U.S. lawmakers are joining Benjamin Netanyahu in pushing for closer integration of the Israeli and U.S. militaries. Critics warn this will give Israel dangerous leverage over U.S. foreign and defense policy.
The recent suspension of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan over allegations of sexual misconduct, despite a lack of evidence, shows the U.S., Israel, and their Western allies will stop at nothing to torpedo any effort to hold Israel accountable for genocide.
During Pride month, Palestinian queers watch Israeli rainbow flags rise over cities built on the ruins of our people and are told this is progress. But this pinkwashing is just meant to launder Israel’s image while genocide rages. Don’t fall for it.
In the Syrian governorate of Quneitra, Israel is seizing land, attacking and abducting residents, mauling them with army dogs, and spraying chemical agents over farmland. The Syrian government remains silent.
Israel is methodically dismantling any Palestinian presence in most of the West Bank and erasing Palestine from the map. But the way it’s unfolding doesn’t make the headlines.
The flare-up in violence between Iran and Israel on June 8 was less about the two countries’ immediate goals and more a reflection of Iran’s long-term efforts to reassert a united axis of resistance to U.S.-Israeli hegemony in the region.
FIFA promised to investigate illegal Israeli settlement clubs, then allowed them to play on. This decision deepens FIFA’s complicity in the Israeli occupation. There are now 10 operating in the occupied West Bank, and they are getting bigger.
Mohsen Rezaei, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader and former IRGC Commander, says Tehran will not separate Lebanon from any deal with Washington, including a nuclear deal, as Iran seeks to redefine the terms of negotiations with the U.S.
With 96 percent of Gaza’s farmland destroyed, farmers are returning to fields buried in rubble and unexploded ordnance, but Israel’s blockade is making recovery nearly impossible.