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DECEMBER 20. 2024

For Israeli police, humiliating Palestinian women is a tool of collective repression

Political arrests of Palestinian women in Israel — who face strip-searches, blindfolding, and doxxing — send the community a clear message.

DECEMBER 19. 2024

‘My hands are paralyzed from torture’: Gazans reveal horrors of Ofer Camp

Detainees in Israel's shadowy new facility face non-stop abuse — from electric shocks and constant handcuffing, to skin diseases and deadly beatings.

DECEMBER 17. 2024

The Democrats’ stubborn refusal to learn from the campus protests for Palestine

In Philadelphia and across the U.S., progressive young voters rejected that domestic priorities must be tied to a destructive policy abroad.

Viet Thanh Nguyen broke a BDS rule. Now he is its vocal advocate

The Vietnamese-American writer reflects on his ‘mea culpa’ with Israeli publishers and the need to take a public stance on Palestinian rights.

DECEMBER 13. 2024

For Syrians in the Golan, Assad’s fall sparks hope and uncertainty

Residents of the occupied Jawlan celebrated the regime's collapse, but remain wary amid political instability and further Israeli encroachment inside Syria.

DECEMBER 12. 2024

‘As much and as quickly as possible’: Israeli settlers eye land in Syria, Lebanon

With the Israeli army advancing into Syria following Assad's fall, a group promoting settlements in Lebanon is casting its gaze eastward.

‘I lost my wife and my land’: A deadly olive harvest season ends in the West Bank

Restrictions and attacks by the Israeli military, together with rampant settler violence, left many Palestinians unable to harvest this year's crop.

DECEMBER 11. 2024

‘Democracy won’t come to Syria overnight. But now, we have hope’

Bassam Al-Kuwatli had long dreamed of Assad's collapse. As head of the Syrian Liberal Party, he now plans to return to push for a democracy.

DECEMBER 10. 2024

A year ago, an Israeli airstrike buried me alive. I’m still clawing my way out

I’m grateful I survived the attack on my home. But the faces of those who didn’t haunt every corner of my mind.

DECEMBER 9. 2024

Israeli soldiers systematically abusing Palestinians in Hebron, report reveals

Whipped with a belt, beaten in the groin, threatened with rape: Palestinians recount a pattern of arbitrary attacks in the West Bank city.

DECEMBER 6. 2024

How a hostage family leader became one of the loudest anti-war voices in Israel

After Ayala Metzger's relatives were kidnapped from Nir Oz and abandoned by the government, she had no choice but to be an ‘anti-regime dissident’ — and to insist on a shared future for Israelis and Palestinians.

DECEMBER 5. 2024

The real reason a former Israeli army chief called out ethnic cleansing in Gaza

Less concerned by Palestinian plight, Moshe Ya’alon fears the impact on the defense establishment of Netanyahu’s anti-democratic revolution.

DECEMBER 4. 2024

The West Bank villages wiped off the map by Israeli settler violence

Since October 7, over 50 rural Palestinian communities have been forced to abandon their homes amid intensifying settler attacks and harassment.

Gazans face extreme hunger as ‘real famine’ spreads from north to south

Israel’s siege of the north and ‘benevolence’ toward gangs looting aid trucks has led to severe food shortages and skyrocketing prices across Gaza.