Forensic Architecture’s latest report documents the extent and intent of Israel’s assault on the Gaza Strip, strengthening South Africa’s case in the ICJ charging Israel with the crime of genocide.

Pope Frances condemned the Israeli bombing in Gaza in his annual Christmas address, telling Cardinals and other senior leaders in the Vatican, “This is cruelty, not war.”

“The [recent] Advisory Opinion by the International Court of Justice,” Archbishop Justin Welby writes, “makes definitively clear that Israel’s presence in the Occupied Palestinian Territories is unlawful and needs to end as rapidly as possible.”

In a wide-ranging interview, Craig Mokhiber reflects on his time as Director of the New York Office of the UN’s High Commissioner of Human Rights after he stepped down in protest over the UN’s failure to prevent a “textbook case of genocide” in Gaza.

“Staying quiet in this moment would be a stain upon our souls and would deepen our complicity,” says Michael Curry, Presiding Bishop of The Episcopal Church.

Now is the time for U.S. church leaders to raise their collective moral voice — as they did during the civil right movement, the Vietnam War, and South African apartheid — against Israel’s settler colonial apartheid.

“The study is the most comprehensive and persuasive analysis of why the Israel occupation has now become illegal,” says former UN Special Rapporteur Michael Lynk. “It will be the intellectual and political touchstone on Palestine and international law for some time to come.”

South African Marthie Momberg offers first-person accounts from non-Palestinian activists on the front line of the struggle for Palestinian human rights.

Mitri Raheb’s latest book is a provocative examination of how the Bible has been used to support Israeli settler colonialism. “The land of Palestine is colonized by the use of military hardware that is justified by theological software,” he writes.

Avi Mograbi’s “The First 54 Years” combines testimonies and archival video from Breaking the Silence to lay bare Israel’s methods to control, demoralize, and divide Palestinians.