Progressive candidates won Democratic primaries by centering Palestine. Now, advocates warn that without a firm demand like an arms embargo, politicians can co-opt ‘pro-Palestine’ rhetoric without real accountability.
From Iraq to Iran, the Israel lobby has, for decades, pushed America towards wars in the Middle East. But with Trump’s wildly unpopular Iran war, the unshakeable power of the Israel lobby is finally being called into question.
In a historic move, the UK banned trade with Israeli settlements – a major step towards accountability for Israeli crimes. But it’s not enough while Palestinians face daily state violence, harsh movement restrictions, and are still denied access to basic healthcare.
Australia’s Royal Commission into Antisemitism has spent months letting Zionist witnesses deny genocide and recast Palestine solidarity as hate, laying the groundwork to criminalize protest, speech, and scholarship on Palestine for years to come.
The U.S. and Iran are trading strikes while carefully avoiding all-out war, and both sides are hiding the damage they’ve suffered. The difference is Iran has more reason to end the stalemate, and less patience for Washington’s forever-war strategy.
Church leaders, activists, and Palestinian media keep sounding the alarm: Palestinian Christians are leaving the Holy Land. We need an institutional and economic strategy that makes staying a viable choice, not just a moral one.
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.