Category: Palestine/Israel

The Elimination Project: Israel’s Dismantling of Palestinian Life in West Bank (2)

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This is the second part of the executive summary of the “Elimination Project: Israel’s Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Collective Life in the West Bank.” The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released this report on September 14, 2026. It provides a comprehensive, historical outline of the systematic effort by the Israeli government and its entire repressive apparatus to eventually cleanse the occupied territories, and perhaps even Israel proper, of all Palestinians. This is the second of two parts.

The Elimination Project: Israel’s Dismantling of Palestinian Life in West Bank (1)

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This is the executive summary of the “Elimination Project: Israel’s Systematic Dismantling of Palestinian Collective Life in the West Bank.” The Israeli human rights organization B’Tselem released this report on September 14, 2026. “At the time of publication, the West Bank is under a sweeping Israeli assault that is systematically and at an accelerating pace dismantling the foundations of Palestinian existence,” the report says in its opening. It provides a comprehensive, historical outline of the systematic effort by the Israeli government and its entire repressive apparatus to eventually cleanse the occupied territories, and perhaps even Israel proper, of all Palestinians. This is the first of two parts.

Ethnic Cleansing of West Bank Plows Ahead

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Right-wing settlers, with the backing of the Israeli government and Israel Defense Forces (IDF), are well on their way toward accomplishing ethnic cleansing of the West Bank — home to some 3 million Palestinians and half a million Zionist settlers. Confirmation of such an impending disaster has recently come from an unlikely source: retired IDF generals and former officers of Mossad, Israel’s main spy agency, who are touring the West Bank.

Israel Isn’t Debating a Palestinian State. It’s Preparing for Expulsion

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“Across Gaza, the West Bank and Israel itself, the machinery for making Palestinian life impossible is already operating, laying the groundwork for mass expulsion,” warns Amira Hass, the correspondent of the Israeli daily Haaretz for the occupied territories — Gaza and the West Bank, in this column. “Let me reiterate: The very existence of the Palestinian people between the sea and the river is now in danger.”

World Cup Moment #1: Norway Donates Proceeds from Israel Match to Gaza

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On October 11, 2025, Norway’s national football (soccer in U.S. parlance) team defeated Israel 5-0 in a World Cup qualifying match in Oslo, the Norwegian capital. Norway’s football federation then donated the proceeds from that game to humanitarian aid in Gaza.This action got wide publicity and praise on social media in the United States and internationally during Norway’s appearance in this year’s World Cup. During the tournament, Norway’s team made history by reaching the competition’s quarter finals for the first time ever.

Standing Together Leaders Launch New Jewish-Palestinian Party in Israel

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In mid-June 2026, top leaders of Standing Together announced the launching of “A Place for Us All,” a new Jewish-Palestinian political party in Israel. Standing Together is made up of Jews, Palestinians, and others. It is one of the most prominent organizations in Israel that have campaigned against Israel’s war in Gaza and for an end to the Israeli occupation of Palestinian territories.

Palestine/Israel: Edward Said on ‘The One-State Solution’

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For nearly three years, Israel has been waging war against the Palestinian people in Gaza and the West Bank, with no end in sight. It is a war that has engulfed other parts of the Middle East, with repeated invasions and massive bombings of Lebanon — including the current one launched at the end of February as part of the U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. Palestinians face abysmal conditions of massacres and colonization, particularly in Gaza, and land grabs, home demolitions, and growing dispossession in the West Bank. The Palestinian national movement is facing its “darkest day” since the 1948 Nakba, as Palestinian American scholar Rashid Khalidi has put it. In this context World-Outlook is re-publishing an essay by another Palestinian leader, Edward Said, who in 1999 described the “two-state” perspective as a dead end and argued that sustainable peace can only be achieved through a binational, democratic, secular state in Palestine/Israel with equal rights for all its citizens. At a minimum Said’s assessment deserves re-examination and discussion today.

Palestinian Pop Singer Elyanna Sparks Acclaim, Controversy

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This article reports on the growing international popularity of Palestinian pop singer Elyanna, who is scheduled to perform at the opening of the soccer World Cup in Mexico City on June 11, 2026. The singer has sparked acclaim and controversy by expressing pride in her Palestinian identity, often wearing kaffiyeh over her curls in public appearances and using henna hand decorations, and always speaking about Palestine and the plight of the Palestinian people.

Gaza and the West Bank: Dispatches from Catastrophe (II)

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This is the second of two parts of a Jewish Currents dispatch. At the end of 2025, Jewish Currents reached out to about two dozen Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank — all of whom the magazine had previously interviewed after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 — to ask them how their lives had changed since they last shared their stories.“ The resulting testimonies are difficult to read,” says the introduction to these stories. “They show the effects of years of industrialized, live-broadcast massacres and colonization, particularly in Gaza, where more than 10% of the population is estimated to have been killed or injured in the last two years.“

Gaza and the West Bank: Dispatches from Catastrophe (I)

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At the end of 2025, Jewish Currents reached out to about two dozen Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank — all of whom the magazine had previously interviewed after the Hamas-led attack on Israel on October 7, 2023 — to ask them how their lives had changed since they last shared their stories. “The resulting testimonies are difficult to read,” says the introduction to these stories. “They show the effects of years of industrialized, live-broadcast massacres and colonization, particularly in Gaza, where more than 10% of the population is estimated to have been killed or injured in the last two years.” This is the first of two parts.

‘All They Will Find Is Sand’: Israel’s Demolition of Gaza

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“Ungrounding: The Architecture of Genocide,” an upcoming book by British-Israeli architect Eyal Weizman, catalogs, in unflinching and exacting detail, the Israeli campaigns of violence and displacement that have reshaped Gaza and its surroundings to make these areas unlivable for the Palestinian people. This article, which first appeared in the London Review of Books, is a powerful preview of “Ungrounding.”

‘Israel Has Become Dangerous for Jews Around the World’

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For the last 2 ½ years, Israel has been carrying out what seems like an endless war of attrition — against the Palestinians in Gaza and the West Bank, and now against Lebanon and Iran. In this article, Amira Hass, Haaretz’s correspondent in the occupied territories, explains how the Israeli regime’s claim that it does so in the name of all Jewish people around the globe endangers Jews worldwide by feeding the flames of antisemitism. TAn antisemitism advocated more and more openly, implicitly or explicitly, by the ultraright — as was the case with the rise of fascism prior to World War II — and threatens to enter the mainstream of bourgeois politics.

The Trump Mandate: Who Needs Palestinians to Run Their Own Lives in Gaza?

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On January 16, U.S. president Donald Trump announced with imperial arrogance a “Board of Peace,” naming himself as its chairman, to oversee the governance of Gaza. This board is composed primarily of top U.S. diplomats, including his son-in-law, Jared Kushner. “Trump’s announcement of the official creation of the Gaza Board of Peace is not merely a new diplomatic initiative,” Israeli Palestinian journalist Jack Khoury points out in the article published here. “It is a declaration with far deeper meaning: the restoration of an international — and above all American — protectorate over the Palestinian people.”

Trump Is Washing His Hands of Gaza

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Behind Trump’s headline diplomacy is a void: core questions on Israeli withdrawal, Hamas disarmament and Gaza’s future governance are postponed or outsourced. This isn’t a peace effort but conflict management, preserving the status quo and leaving Palestinians without a political horizon. — Jack Khoury, Haaretz

‘From Ceasefire to a Just Peace’ in Israel and Occupied Territories

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BROOKLYN, New York, November 12, 2025 — Sally Abed and Alon-Lee Green, two national leaders of the Israel-based Jewish/Palestinian antiwar group Standing Together, spoke today at St. Ann’s and the Holy Trinity Church here as part of a multi-city tour in the United States. Abed is a Palestinian citizen of Israel and member of Haifa’s city council. Green is a Jewish Israeli and the Standing Together national co-director. They are touring this country to share a simple message, which can be summed up by the title of their talk: “The Fight Ahead: From Ceasefire to a Just Peace.”

Gaza in Turmoil: Hamas and Militias Clash

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This article, first published by the Israeli daily Haaretz, describes efforts by Hamas to reassert control in Gaza in the aftermath of the ceasefire that went into effect there on October 10, 2025. As Karim, a 32-year-old Palestinian, said, “Even if all of Gaza becomes one big cemetery, Hamas will strive to run this cemetery. They won’t give up their rule easily.”

Gaza Ceasefire Won’t Bring Peace

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The ceasefire between Israel and Hamas that went into effect in Gaza on October 10 is unlikely to bring lasting peace in Palestine, Israel, or the broader Middle East. It resolves nothing about the underlying issue of Palestinian self-determination. The only positive outcome is the pause to the slaughter in Gaza.

How Gazans See Their Future With or Without Hamas

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This article is authored by two Palestinian Israeli journalists working for the Israeli daily Haaretz. It is largely based on many interviews with Palestinians in Gaza. The authors provide a thoughtful, detailed, and convincing account of how Palestinians in the embattled territory see their future with or without Hamas. “Gazans describe an organization that still enjoys a chunk of support as it terrorizes the populace, provides services, and is not yet challenged by a Palestinian alternative,” they say.

The Trump-Netanyahu Gaza Plan

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This article offers an accurate assessment of the plan for Gaza announced by U.S. president Donald Trump on September 29, 2025, at the White House during a visit by Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who endorsed the cease-fire proposal. Hamas has yet to announce officially its stance on the proposed plan.

Israeli Ground Forces Attack Gaza City: ‘Here in Gaza, Even Silence Screams’

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What Israel calls the “evacuation of civilians” from Gaza City is unfolding under constant airstrikes, leaving those fleeing and those staying at risk. Entire families are killed, like the 23 members of the Zaqout family. Others, like the Samounis, already survivors of previous wars, are displaced again. Eyewitness accounts describe the destruction in real time, but even those say words are no longer enough to convey what is happening. In Gaza today, every person is a survivor, and every moment could be the last.

Zionism: ‘A Form of Racism’

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This article, first published on November 24, 1975, by Intercontinental Press, reported on the passage of a resolution by the United Nations General Assembly on November 10 of that year. Approved with a vote of 72 to 35, the resolution answered yes on the question of whether Zionism is a form of racism. Fifty years have passed since that document’s approval. The controversy it generated at the time, and the arguments for and against it, however, are quite relevant today.

‘After Seeing Gaza’s Starving Children, My Work as an Israeli Pediatrician Will Never Be the Same’

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This opinion column, authored by an Israeli pediatrician, is an important follow-up to “‘Starvation Is Everywhere’: Virtual Tours of Gaza Clinics Expose Scale of Horror,” which World-Outlook published on August 23. Through virtual tours of medical facilities in Gaza, the authors of that earlier story documented in harrowing detail the situation in which thousands of Palestinian children suffer from severe acute malnutrition as a result of deliberate Israeli government policy. In this follow-up, authored after the Israeli military bombed Gaza’s Nasser Hospital, where this photo was taken, Michal Feldon explains that “the disparity between the medicine I practice on a daily basis in this country [Israel], and what is happening in the Gaza Strip — just a few dozen kilometers from me — is totally insupportable and unacceptable.”

On Islamophobia and the Use of the Term ‘Jihad’

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World-Outlook (W-O) recently published the article “‘Jewish Jihad’ Has Seized Control of Israel.” It consisted of an introduction to a Haaretz article along with the Israeli daily’s story itself. Two World-Outlook readers expressed discomfort or outright disagreement with the “Jewish Jihad” term in the headline. In this Discussion with Our Readers column, W-O explains why it agreed with the criticism and changed the headline.

‘Starvation Is Everywhere’: Virtual Tours of Gaza Clinics Expose Scale of Horror

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Through virtual tours of medical facilities in Gaza, the authors of this article document in horrifying detail the situation in which thousands of children suffer from severe acute malnutrition. “What we saw was of catastrophic proportions,” they say. They provide evidence showing that this catastrophe is the direct result of deliberate Israeli government policy and practice.

Soon, Anything That Moves in Gaza City Will Be Killed

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In this opinion column, the Israeli daily Haaretz’s correspondent for the occupied territories, Amira Hass, describes frankly the coming slaughter the Israel Defense Forces are unleashing in Gaza City, as they start to force 1.5 million Palestinians crowded there to the Strip’s south — with the goal of eventually expelling from Gaza as many of its 2.3 million inhabitants as they can.

‘No to Forced Expulsion’: Palestinians in Gaza City Protest Israeli Displacement Plans

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This article reports on protests by Palestinians in Gaza City on August 18, 2025, against the Israeli army’s plan to take over their city and transfer the population southward. Until this point in the war, the 700,000 residents of Gaza City have not faced displacement, and it is now home to an additional half a million Palestinians displaced from Gaza’s north. Similar protests are expected the rest of this week, although intensified Israeli air strikes make their organization uncertain.

West Bank: Israeli Soldiers ‘Do Whatever They Want’

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In this article, Amira Hass — the Haaretz correspondent for the occupied territories — documents the intensifying violence by the Israel Armed Forces (IDF) against Palestinians in the West Bank. Combined with horrific attacks by right-wing settlers, the IDF assaults have resulted in the deaths of nearly 1,000 Palestinians, while injuring more than 7,000, over the last two years. Palestinians in the West Bank have also been effectively banned from cultivating their land.

‘Jews – Rebel. Now!!!’ Against the Israeli Regime

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This article reports on a call by Avraham “Avrum” Burg “for one million Jews worldwide to join a collective legal complaint at the International Court of Justice, accusing Israel of crimes against humanity in Gaza.” As it notes, “Burg, 70, served as Knesset speaker from 1999 to 2003 and previously headed the Jewish Agency and World Zionist Organization.” Burg’s own call is included in this post.

Extreme Right Has Seized Control of Israel

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This was the lead article in the Israeli daily Haaretz on August 7, 2025. In an expansive interview reported in this essay, Assaf David provides a glimpse of the destructive impact on Israeli society from Israel’s ongoing slaughter of Palestinians in Gaza. Through the accounts of many Gazans he is in direct contact with, David describes the Israeli-caused starvation epidemic in Gaza and calls for an immediate end to Israel’s onslaught. His account is more compelling given David’s biography. He grew up in a religious Zionist home in the urban settlement of Kiryat Arba, abutting Hebron, in the Israeli-occupied West Bank, later served in the Israeli army for 11 years, was seriously wounded in one of Hamas’ first suicide attacks, and for years was an adviser for the Israeli prime minister’s office.

‘I Spent Decades at Columbia. I’m Withdrawing My Fall Course Due to Its Deal with Trump’

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This is an open letter by Rashid Khalidi to the administration of Columbia University, where the renown Palestinian American historian served as the Edward Said Professor of Modern Arab Studies for 23 years. “Although I have retired, I was scheduled to teach a large lecture course on this topic in the fall as a ‘special lecturer’ but I cannot do so under the conditions Columbia has accepted by capitulating to the Trump administration in June,” Khalidi explains.

‘Gaza, Gaza, Food and Water! U.S. Israel Stop the Slaughter!’

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As part of an International Day of Action, more than 1,000 people rallied in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York City on July 25 to demand “Stop Starving Gaza Now!” The rally, and subsequent march through midtown Manhattan, was organized by the local chapter of the Palestinian Youth Movement, with the support of many partner organizations, such as Jewish Voice for Peace. This eyewitness photo montage provides a vivid representation of this protest, one among many, frequent pro-Palestinian actions in New York City over the last 20 months.

The Latest Child to Starve to Death in Gaza Weighed Less Than When She Was Born

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This report by the Associated Press, which includes disturbing eyewitness photo coverage, documents how Israel is deliberately starving children and adults alike in Gaza. It is part of the mounting evidence of the magnitude of the humanitarian catastrophe that Israel — with the aid and complicity of the U.S. and other imperialist governments — has unleashed in Gaza.

Genocide in Gaza

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This report “documents the Israeli assault for what it is: a deliberate, cumulative, and ongoing dismantling of Gaza’s healthcare system — and of the population’s ability to survive. Its meaning: genocide.” It was issued on July 28, 2025, by Physicians for Human Rights Israel (PHRI): an Israel-based human rights organization working to advance the right to health for all under Israel’s control, including Palestinians in the West Bank and Gaza.

Those Attacking Pro-Palestinian Student Protests Endanger Jews

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This article explains that, far from “protecting” Jewish students, those attacking pro-Palestinian student protests are the ones endangering Jews. Its author, Elijah Kahlenberg, is the president and founder of Atidna International, a university-based peace group uniting Jewish and Arab students. Kahlenberg, who is Jewish, graduated this spring from the University of Texas (UT) at Austin. Last year, he took part in UT student protests condemning Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza and demanding the school divest from entities that do business with Israel.

Author Adam Shatz on ‘The World since October 7’ (II)

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In this essay, author Adam Shatz raises important issues that deserve further discussion in light of the gruesome October 7, 2023, attack led by Hamas that targeted civilians in Israel, the genocidal war Israel unleashed in retaliation on the entire population of Gaza, and a new wave of violence by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Zionist settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. Shatz also examines political developments in the Mideast and beyond after the recent U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. He spells out the implications of last year’s Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which decimated the Iranian-backed Hezbollah and caused a substantial death toll among the broader civilian Lebanese population, and of the overthrow of the Assad dictatorship in Syria. This is the second of two parts.

Author Adam Shatz on ‘The World since October 7’ (I)

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In this essay, author Adam Shatz raises important issues that deserve further discussion in light of the gruesome October 7, 2023, attack led by Hamas that targeted civilians in Israel, the genocidal war Israel unleashed in retaliation on the entire population of Gaza, and a new wave of violence by the Israel Defense Forces (IDF) and Zionist settlers against Palestinians in the West Bank. Shatz also examines political developments in the Mideast and beyond after the recent U.S.-Israeli war on Iran. He spells out the implications of last year’s Israeli invasion of Lebanon, which decimated the Iranian-backed Hezbollah and caused a substantial death toll among the broader civilian Lebanese population, and of the overthrow of the Assad dictatorship in Syria. This is the first of two parts.

New Grim Plan by Israel’s Madmen: A Concentration Camp in Gaza

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This article documents the Israeli government’s recently unveiled plan to force 600,000 displaced Palestinians into a “humanitarian city” to be established on a strip of land where the city of Rafah, in southern Gaza, once stood. It aptly describes such a plan for what it really is: creating a concentration camp designed to crowd displaced Palestinians in a tiny area with the intention of eventually forcing them out of their destroyed homeland. “It’s forced displacement on pain of death or starvation, as a prelude to expulsion.”

‘I Know One When I See One’: Israel’s Genocide in Gaza

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“My inescapable conclusion has become that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinian people,” says Omer Bartov, a professor of Holocaust and genocide studies at Brown University, in this essay. Among other essential points, Bartov answers the grotesque claim by many vociferous supporters of the state of Israel that recognizing the reality of the horror in Gaza is “antisemitic.”

‘We Live and Die Together’: Gazans Protest with Photos of Israeli Children Killed by Hamas

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This article describes protests by supporters of the Gaza Youth Committee, a group of Palestinians in Gaza opposing the gruesome character of the October 7, 2023, Hamas-led attacks on Israel that killed about 1,200 Israelis, including children. The Gaza Youth Committee is collaborating with Standing Together, a peace organization of Jews and Palestinians in Israel promoting an end to the genocidal war by the Zionist state. These actions are a much-needed antidote to the brutality of Israel’s unrelenting war on the Palestinian people in Gaza and to the reactionary character of Hamas and its October 7 assault on Israel, which provided an opening to Israel’s right-wing government to launch the devastating war on Gaza.

‘Killing Field’: Israeli Commanders Order Troops to Deliberately Fire at Unarmed Gazans Seeking Aid

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This article, based on interviews with Israeli troops, is a devastating report on the deliberate killing of at least hundreds, and the injuring of many thousands, of Palestinians waiting to receive humanitarian aid in Gaza. According to soldiers and officers who spoke to the Israeli daily Haaretz, commanders instructed them to open fire on people seeking food at aid distribution points despite knowing they posed no threat.

In Graduation Speech, NYU Student Condemns U.S.-backed Israeli War in Gaza

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On May 14, Logan Rozos, a student at New York University (NYU), gave a brief but powerful speech during the graduation ceremony of Gallatin, a liberal arts school within NYU. In his remarks (transcribed by World-Outlook from the video of Rozos’ speech, and published in this post), the student condemned the U.S.-backed Israeli war on the Palestinian people in Gaza. NYU immediately announced it is withholding the student’s diploma as it pursues disciplinary actions against him, in the latest flashpoint between free speech principles and punishment for pro-Palestinian advocacy on U.S. college campuses.