Human Rights

The War on Gaza Has Not Ended

A hundred days after Trump’s Board of Peace was ratified, nothing has improved here.

  • Asem Alnabih

Occupying Hospitals

From Gaza to Minneapolis, attacks on health care turn spaces of refuge into sites of state violence.

  • Joelle M. Abi-Rached

The Moral Stupefaction of the American Public

Trump’s boat strikes will seek cover in the same specious legality debate the Bush administration sowed with the torture memos.

  • Joseph Margulies

The Strongman’s Surveillance State

Trump has unfrozen a Biden-era hold on powerful Israeli-made spyware, now in the hands of ICE.

  • Sophia Goodfriend

Letter to the Massachusetts Special Commission on Combatting Antisemitism

Your approach is toxic and threatens core democratic values. You must change course or cease to exist.

  • Aaron Shakow

How to Hide a Famine

Israel’s deliberate campaign to deny the crisis in Gaza.

  • Alex de Waal

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Gaza and the End of History

The apocalyptic scale of death and destruction lays bare the contradictions at the heart of the liberal international order.

  • Joelle M. Abi-Rached

Syria’s “Human Debris”

The new government’s greatest challenge may be rebuilding a just society in the aftermath of barbaric state violence.

  • Joelle M. Abi-Rached

How Famine Denial Works

Its past and present, from the Holodomor to Gaza.

  • Alex de Waal

The View from Besieged Beirut

In the wake of exploding pagers, universalism plunges into the abyss.

  • Joelle M. Abi-Rached

Leadership and Liberation: An Exchange

Jodi Dean responds to Ayça Çubukçu’s “Many Speak for Palestine.”

  • Jodi Dean
  • Ayça Çubukçu

The Question of Palestinian Statehood

Is partition the only path to self-determination?

  • Leila Farsakh

A Menacing Silence

Why is the reality of Palestinian suffering denied in the Israeli consciousness?

  • Oded Na’aman

False Messiahs

How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.

  • Barnett R. Rubin

The War on Hospitals

Israel’s attacks on health care workers and facilities in Gaza are unprecedented.

  • Joelle M. Abi-Rached

Seeing Genocide

Israel’s weaponization of images since October 7 obfuscates its genocidal campaign against Palestinians.

  • Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

More than Genocide

The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.

  • A. Dirk Moses

Israel and Hamas at War

A collection on the deep context required to make sense of the violence.

A Jewish Plea: Stand Up to Israel’s Act of Genocide

“Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people. “Never again” means this very moment.

  • Stefanie Fox

“The Crimes Are Plenty”

A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.

  • Noura Erakat
  • Deborah Chasman

Beyond Moral Condemnation

Amid ongoing reporting and ethical outrage, we need context for the fight between Hamas and Israel—and how it shapes possibilities for peace.

  • Rajan Menon

Warfare Dressed as Water Policy

Palestine’s water access has always been restricted—but now, Israel is using it as a weapon.

  • Andrew Ross

The Precarious State of Israeli Democracy

Putting Israel’s recent protests in context.

The Iraq War’s Catastrophic Consequences

Twenty years later, the U.S.-led invasion continues to shape geopolitics for the worse.

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