Geography Archives: Middle East

Israel announced the initial phase of “Gideon’s chariots,” the expanded ground invasion to permanently “conquer” Gaza, amid reports that Trump reneged on his deal with Hamas to lift the blockade, and will reportedly expel 1 million Gazans to Libya.

The Israeli military’s targeting of rescue teams and paramedics during efforts to evacuate the wounded and extract survivors trapped under rubble in Khan Younis, southern Gaza, constitutes a compound war crime.

Following the broadcast of the Round Table on Friday, May 9, dedicated to the 18th Conference Against Homophobia and Transphobia, the Miami press took excerpts from the program and began a campaign to manipulate its content.

Since the earliest days of the post–October 7 U.S./Israeli genocide in Gaza, corporate media outlets have claimed that Hamas uses Palestinian civilians as human shields.

Israel is targeting Palestinians’ slim means of accessing food, bombing two makeshift kitchens and UNRWA’s distribution center in Jabalia in the past few days.

The pro-Palestine movement has never been more prominent in the West, but Western governments and corporations are still committed to the success of the Zionist project.

A former U.S. secretary of state boasted, “Israel is the largest American aircraft carrier in the world that cannot be sunk”. Journalist Ben Norton and economist Michael Hudson discuss why the United States so strongly supports Israel.

Last night Trump conceded that the campaign was lost. He order the U.S. fleet to retreat.

Once and for all, we can lay to rest any notion that the Biden administration ever did anything to stop the Gaza genocide.

Zionists are losing control of the narrative, and they know it. And they are not taking it well.

Billionaire heiress Shari Redstone has regularly tried to interfere with news coverage of Israel’s war on Gaza on one of America’s leading TV networks.

Israel last year passed a law that banned UNRWA from operating in the country.

We keep hearing that Israel’s genocide in Gaza is “AI-powered.” Many pundits warn that this marks a new era in warfare, the first time that “automated” war has been waged. Foreign Policy declares that “AI Decides Who Lives and Dies.” Vox reports that “AI tells Israel who to bomb.” The Washington Post claims “Israel offers […]

Challenges to Zionism in the late 1960s and 1970s sparked an effort to redefine antisemitism focused on defending Israel while attacking the political Left. This resulted in the IHRA definition and the assault on Palestine activism we see today.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu announced on March 2 that “Israel has decided to stop letting goods and supplies into Gaza,” where the ongoing Israeli genocide, with the loyal backing of the United States, has officially killed more than 51,000 Palestinians since October 2023.

Gaza has exposed the West’s ‘human rights’ as a colonial farce. Now, the world is experiencing a descent into imperial barbarism, and only collective resistance can build a future beyond fascism.

The story is co-reported with my Breaking Points colleague Saagar Enjeti. We’ll be covering it on the program Monday morning.

On April 17, U.S. airstrikes on Yemen killed 74 people and injured 171 in a dangerous escalation of U.S. President Donald Trump’s war against the poorest country in the Middle East.

Pope Francis telephoned a church in Gaza nearly every night since October 2023. But the New York Times didn’t include that fact in its obituary.

UNRWA warned that the humanitarian situation in Gaza has deteriorated significantly, describing it as likely the worst it has been since the outbreak of the brutal Israeli military campaign in October 2023.