Updates & Analysis

How the Good Shepherd Collective is able to do the work inside and out of Palestine, despite not being funded by large institutions.

An important conversation by Bana Abu Zuluf.

Life in Palestine has taught me that there is a time for despair and a time for hope, a time to resist and a time to wait. For two years, Palestinian Christians cancelled Christmas—refusing celebration, despite the economic toll, in solidarity with Gaza and the thousands imprisoned in the zionist prisons.

The data from this reporting period (November 18 – December 12, 2025) reveals a region under sustained western imperialist violence waged through the zionist movement. The impunity that Israel has been granted has ensured that ceasefire agreements fail to provide meaningful protection to Palestinians. The 1,498 documented incidents and 223 fatalities represent only the verified toll; the actual humanitarian cost is undoubtedly higher.

We can only do this work because people like yourself are willing to invest in a future of justice. We're reaching out to you to ask if you'd make a financial contribution to the work here in Palestine.

We can only do this work because people like yourself are willing to invest in a future of justice. We're reaching out to you to ask if you'd make a financial contribution to the work here in Palestine.

The question is unavoidable: Why should organizations that fund illegal settlements, support foreign military forces, or advocate for policies that violate international humanitarian law retain their 501(c)(3) status? It is time to challenge the charitable designation of institutions whose work directly finances the erasure of Palestinian life.

The international left’s embrace of “one democratic state” as the self-evident endpoint of Palestinian liberation often fails to account for what Palestinians themselves wish to preserve: not just rights in the abstract, but a way of life, a cultural fabric, cities and villages that remain theirs.

Mohammed Ibrahim’s imprisonment and torture by the Israeli state lay bare not just Zionism’s systematic brutalization of Palestinian children, but a darker truth: this violence meets silence because it is not foreign to US culture — it is embedded within it.

On this date, December 1st, we mark the anniversaries of five of the many Palestinian journalists who were killed while documenting Israel’s genocide of Gaza.

Parsing Israel’s documented attacks on regional health infrastructure data reveals a systematic and sustained pattern of violence against physical infrastructure and personnel across the broader Middl...

In 2023, documented attacks more than doubled to 2,410. The following year pushed even higher to 2,971, the worst year on record. This explosion in violence correlates directly with the period following October 7, 2023, during which settler militias mobilized openly and Israeli authorities largely suspended enforcement against settler violence in the West Bank.

Prices of goods in Gaza remain astronomically high, despite the illusion of a ceasefire. A carton of eggs that once cost a family $3.42 now demands $180.00.

We can only do this work because people like yourself are willing to invest in a future of justice. We're reaching out to you to ask if you'd make a financial contribution to the work here in Palestine.

This year, Israeli forces have conducted operations across refugee camps that have created the largest refugee crisis in the West Bank since 1967. Recent UNOSAT satellite imagery analysis revealed that Israel destroyed, severely damaged, or moderately damaged 676 structures (52% of all structures) in Jenin Camp, 382 structures (48%) in Nur Shams, and 402 structures (36%) in Tulkarm.

This systematic destruction of Gaza's built environment, which has affected four out of every five structures across the entire Strip, represents the deliberate rendering of Palestinian territory uninhabitable, transforming an entire society's homeland into an endless landscape of rubble while forcing survivors into perpetual internal exile.