The War on Humanitarians
Ilan Pappé is 70 years old. He’s Jewish. His parents fled persecution in Hitler’s Germany. He’s an Israeli and served in the IDF. He hasn’t been radicalized by TikTok. He is, in fact, one of Israel’s...
View ArticleThree Strikes
This was the week of rebukes for Israel: On Monday, the ICC requested arrest warrants for Netanyahu and Gallant, on Wednesday three European nations, Ireland, Spain and Norway, recognized Palestinian...
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Who By Fire? The Burning of Rafah’s Tent People
Still from a video shot by Kharmes al-Refi of the Israeli airstrike on the tent camp in the designated safe zone of Tel-al Sultan, western Rafah. “Oh hell, what do mine eyes with grief behold?” – John...
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It’s Coming From Within the House
The ruins of Jabalia refugee camp, after the second invasion by the IDF since October. Photo: UNRWA. On Tuesday, Stacy Gilbert, a 20-year veteran of the State Department, resigned in protest, after...
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Snatch-and-Grab Israeli Style: Disappearing into the Gulag
The arrest of Rasha Kareem. Rasha Kareem wasn’t hiding from the police. She didn’t think she’d done anything wrong. And she hadn’t done anything wrong. Not by any reasonable standard. Rasha was simply...
View ArticleWhoops, They Did It Again
Whoops, they did it again. Only this time it was no “tragic mistake.” There were no apologies. Indeed, the IDF claimed the bombing was a “precision strike.” The target? An UNRWA school in the Nuseirat...
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No Way Out in Nuseirat: the Great Hostage Rescue Massacre
Photo: UNRWA. The Israelis usually make their abduction raids at night, when the streets are empty and their targets are sleeping. The raid on Nuseirat took place in mid-day at a refugee camp, when...
View ArticleWhat’s a Palestinian Life Worth?
“I have told my sons that they are not under any circumstances to take part in massacres and that the news of massacres of enemies is not to fill them with satisfaction or glee. “I have also told them...
View ArticleLying Down With Netanyahu, Getting Up With…
Anyone who knows Benjamin Netanyahu, and Joe Biden has for nearly 50 years, could see it coming. Sooner or later he was bound to bite the hand that feeds him. Bite it hard enough to draw blood,...
View ArticleIsrael’s Willing Executioners
In December 2023, Israeli troops laid siege to the Anan apartment building in Gaza City. For more than a week, the building was routinely shelled by Israeli tanks and quadcopters and strafed by sniper...
View ArticleMoving Human Targets
+ This week’s Israeli seizure of nearly five square miles of land in the Jordan Valley of the occupied West Bank is the largest land grab in the more than three decades since the signing of the Oslo...
View ArticleGone in the Blink of an Eye
+ The official Palestinian death count in Gaza by the health ministry now stands at 38,345. Another 10,000 are presumed dead, their bodies buried under rubble. + Two months ago, Ralph Nader said he...
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It’s the Apartheid, Stupid!
Palestinian children running towards the Israeli Apartheid Wall in the West Bank. Photo: Justin McIntosh, CC BY 2.0. The International Court of Justice has made definitive what has been obvious for...
View ArticleTalk, Talk; Bang-Bang
Whether they want to or not, the Arab people today face a wholesale attack on their future by an imperial power, America, that acts in concert with Israel to pacify, subdue, and finally reduce us to a...
View ArticleCeasefire Assassinated
A new U.N. report revealed that “Palestinians detained by Israeli authorities since the Oct. 7 attacks faced waterboarding, sleep deprivation, electric shocks, dogs set on them, and other forms of...
View ArticleIsrael’s Torture Archipelago
For about the 30th time since last October, we’re being asked to believe that Biden has reached his limit with Netanhayu. Two spoke by phone last week, after Israel’s dual assassination strikes in...
View ArticleThe Body Bags of Gaza
+ Here’s a brief recap of the last week in US/Israeli relations. The IDF shot an American citizen, Amado Sison, in the West Bank. The US announced it would continue funding the notorious IDF unit that...
View ArticleMeet the New Boss, Worse Than the Old?
Whatever frail hope people had for Kamala Harris making a clean break from Biden’s unrelenting and unapologetic support for Israel’s genocide against the Palestinians living in Gaza was repeatedly and...
View ArticleA Whiter Shade of Genocide
“It’s hard not to feel invisible as a Palestinian-American. Our trauma and pain feel unseen and ignored by both parties. One party uses our identity as a slur, and the other refuses to hear from us.” –...
View ArticleBullets to the Head
+ On Friday, Aysenur Eygi, a 26-year-old American peace activist, was shot in the head and killed by an Israeli sniper during a demonstration against illegal settlements and land seizures in the West...
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Murder in Beita: the IDF’s Killing of Ayşenur Eygi
Aysenur Eygi after her graduation from the University of Washington in May. Photo courtesy of Aysenur Eygi Family. Beita is a Palestinian village in the occupied West Bank a few miles from Nablus....
View ArticleAll Aflame on the West Bank Front
+ Here’s a snapshot of Israel’s escalating war on the West Bank… + Since January 2023, 772 Palestinians have been killed by Israeli armed forces (747) or settlers (18), including 181 children. + In...
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Harvester of Eyes
Palestinian refugees stream out of the ruins of Gaza City. Image: Wafa. Dr. Elias Warrack, a surgeon at Mount Lebanon University Hospital in Beirut, on treating victims of Israel’s pager bombs: “Some...
View ArticleBlock-Busting Beirut
+ Recall that this week of ferocious Israeli airstrikes inflicting mass civilian casualties across Lebanon began with Emanuel Macron and Joe Biden introducing a plan for a 21-day ceasefire in Lebanon...
View ArticleThe Making of a Wider War
Iranian missiles targeting Nevatim Air Base in southern Israel. Screengrab from a video on X. + This week, Israel bombed Beirut and southern Lebanon. Iran bombed Israeli military bases and intelligence...
View ArticleWar on the United Nations
This was the week that Israel, with the backing of the Biden administration, went to war against…the United Nations by attacking UN peacekeepers (UNIFIL) in Lebanon and seizing the UN HQ in East...
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Israel Unbound: October in Gaza, One Year Later
Netanyahu takes a selfie with US troops in Israel. Image: Screenshot from video on X. Here at CounterPunch we’re brainstorming about ways that we can make our annual fundraiser more effective, less...
View ArticleSinwar’s Dead; the Genocide Continues
More than 100,000 dead Palestinians later, Israel finally killed Yahya Sinwar. He wasn’t wearing a dress. He wasn’t hiding in a tunnel with Israeli hostages. He wasn’t shielded behind women and...
View ArticleStrange Invaders
+ Let’s allow Volker Türk, the UN’s human rights chief, to set the scene for one of the bloodiest weeks yet in Israel’s pitiless extermination campaign in North Gaza: “Today, one of the darkest moments...
View ArticleHelter Shelter
Every atrocity Israel has accused Hamas of committing, Israel has perpetrated itself on a far grander scale: mass rapes, killing and decapitating babies, looting, using civilians as human shields,...
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