Netanyahu has staked Israel’s economic future on becoming a Mediterranean trade hub to replace the Strait of Hormuz. The war on Iran was supposed to make that possible, but it consumed the fiscal space, U.S. backing, and Gulf capital needed for it.

Israel has seized homes inside Palestinian Authority territory, a UK court has sentenced solidarity activists as terrorists, and released detainees describe the torture of a Gaza doctor.

My generation of Jews entered Harvard in the 1970s as outsiders and left as the establishment that built support for Israel. Today, attitudes have shifted completely, yet my group still can’t discuss Palestine. Fortunately, no one is waiting for us.

Robin Andersen’s indispensable new book, The Complicit Lens, offers a comprehensive examination of the media’s role in supporting the Israeli genocide in Gaza.

This Father’s Day, Miramar Abusaleem reclaims her father’s memory — a Gaza farmer killed by an Israeli airstrike, and namesake of The Sameer Project — challenging how Palestinian men disappear from media coverage of the genocide.

After months of war, the U.S. and Iran have signed a framework agreement that excludes every U.S. war aim. Mouin Rabbani breaks down why this is a decisive defeat for Washington and Israel.

Eight Palestine solidarity activists in Michigan face decades in prison over property damage. The Justice Department’s disproportionate charges reveal a broader effort to crack down on Palestine solidarity activism as a whole.

Before the genocide, Gaza’s residents carried their TVs into the streets to watch the World Cup with their neighbors. Today, following a match requires electricity that many don’t have, and money that most people can’t afford.

Former detainees who spent time with the prominent Gaza doctor before his transfer to solitary confinement describe systematic beatings, dog attacks, and deliberate medical neglect, warning he may not survive.

Hillel International’s antisemitism trainings and Campus Climate Initiative are wolves in sheep’s clothing, designed to ensure that Palestine-related speech, protest, and even thought are rendered forbidden on U.S. college and university campuses.

Israel is factoring into primaries across the United States, but perhaps nowhere more than New York.

Israeli soldiers shot three-year-old Rayyan Abu al-Ajeen in his father’s arms and mocked his father’s pleas as he cried for his dying son. The father says they were in the part of Gaza designated as “safe” for civilians during the “ceasefire.”

Benjamin Netanyahu is under fire across the Israeli political spectrum for allowing the U.S. to reach a deal with Iran. “The state of Israel won the battle,” said Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid, but “Netanyahu lost the war.”

In a UK first, a judge sentenced four Palestine Action activists to terrorism charges for a direct action protest against an Elbit Systems factory. The move sparks fears the ruling could set a dangerous precedent for those opposing Israel’s genocide.

A military order signed in May 2026 authorizes Israel’s first permanent base near Jenin inside Area A, the part of the West Bank under control of the Palestinian Authority. Israel has already begun displacing families who live there.