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Senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya at a conference in Gaza City, July 28, 2022. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images)
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Israel bombed Qatar to assassinate Hamas’s lead ceasefire negotiators

By Qassam Muaddi September 9, 2025 3

Amid ongoing ceasefire talks, Israel attempted to assassinate the Hamas negotiating team in an airstrike on the Doha office of its lead negotiator, senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya. Hamas officials say the negotiating team survived the attack.

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    • A photo released by the White House of Donald Trump in the White House Situation Room on June 21, 2025 in preparation for the U.S. attack on Iran. (Photo: The White House)
      Qatar refutes Trump’s claim that U.S. warned the country of Israeli strikes
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    • Senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya at a conference in Gaza City, July 28, 2022. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images)
      Israel bombed Qatar to assassinate Hamas’s lead ceasefire negotiators
      News September 9, 2025
    • Israel strikes a residential high-rise tower in Gaza City, September 7, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)
      The ethnic cleansing of Gaza City is expanding as Israel levels residential high-rises
      News September 8, 2025
    • Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (centter) and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (right) at the site of a shooting attack in Jerusalem, September 8, 2025. (Photo: Screenshot from Israeli Prime Minister Youtube Channel)
      Palestinians in the West Bank brace for Israeli retaliation after six Israelis killed in Jerusalem shooting
      News September 8, 2025
    • CUNY Law Students for Justice in Palestine held a press conference on August 27, 2025, to announce and celebrate the Supreme Court of New York's ruling that CUNY must disclose its financial portfolio.
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Israel strikes a residential high-rise tower in Gaza City, September 7, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

The ethnic cleansing of Gaza City is expanding as Israel levels residential high-rises

By Tareq S. Hajjaj September 8, 2025 4

After leveling Gaza City’s eastern neighborhoods, the Israeli onslaught has entered a new phase as the army flattens high-rise towers in the city’s western areas, where most civilians are sheltering. The goal is to cause a mass exodus.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (centter) and Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir (right) at the site of a shooting attack in Jerusalem, September 8, 2025. (Photo: Screenshot from Israeli Prime Minister Youtube Channel)

Palestinians in the West Bank brace for Israeli retaliation after six Israelis killed in Jerusalem shooting

By Qassam Muaddi September 8, 2025 1

In the aftermath of a Palestinian shooting attack that killed six Israelis, Israeli analysts and security officials warn of an “explosion” in the West Bank. Meanwhile, Palestinians are bracing for the ensuing collective punishment by Israel.

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Palestinians, driven to the brink of starvation, gather at an aid distribution point in near Zikim, Northern Gaza, July 30, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

Starvation chronicles in Gaza

By Qassam Muaddi August 13, 2025 0

“I’m mostly tired of expecting the world to end this,” Malek texts me from his tent encampment in Khan Younis. “I need to sleep. I have to wake up early to go look for food.”

(Photo: Doaa el-Baz/APA Images)

Gaza City’s iconic Shuja’iyya neighborhood no longer exists

August 11, 2025
Palestinians bring back aid from distribution center near the Zikim border crossing, August 4, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

Israel claims it’s allowing aid into Gaza, but its ‘engineering of chaos’ ensures the aid doesn’t reach starving Palestinians 

August 7, 2025
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a cabinet meeting on January 22, 2023. (Photo: Israel National Photo Collection/Government Press Office)

Leaked Cabinet transcript reveals Israel chose to starve Gaza as a strategy of war 

August 7, 2025
Palestinian women come back from GHF distribution center in southern Gaza, where eyewitnesses say GHF staff pepper-sprayed the aid-seekers and beat them with batons, July 24, 2025. (Photo: Abdallah Alattar/APA Images)

Palestinian women were told to go to U.S.-run aid sites in Gaza. They were killed and beaten instead, eyewitnesses say.

July 24, 2025

U.S. Politics

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A photo released by the White House of Donald Trump in the White House Situation Room on June 21, 2025 in preparation for the U.S. attack on Iran. (Photo: The White House)

Qatar refutes Trump’s claim that U.S. warned the country of Israeli strikes

By Michael Arria September 9, 2025 0

In response to the Israeli attack on Qatar, which targeted senior Hamas officials in the country, the Trump administration said it “feels very bad.” The U.S. government claimed it notified Qatar of the impending attack, a claim Qatar denies.

Secretary Marco Rubio meets with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Jerusalem, Israel, February 16, 2025. (Official State Department photo by Freddie Everett)

Trump administration sanctions Palestinian human rights groups

September 5, 2025
President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speak before a dinner in the Blue Room, Monday, July 7, 2025, at the White House. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

Trump continues to dabble in dangerous fantasy as Netanyahu razes Gaza to the ground

August 30, 2025
Spokesperson Matthew Miller leads the Department Press Briefing, at the Department of State, on July 10, 2023

The Shift: Biden official admits that Israel sabotaged ceasefire deals

August 28, 2025
DNC Chair Ken Martin (Ken Martin Instagram)

In defiance of voter base, DNC rejects resolution calling for Israel arms embargo

August 26, 2025

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A photo released by the White House of Donald Trump in the White House Situation Room on June 21, 2025 in preparation for the U.S. attack on Iran. (Photo: The White House)

Qatar refutes Trump’s claim that U.S. warned the country of Israeli strikes

By Michael Arria September 9, 2025 0

In response to the Israeli attack on Qatar, which targeted senior Hamas officials in the country, the Trump administration said it “feels very bad.” The U.S. government claimed it notified Qatar of the impending attack, a claim Qatar denies.

Senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya at a conference in Gaza City, July 28, 2022. (Photo: Ashraf Amra/APA Images)

Israel bombed Qatar to assassinate Hamas’s lead ceasefire negotiators

By Qassam Muaddi September 9, 2025 3

Amid ongoing ceasefire talks, Israel attempted to assassinate the Hamas negotiating team in an airstrike on the Doha office of its lead negotiator, senior Hamas leader Khalil al-Hayya. Hamas officials say the negotiating team survived the attack.

Israel strikes a residential high-rise tower in Gaza City, September 7, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

The ethnic cleansing of Gaza City is expanding as Israel levels residential high-rises

By Tareq S. Hajjaj September 8, 2025 4

After leveling Gaza City’s eastern neighborhoods, the Israeli onslaught has entered a new phase as the army flattens high-rise towers in the city’s western areas, where most civilians are sheltering. The goal is to cause a mass exodus.

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Palestinians inspect a burned-out mosque in the village of Aqraba, south of Nablus in the West Bank, after Israeli settlers set fire to the entrance and spray-painted Hebrew graffiti on the walls. (Photo: Mohammed Nasser/APA Images)

I was brutalized by Israeli soldiers in the West Bank. It was only a fraction of what Palestinians experience every day.

By Anonymous Contributor September 7, 2025 8

The violence of apartheid across the West Bank isn’t just physical. Israel relies on constant psychological warfare to terrorize rural Palestinian communities and make them live with the perpetual dread of army raids and settler pogroms.

President Donald Trump hosts a bilateral dinner for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Monday, July 7, 2025, in the Blue Room. (Official White House Photo by Daniel Torok)

The U.S. visa cancellations for Palestinians marks another step towards West Bank annexation

By Mitchell Plitnick September 5, 2025 6

The cancellation of visas for Palestinian officials is part of a a wider effort by Israel and the U.S. to prevent international recognition of a Palestinian state, and to further Trump’s grandiose plans for Gaza and Israel’s plans for the West Bank.

A woman holds up a sign with ‘Too many terrorists in prison’ written on one side and ‘Kill them all’ written on the other during a rally in Tel Aviv on April 19, 2016 to support Elor Azaria. (Photo: Jack Guez/AFP)

In Israel, ‘animals in human form’ may be killed

By Tamir Sorek August 31, 2025 11

Studies consistently show that Jewish Israelis view Palestinians as less than human. This deep-seated racism is rooted in the Zionist colonial project and helps explain the broad support for the Gaza genocide.

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CUNY Law Students for Justice in Palestine held a press conference on August 27, 2025, to announce and celebrate the Supreme Court of New York's ruling that CUNY must disclose its financial portfolio.

Weekly Briefing: Coordinated ethnic cleansing and the growing pushback

By Dave Reed September 7, 2025 4

U.S. sanctions, a Trump “relocation” plan, Gaza’s engineered famine, and West Bank annexation—this week’s reporting exposes the strategy and the resistance rising.

The Shift: Tom Cotton targets PYM

September 4, 2025
(People's Conference for Palestine)

Power & Pushback: The People’s Conference for Palestine

September 2, 2025
The crowd of attendees at the second annual People's Conference for Palestine in Detroit are seen from behind musicians performing on stage at the opening ceremony.

Weekly Briefing: The movement for Palestinian freedom is winning

August 30, 2025
Spokesperson Matthew Miller leads the Department Press Briefing, at the Department of State, on July 10, 2023

The Shift: Biden official admits that Israel sabotaged ceasefire deals

August 28, 2025

Activism

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Community members band together to force companies complicit in the Gaza genocide out of the Brooklyn Navy Yard

By Joseph Mogul September 6, 2025 2

Most New Yorkers are not aware companies contributing to the Gaza genocide operate in their backyard, but at least two are housed in the city-operated Brooklyn Navy Yard. Now, activists and local residents are banding together to get them evicted.

A plenary at the 2024 People's Conference for Palestine (Photo: People's Conference for Palestine)

Gaza is the Compass: Second annual People’s Conference for Palestine

By People’s Conference for Palestine  August 24, 2025 0

From August 29-31, thousands of Palestine supporters will gather in Detroit, Michigan, for the second annual People’s Conference for Palestine, guided by the principle: Gaza is the Compass.

Student encampment for Gaza at George Washington University in Washington, DC, on April 25, 2024. (Photo: Laura Albast)

Students urge George Washington University not to capitulate to Trump threats over Palestine activism

By GWU Left Coalition August 21, 2025 1

Students at George Washington University urge the school’s administration not to give in to Trump administration demands following a Justice Department investigation into alleged “antisemitism” stemming from protests against the Gaza genocide.

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Jonathan Greenblatt of the ADL in January 2022. Screenshot from ADL video.

The mainstream media is finally asking some tough questions about the Anti-Defamation League

By Michael Arria August 13, 2025 5

After a New York Magazine article exposed a crisis within the Anti-Defamation League, CEO Jonathan Greenblatt is finally being asked tough questions about the organization’s attacks on Palestine activists and its embrace of Israel.

New York Times headquarters

Israel has barred international press from Gaza so it can carry out genocide, and the media has complied

By Philip Weiss August 10, 2025 27

Israel’s policy of blocking international reporters from entering Gaza is cruel and aims to prevent the world from learning about the unfolding genocide. Tragically, the mainstream press has rarely mentioned the restriction, let alone condemned it.

Muhammad Zakaria al-Mutawaq, an 18-month-old child facing life-threatening starvation, July 24, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

New York Times: Israel isn’t starving healthy children to death. Just the ones with preexisting conditions.

By James North July 31, 2025 4

A few days after writing a story on starvation and malnutrition in Gaza, the New York Times issued a clarification that it felt readers must know: that the emaciated Palestinian boy it had profiled actually had a preexisting health condition.

Culture

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The People's Red Line march against genocide in Gaza in front of the White House in Washington D.C., on June 8, 2024 (Photo: Aseel Kabariti)

Book Review: Sarah Schulman tackles the urgency, and pitfalls, of solidarity

By Marcy Newman August 17, 2025 2

Author Sarah Schulman’s “The Fantasy and Necessity of Solidarity” combines reflections on historical movements, figures, and texts to present a timely discussion on how to act in solidarity, a pressing question amid the ongoing genocide in Gaza.

Still from James Gunn's "Superman" showing Metropolis falafel vendor, Malik Ali, helping Superman during his fight with the villain, the "Hammer of Boravia."

Film Review: James Gunn’s Superman cements Israel’s villain status in the American imagination

By Mitchell Plitnick July 18, 2025 5

James Gunn’s new Superman movie, which draws an analogy between Israel and the villainous country of Boravia, demonstrates how Israel’s idealized image in American culture has been shattered by the widespread acknowledgment of Palestinian oppression.

A Palestinian man carries the body of a baby killed in an Israeli attack on Al-Shati camp, at the morgue of Al Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, Gaza on July 9, 2025. (Photo: Omar Ashtawy/APA Images)

Book Review: Calling the world to account for the Gaza genocide 

By Muhannad Ayyash July 13, 2025 1

Haidar Eid’s “Banging on the Walls of the Tank” reveals a disturbing but irrefutable reality: the world has abandoned the Palestinian people to be annihilated as a people in the most calculated and brutal fashion possible.

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Dr. Assal Rad on the “12-Day War”, Western Media and Israel

By Assal Rad July 1, 2025 1

What really happened during the so-called “12-Day War” between Israel, the U.S., and Iran — and why it’s not about nuclear weapons.

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The aftermath of a massive Israeli attack in the Dahiya area of Beirut on September 27, 2024. Photo shared by Lebanese journalist Ahmad El Hajj on social media.

From Gaza to Beirut: Abdaljawad Omar on the ripple effects of Israel’s attack on Lebanon

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