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Hamas disbanded its government in Gaza, but Israel will still prevent reconstruction from starting

Hamas dissolved its government in Gaza to remove Israel’s pretexts for delaying reconstruction and withdrawal. But Israel is now doubling down on a demand for full disarmament as a precondition, a condition designed to be impossible to meet.

A new important book shows why the ADL has never been a civil rights organization

Anti-Defamation League joins the Celebrate Israel Parade in New York City, June 2017. (Photo: nynj.adl.org)In her new book, "The Anti-Defamation League and the Racial State," Emmaia Gelman examines the Anti-Defamation League's history and its decades-long political project to support U.S. empire in the name of American Jews.

These Palestinian families in the West Bank have barricaded themselves inside their homes to survive Israeli settler attacks

The Masoudiyya area, located on lands belonging to the village of Burqa in the northern West Bank, have come under constant Israeli settler attacks aimed at driving them out of their homes. Residents of the area have taken to fence off their homes, rarely coming outside except when absolutely necessary. (Photo: Shatha Hammad)Twelve Palestinian families in the northern West Bank have barricaded themselves in their homes to protect against ongoing settler attacks as Israel moves to assert total control over the occupied territory.

Israel is murdering Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya. The U.S. media is covering up the crime.

Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya appears via video at an Israeli Supreme Court hearing on June 10. (Photo via Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI))Gaza doctor Hussam Abu Safiya has been detained by Israel for a year and a half without trial and says his jailers are trying to kill him. His case has made international headlines, yet it is being ignored in the U.S. Why?

Israel is drowning the West Bank in hazardous waste. Palestinians are paying the price with their health.

photo of a burned e waste dumping site in the west bankIsrael dumps some of its most toxic waste on Palestinian land in the West Bank. In places like Hebron, families living near electronic waste dumps face serious health repercussions, with no relief in sight.

UAW becomes the first major U.S. union to vote to divest from Israel Bonds

UAWD Constitutional Convention 2026 (UAW)UAW delegates voted to divest the union’s reported $400,000 in Israel Bonds, making it the first major U.S. union to do so. Organizers say it’s a victory for international solidarity and a sign of the working class's growing rejection of Israel.

How Congress manipulates its own rules to make sure Israel still gets its weapons

United States Capitol Building in Washington, DC (Photo: David Maiolo / Wikimedia)This week offered a clear example of how elected officials in Washington, D.C., bend their own rules to keep weapons flowing to Israel. Political results outside Washington this week also showed us why this may soon change.

A new ‘strategic’ plan being pushed by the Israeli settler movement would establish 100 outposts in the heart of Palestinian cities

Israeli settlers continue expanding an outpost in the village of Umm al-Khair in the Masafer Yatta community, south of Hebron, May 20, 2026. (Photo: Mamoun Wazwaz/APA Images)The Israeli settler movement and its allies in the government have submitted a plan to build 100 new outposts in Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank. The move would effectively eliminate the Oslo Accords.

When the story breaks the journalist

Funeral of 1-year-old Siwar Abu Daraz and her mother, Diana Abu Daraz, Nasser Medical Complex, Khan Younis, June 30, 2026. (Photo: Tariq Mohammad/APA Images)I am a journalist from Gaza, and I have documented loss so relentlessly that I have wondered where all that grief goes. I now know it never disappears. It might feel gone, but then one story comes along and unlocks everything that came before it.

Israel’s seizure of Palestinian church land raises renewed fears of efforts to erase Christians from Jerusalem

The Greek Orthodox Patriarchate's lands in Wadi al-Rababa, Jerusalem, June 2026. (Photo: Iyad Jaber)Israel is seizing church and Palestinian land in Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood under the pretext of creating "green spaces." A Muslim caretaker of the church property has made it his daily mission to guard what's left.

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