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    Palestine Nexus - Palestine Nexus

  • Finding a ride in Gaza: the collapse of transportation
    For us in Gaza, transport has become a daily struggle shaped by economic collapse, fuel shortages, and damaged infrastructure as Israel continues to bomb the enclave.... Read more »
  • Gaza is Too Graphic For Community Standards
    “Something darkly funny about an app warning you that your post about a massacre is “too violent,” as if the violence begins with the image and not the act. The platform is offended—not by death, but by its documentation.”... Read more »
  • 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 »
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    Yanis Varoufakis

  • Don’t fall for Project Smear, Mr Burnham – Unherd op-ed
    In the lead-up to the Brexit referendum, Remainers deployed Project Fear to scare the living daylights out of anyone considering voting to Leave. Their statistical projections of an economic Armageddon were so absurd that they proved a monumental own goal, deemed sensationalist scaremongering. Ten years on, still smarting from the... Read more »
  • Oh dear Andy, what an inauspicious start!
    The very definition of an inauspicious start. The New Chancellor will push public debt further into the red to buy US weaponry that does nothing either to bolster productivity or UK’s defences. The same ol’ Home Secretary will continue practising ritualistic brutality (or vicious signalling) on refugees. Cooper will continue... Read more »
  • AI and the false consciousness trap – Unherd
    Ascribing human traits to chatbots empowers techlords. ‘Our slavery will be one we have consented to, enthusiastically.’  The trouble with impressive new technologies is that they have the uncanny ability to expose the awfulness of our relationship to one another, not to mention to our own selves. Now that our... Read more »
  • VideoAn Athenian View of American Democracy – Project Syndicate op-ed
    At 250, America is now producing a mindless, raw power and exponentially growing instability. The possibility of catharsis that characterized the United States at its bicentennial is hard to envisage a half-century later—to the detriment of us all._ ATHENS—On the heels of America’s 250th anniversary, I felt the curious need... Read more »
  • Το ΝΑΤΟ πρέπει να πεθάνει – 24|7 News
    Ο Μαρκ Ρούτε, ο πρώην πρωθυπουργός της Ολλανδίας και νυν γενικός γραμματέας του ΝΑΤΟ, πρόσφατα άφησε να διαρρεύσει μια αλήθεια που προκάλεσε αναταραχή σε ολόκληρη την Ευρώπη. Περιέγραψε τη Συμμαχία όχι ως την αμυντική ασπίδα της Ευρώπης, αλλά ως «…μια πλατφόρμα για τις Ηνωμένες Πολιτείες να προβάλλουν τη δύναμή τους... 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

  • Israeli Arms Industry’s Integration With Britain’s Military
    Ed Miliband’s decision to leave the military relationship with Israel intact raises serious concerns about Britain’s compliance with international law. writes John McEvoy. By John McEvoy Declassified UK Just days before Ed Miliband announced trade sanctions on Israeli settlements this month,…Read more →... Read more »
  • Hedges Report: The Cartoonist Dissidents
    Derf Backderf’s new graphic novel illustrates the repression of socialists during the McCarthy era through the stories of political cartoonists. It resonates powerfully with current times. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost   The images created by socialist and antiwar political cartoonists during the…Read more →... Read more »
  • When Britain Used Torture to Control the Strait of Hormuz
    Amaar Chowdhury reports on the emergence of new details about the extreme measures that British soldiers used to support a Gulf autocrat. By Amaar Chowdhury Declassified UK Previously secret military files reveal links between the use of torture by British…Read more →... Read more »
  • PATRICK LAWRENCE: Swiss Neutrality & its Enemies
    We must contemplate a world without the Swiss as facilitators of peace processes if the neutrality initiative fails on Sept. 27.  By Patrick Lawrence in Bazenheid, Switzerland Special to Consortium News As reported here and there in Western media, although not…Read more →... Read more »
  • Chris Hedges: Osama Bin Trump
    When the U.S. became the terrorists it claimed it was seeking to defeat, the country defeated itself.  By Chris Hedges ScheerPost Donald Trump, whose war on Iran is the greatest strategic blunder in United States history, is not responsible for triggering…Read more →... Read more »
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    Consortium News

  • Israeli Arms Industry’s Integration With Britain’s Military
    Ed Miliband’s decision to leave the military relationship with Israel intact raises serious concerns about Britain’s compliance with international law. writes John McEvoy. By John McEvoy Declassified UK Just days before Ed Miliband announced trade sanctions on Israeli settlements this month,…Read more →... Read more »
  • Hedges Report: The Cartoonist Dissidents
    Derf Backderf’s new graphic novel illustrates the repression of socialists during the McCarthy era through the stories of political cartoonists. It resonates powerfully with current times. By Chris Hedges ScheerPost   The images created by socialist and antiwar political cartoonists during the…Read more →... Read more »
  • When Britain Used Torture to Control the Strait of Hormuz
    Amaar Chowdhury reports on the emergence of new details about the extreme measures that British soldiers used to support a Gulf autocrat. By Amaar Chowdhury Declassified UK Previously secret military files reveal links between the use of torture by British…Read more →... Read more »
  • PATRICK LAWRENCE: Swiss Neutrality & its Enemies
    We must contemplate a world without the Swiss as facilitators of peace processes if the neutrality initiative fails on Sept. 27.  By Patrick Lawrence in Bazenheid, Switzerland Special to Consortium News As reported here and there in Western media, although not…Read more →... Read more »
  • Chris Hedges: Osama Bin Trump
    When the U.S. became the terrorists it claimed it was seeking to defeat, the country defeated itself.  By Chris Hedges ScheerPost Donald Trump, whose war on Iran is the greatest strategic blunder in United States history, is not responsible for triggering…Read more →... Read more »
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    ZNet Articles Archive - ZNetwork

  • How Israel’s Arms Industry Is Integrated Into Britain’s Military
    Just days before Ed Miliband announced trade sanctions on Israeli settlements, more than 300 British soldiers participated in a “landmark” training exercise facilitated by Israel’s largest arms firm. Elbit Systems UK boasted about its “key role” in the three-day training exercise which saw the soldiers battling against simulated forces in one of... Read more »
  • To Understand the Houthis, Begin With Yemen
    The Houthis are routinely described as an Iranian proxy. The description has become even more common as their military reach has expanded from northern Yemen toward the Red Sea and Bab el Mandeb. Iran has supplied weapons, training, intelligence and technical assistance that have greatly increased Houthi military capabilities. That... Read more »
  • Pentagon Iran War Report Admits to Worst Drubbing Since Vietnam
    The Department of Defense report on the Israeli-US war on Iran admits that it has been costly, has seen extensive destruction of US facilities in the Middle East, and has run down Pentagon munitions. Since it is being issued by a department headed by notorious liar and braggart Pete Hegseth, it is... Read more »
  • America’s Future: Fossil Fuel Island in a Greentech World?
    As we have seen throughout this series, the Greentech revolution is transforming energy production and use worldwide. Along with its other advantages, fossil free energy has become radically cheaper than fossil fuel energy. More than 90% of utility-scale renewable projects commissioned in 2025 delivered power below the cost of the cheapest new... Read more »
  • India Has the Gavel. Does It Still Have a Voice?
    At the BRICS Business Forum in Bharat Mandapam on Friday, Russian President Vladimir Putin read out the numbers. The eleven members of this grouping now produce more than 40 percent of the world’s output. The G7 produces 29. Over the last five years, BRICS countries generated more than half of all... Read more »
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    George Monbiot

  • In Deep
    The numbers are simply mind-blowing: up to £264 billion for a climate “solution” that will increase emissions. Has the government lost its mind? By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 8th July 2026 The new prime minister will be looking for money? Well, here’s £21.7bn lying on the ground. The... Read more »
  • Hotheads
    Steady temperatures are the preserve of the rich. The billionaire press wants everyone else to suffer. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian, 1st July 2026 Every time you think the idiocy has hit rock bottom, it discovers a new level. It turns out there’s an even deeper hole you... Read more »
  • Two-Tier Justice
    It’s real, and it’s the exact opposite of what the far right says it is. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 17th June 2026 “If you are targeting people on the basis of the colour of their skin,” the Northern Ireland secretary, Hilary Benn, asked last week, “how else... Read more »
  • Reality Be Damned
    The policies of both Reform UK and the Conservatives would destroy a million jobs. In return, they offer imaginary employment in a fantasy industry. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 10th June 2026 Really? You want to destroy a million jobs? Vote Reform UK for mass unemployment: is that... Read more »
  • Vampire Capital
    The highly lucrative trade in children in care reveals another level of cynicism altogether. By George Monbiot, published in the Guardian 5th June 2026 Bring your suitcase, your bin liner, your dumpy bag. They’re handing out money faster than you can stuff it in a sack. All you need do... Read more »