The transfer of unprecedented powers over the occupied West Bank to Itamar Ben-Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich has deepened the rift between Israel’s military-security establishment and the rising settler bloc.

Following calls for escalation from Israeli political leaders, Israeli settlers have launched a series of attacks on West Bank villages in the last 24 hours which have killed one Palestinian and injured dozens of others.

Amit Halevi, a member of Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling Likud party, has proposed dividing the Al-Aqsa Mosque between Jews and Muslims. Such plans can no longer be disregarded as extremist fantasies but increasingly represent mainstream Israeli politics.

Once again, the U.S. mainstream media tries to hide Israel’s provocative Jewish-supremacists, even when they are government officials.

At least one prominent representative at CIJA, a Canadian pro-Israel lobbying group, has spoken approvingly of certain elements of the new Israeli government’s agenda.

Yumna Patel speaks with Dr. Yara Hawari about Israeli protests against an overhaul to the judicial system, and what they mean for Palestinians living under Israeli occupation and apartheid.

Benjamin Netanyahu temporarily halted reforms he sought to make to Israel’s judicial system, but critics say Palestinians will pay the ultimate price as the far-right continues to consolidate power.

Since entering office, Israel’s new government has dramatically increased the repression of Palestinian prisoners, moves which reflect its hostile agenda toward Palestinians as a whole.

Even as Israel slides further into religious fascism, and chants of “death to the Arabs” become commonplace, there are still those who say “I’ll wait and see.” It is time for them to speak up.

My friend the late writer Yossi Gurvitz was an apikoros in the best sense of the word, the Jewish term for a freethinker. His heresy led him to support BDS. Educated in yeshivas, he broke out as a teen when he discovered Plutarch, reading real not bible history. That independence led him in time to become “Israel’s first serious anti-occupation blogger” and to point out the vicious ethnocentrism in the basement of Jewish religiosity that Israel was awakening– “and every demon that was pushed into the basement is up and has an M16.”