Western support for a two-state solution was never meant to bring about Palestinian statehood — it was meant to justify the existence of the Palestinian Authority. That Western consensus is shifting, calling the need for the PA into question.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/the-trump-plan-the-palestinian-authority-and-the-new-western-consensus/

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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 Palestinian rights.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/democrats-finally-seem-ready-to-address-the-gaza-genocide-but-it-wont-matter-if-they-dont-support-palestinian-rights/

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Israeli forces killed 11 members of the Abu Shaaban family in Gaza on Friday—the deadliest single violation of the fragile ceasefire since it took effect eight days ago. This is what 'ceasefire' means under necropolitics. This framework serves power, not liberation—the Zionist project and capitalism over Palestinian humanity.

Cartoon by Carlos Latuff.

The death toll in Gaza remains unknown, and statistics have become a contested tool to understand the scale of the genocide. But even if we had an accurate number of deaths, we still wouldn’t understand the depth of its meaning.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/the-burden-of-imprecision-on-the-limitation-of-statistics/

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Hamas plans to expand its ongoing crackdown on gangs backed and funded by the Israeli army. The renewed effort “will be on multiple fronts” where these groups operate, a security source from the movement tells Mondoweiss.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/exclusive-new-hamas-crackdown-on-gaza-militias-will-be-largest-yet-security-source-says/

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Since the Gaza ceasefire, Israel has intensified its operations against Palestinians in the West Bank, conducting military raids in the north and increasing settler attacks on Palestinians harvesting olive groves.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/israels-war-on-palestinians-in-the-west-bank-intensifies-after-gaza-ceasefire/

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As support for Israel plummets among U.S. voters, Democrats are distancing themselves from AIPAC, and the Israel lobby group is on the defensive.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/aipac-has-become-so-politically-toxic-that-even-centrist-democrats-are-abandoning-the-group/

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In a 114-8 vote, the McGill Association of University Teachers endorsed the academic and cultural boycott of Israel. The win came after years of organizing, demonstrating the collective power of professors, librarians, and students against genocide.

https://mondoweiss.net/2025/10/in-a-landslide-vote-mcgill-university-professors-and-librarians-endorse-the-academic-and-cultural-boycott-of-israel/

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Even though the ceasefire in #Gaza grows ever shakier, by forcing Israel to end its two-year genocide even momentarily, #Trump has done what Joe Biden and Kamala Harris refused to do: act

Trump's Gaza ceasefire exposes the #Democrats' moral and political failure https://www.middleeasteye.net/opinion/trumps-gaza-ceasefire-exposes-democrats-moral-and-political-failure

The United States and Israel are saying that Hamas is randomly gunning down Palestinian civilians in Gaza, and much of the credulous western media, once again, is often parroting these reports. It simply isn't true. This video explains what's really happening.

https://youtu.be/iXI5avQoWfg