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Israeli right-wing activists celebrate Jerusalem Day at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem’s Old City, May 14, 2026. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)

At Jerusalem’s Flag March, Ben Gvir’s Israel was on full display

On a rampage through the Old City, Jewish supremacists celebrated the occupation with racist chants — as settlers put their words into action.

By Oren Ziv and Charlotte Ritz-Jack

Palestinians visit the Phoenix Library in central Gaza City, April 29, 2026. (Phoenix Library)

Reviving Gaza’s cultural scene from beneath the rubble

After Israel destroyed the Strip’s literary and arts institutions, Palestinians are launching new initiatives to insist on a right to life.

By Ruwaida Amer

Doctors warn of shortage of hospital equipment, Khan Yunis, Gaza Strip, April 18, 2026. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

‘As doctors, we are effectively blinded’: Inside Gaza’s MRI crisis

With all machines destroyed or rendered useless by Israel's siege, we cannot diagnose our patients, forced instead to desperately triage.

By Jinin Rummaneh

The mosque in Dayr al-Shaykh, one of the last remaining structures in the destroyed Palestinian village, west of Jersualem, from "The Erasure of Palestine." (Ahmad Al-Bazz)

A Palestinian photographer’s ‘search for what remained’ from 1948

When journalist Ahmad Al-Bazz received an Israeli travel permit, he rushed to visit nearly 200 villages depopulated in the Nakba.

PODCAST: Remembering the Nakba of urban Palestine

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Remembering the Nakba of urban Palestine

Abed Abou Shhadeh traces how the catastrophe of 1948 unfolded in his home city of Jaffa — and what it means to resist erasure across generations.

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The People's Peace Summit in Tel Aviv, April 30, 2026. (Ofer Amram, Sal Productions)

The Israeli left is speaking only to itself

Another peace conference at a time of genocide and ethnic cleansing exposes this shrinking movement’s inability to influence our reality.

By Samah Watad May 8, 2026

The People's Peace Summit in Tel Aviv, April 30, 2026. (Ofer Amram, Sal Productions)

Something is shifting in Israel’s peace camp

At the ‘People’s Peace Summit’ in Tel Aviv, Israel’s embattled left showed signs of abandoning old formulas and embracing a politics of resistance.

By Meron Rapoport May 8, 2026

Hacham Salim in his greenhouse in the village of Jayyous, West Bank, April 7, 2026 (Timna Rose Peretz)

Israel’s war on the West Bank comes for Palestinian greenhouses

In Jayyous and neighboring villages, Palestinian farmers have been served dozens of new demolition orders intended to push them off their land.

By Meron Rapoport May 7, 2026

Israeli Border Police detain Palestinians who attempted to enter Israel illegally after hiding in a van at a checkpoint north of Jerusalem, March 30, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Palestinians out, foreign workers in: How Israel is remaking its labor force

Long a cornerstone of Israel’s low-wage economy, Palestinians from the West Bank and Gaza have been frozen out since October 7 — replaced by an influx of migrant workers in highly precarious conditions.

By Charlotte Ritz-Jack and Dana Mills May 6, 2026

A Palestinian child reads her schoolbook in front of newly erected barbed wire fence bearing Israeli flags, which Israeli settlers put up to block the passage of Palestinian teachers and students from their homes in the village of Umm Al-Khair to their school, Masafer Yatta, occupied West Bank, April 13, 2026. (Mosab Shawer/Activestills)

Despite global outrage, Israel is still blockading our children’s education

It’s been three weeks since settlers fenced off my students’ path to school, trying to show that Umm Al-Khair has no future. We refuse to let them win.

By Tariq Hathaleen May 5, 2026

Fakhri Abu Diab, beside the rubble of his house that the Jerusalem Municipality demolished in 2024, Al-Bustan, Silwan, occupied East Jerusalem. (Faiz Abu Rmeleh)

In East Jerusalem, ‘a whole Palestinian community is about to be expelled’

Israel is forcing out Al-Bustan’s 1,500 residents to build a biblical theme park. To avoid paying huge fines, families are demolishing their own homes.

By Shatha Yaish May 1, 2026

Alex Sinclair's kippah, returned to him by police after they cut out the Palestinian flag sewn into it. (Alex Sinclair)

Israel’s crackdown on the Palestinian flag veers into the surreal

A mutilated kippah and a confiscated Hungarian flag betray the deep sense of insecurity underlying Israel’s delusions of military grandeur.

By Amos Brison May 1, 2026

Hamas militants show force during the handing over of hostage bodies to the Red Cross in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, February 20, 2025. (Doaa Albaz/Activestills)

Gaza’s disarmament trap

Israel’s continued attacks and aid restrictions made a mockery of the ceasefire. Now it is conditioning withdrawal on Hamas giving up every last weapon.

By Muhammad Shehada April 29, 2026

Leandra Rollo seen behind a glass screen at the trial of the Palestine Action 'Ulm 5,' charged with breaking into Elbit's offices in southern Germany, at the Stannheim prison complex near Stuttgart, April 27, 2026. (Ignacio Rosaslanda)

‘Extraordinarily far-reaching’ Palestine Action trial gets underway in Germany

The ‘Ulm 5’ are facing prison time over a break-in at an Israeli weapons firm, in a case experts warn could set a precedent for criminalizing direct action.

By Hanno Hauenstein April 28, 2026

Abd Al Mannan Shbita speaks to Palestinian and Jewish Israeli activists, at the site of the former village of Miska, depopulated in the 1948 war, central Israel, April 22, 2026. (Iddo Elam, Zochrot)

Israel blocked the March of Return. Palestinians marked the Nakba anyway

After police prevented the main procession, families returned to depopulated villages across the country, keeping alive the memory of what was lost in 1948.

By Baker Zoubi April 28, 2026