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Palestinians protesting against Israel's occupation and its air campaign on the Gaza strip, shout slogans as they face Israeli troops near the settlement of Beit El and Ramallah in the occupied West Bank on May 18, 2021. (Photo: Ibrahim Attaia/APA Images)

For decades Israel has been able to confiscate homes, occupy land, and kill civilians. There’s never been much mainstream debate about this in the United States, the country that finances Israel’s atrocities with billions of dollars in taxpayer money. That has now changed.

Joe Biden speaking at the 2019 Iowa Federation of Labor Convention in Altoona, Iowa, August 2019 (Photo: Gage Skidmore/Flickr)

Activists, authors, and organizations reflect on the first 100 days of the Biden administration.

Democratic Majority for Israel It’s been a rough couple weeks for the lobbying group Democratic…

Last week negotiations over an Iran nuclear deal began again and an enrichment site in Iran was promptly attacked. A planned explosion caused a blackout. The head of Iran’s Atomic Energy Organization said the country had been the victim of “nuclear terrorism.” Anyone with a cursory understanding of world affairs knew who was responsible as soon as they heard the news.

State Department spokesperson Ned Price speaking to reporters on February 2, 2021. (Photo: AP)

A new regime takes over in Washington and just like that the monotonous press conference is back. Out go the carnival barkers gripped by imperial bluster, in come the liberal interventionists well-versed in DC doublespeak.

A Palestinian man waves a Palestine flag ahead of the beginning of the Great March of Return protests on March 29, 2018. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/ APA Images)

Since its development the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance’s (IHRA) working definition of antisemitism has been used as a cudgel to stifle and suppress Palestine activism. Recently a group of over 200 Jewish scholars published the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism, which takes direct aim at the IHRA.