24 hours.

During the past ten years, Jerusalem has reemerged as the spark that sets off Palestinian revolt, culminating in the Unity Intifada of 2021.

Palestinians travelling out of Gaza are routinely subjected to inhumane and degrading treatment by Egyptian officials as they are escorted to Cairo International Airport and placed under guard until they board their planes.

One Israeli was killed and several others were injured in two separate bombings that targeted bus stops in West Jerusalem Wednesday morning, while in Nablus and Jenin tensions soar amid continued Israeli military incursions.

Mahmoud Al-Saadi was in his final year of high school, and his father worked all his life to secure an education for his son. Israel killed his father’s joy.