Is Biden Shifting His Stance on Israel? Is It Too Late?
President Joe Biden meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Tel Aviv, Israel, on October 18, 2023. Miriam Alster/AP Editor’s note: The below article first appeared in David Corn’s newsletter, Our Land. The newsletter comes out twice a week (most of the time) and provides behind-the-scenes stories and articles about politics, media, and culture. Subscribing costs just…
Black Activists Began Traveling to Palestine in the 1960s. They Never Stopped.
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.As a teenager, Rachel Gilmer, a Black and Jewish activist, was recruited to join Young Judaea, a Zionist nonprofit for Jewish youth. “They were offering scholarships to go to summer camp and I’m one of six siblings, so my…
The Staggering Carbon Footprint of Israel’s War in Gaza
November 26, 2023, Gaza City.Omar Ashtawy/ZUMA This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The planet-warming emissions generated during the first two months of the war in Gaza were greater than the annual carbon footprint of more than 20 of the world’s most climate-vulnerable nations, new research reveals. The vast…
As It Formally Accuses Israel of Genocide, South Africa Condemns Netanyahu’s Amalek Reference
Avi Ohayon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Lawyers representing South Africa on Thursday said that Israeli soldiers interpreted a biblical reference made by Benjamin Netanyahu during a November speech to troops as a justification to kill Palestinians. The claim, which specifically called out Netanyahu’s…
“Hell Again”: An Audiodiary of Life Under Israeli Bombardment
Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.In the wake of the October 7 Hamas attack that claimed 1,200 lives, Israel has struck Gaza relentlessly. In the first six days of the war, Israel dropped 6,000 bombs, more than the United States dropped in Afghanistan in…
Piecing Together the Evidence: Open-Source Intelligence in Israel’s Gaza War
Mother Jones; Getty; Photo courtesy of Elliot Higgins Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters.Open one social media platform and you’re hit with a fake video; open another and you’re hit with bigotry. Open a news article, and you’ll find some victims “killed” but others “dying.” Each account of events in Israel…