Ilhan Omar is leading a boycott of Israeli president Isaac Herzog’s speech to Congress, saying a country that banned her and Rashida Tlaib, both Muslims, from visiting should not get a hearing.
When Tom Friedman says the possibility of a Palestinian state was always “fiction,” he shows contempt for Palestinians and reveals his role, a pillar of the Israel lobby.
Azad Essa’s new book uncovers Israel and India’s joint history, as well as the affinities between the toxic ideologies ungirding their national projects.
In a visit this week, Mahmoud Abbas hailed the Jenin refugee camp as an icon of resistance even as the PA continues imprisoning resistance fighters. But as a member of the Jenin Brigade once told Mondoweiss, “Ramallah will not see freedom” while the PA rules there.
Tom Friedman created minor shockwaves when he wrote the Biden administration is “reassessing” the U.S.-Israeli relationship, but actual U.S. policy remains committed to Israel and the “shared fiction” that the occupation is temporary .