The antigovernment protests in Israel are not about achieving true democracy, but maintaining Jewish privilege.

US president’s latest comments confirm Israel’s wholesale destruction of Gaza is aimed at removing Palestinians.

The use of Palestinian civilians as ‘human baits’ in Gaza demonstrates how racism informs Israel’s warfare practices.

If the world accepts the way Israel now interprets the principle of proportionality, genocide will become justified.

But there is one important difference between the two cases: The genocide in Gaza is not taking place in the dark.

Most Israelis believe the violence unleashed on civilians is necessary – and justified – to achieve victory in Gaza.

Manipulating international law allows Israel to evade condemnation for its war crimes.

Israelis are realising government failures enabled Hamas’s attack, but that may not be enough to bring Netanyahu down.

International law bars Israel from pushing Eritreans out. But that, as Palestinians know well, hasn’t stopped it before.