This week offered a clear example of how elected officials in Washington, D.C., bend their own rules to keep weapons flowing to Israel. Political results outside Washington this week also showed us why this may soon change.

The Israeli settler movement and its allies in the government have submitted a plan to build 100 new outposts in Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank. The move would effectively eliminate the Oslo Accords.

I am a journalist from Gaza, and I have documented loss so relentlessly that I have wondered where all that grief goes. I now know it never disappears. It might feel gone, but then one story comes along and unlocks everything that came before it.

Democratic socialist Melat Kiros unseated longtime incumbent Diana DeGette in Colorado this week. It was another sign that Democratic Party voters will no longer accept “Progressive Except for Palestine” candidates.

Israel is seizing church and Palestinian land in Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood under the pretext of creating “green spaces.” A Muslim caretaker of the church property has made it his daily mission to guard what’s left.

Vice President J.D. Vance has long been considered the leading contender for the 2028 Republican nomination, but will his role in the Trump administration’s unpopular war against Iran hurt his chances? Conservatives are divided.

Israel’s conditioning of its withdrawal from southern Lebanon on the disarmament of Hezbollah mirrors its strategy in Gaza: insist on terms that are impossible to implement to justify its constant state of war.

Democrats thought tying Abdul El-Sayed to pro-Palestinian streamer Hasan Piker would derail his insurgent campaign in Michigan, but it backfired. Now, the race has become a key battle in the fight between the party establishment and progressive left.

Dr. Sang Hea Kil was suspended by San Jose State University before becoming the first tenured professor to lose their job for pro-Palestine advocacy. Now, an arbitrator has ruled that the school must reinstate her.

I have worked as a journalist in Gaza for nearly a decade, and I believe the Committee to Protect Journalists’ decision to remove the names of Palestinians killed while reporting from its records is yet another attempt to silence Gaza. It will fail.