Palestine / Israel News

Abubaker Abed on the Irish government rejecting Gaza student visas. Ali Abunimah on upcoming Israeli elections. Jon Elmer on the US war against Iran. And a victory for free speech…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-25
By Eli Gerzon
Why we shouldn’t call colonial Israeli settlers ‘terrorists’
We need to collectively rethink describing Israeli settlers as "terrorists." The label was designed to serve imperial interests, and it implies that settler violence is an aberration, not a systemic part of Zionist settler colonialism…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-25
By Inès Abdel Razek
Israel is exporting its West Bank land seizure model to colonize new territory in Syria, using 140 cattle to do it
Israel's use of so-called "shepherding outposts" to seize Palestinian land through settler herders is now being exported to Syria, as an Israeli settler, supported by the state, occupies Syrian pastureland in Wadi Toemm with a herd of 140 cattle…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-25
By Hudda Mattar
How Israel’s efforts to expel UNRWA from Jerusalem and crack down on West Bank refugee camps are connected
As Israeli forces move to take over remaining UNRWA facilities in Jerusalem, residents of Qalandia and Shufaat refugee camps fear the assault on the UN agency is linked to the ongoing Israeli military crackdown on the camps…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-24
By Qassam Muaddi
The $3 billion that the US gives Israel annually in foreign aid barely scratches the surface… Read more
Published on: 2026-08-24
By Peter Beinart
Israel just took another major step towards West Bank annexation
As settlers besiege Palestinian families in Qusra, Israel's government responds by handing settlement security to the police of hardline minister Ben-Gvir- a move seen to further entrench Israeli annexation of the West Bank…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-24
By Qassam Muaddi
Justice Department whistleblower reveals officials predetermined findings, targeted Muslim professors and used federal funding to blackmail universities…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-23
By Ali Abunimah
The real reason Netanyahu added Mamdani to his ‘enemies list’
Netanyahu's campaign billboard lumps Zohran Mamdani with Iran and Hezbollah as an "enemy", an admission that he's losing America, and that no successor will fix Israel's underlying apartheid problem…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-23
By Mitchell Plitnick
An American citizen was abducted by Israeli forces. His release doesn’t mean the violence stopped.
The arrest and detention of Philadelphia resident Hussein Jabarin is one example of the broader escalation of violence Palestinians are facing across the occupied West Bank…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-22
By James Ray
Israel executes prominent ‘father of martyrs’ Fathi Khazem in his home in Jenin
Fathi Khazem, a father of two slain resistance fighters and once regarded as a symbol of resistance, was killed by Israeli forces in his home, despite having an understanding mediated by the Palestinian Authority that Israel wouldn’t pursue him…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-21
By Shatha Hanaysha
Israeli soldiers detain and then mark Palestinians in occupied West Bank with numbers on their faces and arms…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-21
By Nora Barrows-Friedman
Michigan Rabbi Asher Lopatin and I hash out our differences about his state’s Democratic nominee for Senate… Read more
Published on: 2026-08-21
By Peter Beinart
Besieged by Israeli settlers and cut off from the outside world, Palestinian families on a West Bank hilltop refuse to leave
For seven months, Israeli settlers have besieged three Palestinian homes on a hilltop near Nablus, but the families refuse to leave. "We will lose ourselves if we lose Ras al-Ain," a village leader told Mondoweiss…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-21
By Shatha Hammad
More student hopefuls are rejected as critics question different outcomes from last year for “almost identical” applications…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-20
By Abubaker Abed
Progressive Israel-critic Angie Nixon scores upset victory in Florida Senate primary
DSA member Angie Nixon defeated Alex Vindman in Florida's Senate primary, outspent 16 to 1. She's called Netanyahu a war criminal and opposes U.S. arms sales to Israel. Elsewhere in the state, progressive challengers didn't see as much success…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-19
By Michael Arria
Once the home to Gaza’s vineyards, Sheikh Ajlin has now “been taken over by crows and stray dogs.”… Read more
Published on: 2026-08-19
By Amro Rashad Abo Aisha
Inside the slow ethnic cleansing of al-Mughayyir, a Palestinian village besieged by Israeli settlers
Settler violence and army raids are erasing the West Bank village of al-Mughayyir. In recent months, villagers have seen a teenager killed defending his neighbors, thousands of olive trees uprooted, and nearly all the village's lands stolen…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-19
By Shatha Hammad
Violently assaulting and arresting the students the university ostensibly exists to serve is seen as preferable to divesting from military occupation and possibly the most well-documented genocide in history…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-19
By Omar Zahzah
Border mission in Gaza serves as a figleaf for an illegal occupation…. Read more
Published on: 2026-08-19
By David Cronin
Zoom link… Read more
Published on: 2026-08-18
By Peter Beinart
State representative Michael Gottlieb levels bigoted campaign against Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib and has touted Netanyahu’s “meting out terror.”… Read more
Published on: 2026-08-17
By Michael F. Brown