Trump’s “Operation Economic Outcast” to impose secondary sanctions on countries trading with Iran is a tacit admission of U.S. military defeat. But sanctions haven’t worked for 47 years, and Iran won’t let the U.S. decide when the shooting war ends.
Naama Lazimi is being hailed as the Israeli left’s rising star. But when she isn’t busy making excuses for the genocidal turn in Israeli society and politics, she’s advocating for a return to good old-fashioned apartheid.
A friend and fellow artist remembers Sliman Mansour, who helped build the Palestinian art movement and, even as his health failed, never let go of his devotion to Palestine.
We need to collectively rethink describing Israeli settlers as “terrorists.” The label was designed to serve imperial interests, and it implies that settler violence is an aberration, not a systemic part of Zionist settler colonialism.
Netanyahu’s campaign billboard lumps Zohran Mamdani with Iran and Hezbollah as an “enemy”, an admission that he’s losing America, and that no successor will fix Israel’s underlying apartheid problem.
The arrest and detention of Philadelphia resident Hussein Jabarin is one example of the broader escalation of violence Palestinians are facing across the occupied West Bank.
The new defense agreement among Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan highlights how Israeli aggression is compelling the region to reconfigure its alliances and serves as the latest evidence of the United States’ declining global influence.
Israel has vowed to occupy another West Bank refugee camp, as it did in Jenin and Tulkarem. A new raid on the Qalandia refugee camp makes clear that the Israeli campaign isn’t only about ending Palestinian resistance but also what the camps represent.
The Gaza Board of Peace is the latest attempt by colonial powers to use “development” plans to manage, fragment, and dispossess Palestinians. Palestinians have resisted these plans in the past and continue to do so today.