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When the story breaks the journalist
1+ hour, 29+ min ago (728+ words) This week, I spent an entire day listening to interviews. Some were phone conversations I had. Others were recordings sent to me by colleagues still reporting from inside Gaza. I was working on the story of a 23-year-old mother who…...
A new "strategic" plan being pushed by the Israeli settler movement would establish 100 outposts in the heart of Palestinian cities
2+ hour, 38+ min ago (931+ words) But this new project stands to change the status quo arrangement that has lasted for over 30 years." The precursors to this shift have been several years in the making, characterized by a series of changes in the Israeli political system…...
The Shift: Melat Kiros win in Colorado shows the days of "Progressive Except for Palestine" Democrats are over
23+ hour, 12+ min ago (1015+ words) In November 2023, Melat Kiros wrote a blog post rejecting the idea that law students who protested Israel's actions in Gaza were antisemitic. "We cannot'let the painful nature of this moment stop us from remembering in one another our shared humanity…...
Israel's seizure of Palestinian church land raises renewed fears of efforts to erase Christians from Jerusalem
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (1043+ words) In the predawn hours of June 15, 2026, heavy Israeli military vehicles stormed the Greek Orthodox Patriarchate's lands in Wadi Rababah, Jerusalem. The shouts of Israeli soldiers mingled with the cracking of ancient tree branches and the uprooting of crops, a flagrant…...
Will the Iran War hurt J. D. Vance's presidential hopes?
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (736+ words) Leaving aside the usual caveats about the possibility of another Trump run, Vice President J. D. Vance has long been viewed as the top contender for the 2028 Republican nomination. Over the past year, Vance has positioned himself as an "America First" conservative,…...
As in Gaza, the Israel-Lebanon "peace" agreement is designed to fail
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (598+ words) So the question becomes: why would Israel insist on terms that make the entire agreement impossible to implement? The answer becomes clearer when considering Israel's treatment of Gaza's so-called "ceasefire." When we examine the contents of the recent agreement between…...
How Hasan Piker helped boost Abdul El-Sayed in Michigan and what it tells us about the state of the Democratic Party
2+ day, 4+ hour ago (1231+ words) In March, Michigan Sen. Mallory Mc Morrow attacked Abdul El-Sayed over his plans for campaign rallies with pro-Palestinian Twitch streamer Hasan Piker, igniting a protracted, acrimonious debate over the future of the Democratic Party and criticism of Israel. At the…...
A mother's body in Gaza was cut in half by an Israeli strike, her 1-year-old daughter's skull split open, eyewitnesses say
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (786+ words) At 9: 30 p. m. on Monday, June 29, families sheltering in tents in the al-Mawasi area of Khan Younis received four phone calls from individuals identifying themselves as officers in the Israeli army. They were ordered to evacuate the area within seven minutes. Others…...
How Israel uses water as a weapon of war from the Palestine to Lebanon
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (947+ words) Before he could make sense of what happened, Ali Oday Yassin felt the ground beneath him tremble. Yassin owns a roadside rest stop next to Qaraoun Dam, a cornerstone of Lebanon's water and energy infrastructure. On May 26, Israeli airstrikes hit…...
Israel strips the Hebron municipality of its planning powers, threatening to further erode the city's Palestinian identity " Mondoweiss
5+ day, 5+ hour ago (915+ words) For Palestinians, the decision was not simply an administrative matter involving a building permit or a new educational institution. It signaled a deeper shift in the nature of Israeli control over the city, and another step toward rewriting the political…...