Graham Platner prevailed in Maine’s Senate primary despite being heavily targeted by pro-Israel advocates. It’s the latest sign that Israel lobby smears no longer work as they used to.

U.S. lawmakers are joining Benjamin Netanyahu in pushing for closer integration of the Israeli and U.S. militaries. Critics warn this will give Israel dangerous leverage over U.S. foreign and defense policy.

The recent suspension of ICC Prosecutor Karim Khan over allegations of sexual misconduct, despite a lack of evidence, shows the U.S., Israel, and their Western allies will stop at nothing to torpedo any effort to hold Israel accountable for genocide.

During Pride month, Palestinian queers watch Israeli rainbow flags rise over cities built on the ruins of our people and are told this is progress. But this pinkwashing is just meant to launder Israel’s image while genocide rages. Don’t fall for it.

In the Syrian governorate of Quneitra, Israel is seizing land, attacking and abducting residents, mauling them with army dogs, and spraying chemical agents over farmland. The Syrian government remains silent.

Israel is methodically dismantling any Palestinian presence in most of the West Bank and erasing Palestine from the map. But the way it’s unfolding doesn’t make the headlines.

The flare-up in violence between Iran and Israel on June 8 was less about the two countries’ immediate goals and more a reflection of Iran’s long-term efforts to reassert a united axis of resistance to U.S.-Israeli hegemony in the region.

FIFA promised to investigate illegal Israeli settlement clubs, then allowed them to play on. This decision deepens FIFA’s complicity in the Israeli occupation. There are now 10 operating in the occupied West Bank, and they are getting bigger.

Mohsen Rezaei, a senior adviser to Iran’s Supreme Leader and former IRGC Commander, says Tehran will not separate Lebanon from any deal with Washington, including a nuclear deal, as Iran seeks to redefine the terms of negotiations with the U.S.

With 96 percent of Gaza’s farmland destroyed, farmers are returning to fields buried in rubble and unexploded ordnance, but Israel’s blockade is making recovery nearly impossible.

Israel is deliberately pushing Palestinian hospitals toward collapse in Gaza and the West Bank, while a surgeon who served in Gaza wins a congressional primary, and the IHRA definition is being used to criminalize Palestine solidarity across Latin America.

Rashida Tlaib’s bill calling to end U.S. support for Israel’s ongoing invasion of Lebanon upset Democratic Party leaders who want to avoid a vote on Israel. Now, Congress may take a groundbreaking vote to rein in Israeli aggression.

Sam Abu Haikal was riding in his parents’ car through Hebron when Israeli soldiers opened fire. His mother is in intensive care, and his father, wounded in the hand, buried him alone the next morning. He was only seven months old.

I was arrested with four other students and Greta Thunberg during a protest advocating an academic boycott of Israel, and we now face up to six years in prison. This is about criminalizing dissent amid a genocide, not upholding the law.

Pro-Israel smear campaigns have ended many political careers in the past, but they’re now falling flat. This shift is one of the clearest signs that Israel’s standing in U.S. politics has changed, likely permanently.

New York State’s Common Retirement Fund holds more than $367 million in Israel Bonds, which provide financial support for Israel’s ongoing brutality against the Palestinian people. The state of New York must end its complicity in genocide.

This week, Dr. Adam Hamawy, a surgeon who volunteered in Gaza amid the genocide, won New Jersey’s 12th District primary. The win is obviously another loss for the Israel lobby, but it goes beyond simply adding another critic to Congress.

Health officials in Gaza say Israel is waging an aggressive campaign against Gaza’s healthcare system by deliberately calibrating restrictions on fuel and supplies to keep hospitals on the brink of collapse.

In May, the New School’s Student Senate sanctioned its Hillel chapter for its ties to Israeli war crimes and violations of international law. With 850 chapters worldwide, students everywhere should join the campaign to “Drop Hillel.”

A new Israeli digital registry imposes de facto sovereignty over 60% of the West Bank. Palestinians must register under Israeli authority or risk losing their land, but Israeli legal loopholes are designed to invalidate their claims either way.

As Israel indefinitely withholds Palestinian customs revenues, public hospitals have cut hours and slashed healthcare workers’ salaries. Patients are left to navigate a system running on interns and half-capacity labs.

The IHRA definition of antisemitism is being used in a coordinated offensive across Latin America to criminalize solidarity with Palestine. The targets are not only Palestine activists but also the backbone of Latin America’s social movements.

Amid a local pressure campaign, the Maryland State Retirement and Pension System has divested roughly 85% of its holdings in Israeli bonds. Mondoweiss speaks with one of the lead organizers of the effort, Zainab Chaudry, Director of CAIR Maryland.

New York goes to the polls on June 23, and, as in the rest of the country, Palestine is having a major impact on the races. Mondoweiss speaks with political consultant Peter Feld about the rapidly shifting politics around Israel in New York City.

Donald Trump reportedly has a deal on the table to suspend fighting and begin negotiations to end the Iran war and the resulting global economic crisis. But Israel and Iran hawks see it as a disaster and are working to undermine it. Who will win out?

Israel resumes bombing Gaza’s residential areas, and the Knesset has voted to dissolve. The U.S. is negotiating a new military aid package amid public opposition to weapons transfers at an all-time high.

European governments are finally being forced to condemn Israel as its crimes have become impossible to ignore. But they are scapegoating National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir rather than confronting the system he represents.

The U.S. is starting talks on a new military aid deal for Israel as support for the country hits an all-time low. Israel’s supporters are feeling the pressure and pushing for cosmetic changes, but don’t fall for it. We need a full arms embargo now.

“This is one of the proudest things I’ve done.” Mondoweiss talks to author susan abulhawa about “Every Moment Is A Life,” a powerful new anthology featuring 18 Palestinian writers abulhawa worked with during multiple trips to Gaza amid the genocide.

The Israeli army is targeting Gaza’s remaining residential blocks that were left standing after the ceasefire, leaving even more Palestinians homeless. “Fear has become a permanent guest in our homes,” one resident told Mondoweiss.