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THE TORTURE REGIME
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Book Review: AIPAC on steroids
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The pro-Israel lobby has swayed US presidents since Truman. It must end with Trump
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Opinion | The Grim Lessons of Israel’s War in Gaza
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Call Your Senators: Oppose Expansion of U.S.-Israel Military Ties in the NDAA
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Israel continues to commit genocide by targeting children in Gaza, UN inquiry finds
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Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power
By Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick An unflinching exposé of Israel’s Lobby, showing how its outsized influence works against our national interests and threatens our freedom. The greatest story in geopolitics and in American domestic affairs is how the far-right government of a small Middle Eastern country came to hold a controlling interest in United…
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The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine
By Ben Ehrenreich The author, Ben Ehrenreich introduces readers to his book “The Way to the Spring: Life and Death in Palestine” with this sharp observation: “The world is made not only of earth and flesh and fire, but of the stories that we tell”. With these comments Ehrenreich makes his intentions clear that through…
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Recognizing the Stranger: On Palestine & Narrative
By Isabella Hammad “Extraordinary and amazingly erudite. Hammad shows how art and especially literature can be much, much more revealing than political writing.” – Rashid Khalidi, New York Times bestselling author of The Hundred Years’ War on Palestine From the award-winning author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost comes an outstanding essay on the Palestinian…
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IF I MUST DIE
by REFAAT ALAREER This rich, elegiac compilation of work from the late Palestinian poet and professor, Refaat Alareer, brings together his marvelous poetry and deeply human writing about literature, teaching, politics, and family. If I must dieby Refaat Alareer (1979 – 2023) If I must die, you must live to tell my story to sell…
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Palestine
by Joe Sacco Joe Sacco’s breakthrough work of graphic journalism — a now-established genre almost single handedly invented by Sacco — won the American Book Award upon its initial release in 1996, and has remained a perennial, essential work for understanding the Palestinian Israeli conflict in the Middle East. This new hardcover edition includes a…
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Memory for Forgetfulness
August, Beirut, 1982 by Mahmoud Darwish One of the Arab world’s greatest poets uses the 1982 Israeli invasion of Lebanon and the shelling of Beirut as the setting for this sequence of prose poems. Mahmoud Darwish vividly recreates the sights and sounds of a city under terrible siege. As fighter jets scream overhead, he explores…
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THE TORTURE REGIME
How Israeli prisons went from centers of Palestinian resistance to machines of Palestinian death
The realities of Israeli prisons are, indeed, increasingly the stuff of nightmares. In March 2025, 17-year-old Walid Khaled Ahmed from the West Bank town of Silwad collapsed while walking in the Megiddo prison yard, hit his head on a railing, and died—the first Palestinian teenager to die in an Israeli prison since the 1967 occupation of the West Bank. Fellow child prisoners pleaded for guards to intervene, but no one came. Only after the children carried Walid’s frail body—he had been suffering from scabies and amoebic dysentery—to the yard’s gate did the prison authorities wheel him away on a gurney. An Israeli court probe into his death later revealed that Walid was “likely starved.” The Israeli surgeon who attended the autopsy on behalf of Ahmed’s family, and who is accustomed to operating on late-stage cancer patients and treating extreme anorexia, struggled to reach for a comparison that conveyed the state of the body before him. “The only thing that comes close to that,” he recalled on an episode of This American Life, “in my opinion, is really those pictures of the Holocaust.” (A spokesperson for the Israel Prison Service, when presented with the allegations in this piece, described them as “entirely without factual basis” and claimed that all detainees “are held in accordance of the law, with full regard for their basic rights,” and that the agency “rejects attempts to portray systematic abuse or unlawful conduct by its personnel.”)
https://jewishcurrents.org/the-torture-regime
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“American Doctor” Is an Indictment of US Leadership and Media
In a new documentary on Gaza, three humanitarian physicians from the United States navigate the horrors of genocide as they struggle to treat civilians in a buckling, under-resourced hospital in Khan Younis.
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Book Review: AIPAC on steroids
Eli Clifton and Ian Lustick’s book, “Israel’s Lobby: America in the Grip of a Foreign Power,” offers a powerful critique of how the Israel Lobby subverts democracy at home and ensures US support for Israeli aggression, apartheid, and genocide abroad.
Clifton and Lustick do not mince their words: “Israel’s Lobby has become an out-of-control foreign influence operation, largely unrecognized as such, that channels some of the most extreme impulses of contemporary Israeli politics into the offices, corridors, and counsels of American leaders, imperiling both the lives and interests of their constituents and of the United States as whole.”
https://mondoweiss.net/2026/08/book-review-aipac-on-steroids/
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The pro-Israel lobby has swayed US presidents since Truman. It must end with Trump
Our new book tracks the growth over nearly eight decades, of the most powerful foreign policy lobby in US history
“The experience of these administrations demonstrates the wisdom and extraordinary insight of America’s first president, George Washington. In his Farewell Address, Washington warned that the American system of government could all too easily be exploited by a group with a “passionate attachment” to a foreign country. In a system designed to rely on the mobilization of countervailing power to limit the effects of factions driven by self-interest or very particular points of view, Washington argued that since any faction committed to the interests of another country would not naturally find its influence checked by effective domestic opposition, it would therefore drive the United States into exaggerated and dangerous commitments abroad and implicate it in quarrels and wars contrary to the country’s interests.”
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Opinion | The Grim Lessons of Israel’s War in Gaza
I’m a Scholar of Genocide. We’re Entering a Terrifying New Era.
For now, Israel’s impunity will enable its Jewish citizens to continue to ignore the genocide, the consequences of which will be a deepening degradation of Israeli ethics and morality, erosion of the rule of law, internal police violence against the state’s Palestinian and Jewish citizens and the undermining of whatever is left of Israeli democracy. Beyond being deprived of any justice and accountability for their suffering, the Gazan victims of Israeli actions will continue to live in dire conditions, under military supervision and with very limited future prospects.
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