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    Palestine Nexus - Palestine Nexus

  • Israel's Ethnic Cleansing of the Palestinians in 1967
    Altogether, Israel expelled 300,000 Palestinians and 130,000 Syrians from their homes, leveling 131 Syrian villages and destroying 30 Palestinian villages, hamlets, herding communities, and refugee camps in whole or part (1, 2, 3). Israel wanted the land it conquered, just not the people living on it, the core principle of... Read more »
  • Gaza’s Orphan Crisis: Surviving a Genocide without Mom and Dad 
    In Masaffer Yatta, each month brings new demolitions: homes, wells and sheep enclosures. We are left with few choices: to leave, to demolish our homes, or simply wait. Even when our villages are not destroyed by Israeli occupation forces, they are attacked by settlers who set fires, steal cars and... Read more »
  • VideoUntranslatable Palestinian Arabic Words
    Many words in Palestinian Arabic carry additional meaning, owing to history, culture and politics.... Read more »
  • Video“Greater Israel,” A Brief History 
    Greater Israel is not just the idea that Israel has no borders or that Israel’s borders should be in a state of forever expansion, but also that Israel should dominate the countries beyond its borders. This is a brief history of Greater Israel, 1948-present.... Read more »
  • Between the Tent and the Blackboard: Education in Gaza After Two Years of Disruption
    In Masaffer Yatta, each month brings new demolitions: homes, wells and sheep enclosures. We are left with few choices: to leave, to demolish our homes, or simply wait. Even when our villages are not destroyed by Israeli occupation forces, they are attacked by settlers who set fires, steal cars and... Read more »
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    Yanis Varoufakis

  • «To Tέλος της Κανονικότητας και των Οικονομικών» – Ομιλία James K. Galbraith, Δευτέρα 8/6, 7μμ στη Μεγάλη Αίθουσα του Πανεπιστήμιου Αθηνών
    Ολόκληρος ο κόσμος το νιώθει. Αυτό που κάποτε ονομάζαμε «κανονικότητα», εξέλειψε. Την Δευτέρα το βράδυ, στις 7μμ, ο διεθνώς καταξιωμένος Καθηγητής Οικονομικών James K. Galbraith θα μιλήσει στο Πανεπιστήμιο Αθηνών (Μεγάλη Αίθουσα Κεντρικού Κτηρίου, Οδός Πανεπιστημίου 30), για ακριβώς αυτό: «Το Τέλος της Κανονικότητας και των Οικονομικών». Στην ομιλία του... Read more »
  • The anxious ghost of Tony Blair strikes again
    Tony Blair is the living embodiment of what happens when political office becomes a down payment on future plunder. Ejected in 2007 by his own MPs as a massive liability, he bequeathed Britain a wild casino economy primed for the 2008 crash. And when the British economy crashed and burned,... Read more »
  • Γιατί οι πλουτοκράτες λατρεύουν τον πόλεμο του Τραμπ
    Όταν άρχισαν να πέφτουν βροχή οι βόμβες στο Ιράν, τις θεώρησα απαρχή του Βατερλό του Ντόναλντ Τραμπ. Βλέποντας το πολιτικό του κίνημα, μια περίεργη συμμαχία εξαγριωμένων προλετάριων και αχόρταγων πλουτοκρατών, να βυθίζεται σε εμφύλιο ταξικό πόλεμο, παράφρασα εκείνο που είχε πει ο Τσόρτσιλ για τη Μάχη του Ελ Αλαμέιν: πριν... Read more »
  • Why plutocrats love Trump’s war – Unherd
    When the bombs began to rain down on Iran, I predicted Donald Trump’s Waterloo. Watching his MAGA coalition, a noxious brew of working-class resentment and tax cuts for billionaires, descend into a civil class war, I paraphrased Churchill on the Battle of El Alamein: in his second term, before Iran,... Read more »
  • Palantir and the New Order: Neoliberalism is dead. Say hello to Techlordism – The Point
    A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a new ideology to legitimise their rule. I call it techlordism. Yanis Varoufakis Tue 21 Apr 2026 22.00 AEST... Read more »
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    AIPAC Tracker Blog - Track AIPAC

  • Track AIPAC Adapting Data Methodology to Identify the Israel Lobby’s Hidden Donor Movements
    March 27, 2026 Update (April 28, 2026): We have decided to revert from our recently launched V3 methodology back to V2 in an effort to improve data clarity and avoid confusion as we build out a publicly searchable database for V3 data. Click here for our official statement on this... Read more »
  • When Even His Daughter Calls Him Out: Exposing the 50 States, One Israel Junket
    September 29, 2025 In mid-September, 250 American legislators boarded flights to Israel for the so-called “50 States, One Israel” conference. The trip, bankrolled by Israel’s Foreign Ministry, wasn’t about learning or diplomacy. It was about propaganda.Over four days, from September 14 to 18, lawmakers from every state were treated to... Read more »
  • Netanyahu Humiliated at the UN as the World Turns Against Genocide
    September 26, 2025 Three days ago, Benjamin Netanyahu took the stage at the United Nations General Assembly expecting the world to listen. Instead, he was humiliated. Diplomats from more than 50 countries streamed out in protest, leaving him to rage across rows of empty seats.The symbolism was unmistakable: the world... Read more »
  • Courage on the Water, Cowardice in Washington: The Global Sumud Flotilla Under Attack
    September 24, 2025 A Night of Terror at SeaLast night, the Global Sumud Flotilla—nearly 50 boats carrying life-saving aid for Gaza—was attacked by Israeli drones and incendiary devices off the coast of Crete. Ten vessels were damaged. Radios were hijacked. Emergency communications were jammed. ABBA songs were blasted on repeat... Read more »
  • The Flotilla, Gaza’s Starvation, and Why AIPAC is Finally on the Run
    September 22, 2025 Israel’s war on Gaza has reached a point of undeniable horror. Families are being starved. Hospitals are collapsing without power or medicine. Children are dying from preventable diseases because food, clean water, and antibiotics are blocked at the border. This is not a “security policy.” It is... Read more »
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    Consortium News

  • WATCH: The World This Week — ‘The War: Putin’s View’
    In St. Petersburg this week, the Russian president spoke frankly about Ukraine, NATO and the course of the war: there’s no end in sight. Scott Ritter in St. Petersburg joins Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence, Sat. 8 pm EDT. Guests: …Read more →... Read more »
  • Chris Hedges: Tyranny or Revolution
    As social inequality has grown, so has state repression. As we stand on the cusp of full-blown authoritarianism and fascism, we face two stark choices. By Chris Hedges in Mexico City ScheerPost There are two ways to confront global capitalism.…Read more →... Read more »
  • Big Media and Independent Journalism
    Big Media depends on big money from big corporations. No wonder that it promotes the corporate agenda and the agendas of governments that serve corporate interests. Truly independent media depends on money from small donors. No wonder that it reports…Read more →... Read more »
  • Fusing the US Military and the IDF
    A bill’s provision to integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries will go to a U.S. House vote after an effort to stop it failed Thursday. Passage will make it nearly impossible to end the U.S.-Israel special relationship, writes Alan MacLeod. …Read more →... Read more »
  • A Lawless System of Brutality
    Andrew P. Napolitano on the torture-linked confession of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in a lawless system of brutality that profoundly violates natural rights, the Constitution’s guarantee of due process as well as federal law. By Andrew P. Napolitano America’s longest current criminal…Read more →... Read more »
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    Consortium News

  • WATCH: The World This Week — ‘The War: Putin’s View’
    In St. Petersburg this week, the Russian president spoke frankly about Ukraine, NATO and the course of the war: there’s no end in sight. Scott Ritter in St. Petersburg joins Ray McGovern and Patrick Lawrence, Sat. 8 pm EDT. Guests: …Read more →... Read more »
  • Chris Hedges: Tyranny or Revolution
    As social inequality has grown, so has state repression. As we stand on the cusp of full-blown authoritarianism and fascism, we face two stark choices. By Chris Hedges in Mexico City ScheerPost There are two ways to confront global capitalism.…Read more →... Read more »
  • Big Media and Independent Journalism
    Big Media depends on big money from big corporations. No wonder that it promotes the corporate agenda and the agendas of governments that serve corporate interests. Truly independent media depends on money from small donors. No wonder that it reports…Read more →... Read more »
  • Fusing the US Military and the IDF
    A bill’s provision to integrate the U.S. and Israeli militaries will go to a U.S. House vote after an effort to stop it failed Thursday. Passage will make it nearly impossible to end the U.S.-Israel special relationship, writes Alan MacLeod. …Read more →... Read more »
  • A Lawless System of Brutality
    Andrew P. Napolitano on the torture-linked confession of Khalid Shaikh Mohammed in a lawless system of brutality that profoundly violates natural rights, the Constitution’s guarantee of due process as well as federal law. By Andrew P. Napolitano America’s longest current criminal…Read more →... Read more »
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    ZNet Articles Archive - ZNetwork

  • A Good Life For The 99% Isn’t A Pipe Dream
    Imagine a future in which everyone enjoys high levels of wellbeing; where 90% of the world’s population doubles their income but works half the hours we work today. A world in which the bottom half of humanity sees its share of global wealth rise from just 2% today to 30%; a world... Read more »
  • Israel Is Emptying Lebanon of Its People
    In 1895, Theodor Herzl wrote in his diary that the penniless population of Palestine must be “spirited across the border,” discreetly and circumspectly. In 1948, that vision became policy. With the Nakba, approximately 750,000 Palestinians were forcibly displaced, their land absorbed by the newly declared state of Israel. In 1967... Read more »
  • The Right Is Disappearing: The Choice Is Between the Left and the Far Right
    I am writing this text with the Americas and Europe in mind, but the phenomena I analyze apply, with modifications, to other regions of the world. We are on the brink of a new world war, facing imminent ecological collapse, witnessing the end of international law, and the end of... Read more »
  • How Colombia’s Post Electoral Hangover Catalyzed Popular Organizing
    On Monday, June 1, Colombians woke up with an undeniable moral hangover. We felt sad. And angry. It was the morning after the vote in the first round of presidential elections. The Iván Cepeda-Aida Quilque ticket, representing continuity with the project of Gustavo Petro and Francia Márquez, were polling far... Read more »
  • How Secret Pro-Israel Money Flooded the Labour Party and Ended with a Ban of Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur
    After Hasan Piker and Cenk Uygur were banned from entering the UK earlier this week, reportedly because of their criticism of Israel, Piker commented that he “would never have imagined that a [Labour] government would ban me from entering the UK.” Indeed, millions of UK voters would likely agree. But... Read more »
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    George Monbiot

  • VideoClimate Authoritarianism
    How to alienate people from the green transition. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 27th May 2026 We will not persuade. We will not explain. We will not listen. We know best and we will force you to comply. This, I’m sorry to say, is how the government’s climate... Read more »
  • VideoPolitical Fairytale
    Why is centrism failing so badly? Because at its heart is a mistaken idea of how politics works. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 20th May 2026 The biggest Brexit donor was the stockbroker Peter Hargreaves. He gave £3.2m to the leave campaign. He justified his enthusiasm as follows:... Read more »
  • Never Again, Again
    Why are rightwingers being given a free pass on antisemitism? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 14th May 2026 The media’s message appears to have cut through. At the crucial rally against antisemitism in London on Sunday, Zack Polanski, the Jewish leader of the Green party of England and... Read more »
  • Hear This
    Radical Listening could transform our politics and block the rise of the far right. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 7th May 2026 Most people have made up their minds, and nothing you can say will change them: that’s the credo of parties such as Labour and the Democrats.... Read more »
  • Get the Money out of Politics
    There’s a really simple way of ensuring that politics belongs to the people, not to the ultra-rich. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 30th April 2026 How do we know whether political funding is corrupt? Mostly, we don’t. A plutocrat delivers a sack of cash to a political party.... Read more »