Category: 6. Opinion

At the House of Representatives hearings on alleged antisemitism on July 15, Georgetown president Robert M. Groves jumped at the chance to tell Republican vultures that one of his faculty members was under investigation. The professor had exercised his First Amendment right to do something experts everywhere were doing without provoking controversy: he expressed the hope that after the United States bombed Iran’s nuclear facilities, Iran would respond with a symbolic strike and the…

On August 6, 1945, the United States dropped a uranium-core atomic bomb on Hiroshima, instantly incinerating most of the city. The nuclear blast, radiation, and resulting firestorms killed 90,000 people immediately, with the death toll surpassing 100,000 by the end of 1945.

Just three days later, on August 9, the U.S. struck again, obliterating Nagasaki with a plutonium bomb. The explosion killed 40,000 on impact, while another 70,000 perished by year’s end from burns, injuries,…

On July 28, 2025, the reputable Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem published an eighty-eight-page report entitled Our Genocide, in which it accuses the State of Israel of perpetrating genocide in Gaza. While the report’s potential significance—particularly in shaping both international and domestic public opinion—remains undeniable, the widespread acclaim it has received warrants critical scrutiny. This is due not only to the protracted delay of over twenty months…

On July 28, 2025, in the village of Umm al-Khair in Masafer Yatta, Israeli settler violence escalated into yet another act of cold-blooded murder, carried out in broad daylight under the watchful eye and implicit backing of the Israeli occupation forces.

In the morning, settlers from the illegal Israeli outpost of Karmel stormed the village and began bulldozing Palestinian land. Among them was Yinon Levy, a notorious settler extremist with a long track record of terrorizing…

On March 25, PEN America fired me for living up to their mission. This termination came only three days after I published an article in Mondoweiss titled “Why was I investigated for sharing an article critical of Zionism by the ‘free speech’ organization PEN America?,” three years into my tenure on the membership and National Engagement team. Nine months earlier, after I shared an article on unlearning Zionism to our internal listserv, PEN leadership sent my colleagues and me…

On Wednesday, July 30, I stood trial in a German court for my opposition to genocide, Zionism and for challenging Germany’s “reason of state,” which sets forth its unconditional military, ideological, and financial support for the fascist, apartheid ethnostate of Israel.

I was brought on three accusations: 1) assaulting a police officer at a Palestine solidarity protest, whereby my wife was attacked, beaten and choked by cops; 2) using a sign of an “unconstitutional” or…

It was 7:00 a.m. on Friday, July 18. My father tried to wake me up so I could go out and fill up some drinking water from the trucks that pass by the encampment every now and then. I carried two bottles and left. There was a long line for the water, as the truck only came about every three days.

Suddenly, while I was waiting for my turn, I felt myself losing my balance. I could no longer stand. We hadn’t eaten anything since the previous night, and there was neither flour nor…

147 out of 193 United Nations member states recognize the State of Palestine. Yet the declaration of several Western countries to do so has sparked hysteria as if it were a new idea.

French President Emmanuel Macron stated his intention to recognize Palestine last week. This was followed by the threat to do so from the United Kingdom Prime Minister Keir Starmer. Both Macron’s declaration and Starmer’s threat drew a hysterical reaction from Israeli leaders, including Prime…

We’ve never lived through such rapid change in the politics of Israel as we are now. Two nights ago more than half of Democratic senators – 27– voted to block some arms sales to Israel. A day before that, the UK and Canada said they will recognize a Palestinian state at the U.N, echoing France’s recent statement. 

These are steps that advocates for Palestinians thought might be years away. But today the world is shocked by Israel’s starvation of Gaza, and the mainstream…