Many in Gaza believe that Trump’s “peace” plan is a ploy to get the Israeli captives released and then resume the genocide. But despite the deep skepticism, desperation to end the war is outweighing everything else.
Two new polls show that support for Israel has cratered among the U.S. population.
The Palestinian Authority is criticized for aiding the Israeli occupation, and yet Israeli leaders are threatening to shut it down. This is because even its basic efforts to be recognized as a state challenge Israel’s colonial project.
Veterans for Peace member Phillip Tottenham speaks to Mondoweiss about why he joined the Global Sumud Flotilla that is sailing to Gaza in protest of the genocide and in an attempt to break the Israeli siege.
As countries around the world recognize a Palestinian state, Israel is doing everything it can to prevent the possibility of any future state. One way it plans on doing that is through financial strangulation.
Benjamin Netanyahu walked back claims about Israel’s international isolation after causing a stock market crash, but he was right – the Gaza genocide has severely hurt Israel’s standing. We must deepen this isolation through boycotts and sanctions.
Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent comments that Israel must start making its own weapons and become a self-sufficient “super Sparta” signals that the small colony might be willing to embrace its isolation — all in the name of annihilating Palestine.
As the Israeli army’s ground invasion advances into major residential areas in Gaza City, some residents say they’re not moving. “There’s no point in struggling to find a better place in hell,” one resident said.
A UN commission of inquiry concluded that Israel has committed four of the five genocidal acts defined under the 1948 Genocide Convention. The commission is urging governments worldwide to stop supplying weapons to Israel.
In taking a stance against Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its Zionist underpinnings while running for New York City mayor, Zohran Mamdani is situating himself within a historical lineage of anti-Zionism in the city that goes back over a century.