Israeli settler violence since October 2023 has systematically rendered farmland inaccessible across the West Bank. The state-backed policy is destroying harvests, driving up the price of produce, and dismantling an entire way of life.
Meet the grassroots network of Palestinian volunteers who spend their nights defending their West Bank villages from escalating Israeli settler violence.
Israel’s plummeting popularity has been driven by the Gaza genocide and Iran war, but it has been building for decades. We are now finally seeing the political results.
While the world is focused on Iran, Israel is signaling plans to restart the genocide in Gaza.
As the U.S. and Iran face off in the Strait of Hormuz, Israel will do everything it can to reignite the war with Iran and resume its offensive in Lebanon.
Over 150,000 Palestinian laborers have been denied work permits in Israel for two years. They’re now smuggling themselves across the Green Line amid the war on Iran, where they are banned from more than 11,000 shelters when missiles strike.
Israel has long used the same playbook to recruit informants from enemy societies. Iran is now using it to recruit spies in Israel by exploiting new cracks in Israeli society.
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.
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.
Chris Rabb’s consistency on Palestine has resonated with voters in the country’s bluest district, who have felt betrayed by the Democrats’ approach to Israel and foreign policy.
Israeli settler violence since October 2023 has systematically rendered farmland inaccessible across the West Bank. The state-backed policy is destroying harvests, driving up the price of produce, and dismantling an entire way of life.
Trump claims Iran has been weakened, but analyst Sina Toossi says it’s the U.S. that is desperate for a deal. Mondoweiss speaks with Toossi about the gains Iran has made during the war with the U.S. and Israel and what comes next.
Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid’s joint effort to unseat Benjamin Netanyahu aims to appeal to those upset by Israel’s growing pariah status, but their campaign merely puts a ‘liberal’ veneer on the same Israeli apartheid.
Israel’s plummeting popularity has been driven by the Gaza genocide and Iran war, but it has been building for decades. We are now finally seeing the political results.
Municipal elections were the last democratic outlet Palestinians had. This year, barely anyone is running, as two years of genocide and Israeli crackdown have hollowed out Palestinian political life.
![Deputy Secretary of State Wendy R. Sherman meets with speaks with members of the Vietnamese press in Hanoi, Vietnam, on June 13, 2022. [State Department photo/ public domain]](https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2026/04/Screenshot-2026-04-30-at-10.59.24-AM-770x515.png "The Shift: Biden official says Israel committed genocide in Gaza, but the U.S. must keep supporting it")
A Biden official says Israel committed genocide… and the U.S. must continue to support it.
Over the past two years, Israel has lost the support of the American public and is now losing one of its last bulwarks in the political arena — prominent voices in the mainstream media.
There is compelling evidence that the Israeli military killed Lebanese reporter Amal Khalil. Why is the U.S. media ignoring the story?
Mondoweiss speaks with media critic Adam Johnson about his new book detailing how cable shows, newspapers, and online news sites helped build support for the mass killing of Palestinians.