Since entering office, Israel’s new government has dramatically increased the repression of Palestinian prisoners, moves which reflect its hostile agenda toward Palestinians as a whole.

I disagreed with my friends who tried to tell me years ago — Israel will just get more rightwing, messianic, and hateful to Palestinians, and the U.S. government and Jewish community will just enable it. But they were right.

For the Palestinian people to achieve justice, Zionism must be dismantled. And for Jewish Israelis to achieve peace, we too must free ourselves from this project of Jewish supremacy.

We hear about the 12th annual Students for Justice in Palestine conference, and the Stop Cop City movement in Atlanta and its connection to the Palestine solidarity movement.

The Israel Antiquities Authority, led now by a member of Ben Gvir’s far-right Jewish Power Party, is expected to advance settlement expansion and de facto annexation.

The ADL’s annual audit on antisemitism in the U.S. offers a distorted view of the issue because the group counts anti-Zionist protests against Israel as antisemitic acts.

Jordan has pledged to improve conditions at “the Bridge” following accusations it profits from Israeli restrictions on Palestinians, but analysts say such half-measures won’t matter while occupation remains.

The Balad-Tajammu’ party says the current Israeli protest movement is fighting for a fake democracy for Jews only. How sobering it is that this view is considered so radical it is beyond the pale for Israeli politics.

The State Department’s annual human rights report accepts Israel’s dubious story on Shireen Abu Akleh’s killing.

Brace yourself — the next Israeli government will be even more rightwing. That’s because the high tech sector in Tel Aviv, which leads the current protest movement, is a small minority of Jewish Israel.