Portside

The E1 settlement bloc and ethnic cleansing are meant to foreclose Palestinian liberation. But if we revisit our assumptions about partition and reclaim the principle of equality, we can rethink what a two-state solution looks like.

A new Israel Democracy Institute survey reveals 64.5 percent of Israelis, including half of the surveyed Likud voters, favor a cease-fire and hostage deal that includes IDF withdrawal from Gaza.

Readers Comments: Death of Voting Rights Act, Gerrymandering, Confederacy Worship, Gestapo Seizures and Camps; RFK Insanity; Zohran Mamdani; Martin Niemöller's real quote; Italian Dockworkers Threaten to Shut Down All of Europe; No Kings 2 - Oct 18;

After the airstrike on Nasser Hospital, our plea is ever more urgent: Palestinian reporters need international protection now, or Gaza's voice will be silenced. Since October 2023, Israel has killed at least 230 journalists in the Gaza Strip...

Readers Comments: National Guard to Washington, DC, Where Next?; Standing Up to Fascism - Learning from Martin Niemöller; Killing Medics and Journalists; RFK Gutting Our Defense Against Future Pandemics; New Book About Alger Hiss; Cartoons; lots more

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.

Readers Comments: Trump-Putin Summit; Trump White-Washington Slavery; Trump's DC Takeover; Zohran Mamdani - the “Commie Corridor”; Zoom this Sunday: Gaza & the West Bank: Views from the Israeli and Palestinian left; Cartoons and more...

Mexican Senate President Gerardo Fernández Noroña said the two defining features of the rising fascist threat in the world were the suffering inflicted on Palestinians and the abuse of migrants by the U.S.

There's no way, and there won't be one, to justify or defend what Israel is doing in the West Bank. Under the cover of the war, with the full backing of the IDF.-.They are driving out Palestinian residents and seizing more and more of their land.

Readers Comments: Police State Take-Over of Washington, DC; Israel Continues to Murder Gaza Journalists; NYC Mayor’s Race - Call for Universal Childcare; Chick-fil-A Fined for Child Labor; New Resource - Social Security FAQ; Cartoons and lots more;