Why we shouldn’t call colonial Israeli settlers ‘terrorists’

by Inès Abdel Razek on August 25, 2026 at 3:50 pm

We need to collectively rethink describing Israeli settlers as “terrorists.” The label was designed to serve imperial interests, and it implies that settler violence is an aberration, not a systemic part of Zionist settler colonialism.

Israel is exporting its West Bank land seizure model to colonize new territory in Syria, using 140 cattle to do it

by Hudda Mattar on August 25, 2026 at 2:34 pm

Israel’s use of so-called “shepherding outposts” to seize Palestinian land through settler herders is now being exported to Syria, as an Israeli settler, supported by the state, occupies Syrian pastureland in Wadi Toemm with a herd of 140 cattle.

How Israel’s efforts to expel UNRWA from Jerusalem and crack down on West Bank refugee camps are connected

by Qassam Muaddi on August 24, 2026 at 4:00 pm

As Israeli forces move to take over remaining UNRWA facilities in Jerusalem, residents of Qalandia and Shufaat refugee camps fear the assault on the UN agency is linked to the ongoing Israeli military crackdown on the camps.

Israel just took another major step towards West Bank annexation

by Qassam Muaddi on August 24, 2026 at 1:00 pm

As settlers besiege Palestinian families in Qusra, Israel’s government responds by handing settlement security to the police of hardline minister Ben-Gvir- a move seen to further entrench Israeli annexation of the West Bank.

The real reason Netanyahu added Mamdani to his ‘enemies list’

by Mitchell Plitnick on August 23, 2026 at 1:00 pm

Netanyahu’s campaign billboard lumps Zohran Mamdani with Iran and Hezbollah as an “enemy”, an admission that he’s losing America, and that no successor will fix Israel’s underlying apartheid problem.