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1 week ago | 
truthout.org | Phyllis Bennis |Anton Woronczuk |Khury Petersen-Smith
There’s no question that Washington’s longstanding military and economic support made Israel’s illegal war possible. By Phyllis Bennis & Khury Petersen-Smith , OtherWords Published June 19, 2025 Mourners gather around the coffins of people killed in Israeli attacks in Khorramabad, Iran, during their funeral in on June 16, 2025.
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1 week ago | 
popularresistance.org | Phyllis Bennis |Khury Petersen-Smith
Above photo: Smoke rises from the rubble of an Iranian state media building in Tehran after an Israeli airstrike on June 16, 2025. Mina / Middle East Images via AFP. Israel is the main destabilizing force in the Middle East. And its attacks on Iran are being made possible by U.S. support. We bear special responsibility to work to end the bombing.
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1 week ago | 
progressivehub.net | Phyllis Bennis |Khury Petersen-Smith |Ryan Black
Israel is the main destabilizing force in the Middle East, and its attacks on Iran are being made possible by U.S. support. We bear special responsibility to work to end the bombing. By Phyllis Bennis and Khury Petersen-Smith, In These TimesIsrael’s attack on Iran last week has opened a stark danger — a predictable pattern of escalation ushering in a new phase of the long-standing crises roiling the Middle East region.
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1 week ago | 
portside.org | Phyllis Bennis |Khury Petersen-Smith
The U.S. Must Force Israel To End Its War on Iran Published June 17, 2025 Israel’s attack on Iran last week has opened a stark danger — a predictable pattern of escalation ushering in a new phase of the long-standing crises roiling the Middle East region.
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1 week ago | 
inthesetimes.com | Phyllis Bennis |Khury Petersen-Smith
Israel’s attack on Iran last week has opened a stark danger — a predictable pattern of escalation ushering in a new phase of the long-standing crises roiling the Middle East region. Certainly Israel has a long history of attacking Iran — including bombing raids; assassinations of political and military leaders as well as nuclear scientists; cyberattacks; assaults on Iranian allies in Syria, Iraq, Lebanon, Yemen, and beyond — and Iran has on occasion struck back.
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Feb 27, 2025 | 
otherwords.org | Peter Certo |Khury Petersen-Smith |Basav Sen |Lindsay Koshgarian
As parents, we’re horrified by the denial of health care to trans children that’s being imposed on families and communities across this country right now. Through President Trump’s executive orders and harsh anti-trans laws in different states, policy makers are making it a crime to provide for trans kids’ medical needs. That’s sickening.
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Jan 21, 2025 | 
fpif.org | Peter Certo |Phyllis Bennis |Khury Petersen-Smith
Originally published in In These Times.
A cease-fire agreement in Gaza has finally been announced. If it works, it will be incredibly important. But this chapter of genocide and displacement isn’t over yet. Following President Biden’s press conference claiming credit for the deal, Al-Jazeera reported that Israeli attacks had killed more than 100 people in Gaza in the first hours after the announcement.
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Jan 18, 2025 | 
inthesetimes.com | Phyllis Bennis |Khury Petersen-Smith
A cease-fire agreement in Gaza has finally been announced. If it works, it will be incredibly important. But this chapter of genocide and displacement isn’t over yet. Following President Biden’s press conference announcing and claiming credit for the deal, Al-Jazeera reportedIsraeli attacks had killed more than people in Gaza. And even if this chapter ends, there is still a long story ahead left to be written.
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Jan 12, 2025 | 
znetwork.org | Khury Petersen-Smith
Since the state of Israel’s founding, its leaders and supporters have sought acceptance among other states as a peer, and legitimacy in the eyes of the global public. It has achieved mixed success on the former — and failed repeatedly on the latter. The examples are numerous. The 2022 World Cup, for one, saw a flood of social media videos involving Israeli reporters pursuing interviews with soccer fans, only to be rebuffed or confronted for Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
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Jan 9, 2025 | 
ips-dc.org | Khury Petersen-Smith |Caleb Crowder
Since the state of Israel’s founding, its leaders and supporters have sought acceptance among other states as a peer, and legitimacy in the eyes of the global public. It has achieved mixed success on the former — and failed repeatedly on the latter. The examples are numerous. The 2022 World Cup, for one, saw a flood of social media videos involving Israeli reporters pursuing interviews with soccer fans, only to be rebuffed or confronted for Israel’s treatment of Palestinians.
