This week, our coverage followed the U.S. and Israel’s push to shape Gaza’s political future, and the widening backlash against Palestinians and Palestine solidarity across the West.
Trump’s so-called “Board of Peace” offers a clear window into Washington’s effort to sideline international law and impose a new “stability” architecture across the region. We dug into how Israel and the U.S. are using the devastation of Gaza as leverage; a “shock doctrine” approach aimed at forcing a new administrative order onto the Strip. And from the West Bank, we published an intimate report on Palestinian teenagers, capturing the daily pressure, fear, and defiance shaping a generation coming of age under occupation.
Outside Palestine, two pieces traced the tightening repression facing Palestinians and solidarity movements in Europe and Australia. One looks at what it means to live as an Arab in Germany right now, and the other is Randa Abdel-Fattah’s account of institutional silencing at Australia’s Adelaide Writers’ Week. Another report tracked the growing material consequences of the Gaza genocide for Israel itself, as agricultural exporters warn of a looming collapse with international buyers increasingly rejecting Israeli products.
In the United States, our reporting examined the Democratic Party’s intensifying conflict over its ties to Israel and laid out concrete steps Zohran Mamdani can take in New York City to end financial support connected to Israeli settlements. The discussion over the proper role for Jews in the Palestine solidarity movement continued with an essay arguing that the Palestinian liberation must stay at the center of the narrative.
About the events in the United States over the last few days: The murder of Alex Pretti by federal agents in Minneapolis is shocking, but not surprising. It’s the predictable outcome of decades of militarized policing, and of decades in which the United States has funded and politically protected Israel’s brutal occupation of Palestine. That support hasn’t just been rhetorical or diplomatic. For years, U.S. police and other law enforcement agencies at the local, state, and federal levels have sent personnel to Israel for “training,” where they learn tactics honed through occupation and apartheid. These tactics are then brought back and used against communities across the U.S.
Your eyes are not lying: the Trump regime is hollowing out what democratic institutions still exist and trying to impose authoritarian control through fear, raids, and violence.
If you’re in the U.S., now is the time to plug into local organizing and rapid response in your community, build real networks that can show up, protect people, and make it harder for repression to operate in silence. Click here for an updated list of protests and actions in your area.
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In 2026 this is what an ethnically cleansed Palestinian community looks like and that is one of several Israeli settlements that has forcibly displaced the people here.
🫅 The Board of Peace and the new imperial court
Trump formally announced the “Board of Peace” at Davos, pitching it as a path to stability while critics describe it as a direct attempt to undermine the U.N. and replace international law with a pay-to-play club of vassals, billionaires, and strongmen.
READ MORE → Trump unveils so-called “Board of Peace”
READ MORE → A world on its knees: Trump’s “Board of Peace” and the darkness it promises
READ MORE → The Middle East is at a tipping point as the U.S. fuels crisis across the region
🇵🇸 Applying the shock doctrine in Gaza
A new U.S.-sanctioned “technocratic committee” framed as administrative relief, but built to answer to Trump’s “peace” board, is preparing to enter Gaza. Qassam Muaddi explains why Palestinian factions have shifted toward accepting an arrangement they previously rejected, and how the “shock doctrine” logic is being applied to Gaza after the obliteration of civilian life, infrastructure, and political space.
READ MORE → How Israel and the U.S. are using the “shock doctrine” to impose a new administration in Gaza
🇵🇸 The genocide generation in the West Bank
A reported, intimate look at Palestinian teenagers in the West Bank — their music, their habits, their fear, their bravado — and the daily reality of coming of age while watching Gaza burn and while Israel kills the people around them.
READ MORE → Energy drinks, cigarettes, and Molotovs: Inside the lives of Palestinian teenagers in the West Bank
🇮🇱 Israel’s collapsing brand
Israeli farmers and exporters are warning of a looming “collapse” in agricultural exports as international buyers avoid Israeli products and shipping routes get harder and more expensive.
READ MORE → Israeli agricultural exports face looming “collapse” as world rejects products over Gaza genocide
🚫 The West’s crackdown on Palestine solidarity
Jara Nassar writes about what it means to live as an Arab in Germany amid what she describes as an authoritarian restructuring since October 7, 2023. And Randa Abdel-Fattah details the censorship, smear campaigns, and institutional repression that followed her cancellation from Adelaide Writers’ Week, and the backlash that eventually forced the festival’s collapse.
READ MORE → What it means to live as an Arab in Germany today
🇺🇸 The Israel lobby is exposed & more
Founder and Senior Editor Philip Weiss reports on comments from Kamala Harris’s Jewish outreach director defending the campaign’s decision to question Josh Shapiro over his Israel ties. It’s a sign that the Democratic Party’s internal war over Israel is no longer containable. Meanwhile, Zohran Mamdani faces an immediate test in New York City to end city financial support tied to Israeli settlements. Rima Najjar offers a sharp warning to the movement that Jewish anti-Zionist visibility matters, but it can’t become the story. Palestinian demands and political strategy must be the center of the narrative.
READ MORE → When Jewish moral reckoning overshadows Palestinian liberation
