The IMF and World Bank are conditioning reconstruction funds on Lebanon’s normalization with Israel and disarming Hezbollah. In the Dahiya suburb of Beirut, the people who’ve lost their homes in the war think this is unacceptable.
Israel has begun the final stage of its genocide. Palestinians are being forced to choose between death or deportation. What we are witnessing dwarfs all the historical assaults on Palestinians.
Donald Trump has ushered in his second term with a full-fledged assault on DEI programs and advocates for Palestinian rights. Both attacks should be understood within the long history of White backlash to movements for social and racial justice.
Before the war resumed, I was able to visit my old neighborhood in Gaza City. Nothing of it was left.
Palestinian refugee camps are known for producing resistance fighters and footballers. But Israel’s ongoing onslaught in Gaza and the West Bank is erasing every aspect of Palestinian life, including sports.
Israel resumed its genocidal war on Gaza by cutting off water and electricity to 2.1 million Palestinians, threatening a humanitarian disaster.
Israel resumes its genocidal assault on Gaza as Netanyahu rejects ceasefire, ethnic cleansing continues in West Bank, and U.S. crackdowns on Palestine activism intensify.
Working at PEN American has given me a firsthand look at how liberal institutions suppress pro-Palestinian voices.
Israel’s ethnic cleansing campaign in the West Bank is being accepted by the international community because it has already allowed genocide in Gaza and the forced displacement of Palestinians since 1948. But there is hope a new world is being born.
Progressive International’s Varsha Gandikota-Nellutla talks to Mondoweiss about the creation of the Hague Group, a campaign of global south nations to uphold the ICJ and ICC rulings on Palestine, and international efforts to hold Israel accountable.