Itamar Ben-Gvir has been attacked across Israeli politics for a cruel video showing him mocking flotilla activists as they were being abused by officers. His offense was not his fascist celebration, but rather showing the true face of Israel.

Political and economic realities are pushing Donald Trump to pursue a deal with Iran, but he will need to resist mounting pressure, including from Israel, to return to all-out war.

The DNC finally released its long-awaited autopsy of Kamala Harris’s failed presidential campaign, and it doesn’t mention Gaza. The Democratic leadership’s refusal to acknowledge the party’s shift on Israel could spell another defeat in 2028.

The Israeli Knesset is considering a bill that would place Palestinian historical sites in the West Bank under direct Israeli civil law, stripping them of their protected status under international law. Experts say it’s annexation in all but name.

AIPAC says that being pro-Israel is good politics. But if that is true, why do they have to spend so much money on elections?

Over the past two decades, no one has done more to shape U.S. discourse on Israel than Jeffrey Goldberg. By relying on tropes of eternal Jewish victimhood, Goldberg declared Iran an existential threat to Jews and helped pave the way for war.

Israel is reviving an obscure 1968 government order to unilaterally seize some 50 properties directly adjacent to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Residents say the move is an effort to remove Palestinians and to complete the Judaization of Jerusalem.

The “Shami neighborhood project” will ethnically cleanse the Bedouin population of Jerusalem’s eastern wilderness as part of Israel’s plan to take total control over the strategic “Greater Jerusalem” corridor, which would split the West Bank in two. 

AIPAC helped oust Thomas Massie in Kentucky, but Chris Rabb’s win in Philadelphia dealt a major blow to pro-Israel groups and the Democratic Party establishment.

A city official in Miami Beach is being sued for allegedly hiring billboard trucks to attack local Jewish, anti-Zionist activists.

Israeli forces have pushed past the “Yellow Line” that divides the Gaza Strip in half and now control 65% of the territory. Residents call the new border Gaza’s “apartheid wall.”

Despite taking the lead in the ICJ case against Israel, South Africa has also been a leading exporter of coal that has fueled Israel’s genocide in Gaza. Activists are demanding that the government halt the shipments, which violate South African law.

Colombia’s upcoming election could be a turning point for foreign policy across Latin America. Trump friendly pro-Israel politics have swept across the region, but a win by Iván Cepeda would show “pink-wave” support for Palestine is still strong.

Germany’s unconditional support for Israel has been an easy way to avoid examining our brutal past. The colossal weight of the ongoing genocide in Gaza is crushing our facile myths and forcing us to re-examine our historical dogma.

Benjamin Netanyahu and his allies in Congress have begun calling for an end to U.S. aid to Israel, but this won’t end the “special relationship” between the two countries. In fact, recent signs suggest it may only deepen U.S. military ties to Israel.

An in-depth report by NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof accused Israeli prison guards of raping Palestinians. The Netanyahu government responded with a ferocious smear campaign, and the media is squirming uncomfortably. Will it follow the story?

Keir Starmer is facing a political crisis, in part because of his support for Israel, as a rising star in the party calls for sanctions against the “pariah” state. Gaza has altered politics forever, and the shock waves are now reaching the UK. 

Gamal Abdel Nasser’s famous quote has been co-opted over the decades by competing political agendas – but amid genocide, it has become clear that Arab struggles for sovereignty cannot be divorced from the fight for Palestinian liberation.

Far-right security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir stormed Al-Aqsa compound, while tens of thousands of Israelis paraded through the Muslim Quarter of the Old City on Jerusalem Day, which saw attacks on Palestinian shops and “Death to Arabs” chants. 

Residents of Qalandia refugee camp outside Ramallah say escalating Israeli raids now come with orders to leave their homes or suffer the same fate as Jenin camp. “Just saying ‘Jenin’ is enough,” one resident said. “Everyone knows what it means.”

Rep. Joaquin Castro’s recent letter calling on the Trump administration to acknowledge Israel’s nuclear arsenal joins a long history of members of Congress addressing the taboo topic. It is now time to take action and end the official silence.

“Every moment I connect my life now to those years after the Nakba,” says 85-year-old Fatima Ibrahim Khalfallah. “This Nakba is more terrifying, more deadly, more destructive. . . The same hunger, thirst, and fear — but multiplied many times over.”

Abe Foxman died at 86. As the Anti-Defamation League’s national director, he helped build the Progressive Except Palestine liberal consensus and lived just long enough to see it collapse amid the Gaza genocide.

As Fatah holds its Eighth Congress, insiders tell Mondoweiss that the dominant movement in Palestinian politics for over 50 years is in disarray. With Palestinians under threat on multiple fronts, the meeting may be the last chance to fix the crisis.

There is a moral panic over whether protests at synagogues against the sale of Israeli settlement homes are antisemitic. This accusation is meant only to distract from Israel’s ongoing genocide and ethnic cleansing. Don’t fall for it.

The EU just sanctioned violent Israeli settlers and settler groups, but critics call it a “smokescreen” meant to delay imposing sanctions on Israel where it hurts: its longstanding economic relationship with Europe.

The Gaza genocide has prompted people across the U.S., including American Jews, to reconsider their relationship with Israel. The stories of five Jews in Ithaca, NY, illustrate how some are beginning to envision a future without Zionism.

Abdul El-Sayed is a frontrunner in Michigan’s Senate primary and part of the pro-Palestine wave reshaping the Democratic Party. His campaign’s success is also rooted in Detroit’s long history of Palestinian solidarity in progressive politics.

A rodent bounty is sweeping across Gaza offering 34 cents a mouse and $1.7 per rat, amid warnings from health officials that over 70,000 people have been infected by rodent-borne illnesses in the Strip.

Since self-described “Zionist fanatic” Bari Weiss took over CBS News, critical coverage of Israel has vanished. It’s no surprise, then, that Benjamin Netanyahu was given a prime-time slot on 60 Minutes to make the case for the disastrous war on Iran.