As winter storms batter Gaza and cause catastrophic flooding for millions of displaced Palestinians, Israel has banned 37 international humanitarian organizations from working in the Strip, which is reliant on these organizations for survival.
The future of Palestine is about much more than the human and national rights of its own people — it has become the defining question about the future of humanity.
B’Tselem’s report on the Gaza genocide missed an opportunity to advance a clear and unequivocal legal argument that Israel’s actions constitute a textbook case of genocide.
I am a disabled, anti-Zionist Jew, and I believe we will see a free Palestine. But I also believe this: anyone claiming to do the work of disability rights or justice while remaining silent on Gaza is actually doing no such thing.
The International Criminal Court issued arrest warrants for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and former Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes committed in Gaza. As a result, the two will be unable to travel to at least 124 countries.
Israel’s Knesset approved a $19.4 billion budget increase to fund the ongoing Israeli genocide, while the Biden administration has indicated that it will greenlight the targeting of “high-value Hamas targets in and underneath Rafah.”
For months Palestinian prisoners have shared testimonies of torture at the hands of Israeli military and prison authorities. New reports shed more light on the abuse, particularly sexual violence, carried out inside Israeli detention centers.
United Nations Human Rights Commissioner Miloon Kothari discusses the first report of the Pillay Commission into the “underlying root causes of recurrent tensions” in Palestine.
Ayanna Pressley leads US lawmakers in calling for Biden to reject Israel’s blacklisting of human rights groups
The idea of sanctioning Israel may appear a pipe dream, but two recent precedents show it is very possible.