How Congress manipulates its own rules to make sure Israel still gets its weapons

by Mitchell Plitnick on July 4, 2026 at 1:30 pm

This week offered a clear example of how elected officials in Washington, D.C., bend their own rules to keep weapons flowing to Israel. Political results outside Washington this week also showed us why this may soon change.

A new ‘strategic’ plan being pushed by the Israeli settler movement would establish 100 outposts in the heart of Palestinian cities

by Qassam Muaddi on July 3, 2026 at 3:33 pm

The Israeli settler movement and its allies in the government have submitted a plan to build 100 new outposts in Palestinian-controlled areas of the West Bank. The move would effectively eliminate the Oslo Accords.

When the story breaks the journalist

by Tareq S. Hajjaj on July 3, 2026 at 1:48 pm

I am a journalist from Gaza, and I have documented loss so relentlessly that I have wondered where all that grief goes. I now know it never disappears. It might feel gone, but then one story comes along and unlocks everything that came before it.

Israel’s seizure of Palestinian church land raises renewed fears of efforts to erase Christians from Jerusalem

by Majd Jawad on July 2, 2026 at 4:17 pm

Israel is seizing church and Palestinian land in Jerusalem’s Silwan neighborhood under the pretext of creating “green spaces.” A Muslim caretaker of the church property has made it his daily mission to guard what’s left.

Will the Iran War hurt J.D. Vance’s presidential hopes?

by Michael Arria on July 2, 2026 at 2:37 pm

Vice President J.D. Vance has long been considered the leading contender for the 2028 Republican nomination, but will his role in the Trump administration’s unpopular war against Iran hurt his chances? Conservatives are divided.