- — What you need to know about Robert Kraft, the pro-Israel billionaire who pressured Ed Sheeran to drop Macklemore
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at 9/23/26 11:55amRobert Kraft got Macklemore ousted from Ed Sheeran's tour over "Free Palestine." A look at the NFL owner's record makes it clear why: funding the IDF, fighting BDS, courting Netanyahu, and bringing football legends on tours of Israel.- — America loves free speech, except when it comes to Palestine
- at 9/23/26 7:00amWhether it’s Macklemore, Hasan Piker, or your neighborhood activist, this is a fight to make sure billionaires and politicians cannot stop free speech and will have to hear the calls to “Free Palestine” whether they like it or not.
- — Always the Victim, Never the Bigot: the Zionist campaign against Abdul El-Sayed doubles down
- at 9/22/26 1:07pmA Michigan rabbis' 'nonnegotiable' petition demanding El-Sayed disown Hasan Piker reveals a harsh truth for El-Sayed: that no amount of pandering will satisfy critics who want anti-Zionism expelled from the Democratic party outright.
- — Israel just pardoned a soldier who executed a wounded Palestinian
- at 9/22/26 11:50amThe judge who sentenced Elor Azaria, the soldier who shot Abdel Fattah al-Sharif in 2016 as he lay unconscious on the ground, called him a “normal” person, because Azaria's genocidal views were never an aberration in Israeli society.
- — No body, no death certificate: the bureaucratic limbo trapping the widows of Gaza’s missing men
- at 9/21/26 2:28pmIn Gaza, women whose husbands are missing or buried under the rubble are facing a little-known crisis. Without death certificates for their husbands, they're locked out of bank accounts, aid, and custody rights, trapped in bureaucratic limbo amid genocide.
- — Inside Israel’s ‘soft’ ethnic cleansing plan for Gaza through the eyes of its victims
- at 9/21/26 7:01amThrough embassy evacuations, academic fellowships, and WHO medical corridors, Palestinians are leaving Gaza in small but steady numbers. Israeli officials call it "voluntary migration," but the Gazans forced to leave know it's part of Israel's plan.
- — Palestinians are responding to Israel’s stranglehold on the West Bank economy by forgiving each other’s debts en masse
- at 9/18/26 11:35amAs Israel's financial strangulation of the Palestinian economy enters its third year, Palestinians are turning to each other — forgiving debts worth millions of shekels in a viral solidarity campaign that began with a schoolteacher's bounced check.
- — Inside Gaza’s death trap of collapsing, bombed-out buildings
- at 9/18/26 10:53amWith more than 40,000 Palestinians sheltering in collapse-prone buildings and a “nightmare” winter approaching, Gaza’s Civil Defense warns of a preventable catastrophe unfolding in plain sight.
- — Ed Sheeran, Macklemore, and the music industry’s habit of choosing white feelings over Black and Brown lives
- at 9/17/26 10:44amHow Robert Kraft got Macklemore booted from Ed Sheeran's tour for saying "Free Palestine" — and why the backlash reveals the racial logic of "neutrality," from Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" to today's entertainment industry.
- — The new school year in Gaza begins in tents
- at 9/17/26 9:25amFor the fourth consecutive year, hundreds of thousands of Gaza’s children return not to classrooms, but to fabric shelters and makeshift wooden structures, holding onto traces of a school system Israel’s genocide has destroyed.
- — Inside a Palestinian family’s agonizing decision to abandon their home under threat of Israeli settler violence
- at 9/16/26 12:17pmFor three generations, Ali Abu Khdeir's family lived in the home his grandfather built in Deir Jarir until Israeli settlers made staying too dangerous. Now residents fear that their families are next.
- — Palestinian youth may soon get to vote for the first time. Few believe it actually matters.
- at 9/16/26 5:00amWith 64 percent of Palestinians under 30 and elections announced for November, a generation that has never voted is being asked to trust a political system that has failed them — before, during, and after the genocide in Gaza.
- — Israel merges two settler outposts near Jerusalem, furthering the fragmentation of the West Bank
- at 9/14/26 10:48amAnnounced days after UK and European sanctions on settlements, Israel’s expansion of Mishmar Yehuda folds an illegal outpost into a planned city between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, advancing Israel’s decades-old plan to cut the West Bank in half.
- — Norman Finkelstein’s latest book indicts those ‘in high places’ for genocide in Gaza
- at 9/13/26 7:31amA review of Norman Finkelstein's 'Gaza's Gravediggers,' which indicts not Israel's military, but the global officials and institutions, such as the UN, the ICJ, and the media, who enabled and legitimized the genocide.
- — Are the UK sanctions on Israel real progress, or more illusion?
- at 9/12/26 7:30amThe UK's new sanctions on Israeli settlements may be groundbreaking, but they're also full of loopholes. F-35 parts are exempt, the state itself is untouched, and enforcement won't start for months. Real progress, but far from enough.
- — Democrats are in a ‘death match’ with the Left over Israel. How will it impact the midterms?
- at 9/11/26 10:31amPolitical consultant Peter Feld breaks down the primaries, AIPAC’s losses (and wins), the attacks on Hasan Piker, and why a demoralized GOP and Democratic infighting could both shape the midterms in unexpected ways.
- — Democratic voters are clear: they want an arms embargo on Israel, not more rhetoric
- at 9/11/26 7:30amProgressive candidates won Democratic primaries by centering Palestine. Now, advocates warn that without a firm demand like an arms embargo, politicians can co-opt 'pro-Palestine' rhetoric without real accountability.
- — The U.S. government is going after a Michigan labor union over its Palestine activism
- at 9/10/26 11:26amThe U.S. government is criminalizing a campus labor union at the University of Michigan for supporting Palestine. We are calling on fellow labor organizers to resist this dangerous act of repression
- — Israel has cut off water to 47 Palestinian families in the northern West Bank
- at 9/10/26 7:36amSince Israel severed the water lines feeding Ras al-Ahmar over a month ago, its 47 farming families have been rationing what little they have and weighing whether to sell their livestock and leave.
- — The UK was right to sanction Israeli settlements. Now it must do more to protect Palestinians under occupation.
- at 9/9/26 11:08amIn a historic move, the UK banned trade with Israeli settlements – a major step towards accountability for Israeli crimes. But it's not enough while Palestinians face daily state violence, harsh movement restrictions, and are still denied access to basic healthcare.
- — Palestine Letter: Reporting our lives, not your ideology
- at 9/9/26 7:00amI didn't choose to make my identity political. But for Palestinian journalists, even naming our own grief and experiences gets branded as 'ideological'.
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