NEW FROM FMEP
The Roots of Israel’s Aggression Against Lebanon (New podcast episode)
FMEP Fellow Peter Beinart speaks with Bard College Professor Ziad Abu-Rish about the roots of Israel’s aggression against Lebanon. They discuss why Israel has been attacking Lebanon since 1948, why Hezbollah continues to fight Israel, and why the Lebanese military can’t disarm Hezbollah. They draw upon this article that Ziad recently published in The Public Source, “Sovereignty Without Defense: The Army, the State, and Hezbollah’s Weapons.”
Europe Reckons with the “Israel Impunity Tax” (New podcast episode)
FMEP President Lara Friedman is joined by political analyst/commentator Daniel Levy, President of the U.S./Middle East Project (USMEP), for a far-ranging conversation about Europe’s equities, concerns, and options with respect to current events in the Middle East (the US/Israel war on Iran, Israel’s wars on Lebanon and Gaza, and Israel’s escalation in the West Bank) including with respect to US-Europe relations.
FMEP Legislative Round-Up April 24, 2026 (Lara Friedman)
- Bills, Resolutions; 2. Letters; 3. Hearings & Markups; 4. Selected Members on the Record; 5. Selected Media & Press releases/Statements
Settlement & Annexation Report: April 24, 2026 (Kristin McCarthy)
EAST JERUSALEM: Yeshiva Approved in Sheikh Jarrah, Land Registration; 2. WEST BANK: Settlers Move Into Sa-Nur, U.S. Backs Settlement Frenzy, New OCHA Map; 3. GAZA; 4. LEBANON; 5. STATE-BACKED SETTLER TERRORISM; 6. BONUS READS
GLOBAL/REGION
Trump sending Witkoff and Kushner to Pakistan to resume talks on Iran war (The Guardian 4/24/26)
“Iran had said it would not restart talks until the US lifted its blockade of Iranian ports, while the US was demanding verifiable assurances that Tehran would end its nuclear programme and lift its own crippling blockade of the strait.” See also Trump claims US has total control over strait of Hormuz after Iran seizes two container ships (The Guardian 4/23/26); Both Iran and U.S. Blockade Strait of Hormuz (NYT 4/24/26); Trump Blinks First, Extending Ceasefire with Iran as Hormuz Deadlock Continues (Drop Site 4/22/26); Katz says Israel waiting for ‘green light’ to renew war against Iran (TOI 4/23/26); Israel sees chance of US-Iran deal as almost ‘non-existent,’ readies for war (Al Monitor 4/21/26);
Israeli Soldiers Testify to Widespread Looting in Lebanon: ‘Commanders Know and Do Nothing’ (Haaretz 4/23/26)
“Israeli soldiers have been looting significant amounts of civilian property from homes and businesses in southern Lebanon, according to testimonies given to Haaretz by IDF soldiers and commanders stationed inside the country. The accounts describe the theft of motorcycles, televisions, paintings, sofas and rugs on a wide scale, which has become routine. Both senior and junior commanders on the ground are said to be aware of the phenomenon, but are not taking disciplinary action to curb it.” See also Israeli strikes killed six, wounded two in Lebanon on Friday, health ministry says; (Haaretz 4/24/26); Israel-Lebanon ceasefire extended by three weeks, Trump says (Axios 4/23/26); As IDF maintains hold on south Lebanon, residents of over 50 villages told to stay away (TOI 4/20/26); Israeli settlers cross into Syria and Lebanon calling for new settlements (Middle East Eye 4/24/26);
Israel Is Weaponizing Lebanon’s Diversity (Ussama Makdisi//NYT 4/23/26)
“Despite the tenuous cease-fire between Lebanon and Israel that is now in place, Israel and Hezbollah have continued to exchange fire, while the Israeli military has destroyed several Shiite villages along the border. The current cessation of hostilities follows a brutal Israeli assault that killed more than 2,300 people and displaced over a million from their homes. More than 350 Lebanese were killed in a shocking 10-minute aerial blitz on Beirut on April 8, hours after a cease-fire between Iran and the United States had been announced and was widely presumed to include Lebanon. Although many of the groups that make up Lebanon’s rich tapestry of religious diversity have been affected by Israel’s relentless bombing, the civilians most devastated are members of Lebanon’s Shiite community. Israel claims it has been targeting Hezbollah, the political party and resistance movement rooted in Lebanon’s Shiite community. But its actions have gone well beyond attacking that group. It has repeated its Gaza doctrine of collective punishment…Such an insidious and dangerous tactic wages war not just on the people, but also on the very nature of Lebanese society. Modern Lebanon embodies a history of religious coexistence that goes back centuries. As it is in any socially diverse country, that pluralism is imperfect; Lebanon still struggles with sectarian tensions that both led to and are the legacy of its civil war. Israel is exploiting these divides not just to vanquish Hezbollah, but also to expand at the expense of religiously diverse Lebanon.” See also Lebanese Journalist Amal Khalil Bombed and Left to Die by Israel (Drop Site 4/22/26); Israeli killing of Lebanese journalist draws international condemnation (The Guardian 4/23/26); Is Israel trying to foment civil war in Lebanon? (Elia Ayoub//+972 Magazine 4/23/26)
Report: Prime minister-elect says Hungary must arrest visiting foreign leaders wanted by ICC (Haaretz 4/20/26)
“Hungary’s Prime Minister-Elect Peter Magyar said his country would arrest foreign leaders on its territory wanted by the International Criminal Court, Bloomberg reported Monday, adding that Magyar said he would stop Hungary’s exit from the Hague tribunal, initiated by his predecessor, Viktor Orbán.” See also Venice Biennale jury ‘will not award artists from countries facing war crimes charges’ (The Guardian 4/24/26);
Israeli Soldier in Lebanon Sledgehammered a Statue of Jesus (NYT 4/20/26)
“The Israeli military said Monday that it was investigating one of its soldiers after he was photographed in southern Lebanon swinging a sledgehammer at the head of a statue of a crucified Jesus that had fallen off a cross…“I wanted to believe it wasn’t real,” said Farid Jubran, a spokesman for the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem, which oversees Latin Catholics in Israel, the Palestinian territories, Jordan and Cyprus. “It’s heartbreaking to see such an act of aggression against such an important symbol — the symbol for Christians around the world,” Mr. Jubran added.” See also Israeli Soldiers Sentenced to Jail for Damaging Jesus Statue in Lebanon (NYT 4/21/26);
GAZA
Israel’s Yellow Line in Gaza: Annexation without Legal Burden (Ahmad Ibsais//Al Shabaka 4/21/26)
“The Israeli regime is drawing a “Yellow Line” across Gaza to consolidate territorial control without formal annexation. This policy brief argues that: The Yellow Line functions as a de facto military demarcation that shapes civilian movement and territorial control while being framed as a temporary security measure. By avoiding formal annexation, the Israeli regime exercises territorial control while limiting immediate legal and political costs. This strategy follows a historical pattern: ceasefires and agreements since 1948 have repeatedly facilitated Israeli territorial expansion under the guise of provisional arrangements. The Yellow Line operates alongside the weaponization of humanitarian aid, which blocks reconstruction materials and renders Palestinian return materially impossible. International law prohibits such practices, yet sustained inaction has enabled territorial transformation on the ground.” See also Gaza’s yellow line creeps forward as Israeli forces expand zone of control (The Guardian 4/22/26);
Dozens of Children Go Missing Each Week in Gaza’s Chaos. Their Families Won’t Stop Searching for Them (Haaretz 4/23/26)
“In Gazan Telegram and Facebook groups, dozens of appeals are published daily by families with missing children, or there are photos of children looking for their families. Most of the little ones are between 3 and 10…In March, these groups listed 75 children whose parents were looking for them, or who were found without their families. In October, the number was as high as 122. Not all of the children simply get lost among the tents; some disappearances are directly linked to the war in Gaza and the presence of Israeli troops. For example, some children disappeared after approaching the Netzarim corridor, an Israeli army road that bisects Gaza; these children may have been shot or detained by the army. Others were found holding empty food containers after seeking food from charity organizations. And many children’s bodies are still buried under the rubble in areas attacked by the Israeli military…According to the Palestinian Center for the Missing and Forcibly Disappeared, 2,900 children disappeared during the war. The center’s director, Nada Nabil, told the daily Al-Araby Al-Jadeed this week that it estimates that 2,700 children’s bodies are trapped under the rubble, with 200 other children missing due to displacement, dangers linked to nearby IDF positions, and the chaos in aid distribution areas.” See also Israeli strikes kill at least nine Palestinians across Gaza, including three children (Drop Site 4/23/26); Gazans Report Hours-long Queues for Bread Amid Flour and Fuel Shortage (Haaretz 4/19/26);
Hamas Officials Say Group Is Ready to Hand Over Some Weapons (NYT 4/19/26)
“Hamas is ready to relinquish thousands of automatic rifles and other weapons belonging to its police force and other internal security services in Gaza, according to two officials of the group. Such a step would be a remarkable concession from Hamas, which until now has publicly resisted giving up any of its arms. The officials said Hamas would be willing to turn over these weapons to the Palestinian administrative committee that has been set up to govern Gaza by the Board of Peace, the international organization led by President Trump to oversee the cease-fire. Hamas has said previously it is willing to turn over the burden of providing public services in Gaza to the U.S.-backed committee. But the group has not disbanded its battalions of armed fighters, suggesting it wants to maintain influence in the territory despite Israeli and American opposition.”
RIVER TO THE SEA
What’s at stake as Palestinians go to the polls for the first time in years (Shatha Yaish and Ibtisam Mahdi//+972 Magazine 4/24/26)
“On Saturday, Palestinians will head to the polls for local elections spanning municipalities and village councils across the occupied West Bank, and a single city in the besieged Gaza Strip. The elections mark the first return to the ballot box since staggered local votes in the West Bank in 2021 and 2022; in Gaza, meanwhile, residents will be voting in formal elections for the first time in 20 years, when the last Palestinian legislative election took place…Most lists are running independently of major parties, while a small number are aligned with the Fatah party of Palestinian Authority (PA) President Mahmoud Abbas. Due to new regulations imposed by Abbas, which require candidates to commit to the program of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO), none are explicitly affiliated with Hamas…The campaign has unfolded under the shadow of Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza and, in the West Bank, soaring settler violence, deepening economic strain, and rapidly accelerating annexation…Many Palestinians have also criticized new election regulations issued by the PA last November, which they see as an attempt to curb meaningful political participation and eliminate competition.” See also On eve of Palestinian local elections, competition in short supply (Daoud Kuttab//Al Monitor 4/23/26)
On Independence Day, Israel Honors Rabbi Who Called to ‘Flatten’ Gaza (NYT 4/22/26)
“The rabbi, Avraham Zarbiv, was saluted at a ceremony celebrating the 78th anniversary of the country’s founding on Tuesday night. He had served as a reservist during the war in Gaza, mostly razing parts of the enclave with a bulldozer. After becoming popular on social media, he was chosen to light a torch at Israel’s national independence day ceremony, one of the country’s highest honors…Rabbi Zarbiv became a kind of wartime influencer who blended militarism and religious nationalism by frequently filming himself in his bulldozer in Gaza and posting clips on social media. Some of his fans turned his name into a verb — “to Zarbiv” — meaning to inflict destruction. In one video, he vowed that Israel would inflict “the Ninth of Av” on Gaza — the date when Jews recognize the destruction of both ancient biblical temples that preceded their exile from Israel. “We’re destroying and advancing, destroying and advancing,” he added, calling for Israel to build new settlements in Gaza…Mr. Zarbiv’s latest videos are now from southern Lebanon, where Israel is conducting demolitions across an area of Lebanese territory that it now occupies. Israel Katz, the Israeli defense minister, has vowed to raze towns there as Israel did in Gaza.” See also Trump, in absentia, becomes first non-Israeli to receive Israel’s top civilian honor (JTA 4/23/26); ‘Here is where hope lies’: Palestinians and Israelis mourn losses in joint ceremony (+972 Magazine 4/21/26); Israel’s Netanyahu says he was treated for prostate cancer: What we know (Al Monitor 4/24/26); Israeli Independence Day Ceremony Glorifying Netanyahu Would Inspire Envy in Pyongyang (Haaretz 4/22/26);
Palestinian boy, 14, among two killed in settler attack near West Bank school (The Guardian 4/22/26)
“Two Palestinians, including a 14-year-old schoolboy, have been killed in the occupied West Bank after Israeli settlers opened fire near a school amid mounting assaults on education in the territory, witnesses and local officials have said.” See also Israeli settlers and soldiers have killed 40 Palestinians in 2026 (Drop Site 4/23/26); No School in Umm al-Khair (Maya Rosen//Jewish Currents 4/22/26); No Body, No Answers: A Palestinian Family Is Left in the Dark About Their Son’s Fate (Haaretz 4/18/26); Dozens of Israeli settlers storm West Bank village, clash with residents and torch vehicle (Haaretz 4/24/26)
The Land Registration Campaign Remaking East Jerusalem (Charlotte Ritz-Jack//Jewish Currents 4/21/26)
“Using a revived colonial-era legal process, the Jewish National Fund is quietly transferring long-inhabited Palestinian property into Israeli hands.” See also Israel’s death penalty law could spell suspension from rights body role, says chief (The Guardian 4/22/26); Police detain Modiin man for wearing kippa with Israeli, Palestinian flags, cut out the Palestinian one (TOI 4/23/26);
Israeli soldiers using sexual assault to force Palestinians out of West Bank, report says (The Guardian 4/21/26)
“Israeli soldiers and settlers are using gendered violence and sexual assault and harassment to force Palestinians from their homes in the occupied West Bank, human rights and legal experts say. Palestinian women, men and children have reported attacks, forced nudity, invasive and painful body cavity searches, Israelis exposing their genitals, including to minors, and threats of sexual violence…The study, “Sexual violence and forcible transfer in the West Bank”, details accounts of escalating sexualised attacks and humiliation of Palestinians in their communities and inside their homes since 2023. Other forms of reported violence include urinating on Palestinians, taking and distributing humiliating photographs of bound and stripped individuals, stalking women who are using latrines, and threatening sexual violence against women…Sexualised attacks were hastening the displacement of Palestinians, according to the report. More than two-thirds of households surveyed identified rising violence against women and children, including sexual harassment targeting girls, as a tipping point in their decision to leave, the consortium said.”
How Israel Smothered a Palestinian Watchdog (Josh Nathan-Kazis//Jewish Currents 4/20/26)
“Khaled Quzmar, former head of Defense for Children International-Palestine, discusses his organization’s decision to close after a five-year harassment campaign by the Israeli government.”
U.S. SCENE
Iran War Has Drained U.S. Supplies of Critical, Costly Weapons (NYT 4/23/26)
“The Iran war has significantly drained much of the U.S. military’s global supply of munitions, and forced the Pentagon to rush bombs, missiles and other hardware to the Middle East from commands in Asia and Europe. The drawdowns have left these regional commands less ready to confront potential adversaries like Russia and China, and it has forced the United States to find ways to scale up production to address the depletions, Trump administration and congressional officials say. The conflict has also underscored the Pentagon’s overreliance on excessively expensive missiles and munitions, especially air-defense interceptors, as well as concerns about whether the defense industry can develop cheaper arms, especially attack drones, far more quickly…White House officials have refused to estimate the cost of the conflict so far, but two independent groups say the expense is staggering: between $28 billion and $35 billion, or just under $1 billion a day. In the first two days alone, defense officials have told lawmakers, the military used $5.6 billion of munitions. To restore the U.S. global stockpile to its previous size, the United States will have to make tough choices about where to maintain its military strength in the meantime. “At current production rates, reconstituting what we have expended could take years,” Senator Jack Reed of Rhode Island, the top Democrat on the Armed Services Committee, said this week.” See also Pentagon Erases Wounded U.S. Troops From Iran War Casualty List: “Definition of a Cover-up”(The Intercept 4/22/26);
Democrats Are Split Over What It Means to Block Israel Weapons Deals (Jonah Valdez//The Intercept 4/19/26)
“Ending U.S. military aid to Israel is now the mainstream position among Democratic leaders.
In a historic Senate vote on Wednesday, all but seven members of the Democratic caucus voted for at least one of two resolutions to block the sale of bombs and bulldozers to Israel’s military. Other prominent Democrats and potential 2028 presidential candidates, including Reps. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y.; Ro Khanna, D-Calif.; and former Obama aide Rahm Emanuel have recently said the U.S. should halt all military aid to Israel for offensive and so-called defensive weapons…Yet amid this shift, a quieter debate is stirring in the American left over how far Democrats should go in blocking weapons to Israel. For anti-Zionist organizers, the goal has long been a total arms embargo. That wouldn’t just bring to an end U.S. public spending to support Israel’s military, but would also halt the commercial sale of weapons from U.S. companies to Israel’s government. Advocates for the embargo, which includes Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich.; Summer Lee, D-Pa.; and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., view the policy as the most effective means in halting Israel’s genocide of Palestinians in Gaza and its human rights abuses in the West Bank, Lebanon, and Iran. Doing so, they say, would bring the U.S. into compliance with its own laws governing weapons transfers and human rights. Meanwhile, pro-Israel Democrats are beginning to speak out about holding Israel accountable for its abuses, but seek narrower arms restrictions that would still allow commercial weapons sales as a means to maintain Israel’s friendly relationship with the U.S. On Monday, J Street, an influential liberal Zionist lobbying group, released a memo outlining a significant shift in policy. Echoing growing demands to end Israel’s “blank check support from the United States,” J Street is urging legislators to instead make the Israeli government pay for U.S. weapons using its own funds.” See also Alan Dershowitz quits Democratic Party, calling it ‘most anti-Israel party in U.S. history’ (JTA 4/21/26); Rahm Emanuel joins calls for end to US ‘financial aid’ to Israel (JTA 4/20/26)
Requests for US legal aid linked to Palestine activism far surpass pre-2023 levels (The Guardian 4/21/26)
“A civil rights group dedicated to the defense of pro-Palestinian speech said that requests for legal assistance linked to Palestine-related activism in the US continues to far surpass pre-2023 levels, having logged 300% more requests for support last year than in any year prior to Israel’s war in Gaza. Palestine Legal logged some 1,131 requests in 2025. That was less than the record 2,184 requests it received in 2024, amid the peak of student protests and encampments, but well above its yearly average prior to the 7 October 2023 Hamas attacks and Israel’s response in Gaza. “With Trump’s return to power in January 2025, the authoritarian repression of the Palestine solidarity movement in the United States – already at unprecedented heights with the Biden administration’s crackdown on dissent against the US-backed genocide – went into overdrive,” the group wrote in a report published on Tuesday.” See also These states want to ban the term ‘West Bank’ and replace it with ‘Judea and Samaria’ (The Forward 4/22/26); Justice Dept. Targets Hundreds of Citizens in New Push for Denaturalization (NYT 4/23/26); Congress thinks my college is failing on antisemitism. My Jewish students disagree (Joel Swanson//The Forward 4/20/26)
Isaac Herzog, Accused by UN Panel of Inciting Genocide, to Deliver JTS Commencement Address (Jewish Currents 4/24/26)
“The Jewish Theological Seminary, a leading US rabbinical school, said late Thursday that Isaac Herzog, the president of the State of Israel, will deliver its commencement address next month. A United Nations commission concluded late last year that Herzog incited genocide against the Palestinians in Gaza, quoting comments he made shortly before Israel’s 2023 invasion saying Gazan civilians were responsible for Hamas’s October 7th attack on southern Israel. JTS also said it would confer an honorary degree on Debra Messing, the early 2000s-era sitcom actor who has remade herself in recent years as a Zionist social media personality. Last fall, Messing drew national attention for posting a meme on social media that called Zohran Mamdani, at the time a candidate for New York City mayor, an “America-hating jihadist.”’ See also Peter Beinart’s ‘Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza’ wins PEN America award (JTA 4/23/26);
PERSPECTIVES//LONG READS
Dispatches From Catastrophe: Twenty-three Palestinians reflect on the lives they have lost and the political futures that have been foreclosed in the wake of genocide. (As told to Maya Rosen and Jonathan Shamir, Introduced by Tareq Baconi//Jewish Currents Spring 2026)
Baconi: “In November and December 2025, Jewish Currents reached out to some two dozen Palestinians from Gaza and the West Bank—all of whom the magazine had previously interviewed after October 7th, 2023—to ask them how their lives had changed since they last shared their stories. The resulting testimonies are difficult to read. They show the effects of years of industrialized, live-broadcast massacres and colonization, particularly in Gaza, where more than 10% of the population is estimated to have been killed or injured in the last two years. The Gaza dispatches are a portal to a place where dystopian science fiction—the exporting of killing to artificial intelligence and robots, the shooting of children lining up for food aid, the crushing of people under air-dropped food parcels—has become reality. We see how Palestinians’ very fabric of life, of home and family, has been torn apart; we see a world where being killed may be more merciful than continuing to bear the indignities of living. As Saleh, displaced in the West Bank but watching his family live through the genocide in Gaza, puts it, “We’ve grown tired of life.”’
Is this what war looks like now? (Mohamad Bazzi//The Guardian 4/24/26)
“Our world has changed over the past two and half years. In the weeks after the Hamas attacks of 7 October 2023, Israel set in motion a machinery of genocide – largely enabled by unwavering US support and powered by impunity and denial – against Gaza, unleashing one of the most destructive military campaigns targeting civilians in modern times. Israel has repeated the Gaza playbook in its war on Lebanon: intense aerial bombardment and illegal mass evacuation orders that lead to the large-scale displacement of civilians; the destruction of civilian infrastructure and border towns to make way for so-called “buffer zones” occupied by Israeli troops; the targeting of hospitals and healthcare workers; and the killing of journalists. And, as it did with Gaza, the west largely looks on with indifference. Gaza represents a new pinnacle for this type of wholesale destruction as a military strategy, of using overwhelming and disproportionate force against civilians and infrastructure. But the seed of this strategy was planted two decades ago – in a previous Israeli war on Lebanon. That war resulted in Israel’s Dahiyeh doctrine, which calls for the deliberate targeting of civilians and infrastructure as a means of collective punishment that seeks to turn local populations against armed militias. That doctrine played out in full force in Lebanon – and also has made multiple rhetorical appearances in Donald Trump’s threats to destroy societies and civilizations on a large scale. As long as this impunity continues, this playbook will repeat itself, constituting a new normal where the eradication of infrastructure, agriculture, cities and towns fit for habitation and entire cultures, is acceptable to much of the world as a method of war.”
Ending aid isn’t enough — we need sanctions and an arms embargo on Israel now (Ahmed Moor//Mondoweiss 4/21/26)
“The price we seek to extract for the joyful extermination of Palestinian life in Gaza, of Lebanese lives, and the lives of innocents in many other places should correspond to the magnitude of the crime. Demanding that America wash its hands of the Israeli genocide, to say no more money for killing children, is inadequate to our times. Rather, Americans should demand targeted sanctions and an arms embargo, including on sales from other countries to Israel. The targeted sanctions may be directed at individual criminals within the Israeli regime (Netanyahu, Gallant, Katz, Herzog), but also at the soldiers who perpetrated (and continue to perpetrate) the mass murder. The ultimate goal should be regime change within Palestine/Israel, from the river to the sea. In pursuing targeted sanctions and an embargo, which should include prosecutions and the provision of reparations, we may achieve a small measure of justice for all of Zionism’s victims. We may also reassert the primacy of liberal values—that everyone is equal before the law—in this country, which has also lost much in ceding moral prerogatives to Israel. And through our actions and calls for accountability, we may resuscitate the wan and sad body of international law, which is our only real hope for negotiating our way through the jungle, after all.”
What went wrong in Israel? A genocide scholar examines ‘what Zionism became’ (The Guardian 4/21/26)
“In his new book, Omer Bartov tracks how a liberatory strand of Zionism transformed into an extremist ideology that he sees as responsible for genocide in Gaza…The book, [Israel: What Went Wrong?] which was published on Tuesday, is a detailed account of how Israel was transformed from a hopeful nation that in its founding document promised “complete equality of social and political rights to all its citizens irrespective of religion, race or sex” into one intent on what he bluntly terms “settler colonialism and ethno-nationalism”. See also ‘Zionism Led to Genocide. It Must Disappear’: Omer Bartov’s New Book Explores Where, Exactly, Israel Went Wrong (Haaretz 4/24/26);
Meet the Top “Content” Producers Linked to Canary Mission (Drop Site 4/23/26)
“The pro-Israel doxxing site Canary Mission has been notoriously secretive since its creation in 2015. The anonymous website, which began as an online blacklist targeting academics and activists who expressed pro-Palestine views, over the last year has been used by the Trump administration to select international students for arrest, detention, and deportation. Despite its increasingly high profile, the website’s operators have remained largely unknown. In January, Drop Site reported on unlisted websites used by Canary Mission to plan and execute its doxxing operation and was able to confirm that the site is operated in Israel. The unlisted website data revealed that an employee paid by the Israeli nonprofit Megamot Shalom as a writer provided content for Canary Mission’s dossiers of targets, confirming earlier reporting by The Forward that Megamot Shalom’s only known activity appears to be providing support to Canary Mission. Drop Site has now identified five more people whom Megamot Shalom has employed as content writers, editors, and consultants. These individuals—Elihu David Stone, Yehuda HaKohen, Abigail Bornstein, Aharon Dikel, and Alexander Malbin Duncan—were identified through a review of Megamot Shalom’s business filings with the Israeli government from 2016 to 2024, where they were listed as the nonprofit’s highest-paid employees. They are all Americans who moved to Israel and are connected to one another and individuals reported to be involved with Canary Mission.”
The beginning of the end of Israel’s ‘permanent security’ doctrine (Meron Rapoport and Ameer Fakhoury//+972 Magazine 4/24/26)
“Israel’s relentless pursuit of ‘total victory’ has entangled it in an unwinnable war with Iran, eroding legitimacy abroad and deepening moral decay within.”
What a real ‘day after’ for Gaza could look like (Yahav Erez//+972 Magazine 4/22/26)
“Many of those displaced by the genocide are already Nakba refugees. Activists are mapping out how they could return to their original homes from pre-1948.”