Israel is a chronic liability that squanders billions of American dollars, drags the US into wars and whose genocidal treatment of the Palestinians is destroying America’s moral pretensions in most of the world. Once this is understood, support for Israel will collapse, and voters may apply enough pressure to reorient U.S. policy in line with genuine national interests.
In 2024, death, destruction, demolitions, settler violence, and land theft plagued Palestinians; expatriation and suicide haunted Israel.
The Geographic and Demographic Imperatives of the Palestinian Refugees’ Return, by Salman H. Abu Sitta
As Palestine mourns the passing of Jimmy Carter, Gazan babies freeze to death, hospital patients are arrested; Israel permanently shutters hospital, desecrates Al Aqsa mosque, continues rampage in Lebanon.
Israeli Minister of Diaspora and Combating Antisemitism Amichai Chikli attacked and threatened the American nonprofit organization, which has defended Americans of all faiths.
Gazans freezing, homeless, sexually assaulted, gaslit; West Bankers face down Israeli and Palestinian Authority forces; a BDS win.
Documenting how Israel and its lobby have driven US policies from Truman through Biden
Those turning to the Sunday news shows to understand events or shape political priorities for the coming week were fed a consistent diet of superficial moralizing, softball interviews with US and Israeli officials, and entirely one-sided empathy and humanization since October 2023.
The genocidal war against the people of Palestine is ongoing, but we found a story of hope, a spark of light in the darkness.
A diplomat at the United States’ State Department has resigned over the White House’s policy towards Israel’s ongoing war on the Gaza Strip, in the latest such resignation by an American official over the genocide.