After igniting outrage for raising a Nazi salute at a Trump inauguration event, Elon Musk tweeted: “So I am both a zionist AND a nazi?” He meant it mockingly, but the historical and ideological affinities between Zionism and white supremacy run deep.
Late on Monday, 300,000 forcibly displaced Palestinians returned to Gaza City and northern Gaza for the first time since the start of Israel’s genocidal war.
In recent days, President Trump has overturned some of the small restrictions that the Biden administration had placed on Israel, garnering high praise from Israel’s far-right.
The New York Times is running glowing human interest profiles of Israelis being released from Hamas captivity while ignoring Palestinians who have been released from Israeli prisons or hostages whose condition is unknown, like Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya.
A fragile ceasefire in Gaza holds, freeing Israeli captives and Palestinian prisoners. Trump targets pro-Palestine voices in the U.S., urges Jordan and Egypt to take Gazan refugees to “clean out that whole thing.”
Israeli society continues to wrestle with the incompetence, imperial hubris, and lack of accountability that contributed to Israel’s humiliating failures on October 7.
Amid the many tragedies in Gaza, far too many go untold. We must not forget those who lost their lives while simply trying to get a loaf of bread or a sack of flour.
As Palestinians find some respite in the midst of a ceasefire in Gaza, many families have one important job to do before returning back to their homes: giving their loved ones, many who were buried in mass or temporary graves, a proper burial.
The Gaza genocide revealed imperial tensions between the U.S. and Israel which show the U.S. will sacrifice Zionist demands for its own interests.
Palestinians across Gaza are returning to the rubble of their homes to search for their missing loved ones. “I’m looking through the skulls the Civil Defense collects trying to identify my sons,” Rafah resident Mahmoud Al-Qatati tells Mondoweiss.