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This newsletter is usually devoted to how Israel and Palestine intersect with U.S. policy, but it feels like a mistake if we don’t begin with the horrible situation in Ukraine. I’ve

Pelosi’s delegation hit Israel just two weeks after Amnesty International released its report on Israeli apartheid, where the human rights organization called for an end to the “system of oppression and domination.”

(Photo: Code Pink)

The State Department issues lip service over Israeli killing of 80-year-old Palestinian-American in the West Bank. And Congress’s Progressive Caucus is also toothless. Last May progressive members spoke out against forced displacement of Palestinians in East Jerusalem. Today the ethnic cleansing just continues and where is the Progressive Caucus?

Israeli normalization with blood on their hands, by Carlos Latuff

During their time in The White House the Trump administration helped negotiate a number of arms deals between Israel and other authoritarian governments, while cutting the Palestinians out of the process completely. This is sometimes hilariously referred to as a “peace plan”, but people usually roll with something less Orwellian and call it “The Abraham Accords.”