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MAY 23. 2025

What can the Joint List teach us about building Palestinian political power?

Ten years after its formation, this experiment in Palestinian unity in Israel and its ultimate collapse shows the need for carefully cultivated alliances.

MAY 22. 2025

In ‘Severed, ’ a Palestinian child pieces together the shattered fragments of his life

Mohamad Saleh has survived five wars on Gaza, lost his leg to an Israeli sniper, and endured several surgeries. My new film tells his story.

MAY 21. 2025

Days of terror in Gaza’s ‘Block 76’

My family clung to our hometown of Al-Fukhari for as long as we could, until Israel's new assault left us with no choice.

MAY 19. 2025

Remembering the Nakba while witnessing a genocide

As Israel destroys Gaza, Israelis and Palestinians gathered to mark the 1948 catastrophe and to elevate living Palestinian testimonies.

MAY 16. 2025

‘Israel burned the ground under our feet’: Hundreds killed in intensified Gaza assault

In a wave of airstrikes from Khan Younis to Jabalia, Israeli forces hit hospitals and homes, killing over 250 and paralyzing rescue efforts.

MAY 15. 2025

‘Render it unusable’: Israel’s mission of total urban destruction

Bulldozers and explosives are flattening Gaza from the ground — what soldiers say is a systematic campaign to make the Strip unlivable.

MAY 14. 2025

How Kahanism found its way into the Israeli political mainstream

Gaza's destruction mirrors the genocidal rhetoric pouring out of the Knesset — which has slowly absorbed former members of a terrorist group.

MAY 13. 2025

Why Israel’s demand for Hamas to disarm is a red herring

Every blocked aid convoy, every broken truce, and every rejected peace offer underscores Israel’s true objective: erasing Palestinians from Gaza.

MAY 8. 2025

‘She’s dying in front of my eyes’: The Gazan children starving under Israeli siege

With over 70,000 children hospitalized for malnutrition, Israel's blockade has Gazan parents watch helplessly as their children waste away.

MAY 7. 2025

What a ‘peace summit’ reveals about the state of the Israeli left

Well-meaning dialogue workshops, panels on political solutions, but no mention of genocide: these are distractions we can no longer afford.

MAY 6. 2025

Israel claims to care about Palestinian students — so it shuts down their schools

The Education Ministry ordered UNRWA schools in East Jerusalem to close, citing ‘students’ welfare. ’ 800 may lose their classrooms this month.

Palestinians awoke to bulldozers. Their village was destroyed by noon

Within hours, Israeli forces demolished homes, wells, and even caves in the West Bank hamlet of Khilet al-Dabe’, leaving families with nowhere to shelter.

MAY 2. 2025

Breaking new records, Israel sees unprecedented spike in media censorship

In 2024, Israel's military censor banned 1,635 articles and partially redacted another 6,265 — part of a wider assault on freedom of press.

MAY 1. 2025

‘We’ve killed so many children — it’s hard to argue with that’

Hundreds of Israelis have held silent vigils for slain Gazan children, holding up their photos to try to break through the wall of apathy.