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  • Monthly Review Essays
  • Itamar Ben Gvir, Israel’s national security minister, during a news conference at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Israel, on, 05 February , 2024 [Kobi Wolf/Bloomberg via Getty Images]

    The impunity granted to Israel is as shocking as its violence

    Originally published: Middle East Monitor on August 18, 2026 by Ramona Wadi (more by Middle East Monitor)  | (Posted Aug 21, 2026)

    More incitement to violence from Israeli Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir exposes how colonial violence is aimed at the entire colonised population.

  • Google / Amazon

    Google and Amazon struck secret deal to shield Israel from legal scrutiny, leak reveals

    Originally published: Middle East Monitor on October 30, 2025 by Middle East Monitor Staff (more by Middle East Monitor)  | (Posted Nov 03, 2025)

    Google and Amazon agreed to secretly help Israel avoid international legal trouble, even if it meant possibly breaking laws in the U.S. or other countries, according to a bombshell investigation by +972 Magazine, Local Call, and The Guardian.

  • 11-year-old Musa al-Shaer lies on a hospital bed at Nasser Hospital on August 13, 2025 in Khan Yunis, Gaza, after being injured while going to collect food from humanitarian aid point in Rafah, southern Gaza. [Doaa Albaz – Anadolu Agency]

    Gaza’s daily wounded toll triples following aid centre openings: MSF reports

    Originally published: Middle East Monitor on August 18, 2025 by Middle East Monitor Staff (more by Middle East Monitor)  | (Posted Aug 20, 2025)

    The number of Palestinians wounded in the Gaza Strip has tripled daily since aid distribution centres run by the so-called “Gaza Humanitarian Foundation,” supported by Israel and the United States, began operations, Medical charity Doctors Without Borders (MSF) said on Sunday. Dr Mohammed Abu Mughaisib, MSF’s Deputy Medical Coordinator in Gaza, stated that the health […]

  • Josh Simmons, Senior Bureau Officer, Office of Legal Counsellor, United States Department of State makes statements as he attends the third day of the advisory opinion hearings on the illegality of Israel’s restrictions on the United Nations and its organisations at the International Court of Justice (ICJ) in The Hague, Netherlands on April 30, 2025. [Mouneb Taim – Anadolu Agency]

    U.S. backs Israel’s ban on UNRWA Gaza aid operations at ICJ

    Originally published: Middle East Monitor on April 30, 2025 (more by Middle East Monitor)  | (Posted May 02, 2025)

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

  • Activists attend a pro BDS march [Stephen Melkisethian:Flickr]

    War on BDS: How AIPAC-Israel agenda became U.S. priority

    Originally published: Middle East Monitor on January 17, 2019 (more by Middle East Monitor)  |

    The Israeli-U.S. war declared on the Palestinian boycott movement is coming to a head, culminating in a well-orchestrated effort aimed at suffocating any form of tangible protest of the ongoing Israeli colonization of Palestine.

Monthly Review Essays

  • Parallel Universes
    Andy Merrifield

    Anybody who’s ever leafed through Finnegans Wake will quickly recognize that we’re not dealing here with a standard novel, just as anybody leafing through Marx’s Capital will know we’re not dealing with standard economics.

Lost & Found

  • The Rise and Fall of the United Farm Workers
    Michael D. Yates Cesar Chavez (center) marches with United Farm Workers members in Redondo Beach, California, July 9, 1975.

    Chavez could not abide the idea, much less the reality, that the farm workers themselves could and should run the union.

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