https://znetwork.org/author/jeremyscahill/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:08:21 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/jeremyscahill/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hamass-strategic-gamble/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hamass-strategic-gamble/#respond Sun, 05 Oct 2025 15:08:14 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1289551 This week, as Palestinian negotiators led by Hamas gathered in Doha, Qatar, to craft their response to President Donald Trump’s 20-point plan for a Gaza ceasefire, they knew they were at a decisive crossroads. Trump had portrayed his plan, unveiled on Monday at the White House, as an ultimatum and both he and Prime Minister [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hamass-strategic-gamble/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-100-word-ceasefire-proposal-trump-sent-hamas/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-100-word-ceasefire-proposal-trump-sent-hamas/#respond Tue, 09 Sep 2025 16:07:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1288329 A five-point summary outlining U.S. President Donald Trump’s proposal for a Gaza ceasefire was delivered to Hamas by mediators over the weekend. Trump has characterized the ultimatum as the final offer to the Palestinian resistance movement before Israel accelerates its campaign to enact the total destruction of the Gaza Strip. The brief, approximately 100-word document, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-100-word-ceasefire-proposal-trump-sent-hamas/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hamas-responds-to-witkoff-gaza-proposal-demands-trump-guarantee-israel-wont-resume-genocide/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hamas-responds-to-witkoff-gaza-proposal-demands-trump-guarantee-israel-wont-resume-genocide/#respond Sun, 01 Jun 2025 12:19:15 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1284460 Hamas has submitted a new proposal for a Gaza ceasefire that the group says “aims to achieve a permanent ceasefire, a comprehensive withdrawal [of Israeli forces] from the Gaza Strip, and ensure the flow of aid to our people and our families in the Gaza Strip.” The thirteen point document, obtained by Drop Site, represents [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hamas-responds-to-witkoff-gaza-proposal-demands-trump-guarantee-israel-wont-resume-genocide/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hamas-report-to-mediators-accuses-israel-of-pervasive-gaza-ceasefire-violations/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hamas-report-to-mediators-accuses-israel-of-pervasive-gaza-ceasefire-violations/#respond Thu, 13 Feb 2025 16:57:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1279697 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/hamas-report-to-mediators-accuses-israel-of-pervasive-gaza-ceasefire-violations/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/netanyahu-is-preparing-to-sabotage-the-gaza-ceasefire-again/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/netanyahu-is-preparing-to-sabotage-the-gaza-ceasefire-again/#respond Wed, 12 Feb 2025 17:51:07 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1279632 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/netanyahu-is-preparing-to-sabotage-the-gaza-ceasefire-again/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-refusing-to-release-key-political-prisoners-in-ceasefire/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-refusing-to-release-key-political-prisoners-in-ceasefire/#respond Sat, 18 Jan 2025 14:32:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1278594 The Palestinian delegation negotiating the Gaza “ceasefire” agreement in Doha made an eleventh-hour effort earlier this week to push for the release of two of the most high-profile political prisoners held by Israel: Marwan Barghouti, a popular political leader many believe would win a democratic election in Palestine, and Ahmad Sadaat, Secretary-General of the Popular [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-refusing-to-release-key-political-prisoners-in-ceasefire/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-turning-northern-gaza-into-a-killing-cage/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-turning-northern-gaza-into-a-killing-cage/#respond Mon, 14 Oct 2024 17:22:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1273682 With the full support of the Biden administration, Israel is waging a merciless war of extermination against the 400,000 Palestinians remaining in the northern Gaza Strip as the government of Benjamin Netanyahu is reportedly considering a plan to annex the territory. No food, water, or medicine have entered the north since October 1 as Israeli forces have [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israel-is-turning-northern-gaza-into-a-killing-cage/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-bloodbath-in-lebanon/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-bloodbath-in-lebanon/#respond Tue, 24 Sep 2024 16:30:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272760 On Monday, Israel engaged in its most deadly attacks in Lebanon since its 2006 invasion of the country, striking heavily populated areas throughout southern Lebanon—including hitting medical centers and ambulances, according to the Lebanese health minister—and expanding its attacks to Beirut and the Bekaa Valley in the east. The Israeli strikes included the targeting of [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-bloodbath-in-lebanon/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-new-campaign-of-terrorism-warfare-across-lebanon/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-new-campaign-of-terrorism-warfare-across-lebanon/#respond Fri, 20 Sep 2024 15:51:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272593 For the second day in a row, electronic devices across Lebanon, including walkie talkies, exploded on Wednesday, killing 14 people and injuring over 450, according to Lebanon’s health ministry. The attack came one day after thousands of pagers across the country exploded at the same time, killing eleven people—including a 9-year-old child—and wounding nearly 3,000, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-new-campaign-of-terrorism-warfare-across-lebanon/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-the-u-s-enabled-netanyahu-to-sabotage-a-gaza-ceasefire/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-the-u-s-enabled-netanyahu-to-sabotage-a-gaza-ceasefire/#respond Mon, 09 Sep 2024 15:47:27 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1272092 After the bodies of six more Israeli hostages of Hamas were found in the Gaza Strip, pressure in Israel is mounting on the government to secure a ceasefire deal and free the remaining hostages and soldiers taken captive on October 7. The announcement Sunday that the captives, including a dual citizen of the U.S., were [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-the-u-s-enabled-netanyahu-to-sabotage-a-gaza-ceasefire/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-violent-invasion-of-west-bank-parallels-the-early-stages-of-war-on-gaza-un-rapporteur-on-palestine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-violent-invasion-of-west-bank-parallels-the-early-stages-of-war-on-gaza-un-rapporteur-on-palestine/#respond Sat, 31 Aug 2024 18:14:28 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1271603 Israel is in the midst of its largest scale assault of the occupied West Bank since 2002. Beginning in the predawn hours on Wednesday, hundreds of Israeli forces in columns of armored vehicles and bulldozers backed by drones and helicopters stormed into refugee camps in Jenin, Tulkarem, and Tubas. Israel also carried out drone strikes [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-violent-invasion-of-west-bank-parallels-the-early-stages-of-war-on-gaza-un-rapporteur-on-palestine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/jeremy-scahill-on-new-head-of-hamas-questions-about-haniyeh-assassination-iran-retaliation/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/jeremy-scahill-on-new-head-of-hamas-questions-about-haniyeh-assassination-iran-retaliation/#respond Thu, 08 Aug 2024 16:55:39 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1270538 Hamas has named Yahya Sinwar as successor to former senior political leader Ismail Haniyeh, who was assassinated in Tehran last week, shortly after Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s warmly received visit to the United States. Sinwar helped to found the precursor to Hamas’s current militant wing and is believed to have orchestrated the organization’s October [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/jeremy-scahill-on-new-head-of-hamas-questions-about-haniyeh-assassination-iran-retaliation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-assassination-of-hamas-leader-ismail-haniyeh-will-only-embolden-resistance/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-assassination-of-hamas-leader-ismail-haniyeh-will-only-embolden-resistance/#respond Wed, 31 Jul 2024 16:30:29 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1270155 At approximately 2 a.m. local time, Hamas’s political leader Ismail Haniyeh was assassinated in Tehran in an apparent Israeli strike. It is not yet known what precise weapons were used, but Iran’s semi-official Fars News Agency described it as a “projectile.” The U.S. has denied it was aware of the strike beforehand, though it is [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-assassination-of-hamas-leader-ismail-haniyeh-will-only-embolden-resistance/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-record-with-hamas/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-record-with-hamas/#respond Fri, 12 Jul 2024 14:40:12 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1269216 The past nine months of Israel’s genocidal war in Gaza have spurred an unprecedented global awakening to the plight of the Palestinian people. At no point in the 76 years since the formation of the state of Israel and the unleashing of the Nakba has there been such sustained and open anger at Israel and [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/on-the-record-with-hamas/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nyc-mayor-smeared-a-grandmother-as-an-outside-agitator-to-justify-nypd-assault-on-columbia/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nyc-mayor-smeared-a-grandmother-as-an-outside-agitator-to-justify-nypd-assault-on-columbia/#respond Sat, 04 May 2024 11:34:52 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1265877 Nahla Aa-Arian has been living a nightmare for the past seven months, watching from afar as Israel carries out its scorched-earth war against her ancestral homeland in the Gaza Strip. Like many Palestinian Americans, the 63-year-old retired fourth-grade teacher from Tampa Bay, Florida, has endured seven months of a steady trickle of WhatsApp messages about the [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/nyc-mayor-smeared-a-grandmother-as-an-outside-agitator-to-justify-nypd-assault-on-columbia/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/between-the-hammer-and-the-anvil/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/between-the-hammer-and-the-anvil/#respond Sat, 02 Mar 2024 16:59:05 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262998 Anat Schwartz had a problem. The Israeli filmmaker and former air force intelligence official had been assigned by the New York Times to work with her partner’s nephew Adam Sella and veteran Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman on an investigation into sexual violence by Hamas on October 7 that could reshape the way the world understood Israel’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/between-the-hammer-and-the-anvil/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/with-netanyahu-threatening-rafah-invasion-biden-prepares-to-send-israel-more-bombs/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/with-netanyahu-threatening-rafah-invasion-biden-prepares-to-send-israel-more-bombs/#respond Sat, 17 Feb 2024 15:39:02 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262327 The most relevant fact about the Biden administration’s current position on the war against Gaza is this: There is no Israeli war crime too extreme for Joe Biden to consider pausing, to say nothing of cutting off, the flow of U.S. weapons and financial support for Israel’s war of annihilation. On Tuesday, the Senate passed [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/with-netanyahu-threatening-rafah-invasion-biden-prepares-to-send-israel-more-bombs/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/netanyahus-war-on-truth/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/netanyahus-war-on-truth/#respond Wed, 07 Feb 2024 21:24:19 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1261857 Two weeks befor Hamas commandos led a series of raids into Israel on October 7, Benjamin Netanyahu stood before an empty chamberOpens in a new tab at the United Nations headquarters in New York City. The Israeli prime minister brandished a map of what he promised could be the “New Middle East.” It depicted a state of Israel [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/netanyahus-war-on-truth/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/at-the-hague-israel-mounted-a-defense-based-in-an-alternate-reality/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/at-the-hague-israel-mounted-a-defense-based-in-an-alternate-reality/#respond Sat, 13 Jan 2024 16:07:52 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1260695 A team of Israeli lawyers and officials presented their defense at The Hague on Friday in the second day of the genocide case brought before the International Court of Justice by the government of South Africa. The lawyers portrayed Israel as the actual victim of genocide, not Gaza, accused South Africa of supporting Hamas, and painted South [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/at-the-hague-israel-mounted-a-defense-based-in-an-alternate-reality/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-genocide-case-against-israel-at-the-hague-the-u-s-is-the-unnamed-co-conspirator/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-genocide-case-against-israel-at-the-hague-the-u-s-is-the-unnamed-co-conspirator/#respond Fri, 12 Jan 2024 17:52:59 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1260662 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/in-genocide-case-against-israel-at-the-hague-the-u-s-is-the-unnamed-co-conspirator/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/industrial-killing-of-civilians-in-gaza-wont-defeat-the-armed-insurgency/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/industrial-killing-of-civilians-in-gaza-wont-defeat-the-armed-insurgency/#respond Sat, 30 Dec 2023 16:09:47 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1259988 Confronted with an endless list of well-documented Israeli war crimes, the Biden administration has responded with overwhelming support for a genocidal war of annihilation against the Palestinians of Gaza. For more than two months, the White House has engaged in a public campaign of gaslighting as it has feigned concern over the fate of Gaza’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/industrial-killing-of-civilians-in-gaza-wont-defeat-the-armed-insurgency/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-is-not-a-war-against-hamas/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-is-not-a-war-against-hamas/#respond Sat, 16 Dec 2023 16:04:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1259402 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/this-is-not-a-war-against-hamas/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/jeremy-scahill-gaza-scorched-earth-campaign-is-a-joint-u-s-israeli-operation/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/jeremy-scahill-gaza-scorched-earth-campaign-is-a-joint-u-s-israeli-operation/#respond Fri, 15 Dec 2023 16:20:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1259355 We discuss President Joe Biden’s “full support for a scorched-earth campaign” in Gaza with The Intercept‘s Jeremy Scahill, who says the U.S. is providing “political cover and rushing weapons there and giving support to the most pernicious lies that Israel [is] telling.” Despite the Biden administration’s recent assertions that it is helping to restrain Israel, Israel’s [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/jeremy-scahill-gaza-scorched-earth-campaign-is-a-joint-u-s-israeli-operation/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-insidious-narrative-about-palestinian-prisoners/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-insidious-narrative-about-palestinian-prisoners/#respond Mon, 27 Nov 2023 18:56:40 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1258163 The Israeli government narrative surrounding the Palestinian prisoners being released during this temporary ceasefire is both insidious and dishonest. Interior Minister Itamar Ben Gvir has banned Palestinians from celebrating their release. “My instructions are clear: there are to be no expressions of joy,” he said. “Expressions of joy are equivalent to backing terrorism, victory celebrations give backing [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/israels-insidious-narrative-about-palestinian-prisoners/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/al-shifa-hospital-hamass-tunnels-and-israeli-propaganda/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/al-shifa-hospital-hamass-tunnels-and-israeli-propaganda/#respond Thu, 23 Nov 2023 16:52:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1257991 AS THE DEATH toll in Gaza surpasses 13,000 Palestinians, including more than 5,500 children, the Israel Defense Forces propaganda machine has sought to use Al-Shifa Hospital as its main exhibit in justifying the unjustifiable. It is clear that the Israeli strategy centers on a belief that if the IDF can convince the world that Hamas used [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/al-shifa-hospital-hamass-tunnels-and-israeli-propaganda/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-prosecution-of-trump-is-a-good-first-step-now-do-bush/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-prosecution-of-trump-is-a-good-first-step-now-do-bush/#respond Wed, 05 Apr 2023 15:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1242853 EVERYTHING WE KNOW about Donald Trump indicates that the historic criminal arraignment hitting him today represents but a tiny fraction of the illicit activities he’s engaged in throughout his life. This prosecution, reportedly based on more than two dozen felony indictments related to hush money payments Trump has admitted he authorized to an adult film actress in 2016, [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-prosecution-of-trump-is-a-good-first-step-now-do-bush/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/russia-calls-for-u-n-investigation-of-nord-stream-attack/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/russia-calls-for-u-n-investigation-of-nord-stream-attack/#comments Sun, 26 Mar 2023 16:34:34 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1242241 The Russian government has accused Germany, Denmark, and Sweden of a cover-up in their investigations into the sabotage attacks on the Nord Stream pipelines last September. Moscow, with the support of China, plans to introduce a resolution before the United Nations Security Council on Monday calling for an independent international investigation. The White House declined to answer [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/russia-calls-for-u-n-investigation-of-nord-stream-attack/feed/ 1 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/disrupting-the-groupthink-over-the-war-in-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/disrupting-the-groupthink-over-the-war-in-ukraine/#respond Mon, 06 Mar 2023 17:54:23 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1240757 THERE IS A disturbing aspect to the discourse in Washington, D.C., and European capitals surrounding the war in Ukraine that seeks to quash any dissent from the official narrative surrounding NATO’s military support for Ukraine. As the world was thrust into Cold War 2.0, the Western commentariat dusted off the wide brush wielded for decades by [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/disrupting-the-groupthink-over-the-war-in-ukraine/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-secrets-presidents-keep-in-their-garages-and-luxury-resorts/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-secrets-presidents-keep-in-their-garages-and-luxury-resorts/#respond Mon, 23 Jan 2023 16:00:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1237727 Joe Biden and Donald Trump are both facing special counsel investigations into their retention of classified documents after leaving office. The materials discovered in locations controlled by Biden reportedly relate to his time as vice president under Barack Obama, and Trump’s are from his tenure as president. Democrats have sought to draw sharp distinctions between [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-secrets-presidents-keep-in-their-garages-and-luxury-resorts/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/war-industry-looking-forward-to-multiyear-authority-in-ukraine/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/war-industry-looking-forward-to-multiyear-authority-in-ukraine/#respond Sat, 03 Dec 2022 14:34:33 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1233511 Gen. Mark Milley, chair of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, recently offered some matter-of-fact observations about the immense human suffering and death caused by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and placed the responsibility for ending the war squarely on Moscow’s shoulders. “There’s one guy that can stop it — and his name is Vladimir Putin,” Milley [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/war-industry-looking-forward-to-multiyear-authority-in-ukraine/feed/ 0