This week Israel held national elections for the fifth time in three years. Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud Party was triumphant and will forming the next government with the help of the real winners of this latest round – the messianic, fascist Religious Zionist Party that electrified the electorate, and is terrifying Israel’s supporters in the United States.

Apartheid is not on the ballot in Israel, only which party will become the standard-bearer.

This week we saw the inevitable debate over Israeli apartheid begin to come to the U.S. Congress.

Joe Biden’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia will attempt to sweep Shireen Abu Akleh and Jamal Khashoggi under the rug.

Over the last year, we’ve made a conscious commitment to our readers and the entire Palestinian freedom movement: to build a newsroom for all of Palestine. We’re thrilled to announce two new hires that move us decisively in that direction: Faris Giacaman as Managing Editor, and Mariam Barghouti as Senior Palestine Correspondent.

After the Mapping Project published a study of links between establishment institutions responsible for the colonization of Palestine, and the economy of imperialism and war, and policing and gentrification, critics landed on it as a supposed antisemitic hitlist. We honor the Mapping Project’s work in a tradition of activist journalism; and recognize a familiar pattern: Whenever Israel lobby organizations in the Jewish community are held to account for their power over the discourse and U.S. policy, those same organizations seek to stifle the criticism by alleging antisemitism.

An interview with the activists behind the Mapping Project, a project created to “investigate local links between entities responsible for the colonization of Palestine, for colonialism and dispossession here where we live, and for the economy of imperialism and war.”

Check out a sneak preview of our new video report, “Inside Israeli Apartheid.”

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