1+ day, 6+ hour ago   (163+ words) An Inquiry Into Corruption in High Placesby Norman G. Finkelstein409 pp; OR Books; $34.95 This is a hard book to read. Norman Finkelstein looks closely at Israel’s genocide in Gaza, and over 409 densely written pages, he is unsparing about some of the high-ranking…...

4+ day, 22+ hour ago   (634+ words) In the northern Jordan Valley, 47 Palestinian families have gone without water for over a month after Israeli forces bulldozed the roads to their herding community and cut the pipelines that once fed it. Lutfi Bani Odeh has lived on this…...

4+ day, 21+ hour ago   (816+ words) Mondoweiss Palestine Letter: Reporting our lives, not your ideology One day, a colleague who worked in a Catholic magazine for which I had written, and who was writing an article about Palestinian Christians, wanted to interview me as an average…...

4+ day, 23+ hour ago   (313+ words) The UK has crossed a political Rubicon on Israel’s occupation of the West Bank. Yesterday, the Government recognised that Israel’s continued control over Palestinian territory is unlawful, bringing it into line with the International Court of Justice’s 2024 Advisory Opinion. The…...

5+ day, 20+ hour ago   (758+ words) The only good thing that has come out of the Iran war is that it is OK to say that Israel dragged us into a (stupid, hateful) war, and that Israel and its lobby work against the American people’s interest....

5+ day, 22+ hour ago   (1499+ words) Tahrir Zidan, 41, repeatedly brings his five-year-old daughter, Tala Zidan, to the malnutrition clinic at Nasser Hospital in Khan Younis, hoping to receive nutritional supplements or treatment that might help his children grow. According to her Zidan, his daughter Tala is…...

1+ week, 1+ day ago   (353+ words) Qassam also profiles Muhammad Dahlan, the UAE-based Fatah dissident and longtime Hamas nemesis whose plan to “end Palestinian division” has quietly become the alliance’s working platform. Backed by Gulf money and aligned with Trump’s postwar plans for Gaza, Dahlan is…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (1664+ words) In the streets of Nahr al-Bared camp in northern Lebanon, where alleyways are barely wide enough to walk through, and buildings crowd out the sky, 45-year-old Palestinian refugee Aziza Wahbeh measures the long hours of another day. There is the…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (925+ words) In a tent in Tal al-Hawa, west of Gaza City, 39-year-old Iman Abdel Karim, a mother of six, hands pieces of bread to her hungry children, some of whom are too young to have grown their teeth. Around her are…...

1+ week, 5+ day ago   (565+ words) There is a strange cyclical pattern to how crises surface, fade away, and reemerge in Gaza. After reporting on Gaza for nearly a decade, it’s become clear to me that the cycle isn’t arbitrary. It is part of a deliberate…...