The violence of apartheid across the West Bank isn’t just physical. Israel relies on constant psychological warfare to terrorize rural Palestinian communities and make them live with the perpetual dread of army raids and settler pogroms.
Most New Yorkers are not aware companies contributing to the Gaza genocide operate in their backyard, but at least two are housed in the city-operated Brooklyn Navy Yard. Now, activists and local residents are banding together to get them evicted.
The State Department has imposed sanctions on three Palestinian human rights organizations for supporting the ICC’s Israel probe.
The cancellation of visas for Palestinian officials is part of a a wider effort by Israel and the U.S. to prevent international recognition of a Palestinian state, and to further Trump’s grandiose plans for Gaza and Israel’s plans for the West Bank.
Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich released a map proposing to annex over 80% of the West Bank. He’s not far off from the rest of the Israeli political establishment — even the “pragmatic” opposition.
Senator Tom Cotton (R-AR) is targeting the Palestinian Youth Movement (PYM), claiming the group is “antisemitic” and “connected to terrorists”, following comments by a PYM member about disrupting the weapons supply chain to Israel.
Former employees at the Americans United for Separation of Church and State say they were pushed out of the organization for expressing solidarity with Palestinians. The battle at AU highlights a growing tension within nonprofits over Gaza.
Local authorities in Gaza have identified a “new strain” of respiratory virus in Gaza amid worsening conditions of famine and severe malnutrition, which threaten to cause even routine infections to turn deadly.
A leaked document details the Trump administration’s plan to forcibly relocate the population of Gaza. Included in a “relocation package” would be $5,000, four years of rent subsidies, and a year of food subsidies.
This past weekend, thousands gathered in Detroit for the second annual People’s Conference for Palestine. This year’s guiding principle: Gaza is the Compass.