Category: 6. Opinion

“This is my most important meeting,” U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday.

He was not referring to his long, rambling, and incoherent address to the United Nations, but to the meeting he later held with Arab and Muslim leaders from around the world at which he presented what he is calling his “21-Point Plan” for ending the Israeli onslaught on Gaza.

Leaders from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, Türkiye, Pakistan, Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Jordan…

Editor’s Note: The following is the seventh 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 South Africa.

This article is based on a chapter in the upcoming collective book “Rising for Palestine: Africans in Solidarity for Decolonisation and Liberation”, edited by Raouf Farah and Suraya Dadoo, and to be published by Pluto Press in early…

It isn’t news that the Palestinian Authority (PA) is in a deep crisis, and much of it is caused by Israel’s policy of economic strangulation. The Israeli government has been blocking the PA’s customs money, making it increasingly difficult to continue running public services, security, and its own bureaucracy. Israel’s hardline Finance Minister, Bezalel Smotrich, is threatening not to renew the indemnity that allows Israeli banks to deal with Palestinian banks, and if he goes…

One of the themes in coverage of Charlie Kirk’s murder is that the 33-year-old MAGA activist’s support for Israel was waning as many of his young followers expressed horror at war crimes in Gaza. And concerns about Kirk’s changing message caused anxiety in the Israel lobby. 

Kirk, an evangelical Christian who is credited with mobilizing young voters across the nation to put Donald Trump into office last year, generally parroted the pro-Israel line. 

For instance, he…

I was driving home from the People’s Conference for Palestine in Detroit when family in Prague sent an invitation for me to join a Stolperstine placement ceremony. 

Stolperstines are memorial stones set into the pavement outside the last voluntary residence of victims of the Nazi genocide. The daughter of my grandmother’s cousin “J” commissioned this Stolperstine in memory of the grandparents she never knew.

A few years ago, while translating family letters written from…

On Monday, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sent the Israeli stock market into a fall by doing what he so often does: saying the quiet part out loud. 

The market rebounded, as it always does from these sorts of brief panics. But Netanyahu and Israel in general are finally being forced to grapple with some of the real, long-term consequences of their actions. 

Netanyahu told a group of American and Israeli business people at the “Fifty States, One Israel”…

At Gaza’s “aid” lines, where bread is rationed in blood, American contractors reveal Crusader crosses and “Infidel” tattoos beneath their fatigues. They move in formation, veterans of Iraq with Gaza cast as the next crusade. 

They call themselves Infidels MC, a biker gang turned militia — bodies for hire and insignia for sale. Last week, the BBC reported that seven members hold leadership roles in the Gaza Humanitarian Foundation’s checkpoints. At those sites, an

The Democratic National Committee’s summer meeting in Minneapolis last month ended not in dysfunction, but in deliberate avoidance. At the very moment when grassroots Democrats demanded a clear stand on Gaza, party leaders chose to bury the debate entirely rather than let members vote their conscience. 

DNC Resolution 18, which called for a ceasefire and suspension of military aid to Israel, was first defeated, then a watered-down substitute was quietly withdrawn, and finally…

History in the small colony of Israel has a way of circling back on itself, presenting old dilemmas in new clothing. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s recent remarks — warning of Israel’s growing isolation and the need to evolve into a kind of “super-Sparta” with an autarkic economy — echo back across decades. To hear him speak of a self-reliant arms industry freed from the grip of foreign politics is to hear the ghost of the Lavi fighter jet, haunting Israel’s…

Zohran Mamdani, in condemning Israel’s genocide in Gaza and its Zionist principles while running for New York City mayor, in objecting to “any state that has a hierarchy of citizenship on the basis of religion or anything else,” embodies an intercultural NYC tradition that goes back over a century in NYC. In the wake of Great Britain’s 1917 Balfour Declaration that opened the doors for a Jewish nation in Palestine, Zionism animated debate among not only the 1,600,000 Jewish…