The passing of the recent Israeli death penalty law aimed at Palestinians formalizes what Israel and colonial powers have always done: creating new laws to legalize colonial violence.
“Israel is seeking to exploit the war … to impose new realities and facts on Jerusalem,” says Greek Orthodox Archbishop Attalah Hanna. “[This] is an attack on Jerusalem, its identity, its history, its heritage as Christian and Islamic holy sites.”
Human rights groups condemned a new Israeli law targeting Palestinian prisoners with the death penalty as a possible war crime and “deeply discriminatory.’ Meanwhile, Israeli ministers celebrated the law’s passage with champagne on the Knesset floor.
Alexander Heifler, accused of plotting to assassinate Nerdeen Kiswani, was part of a group influenced by Meir Kahane and the Jewish Defense League. What is the JDL, who is Kahane, and how do they continue to inspire Zionist violence?
An 18-month-old toddler in Gaza was returned by the Israeli army to his family with burn marks and puncture wounds on his legs. Doctors say the wounds are clearly the result of torture while the child was detained with his father.
A month into the Iran war, it is clear that Israel aims to disrupt any possible off-ramp the Trump administration and Iran may be looking for to end the fighting, and that Iran, not the U.S., is the key actor that will determine how the war ends.
The Hamdia family spent all of their life savings on building a home, but Israeli bulldozers destroyed it in a single day. They are one example of Israel’s surging policy of home demolitions in the West Bank.
Damon Lynch IV is vying to unseat AIPAC-favorite Greg Landsman in Ohio’s upcoming May 5 primary, aiming to make the race a referendum on the incumbent’s support for Israel. Recent trends in the Democratic Party suggest he might have a winning case.
The Israeli occupation is instigating an economic collapse in the West Bank, forcing public schools to operate only three days a week. Teachers and parents say an entire generation is being denied the right to education.