Mohammed Abushanab, a 27-year-old Palestinian asylum-seeker who fled persecution by the Israeli military, has finally been released from detention, after being incarcerated by ICE for 20 months.
Lately, the Democrats have begun openly questioning military aid to Israel, but that isn’t enough. Rather, Americans must demand an arms embargo and targeted sanctions to achieve a small measure of justice for all of Zionism’s victims.
One month after her release from ICE detention, Leqaa Kordia remains determined to challenge injustice. In an interview with Mondoweiss, Kordia discusses her arrest, the stories of the women she met in detention, and her Palestinian identity.
Officials say Israel’s attacks on humanitarian aid workers aim to block essential aid from reaching Palestinians, as Israel continues to impose a blockade on Gaza seven months into the so-called “ceasefire.”
There was a lot of news this week. Israel is accelerating its colonial project, from…
Israel is approving the construction of new West Bank settlements at an unprecedented rate because it knows its window of impunity is closing — especially if Iran emerges intact from the war and the Republicans lose the U.S. midterms.
Randa Abdel-Fattah reflects on the fragmentation she has felt since October 7, caught between daily life and the normalization of live-streamed annihilation of Arab and Muslim lives.
Netanyahu may have been “coerced” by Trump into a ceasefire with Lebanon, but this won’t stop Israel from following a well-worn playbook: exploit sectarian divisions to weaken or disarm resistance while entrenching Israeli expansionism.
It’s clear the Trump administration recognizes the Iran war has been a catastrophe. But while the U.S. may want a way out, the first round of negotiations with Iran showed that finding an exit may be difficult.
Senate Democrats supported two measures to block weapons shipments to Israel in record fashion, but they were not joined by party leadership, who suddenly appear very out of touch with the party’s base.