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From Pete Buttigieg to Gavin Newsom, party bigwigs are finding out the hard way that the old platitudes don’t work anymore.

A recent successful court case brought by university professors against the Trump administration’s ideological deportations is an important win for supporters of Palestinian liberation and opponents of rising authoritarianism in the US.

Peter Beinart interviews Muhammad Shehada on the Trump plan: Israel’s plans for the more than half of Gaza, Palestinian public opinion of Hamas, Potential role of international peacekeepers, Emerging rival criminal gangs in Gaza

It’s a confounding time to be Muslim in this country. A degree of Muslim culture I would have never thought possible when I was a kid is now imbued in the lexicon of Americans. I’m still a little shocked every time I hear non-Muslims say “inshallah.”

We cannot repeat the slow death of Oslo nor replace Hamas with another detached faction, but instead rethink the foundations of our political culture. As Gazans, we have paid an unimaginably heavy price for the October 7 attacks...

Reader Comments: Defeating Fascism-Learning From History; Red Scare: Then, Now; Amazon Plan-Replace Half Million Jobs; Gaza Ceasefire; Human Toll of Gaza War; Remembering Arthur Waskow; Young Republicans-Young Fascists; Letter from Jewish New Yorker

In an open letter, Israeli ex-officials, artists and intellectuals say ‘unconscionable’ actions in Gaza amount to genocide

People aren't born cruel; they become so. Palestinian cruelty toward Israelis is widely covered, while our cruelty, that of Israeli society, is getting ever more sophisticated to protect our spoils.

Readers Comments: “Anti-Capitalism” as Political Pre-Crime; Enemy Within; 94 Million Pounds of Food Aid Canceled; Palestinians Are Going Nowhere; The Case for Universal Social Policies; Trump Coin a Violation of Federal Law; Announcements; Cartoons..