Historian Zach Foster uncomplicates the long, tangled histories of Palestine, Israel and Zionism — and breaks down the biggest myths clouding the conversation.

To understand the Israel-Palestine conflict, start with these two simple questions

Analysis: The right to self-defense doesn’t mean the right to unlimited, disproportionate force. But as an occupying power, experts say, Israel’s legal right to defend itself doesn’t actually apply in Gaza.

Does Israel have a right to self-defense in Gaza? Legal experts say no

A federal lawsuit accuses the Biden administration of failing in its legal duty to prevent, rather than enable, genocide.

Palestinians are suing Biden for ‘complicity’ in Israel’s ‘genocide’ against their families

Viewpoint: There is a paradox of solidarity among Pakistanis who march for Gaza but remain silent on the expulsion of Afghan refugees from Pakistan.

A treachery of conspicuous silence as Pakistan’s Afghan refugees are expelled

A new analysis finds lower-income countries pay eight times more for plastic’s social and environmental impacts.

Plastic’s life-cycle costs overwhelmingly fall on poor countries

Viewpoint: From Islam’s historic coffee culture to today’s Starbucks protests for Palestine, coffee has been a powerful, unifying symbol for Muslims.

Starbucks isn’t actually on the BDS list. Here’s why the pro-Palestine boycotts are so potent anyway.

As the death toll from Israel’s war in Gaza surpasses 10,000, a rare but powerful moment of Jewish-Muslim solidarity in Israel shows the way forward.

600 Jews and Muslims just met at a mosque in Israel to call for peace. Here’s what they said.

Genocide researcher Arnesa Buljušmić-Kustura describes the haunting parallels between the ethnic cleansing of her people and the plight of the Palestinians.

‘Dear God, this is going to be a genocide.’ A Bosnian genocide survivor on Israel’s siege on Gaza

Viewpoint: Donors committed to human rights must stop turning a blind eye to the assault on Gaza.

What Palestine needs from U.S. philanthropy

Analysis: What is Hamas, and why has Israel deliberately enabled its existence for years?

How Israel helped prop up Hamas for decades

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