After pro-Israel Rep. Haley Stevens beat fellow House member Andy Levin in Michigan’s 11th district this week, with almost $5 million worth of help from AIPAC’s superpac, the Israel lobby group declared that Stevens’s win “reflects mainstream Democratic views and demonstrates that being pro-Israel is both good policy and good politics!” But new polling shows that Democrats support BDS targeting Israel by 33-10; and a third of Dems say their Congressperson leans more toward Israel than they do — while only 3 percent say they lean too much toward Palestine.

In a letter to UN Human Rights Council President Nazhat Khan, UN official Navi Pillay defends her colleague Miloon Kothari against accusations of antisemitism from pro-Israel groups, Israeli lawmakers, and U.S. officials following his interview with Mondoweiss, saying his comments “seem to have deliberately been taken out of context.”

The attacks on Kothari appear to be part of a concerted effort to undermine the UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, which the United States and Israel have opposed since it was created in 2021.

Two new legislative efforts to force the Biden administration to investigate the killing of Shireen Abu Akleh were announced this week.

President Biden has spoken clearly of his commitment to human rights and the residents of Masafar Yatta hoped he would acknowledge the threat we face during his recent visit to Palestine. However, when the Israeli army canceled live ammunition training in our villages in for the duration of the president’s visit, he chose to ignore what could soon become the largest forced displacement of Palestinians ever since 1967.

Family members of slain Palestinian-American journalist Shireen Abu Akleh met with Secretary of State Antony Blinken to reiterate their calls for an independent investigation into her death.

In a monumental development, thanks to Joe Biden Palestinians will finally get 4G. Freedom, however, will have to wait.

Ayanna Pressley leads US lawmakers in calling for Biden to reject Israel’s blacklisting of human rights groups

Mondoweiss staff debrief and analyze Joe Biden’s whirlwind trip to Palestine.

The one thing you can say about Joe Biden’s trip to Israel and Palestine this week is that the Israeli government and its lobby are over the moon.

Palestinian Americans respond with dismay to President Joe Biden’s trip to Israel and Saudi Arabia, as well as his embrace of the failed policies of the past. “Through many meetings with our American administration officials we have come to the conclusion that President Biden’s policies regarding Palestinian issues resemble the destructive policies of Trump,” writes Terry Ahwal.