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On +972 Magazine, Sally Rooney, and the centering of Israelis in an anti-colonial movement

Sally Rooney and Intermezzo+972 magazine is helping to publish Sally Rooney’s latest novel in Israel, a deal that undermines Israel’s cultural isolation as it continues to commit genocide in Gaza. Who does this serve?

On Liberation Day, South Lebanon marks the return of the occupation it once defeated

Hezbollah members and supporters parade following the end of Israel's occupation of southern Lebanon, May 2000. (Photo: Wikimedia Commons)On this day 26 years ago, residents of South Lebanon poured into the streets as Israeli forces withdrew, putting an end to 22 years of Israeli occupation. Today, those same villages lie in rubble, and the occupation is back.

Pax Silica, the Gaza genocide, and the crisis of global capitalism

A photo released by the Israeli military on November 12, 2023, shows Israeli troops conducting ground operations in the northern Gaza Strip. (IDF/Handout via Xinhua) (Credit Image: © Chen Junqing/Xinhua via ZUMA Press APAimages)Gaza was the first AI war of the 21st century, and if Global Trumpism succeeds, it will become a testing ground for its vision to dominate the future: Pax Silica, or the merger of the high-tech military-surveillance complex and transnational finance.

Itamar Ben-Gvir is suddenly the villain of Israeli politics for one reason: he revealed Israel’s true face to the world

Itamar Ben-Gvir (Photo: Wikipedia)Itamar Ben-Gvir has been attacked across Israeli politics for a cruel video showing him mocking flotilla activists as they were being abused by officers. His offense was not his fascist celebration, but rather showing the true face of Israel.

With signs of a possible Iran deal within reach, pressure is mounting on Trump to return to war

Benjamin Netanyahu with Donald Trump at the Ben Gurion airport in May 2017. (Photo: Amos Ben Gershom GPO)Political and economic realities are pushing Donald Trump to pursue a deal with Iran, but he will need to resist mounting pressure, including from Israel, to return to all-out war.

It’s the genocide, stupid

Joe Biden and Kamala Harris. (Photo: JoeBiden.com)The DNC finally released its long-awaited autopsy of Kamala Harris's failed presidential campaign, and it doesn't mention Gaza. The Democratic leadership’s refusal to acknowledge the party's shift on Israel could spell another defeat in 2028.

Israel moves to annex Palestinian historical sites in the West Bank

Israeli soldiers patrolling Roman-era ruins in the Palestinian town of Sebastia, March 30, 2021. (Photo: Shadi Jarar'ah/APA Images)The Israeli Knesset is considering a bill that would place Palestinian historical sites in the West Bank under direct Israeli civil law, stripping them of their protected status under international law. Experts say it's annexation in all but name.

How Jeffrey Goldberg weaponized Jewish trauma to pave the way for war with Iran

Jeffrey Goldberg of The Atlantic welcomes participants to the second day of the “Disinformation and the Erosion of Democracy” conference at the Rubenstein Forum at the University of Chicago April 7, 2022. (Photo: John Zich/University of Chicago Institute of Politics CC BY 4.0)Over the past two decades, no one has done more to shape U.S. discourse on Israel than Jeffrey Goldberg. By relying on tropes of eternal Jewish victimhood, Goldberg declared Iran an existential threat to Jews and helped pave the way for war.

Israel is reviving a 58-year-old government order to seize vital Palestinian properties in Jerusalem

An Israeli soldier walks among Muslim worshippers in the Old City on the last Friday of the holy month of Ramadan, April 5, 2024. (Photo: © Ilia Yefimovich/dpa via ZUMA Press/APA Images)Israel is reviving an obscure 1968 government order to unilaterally seize some 50 properties directly adjacent to the al-Aqsa Mosque compound. Residents say the move is an effort to remove Palestinians and to complete the Judaization of Jerusalem.

Israel has a master plan to relocate thousands of Palestinian Bedouins to a giant ghetto 

Abu Nayef al-Jahhalin, 71, whose Bedouin community in Jabal al-Baba is threatened with forcible displacement, May 2026. (Photo: Shatha Hammad)The “Shami neighborhood project” will ethnically cleanse the Bedouin population of Jerusalem’s eastern wilderness as part of Israel’s plan to take total control over the strategic “Greater Jerusalem” corridor, which would split the West Bank in two. 

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