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Inside the Israel lobby’s lesser-known tool for influencing Congress: free travel

U.S. House Speaker Kevin McCarthy arrives in Israel at the head of a 20-member bipartisan delegation of lawmakers on April 30, 2023. (Photo: Noam Moshkowitz/Knesset Spokesperson)This year, Israel will account for nearly one-quarter of all free travel gifted to Congress members, and AIPAC is overwhelmingly setting the agenda.

YouTube and big tech censorship threatens global accountability, Palestinian rights groups say

After the U.S. imposed sanctions, YouTube took down over 700 videos from prominent Palestinian human rights groups. Rights advocates say this censorship goes beyond Palestine and affects the future of international justice and accountability.

‘Genocide is not an Oakland value:’ inside Oakland’s grassroots campaign to end military shipments to Israel

Protesters from the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo at Oakland International Airport. (Photo: Saman Qadir)Oakland International Airport has become a key hub for transporting military cargo to Israel during the Gaza genocide. Now, over 30 groups and thousands of Oakland residents have come together in the Oakland People’s Arms Embargo to stop it.

Liberation Is Not Integration: On liberal Zionism, one-state fantasies, and what Palestinians actually want

Palestinians block Israeli soldiers during a protest against the expansion of Jewish settlements, on April 28, 2023, in the West Bank village of Beit Dajan, east of Nablus. (Photo: Mohammed Nasser /APA Images)The left's view of Palestine’s future often reduces to vague terms like “one-state solution” or “equal rights for all” but few address the tough questions they raise, especially: how can Palestinians live with those who carried out the Gaza genocide?

As the U.S. deadline for disarming Hezbollah approaches, Lebanon remains deadlocked on next steps

Lebanese President, Joseph Aoun, meets with U.S. Ambassador to Turkey and Special Envoy to Syria, Tom Barrack, in the presence of U.S. Ambassador to Lebanon, Lisa Johnson, Beirut, July 7, 2025. (Photo: Lebanese Presidency Office/APA Images)The U.S. set a deadline for the Lebanese government to disarm Hezbollah by the end of December. But as the deadline nears, it is unclear what Lebanon will do, given the challenges of disarming the group and popular support for resistance to Israel.

Book Review: The weight of witnessing

Displaced Palestinians struggle with flooding after heavy rain hits the Tal El-Hawa area in Gaza City, on November 30, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)Wasim Said’s “Witness to the Hellfire of Genocide: A Testimony from Gaza” documents a genocide that continues to unfold. It is a record of what the world allowed to happen, and what the world will continue to allow unless we stop it.

‘A new form of genocide’: Gazans feel little relief from Israeli strangulation since the ceasefire

Palestinians search through a garbage dump in Khan Younis on December 3, 2025, collecting plastic to use as an alternative fuel for cooking amid a severe shortage of cooking gas and soaring black-market prices after two years of war. (Photo: Tariq Mohammad/APA Images)Most Palestinians in Gaza say they don’t feel the relief they expected after the ceasefire. Israel keeps blocking aid into the strip, delaying reconstruction efforts, and leaving hospitals short on supplies, while people go hungry every day. 

Groundbreaking ‘NYT’ Op-Ed lays bare the Democrats’ internal battle over Israel

President Barack Obama meets with Chief of Staff Denis McDonough and Ben Rhodes, Deputy National Security Advisor for Strategic Communications, right, in the Oval Office, Aug. 7, 2014. (Official White House Photo by Pete Souza)As Hillary Clinton and Sarah Hurwitz blame the rising support for Palestine within the Democratic Party on social media, former Obama staffer Ben Rhodes makes clear why Democrats are turning on Israel and what this means for the party moving forward.

Gaza gang leader and Israeli collaborator Yasser Abu Shabab has been killed, reports say

Yasser Abu Shabab. (Photo: Social Media)Yasser Abu Shabab had become an infamous figure in Gaza over the past two years for his role in collaborating with the Israeli army, looting aid convoys destined for starving Palestinians, and sowing social strife amid the genocide.

Inside the grassroots campaign to release U.S. teenager Mohammed Ibrahim from Israeli detention

Muhammad Zaher Ibrahim. Photo courtesy of Ibrahim’s family.Last month, 16-year-old Palestinian-American Mohammed Ibrahim was finally released after nearly 10 months in an Israeli prison. His freedom follows a campaign by over 100 organizations pressuring the Trump administration to intervene on his behalf.

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