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Sharon Zhang: After Bombing 6 Countries This Year, Netanyahu Pins Israeli Isolation on Muslims

“We’ll need to develop our weapons industry — we’re going to be Athens and super Sparta combined,” Netanyahu said.

September 18, 2025 · 5 Comments

Brett Wilkins | Israel Waging ‘Deliberate Campaign of Starvation’ in Gaza, reports Amnesty International

Israel “is carrying out a deliberate campaign of starvation in the occupied Gaza Strip, systematically destroying the health, well-being, and social fabric of Palestinian life,” Amnesty said. 

August 20, 2025 · 4 Comments

James Zogby: The Story of the Gaza Genocide Did Not Begin on October 7

When those who seek to help resolve a conflict are captive to one side’s definitions and perspective, it’s a recipe for continued tension and ultimately disaster.

August 6, 2025 · 1 Comment

Abby Zimet: ​Let Them Die Alone, and Hungry

The new “conquering of Gaza” formalizes Israel’s plan for the indefinite occupation, forced expulsion and incorporation into “sanitized” Israeli zones of an already long-besieged civilian population “for its own protection.”

May 8, 2025 · 14 Comments

John Feffer: Surviving a Political Dark Age

No longer being able to count on U.S. power or NATO security guarantees in the age of Trump, European Union leaders have decided to visit the gym and muscle up.

April 4, 2025 · 3 Comments

Eloise Goldsmith: ‘Now Do Netanyahu’ | Philippines’ Duterte Arrested Under ICC Warrant for Crimes Against Humanity

The arrest prompted some observers to urge the arrest of another public figure who faces ICC charges: Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

March 13, 2025 · 5 Comments

Tom Engelhardt: Donald Trump Is the Clearest Sign of US Decline Imaginable

Trump’s victory in 2016 should have instantly been seen as a crucial sign of the weakening and potential collapse of this country’s position in the world translated into domestic politics.

October 23, 2024 · 5 Comments

Brett Wilkins: ‘We Are All Culpable’: Matt Nelson Self-Immolates to Protest Israel’s Gaza Onslaught

In a video, Nelson said he would set himself ablaze “to pressure Israel to end the genocide in Gaza.”

September 17, 2024 · 4 Comments

John Edward Simms: The Friendship Sweater and Radical Neutrality

A Response to the Editor’s “A Note to Our Readers Concerning Vox Populi’s Coverage of the War on Gaza”

May 13, 2024 · 7 Comments

Video: Bernie Sanders Rips Colleagues for Attacking Student Protesters Instead of Netanyahu

‘It is not antisemitic or pro-Hamas to point out that in almost seven months Netanyahu’s extremist government has killed 34,000 Palestinians and wounded more than 77,000 – seventy percent of whom are women and children.’

May 3, 2024 · 10 Comments

Juan Cole: The US House Just Gave Israel $26 Billion for Its War on Gaza’s Children

The enormous windfall will allow the government of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to continue to kill or wound a Palestinian child in Gaza every 10 minutes.

April 22, 2024 · 4 Comments

Bob Kunzinger: Moral Absolutism | Do Not Kill Children

Starvation is rampant and the conditions in Gaza have been called by Save the Children one of the “slowest, cruelest deaths” on record. It is a holocaust…

April 5, 2024 · 10 Comments

Mat Schumer: Pro-Israel lobby presses for US military support in war with Hamas

A resolution declaring America’s solidarity with Israel was the first legislation passed under House Speaker Rep. Mike Johnson, (R-La.) whose biggest contributor during his 2022 midterm elections was AIPAC. 

December 1, 2023 · Leave a comment

Naomi Shihab Nye: To Netanyahu

My Palestinian father named his donkey after you…
Now I think he insulted the donkey.

August 16, 2019 · 7 Comments

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