Last month Donald Trump signed an Executive Order aimed at canceling the visas of foreign students who advocate for Palestine. Mondoweiss talked to legal experts about its possible impact and the wider attacks on Palestine advocacy in the U.S.
Israel’s ongoing assault on the West Bank is not to wipe out the Palestinian resistance. It is to ethnically cleanse Palestinians from their homes and set the stage for annexation.
Abdaljawad Omar interviews Mohammed El-Kurd about his new book, the struggle of narrating Palestinian resistance without dilution, and the contradictions of writing for an audience one refuses to appease.
Israel’s ongoing military offensive in the West Bank has forcibly displaced 40,000 Palestinians from refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas, according to UNRWA.
The U.S. and Israel are preventing Gaza reconstruction in order to prevent Palestinian return. The only way to stop this is to commence the full reconstruction of the Gaza Strip immediately, regardless of what Israel and the U.S. have to say.
Trump’s call to ethnically cleanse Gaza is an affirmation of an ascendant global movement, with Israel in the vanguard, seeking to overturn long-standing international norms. Palestinian ties to the land stand in direct resistance to this project.
Palestinians returning to their homes in northern Gaza are finding nothing but piles of rubble. But residents who spoke to Mondoweiss said they would not trade it for Donald Trump’s plan to resettle them outside Palestine.
The Israeli army is expanding its offensive in the northern West Bank and employing some of the same tactics that it has used in Gaza over the past 15 months, including the mass expulsion of residents, airstrikes, and large-scale demolitions.
From hepatitis to scabies and food poisoning, the war has caused countless ailments with devastating and deadly consequences for the fragile health of Palestinians in Gaza.
The military spokesperson of Hamas confirmed the deaths of several top military leaders in its armed wing, the Qassam Brigades, including its commander-in-chief, Muhammad al-Deif.