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Israeli ‘liberal’ opposition leader agrees with Mike Huckabee that the bible gives Israel the right to land from Egypt to Iraq

Yair Lapid attends a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's office in Jerusalem May 15, 2022. (Photo: Abir Sultan/Pool via REUTERS/File Photo)Mike Huckabee made headlines when he said Israel has a biblical right to land from Iraq to Egypt in an interview with Tucker Carlson. Israel supporters tried to dismiss the idea as nonsense, but Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid says he agrees.

Francesca Albanese is a powerful voice for justice, which is why the Israel lobby is trying to silence her

Francesca Albanese in Bogotá, Colombia, July 2025 (Photo: Andrea Puentes - Joel González/ Presidencia de la República de Columbia)Israel lobby groups have spread doctored quotes by UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights Francesca Albanese to defame her. Their desperate campaign is a testament to her work and the threat she poses by holding Israel accountable for genocide.

What the Gaza genocide did to Palestinians’ ability to feel shock and wonder

Mourners attend the funeral of nine Palestinians targeted in an Israeli airstrike in Tammoun, in the northern West Bank, January 30, 2025. (Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images)The Gaza genocide, in its relentless accumulation of dead children, obliterated neighborhoods, and starved bodies, is an assault on the capacity of Palestinians to be horrified by everyday atrocities and enchanted by the possibilities of liberation.

How data on the crackdown on Gaza protests reflects the increasing repression of activist movements in the U.S.

FILE: Pro-Palestine protesters march in Washington, DC to call for a ceasefire and end the genocide in Gaza in January 2024. (Photo: Eman Mohammed)Data shows Gaza protesters faced harsher punishments than Black Lives Matter protesters did just a few years ago. Experts tell Mondoweiss this is the result of pro-Israel bias and a backlash against protest movements that has been building for years.

How Israel’s genocide in Gaza has made it nearly impossible for this Palestinian teenager to manage her chronic illness

Shahd al-Afifi, 16. (Photo: Saja Nael Al-Louh)Shahd al-Afifi has a rare skin disease that requires a strict daily routine of constant moisturization, careful hygiene, and a humid, climate-controlled environment. The genocide in Gaza has made this impossible.

Netanyahu and Israel are provoking the U.S. into attacking Iran — and the media continues to ignore it

Benjamin Netanyahu with Donald Trump at the Ben Gurion airport in May 2017. (Photo: Amos Ben Gershom GPO)As Donald Trump assembles a massive U.S. military force ready to strike Iran, the American media keeps ignoring essential context: Israel has been trying to provoke a U.S. war on Iran for decades.

Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ aims to turn Gaza into a playground for investors

Group photo taken at the first meeting of the Trump-led "Board of Peace," in Washington, DC, on February 19, 2026. (Photo: White House)A sweeping investment and reconstruction plan to transform Gaza's ruins into a playground for investors was unveiled at the first meeting of U.S. President Donald Trump’s "Board of Peace" in Washington, D.C., this week. Here's what you need to know.

Trump’s ‘Board of Peace’ reveals grim future the U.S. and Israel have planned for Gaza

Group photo taken at the first meeting of the Trump-led "Board of Peace," in Washington, DC, on February 19, 2026. (Photo: White House)The first meeting of Donald Trump's “Board of Peace” showcased the dystopian future the U.S. envisions for Palestinians. But even those plans might soon be eclipsed by Israel's renewed full-scale genocide in Gaza.

The night the protests in Iran were co-opted by outside forces

Protests in Kashmar, Iran, January 9, 2026. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)The nights of January 8-9, 2026, saw Iran go up in a coordinated blaze after two weeks of protests. I, and many other Iranians, witnessed the breakdown in public order during those days, and the influence of outside forces instigating the explosion.

Pope Leo rejects Trump invitation to join Gaza ‘Board of Peace’ 

Pope Leo XIV during an audience with the media, on May 12, 2025. (Photo: Wikimedia)The Vatican flatly rejected a U.S. invitation to join the Trump-led "Board of Peace" for Gaza. The Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem previously described the project as "a colonialist operation" focused on "others deciding for the Palestinians.”

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