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Amid an alleged ceasefire, Israel continues massacring Palestinians and stealing land in Gaza. The ongoing violence is not accidental: it is a political necessity for any Israeli government in power.

The incident was promoted by the Israeli media, and later by Western mainstream media outlets, as a fatal Palestinian attack against Israeli hikers, which triggered widespread calls for reprisal. Israel’s National Security Minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, said that “the cities and villages of [Palestinian] murderers in the West Bank must be treated like Beit Hanoun,” referring to the north Gaza town that the Israeli army completely leveled during the genocidal assault on the Strip. Ben-Gvir also said that “for every Jew killed, the enemy must lose houses and land.”

The chief feeling of the essay is aggrievement. Lemann, an old friend of mine and an accomplished historian and journalist, says that his Jewish identity is about to be “orphaned” because Israel has become a fixation for antisemitic zealots and their progressive friends—“ubiquitous conspiratorial and obsessively anti-Israel demagogues with mass followings.”

Among the most harrowing incidents was a leaked video of five Israeli officers gang raping a Palestinian detainee in Sde Teiman prison. An Israeli court not only acquitted the officers, but Israeli society celebrated them as heroes and protested their trial in infamous “right-to-rape” rallies. Still, when American journalist Nicholas Kristof published his opinion essay bemoaning impunity for the systematic sexual abuse of Palestinians in Israeli captivity in The New York Times, he insisted that there was “no evidence that Israeli leaders order rapes.” (The Israeli government threatened to sue the paper of record for blood libel nonetheless.)

Judith Miller’s New York Times lost its legitimacy decades ago when they helped lie us into the Iraq War. Anyone with an attention span longer than 30 seconds should remember that.

The encampment was modeling a community of differences, which was beautiful to see. There was a Passover Seder that was celebrated right in that space. There were a lot of Jewish kids who, for reasons of their commitment to Judaism, were there. And there were a lot of Muslim kids who, for reasons of their commitments to Islam or whatever, were there. And everybody was kind of beautifully melding with each other, protecting each other from the outside world, because there were threats.

This past weekend, I read an most extraordinary book, Adam H. Johnson’s *How to Sell a Genocide*. You will definitely want to read it, since much of it is about the *New York Times*. Johnson makes an astonishing case for prosecuting many of your reporters, editors, and managers for the crimes of inciting and maintaining Israel’s genocide in Gaza. As you know, the legal prosecution of genocide is not limited to investigations of the military or police. As we saw with the Holocaust and Rwanda, genocide prosecutors have also typically investigated the role that media groups play in generating violence. Johnson details the role you have played—and continue to play—in producing American consent for the ongoing US-Israeli assault on the Palestinian people. I hope that Johnson’s study will become part of a legal case at the Hague, where perhaps you and your colleagues will receive a fair trial.

June 19, 2026

June 19, 2026

And she weaves this enormous mass of information together, and outlines revealing patterns. For instance, she zeroes in on clear bias in the language that the mainstream used to describe deaths, right from the beginning. She points out that the New York Times from October 7, 2023 to November 24 “used the word ‘massacre’ fifty-three times when it referred to Israelis being killed by Palestinians but only once to refer to Palestinians being killed by Israel.” This linguistic dishonesty had immediate consequences. Andersen cites a U.S. opinion poll from March 2024: “At a time when the official death toll in Gaza stood at 32,000 Palestinians, compared with 1,200 Israeli killed, ‘half of Americans do not know which side has had a higher death toll.’”

Ahead of the Eid al-Adha holiday, many in Gaza continue to face displacement, destruction, and uncertainty, and are struggling to secure necessities while trying to preserve fragments of celebration for their families.

After failing to dismantle Hamas, destroy Hezbollah, topple the Iranian government, or redraw the Middle East, Netanyahu and his allies have only one thing left to show for their time in power: the de facto annexation of the West Bank.

After failing to dismantle Hamas, destroy Hezbollah, topple the Iranian government, or redraw the Middle East, Netanyahu and his allies have only one thing left to show for their time in power: the de facto annexation of the West Bank.

After failing to dismantle Hamas, destroy Hezbollah, topple the Iranian government, or redraw the Middle East, Netanyahu and his allies have only one thing left to show for their time in power: the de facto annexation of the West Bank.

In a historic vote, 75% of Senate Democrats backed an effort to block weapons to Israel. The resolutions failed, but the vote was the latest sign of Democrats’ growing consensus against aid to Israel, as support for the country hits an all-time low.

The entire Israeli political spectrum is united in blasting Netanyahu for not continuing to attack Iran, and Israeli society agrees. The reason, to put it simply, is that Israelis are war junkies.

An 18-month-old toddler in Gaza was returned by the Israeli army to his family with burn marks and puncture wounds on his legs. Doctors say the wounds are clearly the result of torture while the child was detained with his father.

He said that the Israelis officials were able to push a war “agenda” on Trump by bypassing American intelligence with their own “narrative” of Iran getting a bomb soon. “The Israelis came in, they moved [the] red line,” Kent said. The Israelis argued that “enrichment is going to get them a bomb in a certain amount of time” and rightwing talking heads on TV then echoed the Israeli line.

As an immigration judge orders her release for the third time, Leqaa Kordia’s team is moving quickly to release her before DHS imposes another stay. The Palestine activist is the last Columbia student protester to remain in ICE detention.

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On February 13, Agnes Callamard, the Secretary General of Amnesty International, issued a public statement condemning the five European foreign ministers who had called for Albanese’s head based on “a deliberately truncated video to misrepresent and gravely misconstrue her messages.” Callamard then contrasted the vehemence of these ministers’ attacks on Albanese with their sotto voce approach to the Israeli genocide in Gaza:

The nights of January 8-9, 2026, saw Iran go up in a coordinated blaze after two weeks of protests. I, and many other Iranians, witnessed the breakdown in public order during those days, and the influence of outside forces instigating the explosion.

Birzeit University is no longer what it once was. The transformation has been gradual and, therefore, easily rationalized, but the result has been the hollowing out of a university that once led the Palestinian struggle.

Liberal institutions are designed to recognize the violence that structures Palestinian life without destabilizing the systems that produce it. Within liberal systems, the genocide in Gaza can be acknowledged—catalogued, footnoted, condemned. What remains far harder to absorb are Palestinian claims that require undoing Israeli settler colonialism itself.