Israel
Palestine’s Baseball Dreams Survive
Mustafa Tafesh, a 21-year-old player for Gaza’s Palestine National Baseball Team, was killed in an Israeli airstrike. Despite such losses, the young team continues to compete internationally, carrying the dreams of Mustafa and the hope of a free Palestine.
How Israel Is Annexing the West Bank
For decades, West Bank Palestinians have remained determined to stay on their land, even as Israel made the region nearly uninhabitable with movement restrictions, depletion of resources, home demolitions, land seizures and army raids. Now, waves of violent attacks perpetrated by settler militias are forcibly displacing entire Palestinian communities.
The Life of a Student in Gaza
The destruction of Gaza’s universities has erased not just buildings, but entire futures. For students, it has turned years of study into uncertainty, forcing us to rebuild our hopes from the ground up.
Gaza’s Beloved Deserves To Live
The story of one bereaved family in Gaza captures the loss and resilience of Palestine in the face of ruthless colonization and genocide.
The Misunderstood Purpose of Economic Sanctions
In 2024, the Biden administration issued an executive order imposing sanctions on specific West Bank settlers and entities that profited from the settlements. Critics said the sanctions were ineffective. But the criticism rests on a misunderstanding of how they were supposed to work.
Israeli Liberals Grapple With the G-Word
For nearly two years, support for Israel’s war on Gaza was nearly unanimous among Jewish citizens, with blanket rejection of accusations that the army was committing war crimes. But the images of starving children have forced some liberals to grapple with the reality.
This Is How You Conduct Genocide by the Regulations
A human rights lawyer spent years advocating against Israeli restrictions on access to and from Gaza. But even she did not anticipate how quickly the bureaucratic structures created to control the population in Gaza could be used to facilitate their destruction.