Dave Reed

A military order signed in May authorizes what may be Israel’s first permanent base inside Area A, the part of the West Bank under Palestinian Authority control. Asmaa al-Masalmeh reports on the seizure of the Rahal family’s home near Jenin to build it, and on the families already being displaced as a result.

The 2026 World Cup kicked off this week, and the body governing global soccer has spent years refusing to apply its own standards when Israel is involved. FIFA opened an investigation into Israeli clubs operating inside illegal West Bank settlements. The clubs were never suspended and are still competing. There are now ten of them, and they are expanding. Jill Thomson examines FIFA and UEFA’s record on settlement soccer, and what Palestinian advocates are demanding in response.

New York goes to the polls on June 23, and Palestine has already shaped the field. Zohran Mamdani’s mayoral victory over Andrew Cuomo last year upended the assumption that support for Palestinian rights was a political liability. In the weeks since, from the Park Slope Food Coop’s boycott vote to the charged congressional primary between Brad Lander and incumbent Dan Goldman, the issue has continued to drive outcomes that few in the political establishment anticipated.