If you want to understand the power imbalance between the United States and Israel, the farce over Biden’s broken promise to Palestinians to reopen the former U.S. consulate in Jerusalem is a good place to start. The State Department has beseeched Israel to relent in its opposition to the reopening. But the Israeli government is adamant against it. And guess who wins?

Let’s hope 2022 is the year that the grassroots break down the firewall in Washington on the death of the two-state solution. Liberal Zionists are the gatekeepers, and are preventing the discourse of apartheid and a struggle for human rights of replacing the political mantra of a secure homeland for the Jewish people.

Israeli author Einat Wilf tells the Democratic Party how to give the bad news to Palestinians. “I had to wrestle with the fact that I’m not a nice person. And I accepted it,” she says. So Americans must give “not pleasant” messages to Palestinians, that they need to accept that Zionism is a legitimate “indigenous” movement for Jewish liberation in the Middle East.

Palestinian human rights activist Fadi Quran describes his detention by Homeland Security at the Dallas airport in October at the behest of the Israeli government as a supposed terrorist– a US lieutenant told Quran his hands were tied to interrogate Quran after an ally filed the claim. While Lara Friedman of the Foundation for Middle East Peace says the Biden administration will spend no energy on Palestinian rights.

Any realistic discussion of Iran’s nuclear program ought to include the glaring fact that Israel has 90 nukes, according to experts. But our officials and media always leave Israel’s nukes out. Because acknowledging as much would trigger US laws against giving foreign aid to a country with unauthorized weapons.

A Council on American-Islamic Relations investigation of Islamophobe Steve Emerson’s infiltration of U.S. Muslim organizations finds that Emerson was sharing information on Muslims with Israeli government. “One of Emerson’s goals, we’re told, was protecting the Israeli govt by undermining Muslims engaged in political & human rights activism.”

Writing for Mondoweiss has had ever-refreshed meaning for me not just because we have worked for the liberation of Palestinians, and worked against militarist American policy, but because I feel I am working to redeem my community from a long nightmare: its commitment to militant nationalism. And I am incredibly thankful that your support allows me and our entire staff to continue in this crucial task.

When a former Jewish professional asked David Harris of the AJC about the emotional drain on people like herself of advocating for Israel with young people who don’t buy the story, the tonedeaf CEO responded: I live in a bubble… My grandchildren all are proud of Israel… And the Polish national anthem is pessimistic but the Israeli one is called “Hope.”

Trump says Israel used him to attack Iran, and Netanyahu was “willing to fight Iran to the last American soldier.” That ought to be big news– especially as Israel’s defense minister gets unrivaled access in Washington and pushes war to block the Iran deal. But only the leftwing press is focused on Israel’s efforts to spark another war.

What we’re doing at Mondoweiss can’t necessarily be measured in weeks, months, or even years. But over the last 12 months we’ve seen the stories Mondoweiss has championed for years finally break into the mainstream media. We need your help to keep telling the stories that change the narrative.