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Regev Baruch outside his studio, Sept. 9. (Timna Rose Perets)

‘The Gaza Holocaust won’t be forgotten’: An Israeli musician screams into the void

‘Super Sparta,’ Regev Baruch’s new album, is among the most blunt works of Israeli art since Oct. 7 — using provocation to insist on a different future.

By Timna Rose Perets September 28, 2026

The aftermath of an Israeli airstrike in which three missiles were fired at a residential building near Al-Shifa Hospital in Gaza City, September8, 2026. (Yousef Zaanoun/Activestills)

‘NAZA’ is forcing Israelis to reflect. But we Palestinians are not your mirror

Our suffering cannot be the backdrop for an internal Israeli morality tale: Confronting Israel’s crimes in Gaza means taking action to stop them.

By Ayat Abou Shmeiss September 23, 2026

Family members bid farewell to loved ones killed in an Israeli strike in central Gaza City, at Al-Shifa Hospital, August 31, 2026. (Yousef Zaanoun/Activestills)

The moment a human life becomes ‘collateral damage’

‘NAZA’ makes visible what we could never see from inside Gaza: that there were people watching, calculating, and deciding how many of us would die.

By Mahmoud Mushtaha September 11, 2026

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Neve Gordon (courtesy)

PODCAST: How Israel wields international law as a license to kill

Neve Gordon explains how wartime protections for civilians can be twisted to legitimize genocide — and what that paradox means for Palestinian liberation.

By +972 Magazine September 10, 2026

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‘NAZA’: Exposing Israel’s killing machine in Gaza

Our new film shows how Israel’s slaughter of Palestinian civilians was a calculated and intentional act, through the testimonies of those responsible.

By Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor September 10, 2026

Israeli soldiers seen near the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, October 9, 2025. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel’s military ‘justice’ system is working exactly as intended

A handful of probes into high-profile massacres in Gaza are a smokescreen: Israel has convicted only two soldiers for harming Palestinians since Oct. 7.

By Dan Owen September 3, 2026

Members of "Gaza English Corner" meet in a park in Gaza City, August 2026. (Said Alsaloul)

We’re stitching our future back together in Gaza, one English word at a time

I founded ‘Gaza English Corner’ to help others grow their language skills. But it’s become something larger: a place to connect, grieve, and feel human again.

By Said Alsaloul August 20, 2026

Thousands attend a protest against the epidemic of crime in the Palestinian community inside Israel, in Tel Aviv. January 31, 2026. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)

Amid genocide, Palestinian participation in Israel’s elections must be reimagined

Even if the vote cannot end settler-colonial rule, Palestinians in Israel should use their citizenship to protect their people and the conditions for resistance.

By Areej Sabbagh-Khoury August 12, 2026

The Nova Exhibition in Washington, D.C., June 14, 2025. (Ted Eytan/CC BY-SA 4.0)

The Nova Exhibition aims to return the world to October 7 — and keep us there

Borrowing heavily from Holocaust memorialization, the mobile exhibit wants visitors to identify with Israeli festivalgoers and forget everything else.

By Em Hilton August 4, 2026

The creation of Shareef Sarhan's Minarat Gaza, seen in Gaza City's port, 2016. (Courtesy)

Archiving as resistance: The battle to save Gaza’s cultural heritage

A new book documents efforts to preserve millennia of culture, refusing to surrender to the enclave’s destruction while laying foundations for its future.

By Samah Salaime July 31, 2026

Michael Barenboim at the end of a Make Freedom Ring concert. (Jonas Gottfriedsen)

‘In Germany, Jews who reject Zionism are seen as not really Jewish’

For violinist Michael Barenboim, Germany’s memory culture has become a tool for upholding complicity in Israel's crimes and rendering Palestinians invisible.

By Hanno Hauenstein July 23, 2026

Palestinian bodies in a shipping container, near the Karem Abu Salem/Kerem Shalom Crossing in Gaza, January 20, 2024. (Courtesy of Ariel, a UN worker)

Calculated chaos: Inside Israel’s transfer of Palestinian bodies to Gaza

Humanitarian workers describe a haphazard and deliberately opaque system for returning dead and living Gazans during the first months of the genocide — one that helps explain why thousands are still missing.

By Frances Brogan July 15, 2026

Pope Leo XIV during his inauguration, in Vatican City, the Holy See, May 18, 2025. (Mazur/cbcew.org.uk)

What Pope Leo won’t say about Gaza is testing the Catholic Church

Leo XIV has embraced his predecessor’s ethic of empathy. But across the Church, many are demanding he speak out more clearly against Israel's crimes.

By Paola Caridi July 10, 2026