AIPAC is suddenly unwelcome among Democrats, but there’s a new sheriff in town to enforce the pro-Israel orthodoxy. J Street aims to make liberals ‘love Israel again,’ but most Democrats are looking to distance themselves due to the Gaza genocide.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent statement that he wants to end Israel’s reliance on U.S. aid over the next decade was surprising, but there could be strategic and economic reasons behind the move, as well as political realities forcing him to do so.
Ras Ain al-Auja was one of the largest Palestinian Bedouin villages in the West Bank. Now most of its 120 families have been forcibly displaced by state-backed Israeli settlers after nonstop attacks. Residents are calling it “another Nakba.”
Aid organizations say Israel’s recent ban of 37 groups has dealt a severe blow to humanitarian work across Palestine. In Gaza, it means “cutting off a lifeline for over two million people,” says Rahma Worldwide’s Dr. Shadi Zazzah.
Amid domestic protests in Iran, the Trump administration is threatening U.S. attacks on the country.
In a surprise announcement, Benjamin Netanyahu told The Economist magazine that Israel plans to stop receiving U.S. military aid in the next 10 years.
Ahmad was married to Walaa for three days when a wall collapsed onto their tent during a winter storm in Gaza, killing her. In mourning, Ahmad now refuses to clean her blood off his mattress. His family says even though he survived, he is destroyed.
Israel’s “administrative” measures in Gaza and the West Bank are making life unlivable, as the U.S. stages regime change in Venezuela and ramps up domestic repression.
In the wake of the United States’ invasion of Venezuela, countries around the world are asking what this means for them. For Israel, it could mean an opportunity for another conflict with Lebanon or Iran that Netanyahu has been vying for.
Renee Good, like many Palestinians before her, died because authoritarian forces decided she did not deserve to live, and because the entire legal and political structure exists to ensure those agents never face meaningful consequences for murder.