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Argentinian President Javier Milei laughs alongside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a special Knesset session in Milei's honor, in Jerusalem, June 11, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Why Latin America is key to Israel’s diplomatic impunity

While alienating traditional allies, Israel is deepening ties with a new wave of right-wing populist leaders who are willing to shield it from accountability.

By Xavier Abu Eid September 15, 2026

Rashid Khalidi. (Alex Levac)

PODCAST: Israel stole Rashid Khalidi’s land. The U.S. is building an embassy on it

The Palestinian-American historian recounts the 30-year fight against the plan, and reflects on the generational shifts transforming U.S.-Israel ties.

By +972 Magazine July 17, 2026

U.S. President Donald Trump poses with leaders of the Gulf Cooperation Council, at the Ritz Carlton Riyadh in Saudi Arabia, May 14, 2025. (Official White House Photo/Daniel Torok)

Why the Iran war has caught Gulf states in a bind

Facing the consequences of U.S. military dependence, the GCC is still reluctant to criticize Washington — but public anger will not be easily contained.

By Hind Al Ansari March 12, 2026

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Source image: Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations (ERO) in Los Angeles, California, June 12, 2025. (DHSgov/Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons). Graphic by +972.

ICE tripled its reliance on Microsoft in last six months, leaked files reveal

Documents show the U.S. agency is storing large amounts of data on Microsoft's cloud while making use of its AI tools to analyze videos and images.

By Yuval Abraham February 17, 2026

An officer from Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), one of the primary arms of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), seen during an operation in Minneapolis, January 6, 2026. (Tia Dufour/U.S. Department of Homeland Security Photo)

ICE operations increasingly resemble Israeli occupation. That’s no coincidence

U.S. immigration enforcement has long cultivated ties with Israel. Now it adapts algorithmic surveillance tactics from Gaza for use on American streets.

By Sophia Goodfriend February 12, 2026

Mohammed Kanaan (wearing the red keffiyeh) takes a selfie with deported Palestinian men who had been released at a checkpoint near the town of Ni’lin, including Maher Awad, 25, from Michigan (foreground), and Sameer Zeidan, 47, from Louisiana, (background), occupied West Bank, Jan. 21, 2026. (Courtesy)

U.S. secretly deporting Palestinians to West Bank in coordination with Israel

Palestinians arrested by ICE are being flown, bound and shackled, on private jet belonging to Israeli-American tycoon close to Trump, investigation reveals.

By Ghousoon Bisharat and Ben Reiff February 5, 2026

A Palestinian flag at a protest against U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Chicago, June 10, 2025. (Paul Goyette/CC BY 2.0)

Fighting fascism in America during a genocide in Palestine

We must insist on drawing connections across time and place — from the Holocaust to Gaza, or ICE detention to Israeli prisons — to disrupt the normalization of authoritarianism at every turn.

By Amahl Bishara December 30, 2025

President Donald Trump participates in a bilateral meeting with UAE President Sheikh Mohamed Bin Zayed Al Nahyan at Qasr Al Watan in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, May 15, 2025. (Daniel Torok/Official White House Photo)

What the UAE hopes to gain from Israel’s growing isolation

Abu Dhabi seeks to present itself to the West as a stable alternative to an increasingly rogue Israel, where defense cooperation and capital can flourish.

By Mira Al Hussein June 25, 2025

An ADWAR employee cooks bread for displaced women as part of the “Resilience In Every Slice” initiative, in Deir al-Balah, Gaza, Dec. 8, 2024. (Courtesy of ADWAR)

With USAID shuttered, Palestine’s most vulnerable lose a lifeline

Trump's cuts came as a blow to NGOs like ADWAR, which provides aid and job training to Palestinian women across the West Bank and Gaza.

By Ella Halpern-Matthews April 30, 2025

Students from inside the gates of Columbia University wave Palestinian flags through the bars, April 22, 2024. (SWinxy/Wikimedia Commons)

Mahmoud Khalil’s abduction is a fascist move — and universities must respond

Schools across the United States have a choice: defend their students against Trump or be complicit in his crimes.

By Dima Khalidi March 11, 2025

Heavily-armed police seen during the pro-Palestinian protests in Washington, July 24, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)

‘The pump is primed to suppress Palestine advocacy. Trump just has to let it flow’

A new book lays out how Israel exported its crackdown on Palestinian activism and helped trample free speech in the U.S., explains co-editor Zaha Hassan.

By Jonathan Adler February 17, 2025

Fire and smoke rises during Israeli airstrikes on the Gaza Strip, October 9, 2023. (Atia Mohammed/Flash90)

Bomb the area, gas the tunnels: Israel’s unbridled war on Gaza’s underground

Unable to pinpoint Hamas commanders in Gaza’s tunnels, the Israeli army decimated entire residential blocks with bunker-buster bombs to crush the passages below and flood them with lethal fumes, an investigation reveals.

By Yuval Abraham February 6, 2025

U.S. President Donald Trump and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holding a joint press conference at the White House in Washington D.C., February 4, 2025. (Liri Agami/Flash90)

‘Gaza is not for sale’: Palestinians dismiss Trump’s ethnic cleansing plan

For Gazans, the idea of the U.S. 'owning' the Strip isn’t just absurd, but marks the latest iteration of a century-old campaign to erase Palestinian existence.

By Mahmoud Mushtaha February 5, 2025