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Book Review: Haidar Eid’s literary ode to resisting the settler colonial genocide in Gaza mondoweiss.net/2025/10/book...

Book Review: Haidar Eid’s literary ode to resisting the settler colonial genocide in Gaza

Amid devastating personal accounts from the Gaza Holocaust, Haidar Eid’s “Banging on the Walls of the Tank” delivers a message of hope in defiance.

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Democrats finally seem ready to address the Gaza genocide, but it won’t matter if they don’t support Palestinian rights mondoweiss.net/2025/10/demo...

Democrats finally seem ready to address the Gaza genocide, but it won’t matter if they don’t support Palestinian rights

Trump’s flawed ceasefire plan has opened a door for Democrats to amend their shameful failure to end the Gaza genocide. But it requires doing something few Democrats have been willing to do: support P...

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As support for Israel drops, the mainstream media is becoming even more Zionist mondoweiss.net/2025/10/as-s...

As support for Israel drops, the mainstream media is becoming even more Zionist

Support for Israel is plummeting among the U.S. public, but Zionism dominates mainstream media more than ever. Several recent high-profile examples show the staggering disconnect between the media est...

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The Palestinian Authority may become a casualty of the Trump plan and the new Western consensus mondoweiss.net/2025/10/the-...

The Palestinian Authority may become a casualty of the Trump plan and the new Western consensus

Western support for a two-state solution was never intended to create Palestinian statehood — it was meant to justify the existence of the Palestinian Authority. Now that the Western consensus is shif...

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The Palestinian Authority may become a casualty of the Trump plan and the new Western consensus mondoweiss.net/2025/10/the-...

The Palestinian Authority may become a casualty of the Trump plan and the new Western consensus

Western support for a two-state solution was never intended to create Palestinian statehood — it was meant to justify the existence of the Palestinian Authority. Now that the Western consensus is shif...

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phoenixpenelope.bsky.social @phoenixpenelope.bsky.social · 1d

As support for Israel drops, the mainstream media is becoming even more Zionist mondoweiss.net/2025/10/as-s...

As support for Israel drops, the mainstream media is becoming even more Zionist

Support for Israel is plummeting among the U.S. public, but Zionism dominates mainstream media more than ever. Several recent high-profile examples show the staggering disconnect between the media est...

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phoenixpenelope.bsky.social @phoenixpenelope.bsky.social · 2d

As solidarity with Palestine grows, thousands of film workers pledge to end complicity with genocide mondoweiss.net/2025/10/as-s...

As solidarity with Palestine grows, thousands of film workers pledge to end complicity with genocide

Despite repression and retaliation, the Gaza genocide has pushed an unprecedented wave of artists across the entertainment industry to back the cultural boycott of Israel.

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phoenixpenelope.bsky.social @phoenixpenelope.bsky.social · 2d

Hamas is hunting down groups in Gaza that collaborated with the Israeli army, one by one mondoweiss.net/2025/10/hama...

Hamas is hunting down groups in Gaza that collaborated with the Israeli army, one by one

Hamas’s wide-ranging security campaign to eliminate armed gangs that collaborated with the Israeli army during the war is escalating. “Our operations will root them all out, without exception,” a Hama...

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phoenixpenelope.bsky.social @phoenixpenelope.bsky.social · 2d

Hamas is hunting down groups in Gaza that collaborated with the Israeli army, one by one mondoweiss.net/2025/10/hama...

Hamas is hunting down groups in Gaza that collaborated with the Israeli army, one by one

Hamas’s wide-ranging security campaign to eliminate armed gangs that collaborated with the Israeli army during the war is escalating. “Our operations will root them all out, without exception,” a Hama...

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phoenixpenelope.bsky.social @phoenixpenelope.bsky.social · 2d

As solidarity with Palestine grows, thousands of film workers pledge to end complicity with genocide mondoweiss.net/2025/10/as-s...

As solidarity with Palestine grows, thousands of film workers pledge to end complicity with genocide

Despite repression and retaliation, the Gaza genocide has pushed an unprecedented wave of artists across the entertainment industry to back the cultural boycott of Israel.

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phoenixpenelope.bsky.social @phoenixpenelope.bsky.social · 2d

Palestine activists fight the Gaza genocide and government suppression in Turkiye mondoweiss.net/2025/10/pale...

Palestine activists fight the Gaza genocide and government suppression in Turkiye

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan often highlights his government’s support for the Palestinian people, but activists in the country face mounting repression for challenging Turkiye’s ongoing dip...

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phoenixpenelope.bsky.social @phoenixpenelope.bsky.social · 2d

The 9,100 Palestinians left behind in Israeli prisons after the ‘peace’ deal mondoweiss.net/2025/10/the-...

The 9,100 Palestinians left behind in Israeli prisons after the ‘peace’ deal

As world leaders celebrate the release of Israeli captives, over 9,000 Palestinian prisoners still face torture, hunger, and isolation behind bars. Half of them are held by Israel without charge or tr...

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How the murder of Gaza journalist Saleh Aljafarawi and Hamas’s crackdown on Israel-backed militias are connected mondoweiss.net/2025/10/how-...

How the murder of Gaza journalist Saleh Aljafarawi and Hamas’s crackdown on Israel-backed militias are connected

Beloved Gaza journalist Saleh Aljafarawi was murdered amid a Hamas crackdown on Israel-backed armed clans and militias that looted aid and sowed chaos during the war. Here’s how they’re all connected.

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phoenixpenelope.bsky.social @phoenixpenelope.bsky.social · 4d

Trump ignores Palestinians in Knesset speech intended as a victory lap for the Gaza war mondoweiss.net/2025/10/trum...

Trump ignores Palestinians in Knesset speech intended as a victory lap for the Gaza war

In a speech to the Knesset, Donald Trump declared the war in Gaza over and tempted Israel with economic riches through regional normalization, while almost completely ignoring the Palestinians.

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phoenixpenelope.bsky.social @phoenixpenelope.bsky.social · 4d

Palestinians freed from Israeli prison denied reunion with families as Trump claims a ‘forever’ peace mondoweiss.net/2025/10/pale...

Palestinians freed from Israeli prison denied reunion with families as Trump claims a ‘forever’ peace

Palestinians gathered in the West Bank to reunite with loved ones set to be released as part of the prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. But many were devastated to learn that Israel had deport...

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phoenixpenelope.bsky.social @phoenixpenelope.bsky.social · 5d

Trump ignores Palestinians in Knesset speech intended as a victory lap for the Gaza war mondoweiss.net/2025/10/trum...

Trump ignores Palestinians in Knesset speech intended as a victory lap for the Gaza war

In a speech to the Knesset, Donald Trump declared the war in Gaza over and tempted Israel with economic riches through regional normalization, while almost completely ignoring the Palestinians.

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phoenixpenelope.bsky.social @phoenixpenelope.bsky.social · 5d

Palestinians freed from Israeli prison denied reunion with families as Trump claims a ‘forever’ peace mondoweiss.net/2025/10/pale...

Palestinians freed from Israeli prison denied reunion with families as Trump claims a ‘forever’ peace

Palestinians gathered in the West Bank to reunite with loved ones set to be released as part of the prisoner exchange between Israel and Hamas. But many were devastated to learn that Israel had deport...

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phoenixpenelope.bsky.social @phoenixpenelope.bsky.social · 5d

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phoenixpenelope.bsky.social @phoenixpenelope.bsky.social · 6d

She was taken hostage by Palestinians 55 years ago. Now she’s an anti-Zionist activist. mondoweiss.net/2025/10/she-...

She was taken hostage by Palestinians 55 years ago. Now she’s an anti-Zionist activist.

Catherine Hodes was taken hostage by the PFLP at age 13 while traveling from Israel to the U.S. The experience sparked a lifelong commitment to Palestinian liberation.

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phoenixpenelope.bsky.social @phoenixpenelope.bsky.social · 6d