After years of denial, the IDF opened criminal probes into the killing of Hind Rajab and 15 Gaza medics. Its own institutional track record — clearances in the World Central Kitchen and MSF cases, no charges after Shireen Abu Akleh — tells you what these investigations are designed to produce.
Israel has opened formal construction tenders for the E1 corridor, the project that would permanently divide the West Bank in two. Decades of international condemnation have produced no enforcement — and that is not a diplomatic failure. It is the intended outcome.
The split between Hakeem Jeffries and Katherine Clark on the Massie Israel aid amendment is the news. The bigger story is that House Democratic leadership no longer has the institutional capacity to hold a coherent position on Israel — and has no policy alternative to offer.
Netanyahu's warnings about Turkish aggression are timed to a political moment that demands an external enemy. The gap between the rhetoric and the actual threat calculus reveals how threat inflation has become the policy itself.
Dr. Hussam Abu Safiya's lawyer visited him in Israeli detention last week and could not recognize him. The abuse alleged is prohibited under international law. The system that permits it to continue has been built with U.S. complicity.
A water refilling station serving thousands of displaced families in Gaza City was bombed Monday, killing workers and forcing humanitarian groups to suspend operations. Nearly 90% of Gaza's water infrastructure has been destroyed — and the legal framework that prohibits targeting civilian survival s
A Brooklyn coffee shop banned a pro-Israel congressman and faced a DOJ investigation within days. The legal theory is thin. The chilling effect is the point.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen says Democrats' Israel-Palestine strategy has failed — a public admission from a party insider that is more damning than it first appears. The real question is whether the party mistakes a political reckoning for a moral one.
Itamar Ben-Gvir filmed himself taunting handcuffed Gaza flotilla activists at an Israeli port. France and Italy condemned it. Neither has suspended arms transfers to the government he serves.
A DNC resolution to reject AIPAC funding forces Democratic leaders to choose between a powerful donor network and a base that increasingly views the pro-Israel lobby as toxic to progressive values.
Israeli strikes killed 13 Palestinians, including a pregnant woman and two children, as more than 20,000 patients await medical evacuation through a border crossing that will only partially reopen.
AIPAC is spending $13.7 million through shell Super PACs in Chicago primaries, never mentioning Israel once. It's the first test of whether pro-Israel money can still buy elections after a year of Gaza protests.