israel/palestine

Yesterday, House Speaker Mike Johnson, the third-highest ranking US official, visited the Israeli settlement of Ariel, deep in the occupied West Bank, to pledge support for full Israeli annexation of…

Christian Smalls, a Black labor organizer who took on Amazon and won, just risked his life trying to bring aid to Gaza. He was not met with headlines but with fists. https://youtu.be/cS9ppIkPJJI…

Against all odds and the will of billionaires and establishment Democrats, Zohran Mamdani is the 2025 Democratic nominee for mayor of New York City. The New York Times (about which the less said the…

While Jewish history is so often recounted as a linear pathway — usually pointing toward and ending with the creation of the State of Israel — it’s easy to forget that it’s a tradition of cycles. The…

The death of Pope Francis, after a very public diminishment, closes a signal chapter in Catholic history with absolutely no certainty about who or what comes next. Rather than reflexively corralling…

This week, the ADL released its annual audit of antisemitic incidents. Predictably, the organization repeated its familiar mantra that the Palestine solidarity movement was the chief culprit behind a…

As you probably know by now, Pope Francis has died. (Mere hours after meeting with—how is this real life—US Vice President James Donald Bowman, aka James David Hamel, who prefers to be called JD Vance…

At a press conference today responding to a question about the possibility of Democratic support for the Republican-written spending bill, Trump said of Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer : Schumer…

The ambitious intentions of Peter Beinart’s new book are evident from the title: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza: A Reckoning. Responding to the current moment, Beinart has written nothing…

Last week, Trump released an executive order pledging to combat antisemitism by ordering a draconian crackdown on Palestine solidarity protests. That same day, reporters leaked a memo from an agency…