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The 2025 Mid-Year Trends report provides key statistics on refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people globally from the first six months of 2025.

This is the state that the racist ideology of Zionism has produced. The ‘west’ needs to wake up to what it has actually created.

In the wake of two years of the globally broadcast extermination of the people of Palestine, three distinct tracks of international response have emerged.

The Palestinian-Israeli film “No Other Land” won the 2025 Academy Award for best documentary but struggles to find a U.S. distributor due to its controversial subject matter around the ...

With the Yom Kippur War or Fourth Arab-Israeli War in 1973, the minimal diplomatic and economic relations between Japan and ...

One by one, nations formally recognized the State of Palestine. But what does that mean with Gaza reduced to rubble?

As the EU’s foreign policy chief Kaja Kallas leads calls to loan frozen Russian assets to Ukraine and increase pressure on ...

Hannah Mesouani is a member of the Bloomington Not in Our Town chapter and the Racial Equity Collective. She also described herself as a Muslim-American, having been born and raised in Morocco.

German politics and policing have taken an aggressive approach to criticism of Israel. What happens to the protest movement — and national rhetoric — now?

Honest, paywall-free news is rare. Please support our boldly independent journalism with a donation of any size. Since I first opened my eyes to this world as a third-generation refugee, I was taught ...

Hamas freed the 20 hostages and Israel released some 2,000 Palestinian prisoners as part of a cease-fire. President Trump, in Israel, proclaimed an “end” to the war, but Israel and Hamas have not ...