https://mondoweiss.net Shifting the Narrative toward Liberation | Palestine, Israel & the United States Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:44:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://mondoweiss.net/wp-content/uploads/2020/04/cropped-mw-m-square-xlg-32x32.png https://mondoweiss.net 32 32 54770680 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-music-industrys-habit-of-choosing-white-feelings-over-black-and-brown-lives/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-music-industrys-habit-of-choosing-white-feelings-over-black-and-brown-lives/#comments Thu, 17 Sep 2026 16:44:32 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=328657 How Robert Kraft got Macklemore booted from Ed Sheeran's tour for saying "Free Palestine" — and why the backlash reveals the racial logic of "neutrality," from Billie Holiday's "Strange Fruit" to today's entertainment industry.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/ed-sheeran-macklemore-and-the-music-industrys-habit-of-choosing-white-feelings-over-black-and-brown-lives/feed/ 3 328657 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/the-new-school-year-in-gaza-begins-in-tents/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/the-new-school-year-in-gaza-begins-in-tents/#respond Thu, 17 Sep 2026 15:25:23 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=328643 For the fourth consecutive year, hundreds of thousands of Gaza’s children return not to classrooms, but to fabric shelters and makeshift wooden structures, holding onto traces of a school system Israel’s genocide has destroyed.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/the-new-school-year-in-gaza-begins-in-tents/feed/ 0 328643 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/inside-a-palestinian-familys-agonizing-decision-to-abandon-their-home-under-threat-of-israeli-settler-violence/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/inside-a-palestinian-familys-agonizing-decision-to-abandon-their-home-under-threat-of-israeli-settler-violence/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2026 18:17:37 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=328553 For three generations, Ali Abu Khdeir's family lived in the home his grandfather built in Deir Jarir until Israeli settlers made staying too dangerous. Now residents fear that their families are next.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/inside-a-palestinian-familys-agonizing-decision-to-abandon-their-home-under-threat-of-israeli-settler-violence/feed/ 2 328553 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/palestinian-youth-may-soon-get-to-vote-for-the-first-time-few-believe-it-actually-matters/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/palestinian-youth-may-soon-get-to-vote-for-the-first-time-few-believe-it-actually-matters/#comments Wed, 16 Sep 2026 11:00:00 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=328625 With 64 percent of Palestinians under 30 and elections announced for November, a generation that has never voted is being asked to trust a political system that has failed them — before, during, and after the genocide in Gaza.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/palestinian-youth-may-soon-get-to-vote-for-the-first-time-few-believe-it-actually-matters/feed/ 3 328625 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/israel-merges-two-settler-outposts-near-jerusalem-furthering-the-fragmentation-of-the-west-bank/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/israel-merges-two-settler-outposts-near-jerusalem-furthering-the-fragmentation-of-the-west-bank/#comments Mon, 14 Sep 2026 16:48:00 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=328591 Announced days after UK and European sanctions on settlements, Israel’s expansion of Mishmar Yehuda folds an illegal outpost into a planned city between Jerusalem and Bethlehem, advancing Israel’s decades-old plan to cut the West Bank in half.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/israel-merges-two-settler-outposts-near-jerusalem-furthering-the-fragmentation-of-the-west-bank/feed/ 3 328591 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/norman-finkelsteins-latest-book-indicts-those-in-high-places-for-genocide-in-gaza/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/norman-finkelsteins-latest-book-indicts-those-in-high-places-for-genocide-in-gaza/#comments Sun, 13 Sep 2026 13:31:00 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=328564 A review of Norman Finkelstein's 'Gaza's Gravediggers,' which indicts not Israel's military, but the global officials and institutions, such as the UN, the ICJ, and the media, who enabled and legitimized the genocide.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/norman-finkelsteins-latest-book-indicts-those-in-high-places-for-genocide-in-gaza/feed/ 15 328564 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/are-the-uk-sanctions-on-israel-real-progress-or-more-illusion/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/are-the-uk-sanctions-on-israel-real-progress-or-more-illusion/#comments Sat, 12 Sep 2026 13:30:00 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=328563 The UK's new sanctions on Israeli settlements may be groundbreaking, but they're also full of loopholes. F-35 parts are exempt, the state itself is untouched, and enforcement won't start for months. Real progress, but far from enough.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/are-the-uk-sanctions-on-israel-real-progress-or-more-illusion/feed/ 7 328563 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/democrats-are-in-a-death-match-with-the-left-over-israel-how-will-it-impact-the-midterms/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/democrats-are-in-a-death-match-with-the-left-over-israel-how-will-it-impact-the-midterms/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2026 16:31:52 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=328546 Political consultant Peter Feld breaks down the primaries, AIPAC’s losses (and wins), the attacks on Hasan Piker, and why a demoralized GOP and Democratic infighting could both shape the midterms in unexpected ways.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/democrats-are-in-a-death-match-with-the-left-over-israel-how-will-it-impact-the-midterms/feed/ 4 328546 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/democratic-voters-are-clear-they-want-an-arms-embargo-on-israel-not-more-rhetoric/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/democratic-voters-are-clear-they-want-an-arms-embargo-on-israel-not-more-rhetoric/#comments Fri, 11 Sep 2026 13:30:00 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=328062 Progressive candidates won Democratic primaries by centering Palestine. Now, advocates warn that without a firm demand like an arms embargo, politicians can co-opt 'pro-Palestine' rhetoric without real accountability.]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/democratic-voters-are-clear-they-want-an-arms-embargo-on-israel-not-more-rhetoric/feed/ 3 328062 https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/the-u-s-government-is-going-after-a-michigan-labor-union-over-its-palestine-activism/ https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/the-u-s-government-is-going-after-a-michigan-labor-union-over-its-palestine-activism/#comments Thu, 10 Sep 2026 17:26:59 +0000 https://mondoweiss.net/?p=328527 The U.S. government is criminalizing a campus labor union at the University of Michigan for supporting Palestine. We are calling on fellow labor organizers to resist this dangerous act of repression ]]> https://mondoweiss.net/2026/09/the-u-s-government-is-going-after-a-michigan-labor-union-over-its-palestine-activism/feed/ 1 328527