In a breakthrough for mainstream media, Amna Nawaz of PBS grilled former Israeli PM Naftali Bennett, and observed that Israel is not a democracy because 5 million Palestinians can’t vote.
Our Spring campaign ends on Sunday. We need 142 new monthly donors to reach our fundraising goal of $70,000 and secure the $25,000 match generous donors have pledged.
Recent attacks on Christian and Muslim worshipers in Jerusalem reflect Israeli efforts to consolidate control over the holy city. “The occupation, through such policies, claims that Jerusalem is theirs,” Archbishop Atallah Hanna tells Mondoweiss.
Longtime Israel lobbyist Martin Indyk says Joe Biden’s rebuke of Benjamin Netanyahu last month will have dramatic consequences on the Israeli leader’s ability to influence US politics.
Columbia University’s plans to open a learning center in Israel is being criticized by faculty members.
Walid Daqqah has become a prolific writer and astute commenter on the Palestinian condition from inside Israeli prisons. He once said that he would write until he is freed from prison, and “in the hopes of freeing the prison from within me.”
The fact of a one-state reality in Israel/Palestine has been obvious for years, but “those who spoke the truth out loud were ignored or punished.” Now that’s changed. So says a groundbreaking article in the establishment magazine “Foreign Affairs.”
For too long, the global solidarity movement has only understood Palestinians as victims of Israeli violence. The current moment calls us to question the invincibility of the Zionist project and reassess our struggle.
Mondoweiss is one of the few publications willing to provide fair coverage of the systematic efforts to censor Palestinian advocates with the trope that anti-Zionism is antisemitism.