BDS, Palestine & Zionism

Ever since Tel Aviv’s 1948 creation, much has been said and written about ‘Greater Israel’ – the notion Zionism’s ultimate end goal is the forcible annexation and ethnic cleansing of vast swaths of Arab lands for Jewish settlement, based on Biblical claims that this territory was promised to Jews by God. The media typically dismisses this concept as an antisemitic conspiracy theory or, at most, the fringe fantasy of a minuscule handful of Israelis. In reality, as The Guardian admitted in 2009, the idea of a Greater Israel has long appealed to “religious and secular right-wing nationalists” alike in Tel Aviv.

As survivors in Gaza begin to return to their homes during the first ceasefire in over a year, we speak to Sharif Abdel Kouddous of Drop Site News about the future of those who have been displaced. As Palestinians are “returning to a devastated landscape … determined not to leave their land” in defiance of “plans of ethnic cleansing that have dated back to the 1950s for Israel,” President Trump told reporters that he wants to “clean out” Gaza, suggesting that Palestinian Arabs should be ethnically cleansed into Egypt and Jordan. Both countries have “rejected this, and they’ve done so since the beginning of this genocidal assault,” says Kouddous.

Ben Thomson, a nephrologist at Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital, is suing Mackenzie Health for more than $1.5 million. Mackenzie Health, which has not yet filed a formal response, says it

Dr. Ben Thomson, a nephrologist at Mackenzie Richmond Hill Hospital, has posted opinions on social media about the war between Israel and Hamas. Along with threats to his safety, earlier this month he was suspended for one month, but the health authority denies he 'was suspended for his views.'

After the cease-fire, Israeli settlers, with soldiers' help, terrorize Palestinians in the West Bank. Homes burned, people injured. Will justice prevail? The world must hold these violent criminals accountable before hatred consumes us all. #EndSettlerViolence

Joe Biden’s enabling of a genocide in Palestine was in keeping with a career spent pushing bloody war in the Middle East. His action and inaction on Gaza was brutal, unjustifiable, and unforgivable.

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Israel and Hamas reached a ceasefire deal on almost entirely the same terms as a proposal that fell apart in the summer.

“We will look back and say, ‘Why did we not do more earlier?” Amnesty's director tells Zeteo.

Will it lead to a permanent end to the bombing? Did Trump really make it happen? Why couldn’t Biden get it done eight months ago? Here's what we know.

The deal is slated to begin on Sunday, Qatar’s prime minister said, beginning with a 6-week cessation of hostilities.

Vice President Kamala Harris' refusal to break with the Biden administration's support for Israel's assault on Gaza cost her millions of potential Democratic voters. Will the Democratic Party learn from this and listen to its voters who want leaders to oppose sending more weapons to Israel? #Gaza #ElectionImpact

Qatar’s PM announced in a press conference that Israel and Hamas had reached a comprehensive three-phase agreement on a ceasefire and captives-for-prisoners swap

The announcement of a cease-fire deal in Gaza is a welcome reprieve after over a year of genocide. But it does nothing to remedy Israel’s numerous violations of international law that produced untold misery among Palestinians and led to the war in the first place.

As negotiators from Israel and Hamas continue discussions in Qatar about a possible Gaza ceasefire, we speak with Palestinian journalist Abubaker Abed, who spoke at a press conference of Gaza media workers last week urging the international press to speak up for their Palestinian colleagues. The Palestinian Journalists Syndicate says nearly 200 journalists have been killed in Israeli attacks since October 2023. “The world just keeps turning a blind eye and a deaf ear to what is happening,” says Abed from outside the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital in Deir al-Balah. “It’s completely enraging and unacceptable.” His recent article for Drop Site News is headlined “What It’s Truly Like to Sleep in a Damp, Frigid Tent: A Report From Gaza.”

Outside of a synagogue in West Orange, New Jersey, a hundred people with PAL-Awda NY/NJ, a local Palestinian rights organization, gathered to protest an Israeli real estate event taking place there on Nov. 13. The protesters accused the realtors from My Israel Home, an Israeli real estate company based outside of Jerusalem, of marketing Palestinian land. They also said that the company was discriminating against event attendees by religion, effectively excluding everyone except especially religious Jews. According to PAL-Awda, the protesters were attacked by counter-protesters, including an organizer of the event, armed with pepper-spray and tactical flashlights wielded as bludgeons.

The death toll of Israel’s genocide in Gaza is likely far higher than reported by health officials, by a margin of tens of thousands of deaths,

Since the state of Israel’s founding, its leaders and supporters have sought acceptance among other states as a peer, and legitimacy in the eyes of the

On Dec. 10, Israeli military officials, weapons manufacturers, and American venture capitalists gathered at Tel Aviv University for the first ever

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Advocates demand release of Dr. Abu Safiya, director of destroyed hospital in Gaza. UN condemns Israel's attacks on healthcare, killing hundreds. #JusticeForGaza #EndIsraeliApartheid

At Home and Abroad Police in America need a great deal of reform, a project that translates to freeing them from the racist nature of U.S. culture while

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Palestinian news outlets have suffered a drop in audience engagement after being hampered by Facebook, research has found. BBC News Arabic compiled engagement data on the Facebook pages of 20 prominent Palestinian-based news organizations in the year leading up to the October 7 Hamas attacks on Israel and in the year since. The data showed a 77% decline after the attacks. Meanwhile, journalists at Palestine TV have shared statistics showing a 60% drop in the number of people seeing their posts.

The Israeli newspaper Arab 48 reports that Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will not be able to travel to Poland for the 80th annual

Israeli authorities have deliberately inflicted conditions of life calculated to bring about the destruction of part of the population in Gaza by