Fighting rages around Gaza’s largest hospital as more Palestinians flee their homes in scenes reminiscent of the Nakba. Lebanon’s role in the conflict hangs in the balance ahead of another speech by Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah.

Columbia University announced it is suspending the campus chapters of Students for Justice in Palestine and Jewish Voice for Peace for the remainder of the fall term.

5,000 people protested Joe Biden in Chicago on Thursday over his ongoing refusal to support a ceasefire in Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza. 

There have been wars and air campaigns that killed more civilians than in Gaza, but almost none match the intensity and deliberately criminal intent of Israel’s genocidal war.

Israel and its advocates claim “there are no innocents in Gaza” and depict all Palestinians as legitimate targets. For them, to be alive in Gaza is to be implicated.

Jewish thinkers have long warned that Israel’s dependence on western Jews’ political support to gain impunity for its human rights abuses could contribute to antisemitism in the U.S. and even make Jews’ lives “precarious.”

Palestinians seeking refuge in Gaza hospitals fear the worst as Israel drops all pretenses of not targeting medical facilities, while Netanyahu makes the unbelievable claim that Israel doesn’t “seek to displace anyone.”

Waiting lists for rescuing people trapped under the rubble. Bodies decomposing in the streets eaten by animals. Those still living who no longer recognize themselves. These are the stories we don’t yet have words to tell.

Israel’s parliament, the Knesset, passed what rights groups are calling one of the “most intrusive and draconian legislative measures” ever passed.

In the wake of the Hamas’s attack on October 7, Palestinians in the United States are being targeted, whether through limits to their free speech, the loss of their livelihood, or even threats to their lives.