Independent human rights experts issue a stark warning about surging Israeli settler terror in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and the existential risk it poses to Palestinian communities’ presence on the land.

Israeli Indoctrination ❝According to the head of the teachers' union, every student who becomes a soldier is proof the education system is succeeding; despite students failing at math, language & humanities. But how can a school system that raises soldiers eager to fight ever churn out peacemakers?❞

“Global Intifada Disarm” Italian activists have launched a new campaign at the port of Gioia Tauro in southern Italy aimed at disrupting military supplies involved in the Gaza genocide.

❝ Israel's advocates wage a propaganda war, framing Palestinians as the 'colonisers' while erasing Zionism's colonial roots and cloaking conquest in myths of return and indigeneity ❞ — Joseph Massad

The US has reaffirmed “the sovereignty and territorial integrity” of Somalia, in a move seen as a blow to Somaliland, the breakaway region recently recognised by Israel and close to the United Arab Emirates.

❝ Driven by insecurity, Israel has become a chaos agent, capable only of sowing death and destruction without achieving the goal of stability or much-vaunted hegemony ❞ — Andrew Hammond

❝ Suggestions that criticism of the State of Israel is anti-Semitic risk hardwiring a dangerous confusion. ■ The Royal Commission on Antisemitism should protect Jewish Australians from hatred, not shield Israel from accountability over Gaza. ❞ — Shahram Akbarzadeh

❝ A recurring theme in modern hasbara (Israel advocacy) is the portrayal of the publishing and music industries, and Hollywood, as increasingly Antisemitic, in response to Israel’s genocide in Gaza. ❞

AIEF, a charitable affiliate of pro-Israel lobby @AIPAC, has spent millions on travel for lawmakers from both parties, even as voters’ support for Israel plummets

Veteran French scholar François Burgat says his conviction over Gaza-related social media posts reflects a broader crackdown on pro-Palestinian speech in France

As US-Iran diplomacy hangs in the balance, Lebanon risks becoming collateral damage in a bargain shaped by outside powers

Former Dutch ambassador Nikolaos van Dam recounts how political pressure and bias shaped Western policy on Israel's occupation of Palestine.

Countries that have vowed to shun Israeli weapons makers are nonetheless quietly placing orders, according to industry officials. Israeli weapons exports reached a record high of more than $19 billion last year, a 30% increase from 2024.

❝ The disconnect between Israel's empty threats and the combat on the ground is particularly striking in light of the vulnerability Hezbollah has exposed. Trump felt forced to intervene in Lebanon because he was worried about the fate of negotiations with Iran ❞ — Amos Harel Haaretz

❝ You need a whole AI-generated search engine to monitor and catalogue the mere number of unvarnished stupidities Donald Trump commits every single day of his miserable existence - but this one gets the cake. ❞ — Hamid Dabashi

❝ I don't feel like a citizen with rights, but rather like a subject of this country, a conditional citizen. I'm not someone who is allowed to clash with the state and the authorities, but someone who hopes not to attract their attention. ❞ — Hanin Majadli

❝ With a large majority of UN member states recognizing Palestine, there's a clear international blueprint for creating an independent Palestinian state. What has been missing is credible Palestinian leadership of the kind that the imprisoned politician Marwan Barghouti could provide ❞

President Trump lashed out at Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu over Israel's escalation in Lebanon in an expletive-laden call on Monday, two U.S. officials and a third source briefed on the call told Axios.

Debunking Israel's foundational lies from their leaders' mouths

The US president’s war of choice has accomplished nothing and cost the world greatly

Palestinian Christian activists and church leaders have raised alarm over growing pressure on Christian communities in the occupied West Bank after Israeli soldiers attempted to halt preparations for a Marian festival in the village of Taybeh before church intervention allowed the event to proceed.

The Netanyahu regime hailed the capture of Beaufort Castle as a major victory, but Hezbollah attacks and Israeli casualties tell a different story.

It isn’t just Palestinians – Western media is also ignoring shocking accounts of abuse from white Western activists detained by Israeli forces after an illegal raid on their aid flotilla.

In the first step towards shifting aid further into the shadows, Congress is advancing a plan to bind the US and Israeli militaries closer together

❝ The weapons, the players and the stakes have transformed, yet the same unresolved question, Palestine, still drives the region to war. ❞ — Rami G Khouri

This is the final act of colonisation. Jerusalem’s Islamic identity will be effaced, its name and meaning repurposed to serve the Israeli colonial order

Residents of Beirut’s southern suburbs began leaving their homes again after Israel threatened to expand its attacks on the Lebanese capital, raising fears of a renewed assault on Dahieh despite a nominal ceasefire.

After American political commentators confirmed that the UK government had blocked their entry into the country, social media was flooded with reactions debating restrictions on free speech & accusing the UK government of clamping down on the right to express criticism of the Israeli government

A provision buried within a major US defence bill could significantly deepen military & technological integration between the US & Israel, prompting criticism from activists and former officials who say it would make future efforts to reduce military ties between the two countries far more difficult

For decades Washington has ensured its ally has superior forces - is that about to change?

Held without charge in Israeli military jails, Palestinian reporters describe beatings, starvation, isolation, and threats meant to force them into silence.

A new term - “healthocide” - has emerged to describe Israel’s systematic targeting of healthcare systems in Gaza and Lebanon.

❝ How could it be that so many people in so many different prisons are telling a similar story of similar conduct? They’re telling those stories because they’re true. ❞

The Economist : archive.md/DzbAu ❝ I am ashamed. Today I’m not proud to be an Israeli, to be a former soldier. It’s something I am ashamed of. ❞

The new data reflects generational shift & growing gulf between American & Israeli Jews. Almost half of American Jews under 35 say the Israeli-Palestinian conflict should be solved by creating a single country iwith a government elected by both Israelis and Palestinians

❝ How abysmal does Israel’s human rights record have to be before Western governments take meaningful action to address it? On the face of it, there are no limits to what atrocities Israel can commit without incurring any penalty beyond verbal rebukes. ❞ — Ghada Karmi

Australian participants in the Gaza-bound Global Sumud Flotilla have joined a submission to the International Criminal Court, reporting being subjected to sexual abuse and torture while in Israeli captivity.

Newly updated aerial maps expose the systematic destruction of cities, agriculture, and cemeteries across the besieged enclave.

❝ US-brokered talks are no longer a means to end Israeli aggression. Rather, they have become the operative framework through which that aggression is being administered and legalised. ❞

❝ With its brand toxic in some Democratic primaries, the lobbying group @aipac1.bsky.social has set up portals to steer donors to campaigns without attaching its name ❞ — Arno Rosenfeld

Occupied West Bank GIDEON LEVY: ❝ Seven settler outposts now surround the Dar Abu Faza'a Ka'abna shephereding community, threatening to choke it. Residents vow not to give in to settler terror – but others once said the same before being forced out ❞ Haaretz

❝ Protestant imperialists, antisemitic governments and Zionist settlers all sought to rob Palestinians of their homeland. Two centuries on, they have not succeeded ❞ — Joseph Massad

Zionism's opponents favor an egalitarian state, not Israel's hate, exclusion and violence ❝ The groups fighting for Palestinian rights aren't calling for the expulsion of Jews from the country. ❞ — Ofer Neiman Haaretz

Brooklyn's landmark Park Slope Food Coop voted to pull Israeli products from its shelves after a campaign over Israel’s war on Gaza and Palestinian rights.

PODCAST ► Historian Mark LeVine of the University of California, Irvine ❝ Every May, Israelis celebrate the anniversary of their independence. For Palestinians, their memories are of dispossession and displacement. ❞

❝ It is not Tehran led by unhinged, genocidal megalomaniacs threatening the security of the region and the world. It is Tel Aviv and Washington ❞ — Jonathan Cook

❝ Ultra-Orthodox journalist Israel Frey lost his job, his wife and spent five brutal days in jail after he seemed to celebrate the death of five Israeli soldiers. His memoir decrying the rise of Jewish supremacy against the Palestinians is now out ❞ Haaretz: archive.md/24EKr

WSJ report reveals UAE carried out strikes on Iran alongside US and Israel from start of war, operating as a third member of coalition

As Israel continues to restrict aid, Gaza’s shattered health system is struggling to treat and contain illnesses spreading through overcrowded tent camps.

❝ Muslims have been praying at Al-Aqsa Mosque for around 1,400 years. Israel has had its eyes on the holy site since the state’s creation in 1948, and its leaders have made increasingly aggressive attempts to seize control over the last quarter-century. ❞ — Peter Oborne