What to know about Israel’s judicial overhaul as final vote nears

Al-Jazeera  /  July 22, 2023 Parliament is set to begin voting on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s proposed changes to the judicial system. Every Saturday, for seven...

An exercise in omitting Israel’s colonial foundations

Ramona Wadi Middle East Monitor  /  July 22, 2023 Israeli President Isaac Herzog's address to the US Congress on Wednesday was a mix of melodrama and...

Military protests against judicial reforms threaten Israel’s security, say officials

Middle East Monitor  /  July 22, 2023 Following a letter penned to the Knesset by 1,142 Israeli Air Force reservists declaring suspension of their military service, Minister...

The ‘destruction of the Third Temple’ ? – Israel’s apocalyptic civil war weakens state,...

Juan Cole Informed Comment  /  July 22, 2023 Ann Arbor – On Friday, all hell broke loose in Israel, even more so than the recent norm....

West Bank: Israeli forces kill Palestinian teenager while driving car near Nablus

MEE Staff Middle East Eye  /  July 22, 2023 The Palestinian Authority calls the killing a ‘heinous crime of execution’. Israeli forces opened fire on a Palestinian-owned car near...

[ethnic cleansing] Yet another shepherding community is driven out by Jewish settler violence

Gideon Levy & Alex Levac Haaretz  /  July 22, 2023 They loaded their belongings on two trucks and two tractors, and left the place they’d lived...

Congress tries to wish away Israeli racism and apartheid

Thomas L. Knapp  CounterPunch  /  July 21, 2023 On July 18, the US House of Representatives passed a resolution by the kind of lopsided vote (412...

Chronicle of an acquittal foretold

John Brown +972 Magazine  /  July 21, 2023 In the end, the Israeli judge simply played her role in a sideshow of due process. Iyad Al-Hallaq...

Collective forgetting and the politics of the West Bank – an interview with Richard...

Daniel Falcone CounterPunch  /  July 21, 2023 Daniel Falcone: With most Mideast current affairs, the reporting on human rights and the plight of Palestinians is usually geared towards a...

It was a great week for the Israel lobby

Philip Weiss Mondoweiss  /  July 21, 2023 Liberal Zionists coalesced with right-wingers to celebrate the Israeli president this week, and Joe Biden said he'd meet with...