Abe Foxman died at 86. As the Anti-Defamation League’s national director, he helped build the Progressive Except Palestine liberal consensus and lived just long enough to see it collapse amid the Gaza genocide.
As Fatah holds its Eighth Congress, insiders tell Mondoweiss that the dominant movement in Palestinian politics for over 50 years is in disarray. With Palestinians under threat on multiple fronts, the meeting may be the last chance to fix the crisis.
There is a moral panic over whether protests at synagogues against the sale of Israeli settlement homes are antisemitic. This accusation is meant only to distract from Israel’s ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing. Don’t fall for it.
The EU just sanctioned violent Israeli settlers and settler groups, but critics call it a “smokescreen” meant to delay imposing sanctions on Israel where it hurts: its longstanding economic relationship with Europe.
The Gaza genocide has prompted people across the U.S., including American Jews, to reconsider their relationship with Israel. The stories of five Jews in Ithaca, NY, illustrate how some are beginning to envision a future without Zionism.
Abdul El-Sayed is a frontrunner in Michigan’s Senate primary and part of the pro-Palestine wave reshaping the Democratic Party. His campaign’s success is also rooted in Detroit’s long history of Palestinian solidarity in progressive politics.
A rodent bounty is sweeping across Gaza offering 34 cents a mouse and $1.7 per rat, amid warnings from health officials that over 70,000 people have been infected by rodent-borne illnesses in the Strip.
Since self-described “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss took over CBS News, critical coverage of Israel has vanished. It’s no surprise, then, that Benjamin Netanyahu was given a prime-time slot on 60 Minutes to make the case for the disastrous war on Iran.
Four years ago today, Shireen Abu Akleh was assassinated by an Israeli soldier. Since then, Israel has killed more than 275 journalists in Gaza and Lebanon. The world that let Shireen’s killer walk free made all of this possible.
Activists and lawmakers in Illinois are pushing to repeal the state’s anti-BDS law, the nation’s first such law. The campaign could serve as a model for more than 30 states that have since adopted anti-BDS laws.