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A group of progressive Democrats in the United States Congress has called on President Joe Biden to “shift” American policy on the Palestinian-Israeli conflict, saying that US aid should not be used to fund abuses of Palestinian rights.

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Crisis deepens, struggle rises in France and Israel/Palestine

The mass protests have opened the possibility, however slight, that Israelis will begin to demand fundamental changes we haven't seen since 1948.

A planet haunted by democratic upheavals

The UN statement in question is just that: a statement, with no tangible value and no legal repercussions.

Israel has erected “a formal, full-fledged apartheid regime,” the editorial of Haaretz newspaper said yesterday, in a stark warning about the direction of the occupation state.

A recent Department of Education decision marks a victory for Palestine solidarity organizing, but the fight isn’t over.

Palestinians responded to Israel's "massacre" in Jenin with protests and resistance across the West Bank, including an attack on an East Jerusalem settlement where at least seven Israelis were killed.