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JULY 2. 2025

The Knesset vs Ayman Odeh

The move to impeach the MK, with the full backing of opposition lawmakers, sends a message to Palestinian citizens that voting is futile.

JULY 1. 2025

The UK can excuse genocide, but draws the line at festival chants

A musician’s anti-IDF slogan isn’t what is making British Jews less safe. Repressing Palestine solidarity as ‘antisemitic’ is.

‘It comes with the territory’: How Israel’s archaeologists legitimize annexation

Weaponizing antiquities is part of Israel's colonial legacy, says Rafi Greenberg, whose colleagues have largely remained silent about Gaza's destruction.

JUNE 30. 2025

The tears of Gaza’s men are an act of rebellion

Gaza is birthing a new kind of masculinity — based not on militarism or stoicism but on moral clarity and dignity, even in starvation.

JUNE 27. 2025

Israel’s euphoric ‘victory’ over Iran is quickly giving way to disillusionment

Netanyahu may appear the winner of the "12-Day War. " But Israel achieved none of its military aims, and Gaza is once more impossible to ignore.

JUNE 26. 2025

Skating through rubble: The volunteers reclaiming joy for Gaza’s children

Through skateboarding, circus, and art therapy, young Gazans bring healing and brief moments of normalcy to children living through genocide.

JUNE 25. 2025

What the UAE hopes to gain from Israel’s growing isolation

Abu Dhabi seeks to present itself as a stable substitute to an increasingly rogue Israel, where defense cooperation and capital can flourish.

New Israeli directive expedites ethnic cleansing of Masafer Yatta

The military order removes the last legal barriers to the wholesale demolition and displacement of 12 Palestinian villages in the southern West Bank.

JUNE 24. 2025

12 days that brought the war home to Israelis

Iran’s missiles caused Israelis to feel existential fear. Even if the ceasefire holds, their shattered sense of immunity will linger.

JUNE 20. 2025

‘The Hunger Games’: Inside Israel’s aid death traps for starving Gazans

Near-daily Israeli massacres at food distribution sites have killed over 400 Palestinians in the past month alone.

Why everything Israelis think they know about Iran is wrong

For Lior Sternfeld, a historian of modern Iran, Israel's regime change fantasies ignore realities inside the Islamic Republic and risk repeating historic mistakes.

JUNE 19. 2025

With Iran war as pretext, Israel suffocates the West Bank

After striking Tehran, the army closed hundreds of gates to seal Palestinians inside towns and strand them on roads — proof of annexation in all but name.

JUNE 17. 2025

Netanyahu’s Iran gambit aimed to realign the world behind Israel. It may backfire

For Iran expert Ori Goldberg, Israel has overreached and can only avoid getting bogged down by dragging the West into the war with Tehran.

Unprotected from Iranian missiles, Palestinians in Israel decry neglect

The tragic death of four members of one family in the Arab city of Tamra has highlighted the systemic discrimination in Israel’s civil defense infrastructure.