Trump and Israel are demanding that Palestinians disarm. Here is why that is wrong and unjust.

by Mitchell Plitnick on August 7, 2026 at 8:03 pm

Demands that Hamas disarm follow decades of international calls for a “demilitarized Palestinian state.” These demands insist that Palestinians surrender their right to self-defense, a right no people should relinquish.

A campaign is underway to erase the Palestinian refugee question once and for all. Palestinians must resist.

by Sami Mshasha on August 7, 2026 at 7:36 pm

A bill in Congress aims to dismantle UNRWA, the UN agency for Palestinian refugees. It is part of a coordinated campaign to eliminate the possibility of justice for Palestinian refugees. Palestinians must resist before it’s too late.

‘Our grief has returned with the same intensity’: Gaza holds a mass funeral for the recovered remains of 112 family members

by Tareq S. Hajjaj on August 6, 2026 at 4:26 pm

Nearly three years after a November 2023 Israeli airstrike buried them in the rubble, Gaza families recovered 112 of their dead and laid them to rest, including a mother still embracing her three children.

Australia’s plan to adopt definitions of racism amounts to enforcing Zionism

by Alana Lentin on August 6, 2026 at 4:00 pm

In response to the Bondi Beach attack, there is a push in Australia to adopt definitions of racism, including antisemitism. We must reject this effort because its ultimate goal is to criminalize anti-Zionism and to further settler colonialism.

Internal Israeli dispute over who gets to dictate West Bank policy reveals a deeper rift in Israel’s security doctrine

by Qassam Muaddi on August 6, 2026 at 11:30 am

A dispute over the Israeli military command of the West Bank reveals a decades-old rift in Israel’s security doctrine over who controls settlement policy in the territory: the army or the settler movement.