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An off-duty Israeli soldier at a bus stop in Jerusalem, August 17, 2004. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Justin McIntosh)
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Israelis are being recruited as spies for Iran in what security experts call an espionage ‘epidemic’

By Abdaljawad Omar April 22, 2026 1

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.

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One month after her release from ICE detention, Leqaa Kordia remains determined to challenge injustice. In an interview with Mondoweiss, Kordia discusses her arrest, the stories of the women she met in detention, and her Palestinian identity.

WHO workers leading a medical evacuation from Gaza on December 31, 2024. (Photo: Doaa el-Baz/APA Images)

Israel is (still) killing aid workers in Gaza

By Tareq S. Hajjaj April 20, 2026 2

Officials say Israel’s attacks on humanitarian aid workers aim to block essential aid from reaching Palestinians, as Israel continues to impose a blockade on Gaza seven months into the so-called “ceasefire.”

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Palestinians who had been prevented from crossing through the Qalandia checkpoint into Jerusalem use a ladder to cross over the separation wall in the town of al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, June 18, 2015. (Photo: Shadi Hatem/APA Images)

Inside the lives of Palestinian laborers smuggled into Israel for work during the Iran war

By Aseel Mafarjeh April 22, 2026 0

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.

An off-duty Israeli soldier at a bus stop in Jerusalem, August 17, 2004. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Justin McIntosh)

Israelis are being recruited as spies for Iran in what security experts call an espionage ‘epidemic’

By Abdaljawad Omar April 22, 2026 1

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.

Jewish Israeli settlers set up mobile homes and raise Israeli flags over the evacuated settlement of Sanur, north of Nablus, which was approved by resettlement by the Israeli government in 2025, March 18, 2026. (Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images)

Israel is racing to expand West Bank settlements before new political realities end its era of impunity

By Qassam Muaddi April 19, 2026 19

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.

Vice President J. D. Vance at the 2025 AmericaFest in Phoenix, Arizona, on December 21, 2025. (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

Trump may want out of the Iran war, but the first round of negotiations showed the challenges ahead

By Mitchell Plitnick April 17, 2026 8

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.

Iranian students climb up U.S. embassy gates in Tehran, on November 4, 1979. (Photo: Wikimedia/revolution.shirazu.ac.ir)

Understanding the Iran war in the context of U.S. imperialism

By Michael Arria April 14, 2026 3

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Israelis are finally revolting against Netanyahu — for agreeing to the U.S. ceasefire with Iran

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The entire Israeli political spectrum is united in blasting Netanyahu for not continuing to attack Iran, and Israeli society agrees. The reason, to put it simply, is that Israelis are war junkies.

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Palestinians who had been prevented from crossing through the Qalandia checkpoint into Jerusalem use a ladder to cross over the separation wall in the town of al-Ram, north of Jerusalem, June 18, 2015. (Photo: Shadi Hatem/APA Images)

Inside the lives of Palestinian laborers smuggled into Israel for work during the Iran war

By Aseel Mafarjeh April 22, 2026 0

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.

PYM Dallas members welcome Leqaa Kordia following her release. (Photo: Stephanie Drenka)

‘I’ve become stronger:’ Leqaa Kordia on life after ICE detention

By Sam Judy April 21, 2026 0

One month after her release from ICE detention, Leqaa Kordia remains determined to challenge injustice. In an interview with Mondoweiss, Kordia discusses her arrest, the stories of the women she met in detention, and her Palestinian identity.

WHO workers leading a medical evacuation from Gaza on December 31, 2024. (Photo: Doaa el-Baz/APA Images)

Israel is (still) killing aid workers in Gaza

By Tareq S. Hajjaj April 20, 2026 2

Officials say Israel’s attacks on humanitarian aid workers aim to block essential aid from reaching Palestinians, as Israel continues to impose a blockade on Gaza seven months into the so-called “ceasefire.”

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Chris Rabb supporters at a No Kings protest in Philadelphia, on March 28, 2026. (Photo: Instagram/chrisrabb)

Philadelphia primary race becomes the latest Democratic Party battle between the pro-Palestine left and Israel lobby

By James Ray April 22, 2026 0

Chris Rabb’s surprising surge in Philadelphia’s crowded PA-3 House primary has made the race the latest Democratic Party battle between the insurgent pro-Palestine left and the Israel lobby.

An off-duty Israeli soldier at a bus stop in Jerusalem, August 17, 2004. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons/Justin McIntosh)

Israelis are being recruited as spies for Iran in what security experts call an espionage ‘epidemic’

By Abdaljawad Omar April 22, 2026 1

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.

A general view of the destruction in the vicinity of al-Shifa Hospital, following a two-week Israel military operation in Gaza City, on April 2, 2024. (Credit Image: © Omar Ishaq/dpa via ZUMA Press APA Images)

Ending aid isn’t enough — we need sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel now

By Ahmed Moor April 21, 2026 4

Lately, the Democrats have begun openly questioning military aid to Israel, but that isn’t enough. Rather, Americans must demand an arms embargo and targeted sanctions to achieve a small measure of justice for all of Zionism’s victims.

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U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations' (Wikimedia)

Power & Pushback: Palestinian asylum-seeker finally released

By Michael Arria April 21, 2026 0

Mohammed Abushanab, a 27-year-old Palestinian asylum-seeker who fled persecution by the Israeli military, has finally been released from detention, after being incarcerated by ICE for 20 months.

The Israeli separation wall in Bir Nabala, April 2026. (Photo: Qassam Muaddi/Mondoweiss)

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Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer in October 2020.

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Benjamin Netanyahu holds a joint press conference with Donald Trump announcing the U.S. peace plan for Gaza, Monday, September 29, 2025, in the White House. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

Israel is attacking Lebanon to sabotage the Iran ceasefire, but the media is hiding its true motivation

By James North April 11, 2026 23

Israel moved quickly to sabotage the Iran ceasefire with air attacks on Lebanon, but the mainstream media refuses to report this as an attempt to torpedo the fragile talks. 

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The U.S. media is ignoring Israel’s efforts to torpedo Trump’s talks with Iran

By James North March 26, 2026 1

Why won’t the mainstream U.S. media report on Israel’s efforts to sabotage Trump’s efforts to end the war with Iran?

Joe Kent on the Tucker Carlson podcast (Screenshot, Youtube)

Instead of taking Joe Kent’s claims seriously, the media is disregarding him as an antisemite

By Philip Weiss March 20, 2026 16

Despite the seriousness of the claims made by Joe Kent – that Israel dragged the U.S. into war with Iran despite Iran posing no imminent threat – the liberal media is ignoring the real story by painting Kent as an antisemitic conspiracy theorist.

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