By Dave Reed
September 28, 2025
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Delegations walk out as Benjamin Netanyahu (at podium), Prime Minister of the State of Israel, addresses the general debate of the General Assembly’s eightieth session. (UN Photo/Loey Felipe)
Israel’s Prime Minister used the U.N. stage this week to taunt a world that is finally starting to hold him—and Israel—to account. Benjamin Netanyahu derided the recent wave of recognition for a Palestinian state and vowed to “finish the job” in Gaza. It was a defiant performance to a thinning audience, aimed mainly at Israelis and detached from reality. In Gaza City, al-Shifa Hospital is down to a handful of operating rooms and ICU beds as the ground invasion advances. In the Mediterranean, civilians—including U.S. veterans—are risking their lives to break the siege. In the West Bank, Israel is fast-tracking annexation to erase Palestinian self-determination. A project built on occupation, apartheid, and genocide is isolating Israel on the global stage.
If you read one piece this week, make it Hamza Hamouchene’s “Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation.” Settler colonialism destroys people and land together; Israel’s “green” PR cannot mask a campaign that poisons water and air while leveling neighborhoods. Climate justice has a stake in Palestinian liberation—not as charity, but as survival politics.
Our Palestine team shows how Israel is trying to collapse the Palestinian Authority by choking off revenue and threatening the banking system—financial warfare meant to make any future state ungovernable, even as Western capitals offer symbolic recognitions. At the same time, planners push projects to split the West Bank and clear communities for settlement growth. Recognition without sanctions won’t stop this machinery; only material pressure will.
In U.S. politics, Phil Weiss tracks fractures on the right over Israel and the lobby after the killing of MAGA figure Charlie Kirk, while Mitchell Plitnick lays out Netanyahu’s next test: winning a White House green light for continued war and annexation under the banner of a “21-point plan.” When the policy is mass displacement and permanent rule without rights, fewer people will call it peace.
So much is moving at once. Please share our reporting to help your networks cut through the noise with a clear, anti-Zionist, movement-centered perspective.
This month’s Frontline Briefing for donors will unpack where global politics around Palestine may be headed—and what shifting dynamics could mean in the months ahead. Editor-in-Chief Yumna Patel and Palestine News Director Faris Giacaman will lead the conversation. If you’re a donor, send me an email and I’ll send your registration link. If you aren’t yet, become a donor today (below!) and join us for the Briefing—we’d love to see you there.
– Dave Reed, Publisher
Israel’s Prime Minister used the U.N. stage this week to taunt a world that is finally starting to hold him—and Israel—to account. Benjamin Netanyahu derided the recent wave of recognition for a Palestinian state and vowed to “finish the job” in Gaza. It was a defiant performance to a thinning audience, aimed mainly at Israelis and detached from reality. In Gaza City, al-Shifa Hospital is down to a handful of operating rooms and ICU beds as the ground invasion advances. In the Mediterranean, civilians—including U.S. veterans—are risking their lives to break the siege. In the West Bank, Israel is fast-tracking annexation to erase Palestinian self-determination. A project built on occupation, apartheid, and genocide is isolating Israel on the global stage.
If you read one piece this week, make it Hamza Hamouchene’s “Ecocide, Imperialism and Palestine Liberation.” Settler colonialism destroys people and land together; Israel’s “green” PR cannot mask a campaign that poisons water and air while leveling neighborhoods. Climate justice has a stake in Palestinian liberation—not as charity, but as survival politics.
Our Palestine team shows how Israel is trying to collapse the Palestinian Authority by choking off revenue and threatening the banking system—financial warfare meant to make any future state ungovernable, even as Western capitals offer symbolic recognitions. At the same time, planners push projects to split the West Bank and clear communities for settlement growth. Recognition without sanctions won’t stop this machinery; only material pressure will.
In U.S. politics, Phil Weiss tracks fractures on the right over Israel and the lobby after the killing of MAGA figure Charlie Kirk, while Mitchell Plitnick lays out Netanyahu’s next test: winning a White House green light for continued war and annexation under the banner of a “21-point plan.” When the policy is mass displacement and permanent rule without rights, fewer people will call it peace.
So much is moving at once. Please share our reporting to help your networks cut through the noise with a clear, anti-Zionist, movement-centered perspective.
This month’s Frontline Briefing for donors will unpack where global politics around Palestine may be headed—and what shifting dynamics could mean in the months ahead. Editor-in-Chief Yumna Patel and Palestine News Director Faris Giacaman will lead the conversation. If you’re a donor, send me an email and I’ll send your registration link. If you aren’t yet, become a donor today (below!) and join us for the Briefing—we’d love to see you there.
– Dave Reed, Publisher
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