On Monday, Israel’s parliament will vote on expelling left-wing legislator Ayman Odeh because he criticized the occupation. The far-right government and even parts of the centrist opposition are crushing what’s left of Israeli democracy.
A little over two years ago, the student movement for Palestine transformed American college campuses seemingly overnight. But the passion and energy that built those encampments wasn’t enough to sustain the fight.
Despite the inherent contradiction between liberalism and extreme ethnic nationalism, many people still refer to themselves as “liberal Zionists.” But when liberal principles come under attack by Israel, they’re nowhere to be found.
Israel is arresting more Palestinian children than ever before — and it’s not even bothering to charge many of them with crimes.
After bitterly attacking Joe Biden’s foreign policy as incompetent, chaotic, and likely to leave the Middle East in flames, Donald Trump has continued everything that made Biden’s final year so disastrous — only dumber and more violent.
Over 30 delegates from across the Global South convened in Bogotá, Colombia, this week to challenge Israeli impunity. Member states such as Colombia and South Africa ratified resolutions to ban weapons transfers and renew legal action to stop the genocide.
In the name of defending intellectual diversity and protecting Jews, Indiana University is investigating a Jewish professor over his criticism of Israel. It’s exactly what critics of the state’s newly passed SEA 202 law feared would happen.
In her address to the Bogotá Conference earlier this week, UN special rapporteur for the occupied Palestinian territories Francesca Albanese explained why the world’s nations must suspend all ties with Israel. Jacobin republishes her remarks here.
Today marks 15 years since the overthrow of Tunisian dictator Ben Ali, one of the high points of the Arab Spring. The events of 2011 gave rise to an impressive wave of revolutions. Almost all were bloodily suppressed.
Zohran Mamdani’s win wasn’t the only race last week or even in the past few years where pro-Israel money and arguments failed. The Israel lobby’s power rests on appearing more fearsome than it actually is.
Seth Harp’s best-selling The Fort Bragg Cartel exposes the degree to which America’s drug trade and attendant violent crime are connected to its foreign wars. It’s a timely read as Donald Trump uses both to justify radical new expansions of military power.
We are bumbling toward an AI-enabled, nuclear-curious World War III. A new book urges us to get over antiwar protest burnout and cynicism and to rebuild the long-dormant Cold War movement to ban the bomb.
Centrist Democrats claim to be the bearers of hard facts, dismissing leftist dissent as emotional and naive. But their “facts” are often a mishmash of consultant data, selectively interpreted focus groups, and big donor priorities.
German reporting on the Middle East has long been criticized as one-sided. Our exclusive analysis of 5,000 headlines from leading German media outlets since October 7 shows the bias is even worse than suspected.
One year ago, Hamas killed hundreds of Israeli civilians. Israel has since killed tens of thousands of Palestinian civilians, justifying it as righteous revenge. The only way out of the entire region spiraling into war is to slam the brakes on retribution.
Who’s to blame for the failure to bring Israeli hostages home safe? Israeli officials have been telling us for months it’s Benjamin Netanyahu.
Benjamin Netanyahu owes his political fortunes to the support of the far-right Jewish Power and Religious Zionist parties. Both vehemently oppose the cease-fire and insist that Israel continue its war once the hostages are free.
In France, the left-wing parties have allied in a Nouveau Front Populaire, challenging both Emmanuel Macron and Marine Le Pen. France Insoumise MP Clémence Guetté told Jacobin about its potential path to victory.
Lost in the triumphalism over Jamaal Bowman’s loss is that AIPAC has had to drastically narrow its ambitions, targeting those critics of Israel who are already most vulnerable to electoral defeat in order to inflate its strength.
It’s five years since Jeremy Corbyn resigned as leader of Britain’s Labour Party. In an interview, his former adviser Andrew Murray explains what went wrong for the left-wing leader.