Voters in Michigan handed pro-Palestinian and anti-establishment candidates 11 out of 16 contested primary races this month, while AIPAC burned through more than $30 million trying and failing to stop Abdul El-Sayed’s Senate run. Tom Perkins reports on what the wins mean for Michigan’s most pro-Palestinian slate of elected officials in the state’s history.
In Florida’s 25th district, DSA member and union organizer Oliver Larkin is challenging Jared Moskowitz, one of the most reliably pro-Israel votes in the House. Michael Arria looks at how the fight over Israel policy is playing out across multiple Florida primaries, from Angie Nixon’s Senate bid to the AG’s race against the New York Times.
📺 WATCH: The Shift: Abdul El-Sayed Overcame $30 Million from AIPAC and Won Michigan
🇺🇸 U.S. politics and the Israel lobby
The Israel lobby’s grip on Democratic primaries continues to slip. Universities are stepping into the enforcement role that AIPAC once left to campaign spending.
READ MORE → Power & Pushback: Carnegie Mellon investigating students over pro-Palestine messages — Michael Arria
READ MORE → The Mecca Pact is the latest sign of the U.S.’s declining influence in the Middle East — Mitchell Plitnick
READ MORE → The Shift: One of Congress’s most pro-Israel members is facing strong opposition from an anti-Zionist in Florida — Michael Arria
READ MORE → Pro-Palestinian advocates won big in Michigan – what comes next? — Tom Perkins
🇵🇸 West Bank and Gaza
In Gaza, children are clearing rubble by hand for $10 a day, and a press corps is decimated by targeted killings. In the West Bank, refugee camps are under renewed military threat, a community doctor is imprisoned, and farmers are racing settler cattle to bring in the wheat harvest.
READ MORE → Palestinian youth are risking their lives to clear rubble in Gaza — Tareq S. Hajjaj
READ MORE → Entrusted with Palestine: Honoring the martyred journalists of Gaza through action — Palestinian Youth Movement
READ MORE → Understanding Israel’s campaign to destroy Palestinian refugee camps in the West Bank — Qassam Muaddi
READ MORE → ‘Is this how our story ends?’ Palestinian refugees live in fear as Israel takes aim at West Bank camps — Aseel Mafarjeh
READ MORE → Israel’s arrest of Ramallah’s ‘doctor of the poor’ shows Palestinians that no one is safe — Mondoweiss Palestine Bureau
READ MORE → The struggle to save the Palestinian wheat fields on the front lines of Israeli settler violence — Majd Jawad
READ MORE → Palestine Letter: the language of Palestinian reality — Qassam Muaddi
Senator Sanders hits the nail on the head! “People are catching on”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDhUKuW_Iik
El Sayed talking about his win:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FifDdUlhFro
Medhi Hasan talking about El Sayed’s win
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWO7xD9y8iU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tWO7xD9y8iU
Nakba 2.0:
An extremist Israeli lawmaker in Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s coalition publicly advocated for killing “30 to 40” people in Gaza each night, comments that surfaced Sunday and were quickly shared by Palestinian media….“I think targeted assassinations should be carried out in Gaza, taking down 30 to 40 every night. Not just those who pose an immediate threat — there are people there who are not worthy of life. They shouldn’t live. They’re not even people.”
Israel’s Ben-Gvir advocates killing ’30 to 40′ people in Gaza every night | AP News
Israeli settlers encircle Palestinian homes and cut off supplies, leading to a declaration of a military zone…..Since August 9, dozens of Israeli settlers have surrounded three Palestinian homes in the Ras al-Ain area on the edge of the village, cutting off water and electricity as food and other supplies run low. About 15 Palestinians from the Abu Rida and Hassan families live in these homes, among them two children under the age of seven and one belonging to a dual US citizen. Residents said settlers from nearby outposts have been trying to take the properties for months.
Timeline: The one-week siege of Qusra by Israeli settlers in the West Bank | Israel-Palestine conflict News | Al Jazeera
If Israel is a ‘Jewish state” what does that mean?
Israel has gone mad. U.S. Reps, the citizens of the U.S. etc should run away from the genocidal, apartheid, sadist government of Israel as fast as they can. Israel has gone mad.
“Bodies of Evidence”
https://www.aljazeera.com/news/2026/8/16/israeli-minister-calls-for-killing-30-to-40-palestinians-in-gaza-nightly
DOJ whistleblower alleges probes into universities were politically motivated. – Higher Ed Dive.
Whistleblower alleges political pressure, lack of evidence in antisemitism probes targeting schools — AP
Basis to reason that Mondoweiss would advance Palestinian self-determinstion via discussions on what would be a workable vision for the future or by elaborating on the intended meaning of it’s tee and tote message.
Note from 9:47 to 13:10
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LQTfHfah6u4