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While American and Israeli officials celebrate the opening of the U.S. embassy in Jerusalem on Monday, Israeli military forces are massacring Palestinians protesting the widely condemned decision at the Gaza border. The death toll is rising so quickly that it will likely be outdated when you read this. As of 9:29 a.m.…

Ivanka and Jared, per Jared’s role as Innovations Officer and in Ivanka’s new official capacity as an Unpaid Employee, are off to oversee the Middle East.

Well, here we are again, getting blasted in the eye by an administration that behaves, in many ways, like an organ with no functioning mental capacity. At 2 p.m. on Tuesday, President Trump announced that he would be pulling out of the nuclear deal with Iran, against the wishes of a hostile, nearly-nuclear nation, our…

Ahed Tamimi, a 17-year-old Palestinian girl who was arrested for hitting and kicking two Israeli police officers, accepted a plea deal in which she’ll serve eight months in prison.

Three teenage Lorde fans from Israel are suing two New Zealand women—in New Zealand—for “emotional injury” caused by their alleged role in Lorde’s decision to cancel her Tel Aviv concert.

On Sunday, Lorde announced she had cancelled her June 5 concert in Tel Aviv, Israel in response to criticism from fans and activists promoting the tenets of BDS, a movement to divest from Israel in protest of the country’s occupation of Palestine.

Right in the midst of a global uproar over Donald Trump’s arbitrary decision to move the U.S. Embassy to Israel from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem–a declaration which sparked tear gas and fires in Lebanon, Israeli gunfire and an air strike over Gaza, four Palestinians dead, hundreds injured, an emergency UN Security Council…

On Thursday, supermodel Bella Hadid, who is of Palestinian descent, posted an emotional protest on Instagram against Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, undermining the multi-faith sanctity of the territory and furthering the oppression of the Palestinian people. Last night she and her…

According to a new Washington Post report, Donald Trump does not fully understand the implications of his decision to declare Jerusalem the capital of Israel and move the U.S. embassy there. This isn’t particularly surprising for a man who does not fully understand literally anything, up to and including how to keep…

Welcome to another episode of “Donald, Jared, and Donald’s Company Lawyer Bring Peace to the Middle East With No Trouble Whatsoever.” Today, Trump formally recognized Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and announced plans to move the U.S. embassy there from Tel Aviv, fulfilling a campaign pledge at the cost of…

Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.

Five interfaith delegates from the Jewish Voice for Peace, the American Muslims for Palestine, and the Presbyterian Peace Fellowship were banned from boarding a flight to Israel via Frankfurt from Washington DC’s Dulles airport on Sunday, an action they believe is the beginning of a crackdown against activists who…

Welcome to Barf Bag, a daily politics roundup to help you sort through the chaotic Trumpian news cycle.

You really would not have been able to tell, from my barely touched and poorly-written teen diaries, that writing was an activity I would someday be paid for. I averaged about two entries per entire journal, and at some point stuffed them all into a large metal lockbox to hide them from my parents and lost the key.

Britney Spears performed at Tel Aviv’s Yarkon Park on Monday night for 55,000 concertgoers. Spears arrived in Israel on Sunday, coming from her tour in Asia. It doesn’t seem like anyone was prepared for what she would be facing.

According to a new Pew Research Center survey, US favorability ratings across the globe have declined “steeply” since a certain paranoid kleptocrat became our beloved leader, far outpacing even his piss-poor domestic approval rating. Who could have possibly, possibly predicted?

A Jerusalem court has ruled in favor of 83-year-old plaintiff Renee Rabinowitz, who sued Israel’s El Al airline for asking her to move seats at the request of a Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) man, the New York Times reports. The court found that asking people to move due to their gender violated Israel’s anti-discrimination…

The President of the United States apparently has no idea where the reportedly highly classified intel he shared with Russian officials came from, but the New York Times does. A current and former US official told the Times that at least some of the information about ISIS came from Israel:

Last September, Simona Sharoni, a professor of gender studies at SUNY Plattsburgh in upstate New York gave an interview to an online magazine in which she talked about the need to connect feminism and gender to the movement for Palestinian rights. The interview wasn’t out of the ordinary for Sharoni. She’s made her…