Mitchell Plitnick Mondoweiss The traditional pro-Israel wing of the Democratic Party, under the thumb of AIPAC and incapable of anything beyond the shallowest rhetorical empathy for Palestinians — if that…
The new defense agreement among Saudi Arabia, Türkiye, and Pakistan highlights how Israeli aggression is compelling the region to reconfigure its alliances and serves as the latest evidence of the…
Mitchell Plitnick, Mondoweiss. In a Le Monde op-ed, Oman’s Badr al-Busaidi argues the West’s decades-long policy of “containing” Iran was always misguided. And that the true threat comes from Tel…
Mitchell Plitnick Mondoweiss According to reports, the Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the United States and Iran to open the Strait of Hormuz and formally end the fighting between the…
Mitchell Plitnick for Mondoweiss When the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, many of us knew, and argued loudly, that the American public was being lied to. We knew that…
Israel has sent a message that its impunity extends even to attacks on states that have close relations with Washington. They need only cry “HAMAS” and any act is acceptable.
James Gunn’s new Superman movie, which draws an analogy between Israel and the villainous country of Boravia, demonstrates how Israel's idealized image in American culture has been shattered by the…
Some are hoping for a great "Trump effect" on U.S. policy toward Palestine after his envoy brokered the Gaza ceasefire. But Trump was only operating out of self-interest, and these…
Since the fall of Bashar al-Assad, Israel has carried out an unprovoked invasion of Syria with the support of the U.S. The goals are clear: take strategic land, render Syria…
The Heritage Foundation's "Project Esther" claims to combat antisemitism but in fact, aims to destroy the Palestine solidarity movement as a first step in a crusade against all domestic dissent…
Benjamin Netanyahu's firing of Defense Minister Yoav Gallant has removed the one minor restraint on expanding Israel's regional war against Iran and the axis of resistance. International pressure to stop…
Israel’s lie over the murder of U.S. activist Aysenur Ezgi Eygi has been exposed, and in the process, so has Joe Biden and Kamala Harris's double standard on the worth…
Realistic contenders to replace Biden won't be better on Palestine than Genocide Joe. And when it comes to Dems and Republicans, you pick your poison, but there's no healthy choice.
The Biden administration is playing a shell game with the Gaza ceasefire that aims to trick the Democratic base into thinking meaningful action is taking place to end fighting while…
The current American threats to sanction the ICC could spell the death of International Law. Whatever little hope people had for a just international system will disappear.
