Palestinians across Gaza are returning to the rubble of their homes to search for their missing loved ones. “I’m looking through the skulls the Civil Defense collects trying to identify my sons,” Rafah resident Mahmoud Al-Qatati tells Mondoweiss.
The recent ceasefire celebrations with Hamas fighters in the heart of Gaza City exposed Israel’s military failures, and also showed how Palestinian joy is a direct affront to the petty gods who seek to rule over us.
Israel is continuing an offensive on the West Bank city of Jenin that analysts say is meant to appease the settler movement as it pushes the government to exert more control over the occupied territory in preparation for annexation.
Palestinians across Gaza are returning to the rubble of their homes to search for their missing loved ones. “I’m looking through the skulls the Civil Defense collects trying to identify my sons,” Rafah resident Mahmoud Al-Qatati tells Mondoweiss.
Some are hoping for a great “Trump effect” on U.S. policy toward Palestine after his envoy brokered the Gaza ceasefire. But Trump was only operating out of self-interest, and these same interests will lead him right back to full support for Israel.
As Palestinians find some respite in the midst of a ceasefire in Gaza, many families have one important job to do before returning back to their homes: giving their loved ones, many who were buried in mass or temporary graves, a proper burial.
Palestinians across Gaza are returning to the rubble of their homes to search for their missing loved ones. “I’m looking through the skulls the Civil Defense collects trying to identify my sons,” Rafah resident Mahmoud Al-Qatati tells Mondoweiss.
Israel is continuing an offensive on the West Bank city of Jenin that analysts say is meant to appease the settler movement as it pushes the government to exert more control over the occupied territory in preparation for annexation.
The Gaza genocide revealed imperial tensions between the U.S. and Israel which show the U.S. will sacrifice Zionist demands for its own interests.
The recent ceasefire celebrations with Hamas fighters in the heart of Gaza City exposed Israel’s military failures, and also showed how Palestinian joy is a direct affront to the petty gods who seek to rule over us.
Some are hoping for a great “Trump effect” on U.S. policy toward Palestine after his envoy brokered the Gaza ceasefire. But Trump was only operating out of self-interest, and these same interests will lead him right back to full support for Israel.
The ADL’s reaction to Elon Musk’s “awkward gesture” proves that they’re not concerned with antisemitism. The group exists to defend Israel.
Attacks on Dr. Tiffany Willoughby-Herard at the University of California Irvine reflect the repression facing the Palestine campus movement across the country. But like other liberation movements before, activists remain strong and need our support.
For over one year, Germany has been actively participating in the killing and dehumanization of Palestinians by providing political, financial, military, and legal support to Israel. Germany’s complicity in Israel’s atrocities must stop.
UCSF placed Dr. Rupa Marya on leave and threatened her medical license after she questioned admitting students who served in the Israeli military. She is right to raise ethical concerns about those who could have participated in genocide.
The Biden administration could have delivered the same ceasefire agreement last year, but they refused to exert pressure on Netanyahu.
In a recent series of speeches and interviews, Biden officials have attempted to put a positive spin on their foreign policy legacy. The reality is that Biden’s legacy is, and will remain, one of genocide.
There are still a lot of questions to answer about a recent car attack in New Orleans that killed 14 people, but that hasn’t stopped the media and lawmakers from declaring the return of “radical Islam” — and demanding draconian policies in response.
Chef Fadi Kattan’s new Toronto restaurant, Louf, offers creative haute cuisine from Palestine and has ambitions that go far beyond serving food.
The new London theater production “Cutting the Tightrope: The Divorce of Politics from Art” takes direct aim at the British government’s campaign to stifle free speech and activism on Palestine.
What comes after the supremacism and apartheid of Zionism? Ariella Aïsha Azoulay’s substantial new work, The Jewellers of the Ummah: A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World, looks to dormant histories for visions of justice and repair.
Assal Rad joins The Mondoweiss Podcast to discuss media coverage of recent events in Palestine and Lebanon and the persistent pro-Israel bias in Western media.
