By Juan Cole May 30, 2026 Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday instructed his military to seize fully 70% of the Gaza Strip, according to Al Jazeera. According to the ceasefire negotiated by Donald Trump last October, Israel retained…
Ramzy Baroud April 2, 2026 Those who had the misfortune of growing up in a war zone require no explanation. War is hell, it is true—but for children, it is something else entirely: a confusing, disorienting fate that defies comprehension.…
Eskandar Sadeghi-Boroujerdi, 3 March 2026 The aftermath of an airstrike near Ferdowsi Square in central Tehran, 2 March 2026 (Hamid Vakili / Parspix / Abaca Press / Alamy) ‘The dry and the wet burn together’ is a Persian expression invoked…
U.S. immigration enforcement has long cultivated ties with Israel. Now it adapts algorithmic surveillance tactics from Gaza for use on American streets. By Sophia Goodfriend February 12, 2026 +972 Magazine An officer from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), one of the…
By Ramzy Baroud January 23, 2026 Image by Ashraf Amra/Wikimediacommons, licensed via CC BY 3.0 “This is how Palestinians are killed twice: first through genocide, and then through erasure…….” A colleague, an editor at a widely read outlet that centered…
Satellite images analyzed by Forensic Architecture show Israel razing land, compacting the ground, and clearing rubble in Rafah in a way that is not visible anywhere else east of the yellow line. Forensic Architecture and Drop Site NewsJan 20, 2026…
By Vijay Prashad December 31, 2025 On 19 January 2025, a ceasefire took effect to halt the Israeli bombing of Palestinians in Gaza. This ceasefire emerged from a mediation process by Egypt, Qatar, and the United States, which had been…
In their new book, Dawn’s Sarah Leah Whitson and Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man lay out a blueprint to end the occupation and transform an undemocratic one-state reality into a democratic one. Sarah Leah Whitson and Michael Schaeffer Omer-ManNov 29, 2025 Long…
Ramzy Baroud, December 2, 2025 United Nations Security Council Resolution 2803 is destined to fail. That failure will come at a price: more Palestinian deaths, extensive destruction, and the expansion of Israeli violence to the West Bank and elsewhere in…
By Rashid Khalidi, Jyotishmon Mudiar November 22, 2025 In this deep and wide-ranging conversation, historian Rashid Khalidi breaks down the political landscape of Palestine today — from the legacy of the Oslo Accords and the failures of the PA to…