After a rowdy protest outside a real estate event at Park East Synagogue, Mayor Zohran Mamdani was widely criticized for supporting the protest by condemning the sale of West Bank properties. But the criticisms don’t stand up to scrutiny.
Israel is forcing out Al-Bustan’s 1,500 residents to build a biblical theme park. To avoid paying huge fines, families are demolishing their own homes.
As settlers set homes ablaze and looted livestock across three villages for over five hours, Israeli soldiers blocked ambulances, arrested victims, and even took part in beatings. This is how it unfolded.
While Israeli settlers drive Palestinians from their land through violence, another, quieter expulsion continues through bureaucracy and law, signed by army generals, and approved by Israel's High Court of Justice.
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...
Israeli Knesset member Aida Touma-Suleiman argues that in order for the growing recognition of the state of Palestine to be meaningful, it must be accompanied by sanctions for Israel’s permanent illegal occupation.
There are two options: either Israel finally pulls into its defensible and normal borders, or the circles of condemnation will widen, culminating in the inclusion of all Israelis in the maligned group, indiscriminately.
Redefining antisemitism in the law was never about Jewish safety. It is about consolidating authoritarian power under the veneer of minority protection.
Debates over the details of the ‘Generals’ Plan’ distract from the true brutality of Israel’s latest operation — one that drops the veneer of humanitarian considerations and lays the groundwork for settlements.
With major government funding, Hashomer Hachadash sends volunteers to cement Jewish control of open farmland — on both sides of the Green Line.
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