Alternative institutions and the rise of social media have given Palestinians the ability to finally be heard on the international stage and not have to wait for the mainstream media.

Liberal Zionists coalesced with rightwingers to celebrate the Israeli president this week, and Joe Biden said he’d meet with Netanyahu, ending tensions. Happy days are here again for the Israel lobby.

Liberal Zionists rushed to affirm their support for Israel and hatred of anti-Zionism in the wake of Rep. Pramila Jayapal’s “racist state” comment because they are afraid the Israel lobby will abandon the Democratic party in 2024 and big donors will go over to the GOP or sit the campaign out.

Ilhan Omar is leading a boycott of Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s speech to Congress this week, saying a country that banned her and Rashida Tlaib, both Muslims, from visiting should not get an audience from a joint session of Congress.

When Tom Friedman says the possibility of a Palestinian state was always a “fiction,” he shows contempt for Palestinians and reveals his role, promoting support for Israel in the U.S. establishment, no matter what.

Asa Winstanley’s new book shows how the Israel lobby weaponized antisemitism to create a new McCarthyism to bring down Jeremy Corbyn and those building a genuine socialist Labour Party.

The Jenin onslaught further damaged Israel’s reputation in the U.S., and J Street knows it. No wonder the liberal Zionist group had almost nothing to say even as AIPAC and the ADL and Josh Gottheimer, too, were defending Israel.

The Biden administration supports the Israeli invasion of Jenin wholeheartedly and is echoing the Netanyahu government’s claim that the city is a “nest of terrorists.” But many voices in the West, including the media, are skeptical.

U.S. Democrats should stop taking insults and lies from Netanyahu lying down, and should start calling Palestinian persecution what it is, apartheid.

Rep. Lori Trahan of Massachusetts visited occupied Hebron in February with a congressional delegation of 15 Democrats and was shocked to see the segregation and persecution of Palestinians. Trahan’s answer? “Sprinkle magic dust.”