https://mondoweiss.net Shifting the Narrative toward Liberation | Palestine, Israel & the United States Fri, 03 Jul 2026 18:02:08 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-mw-m-square-xlg-32x32.png https://mondoweiss.net 32 32 54770680 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/how-congress-manipulates-its-own-rules-to-make-sure-israel-still-gets-its-weapons/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/how-congress-manipulates-its-own-rules-to-make-sure-israel-still-gets-its-weapons/#respond Sat, 04 Jul 2026 13:30:00 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=326957 This week offered a clear example of how elected officials in Washington, D.C., bend their own rules to keep weapons flowing to Israel. Political results outside Washington this week also showed us why this may soon change.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/how-congress-manipulates-its-own-rules-to-make-sure-israel-still-gets-its-weapons/feed/ 0 326957 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/a-new-strategic-plan-being-pushed-by-the-israeli-settler-movement-would-establish-100-outposts-in-the-heart-of-palestinian-cities/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/a-new-strategic-plan-being-pushed-by-the-israeli-settler-movement-would-establish-100-outposts-in-the-heart-of-palestinian-cities/#comments Fri, 03 Jul 2026 15:33:16 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=326935 The Israeli settler movement and its allies in the government have submitted a plan to build 100 new outposts in Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank. The move would effectively eliminate the Oslo Accords.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/a-new-strategic-plan-being-pushed-by-the-israeli-settler-movement-would-establish-100-outposts-in-the-heart-of-palestinian-cities/feed/ 1 326935 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/when-the-story-breaks-the-journalist/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/when-the-story-breaks-the-journalist/#respond Fri, 03 Jul 2026 13:48:04 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=326875 I am a journalist from Gaza, and I have documented loss so relentlessly that I have wondered where all that grief goes. I now know it never disappears. It might feel gone, but then one story comes along and unlocks everything that came before it.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/when-the-story-breaks-the-journalist/feed/ 0 326875 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/israels-seizure-of-palestinian-church-land-raises-renewed-fears-of-efforts-to-erase-christians-from-jerusalem/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/israels-seizure-of-palestinian-church-land-raises-renewed-fears-of-efforts-to-erase-christians-from-jerusalem/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2026 16:17:51 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=326800 Israel is seizing church and Palestinian land in Jerusalem's Silwan neighborhood under the pretext of creating "green spaces." A Muslim caretaker of the church property has made it his daily mission to guard what's left.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/israels-seizure-of-palestinian-church-land-raises-renewed-fears-of-efforts-to-erase-christians-from-jerusalem/feed/ 1 326800 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/will-the-iran-war-hurt-j-d-vances-presidential-hopes/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/will-the-iran-war-hurt-j-d-vances-presidential-hopes/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2026 14:37:00 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=325502 Vice President J.D. Vance has long been considered the leading contender for the 2028 Republican nomination, but will his role in the Trump administration's unpopular war against Iran hurt his chances? Conservatives are divided. ]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/will-the-iran-war-hurt-j-d-vances-presidential-hopes/feed/ 2 325502 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/as-in-gaza-the-israel-lebanon-peace-agreement-is-designed-to-fail/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/as-in-gaza-the-israel-lebanon-peace-agreement-is-designed-to-fail/#comments Thu, 02 Jul 2026 11:30:00 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=326890 Israel's conditioning of its withdrawal from southern Lebanon on the disarmament of Hezbollah mirrors its strategy in Gaza: insist on terms that are impossible to implement to justify its constant state of war.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/as-in-gaza-the-israel-lebanon-peace-agreement-is-designed-to-fail/feed/ 2 326890 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/how-hasan-piker-helped-boost-abdul-el-sayed-in-michigan-and-what-it-tells-us-about-the-state-of-the-democratic-party/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/how-hasan-piker-helped-boost-abdul-el-sayed-in-michigan-and-what-it-tells-us-about-the-state-of-the-democratic-party/#comments Wed, 01 Jul 2026 13:26:07 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=326823 Democrats thought tying Abdul El-Sayed to pro-Palestinian streamer Hasan Piker would derail his insurgent campaign in Michigan, but it backfired. Now, the race has become a key battle in the fight between the party establishment and progressive left.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/07/how-hasan-piker-helped-boost-abdul-el-sayed-in-michigan-and-what-it-tells-us-about-the-state-of-the-democratic-party/feed/ 8 326823 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/06/committee-to-protect-journalists-decision-to-turn-its-back-on-slain-palestinian-journalists-is-another-step-toward-isolating-gaza/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/06/committee-to-protect-journalists-decision-to-turn-its-back-on-slain-palestinian-journalists-is-another-step-toward-isolating-gaza/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2026 15:26:36 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=326856 I have worked as a journalist in Gaza for nearly a decade, and I believe the Committee to Protect Journalists' decision to remove the names of Palestinians killed while reporting from its records is yet another attempt to silence Gaza. It will fail.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/06/committee-to-protect-journalists-decision-to-turn-its-back-on-slain-palestinian-journalists-is-another-step-toward-isolating-gaza/feed/ 46 326856 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/06/a-mothers-body-in-gaza-was-cut-in-half-by-an-israeli-strike-her-1-year-old-daughters-skull-split-open-eyewitnesses-say/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/06/a-mothers-body-in-gaza-was-cut-in-half-by-an-israeli-strike-her-1-year-old-daughters-skull-split-open-eyewitnesses-say/#comments Tue, 30 Jun 2026 13:14:46 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=326843 Diana Abu Daraz and her 1-year-old daughter, Siwar, were killed in an Israeli strike on the Mawasi "safe zone" in Khan Younis. Survivors say the Israeli army didn't wait after giving them notice of the strike, dropping bombs on the tent city.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/06/a-mothers-body-in-gaza-was-cut-in-half-by-an-israeli-strike-her-1-year-old-daughters-skull-split-open-eyewitnesses-say/feed/ 2 326843 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/06/how-israel-uses-water-as-a-weapon-of-war-from-the-palestine-to-lebanon/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/06/how-israel-uses-water-as-a-weapon-of-war-from-the-palestine-to-lebanon/#comments Mon, 29 Jun 2026 16:55:58 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=326765 Israel recently damaged Lebanon’s vital Qaraoun Dam, raising fears of a structural failure. Experts say the attack reflects Israel’s long-standing ambition to control Lebanon’s water — and mirrors the water apartheid it imposes on Palestinians.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/06/how-israel-uses-water-as-a-weapon-of-war-from-the-palestine-to-lebanon/feed/ 1 326765