Category: 6. Opinion

As Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed Bin Salman (MBS) wrapped up his meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump, the big news was Trump’s agreement to sell Saudi Arabia F-35 fighter jets.

MBS has wanted the F-35 for a long time,…

Just when it seems impossible for German policy on Palestine to become more absurd, the country manages to prove otherwise. Last week, reports emerged that at least eight donkeys from Gaza had been “rescued” and flown to Germany. While…

More than two years into the genocide in Palestine, the UN Security Council has finally acted. But rather than acting to enforce international law, protect the victims, and hold the perpetrators accountable, it adopted a resolution that…

The Palestinian Center for Human Rights (PCHR) recently released a report documenting the testimonies of Palestinian rape victims who were recently released from Israeli torture camps and returned to Gaza. The testimonies are beyond…

Editor’s Note: The following is the eighth in a series of articles co-published by Mondoweiss and the Transnational Institute that places Palestine in the long trajectory of anti-colonial struggles, from Haiti to Vietnam to Algeria and…

Last Friday, the Israeli ‘leftist’ party The Democrats (a merger of the Labor and Meretz parties) hosted the yearly conference for the commemoration of the late Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin’s death. More than anything, the event…

Next Tuesday, U.S. President Donald Trump is expected to host Saudi Arabia’s Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman (MBS) at the White House. 

Trump has been talking a lot about brokering a normalization agreement between Saudi Arabia and…

In the fall of 2023, as snow fell softly outside a classroom in Wyoming, I stood at the front of the room preparing to give a presentation about the First Amendment. The course was called Free Speech, and I had been looking forward to this…

As Donald Trump’s administration struggles to find ways to implement its fatally flawed “20-Point Plan” for Gaza, it has taken the surprising step of trying to obtain the approval of the United Nations Security Council.

The U.S….

When Columbia University students were smeared by New York’s political class and brutalized by the New York Police Department  for protesting the genocide in Gaza, few of them probably imagined how the tides would turn in New York City…