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The law occludes the abhorrent violence routinely perpetrated by states in the name of self-defense.
Support for Palestinian rights is facing a McCarthyite backlash.
“Never again” means standing up for Palestinian people. “Never again” means this very moment.
A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.
Amid ongoing reporting and ethical outrage, we need context for the fight between Hamas and Israel—and how it shapes possibilities for peace.
Daniel Boyarin makes the seemingly paradoxical proposal that in order to end Zionism, Jewishness should be defined as nationhood.
They might, given growing disaffection with Israel among young American Jews.
In Palestine and Kurdistan, promising experiments in self-determination draw on the region’s pluralist history.
Palestinian women and feminist organizations are reimagining what liberation can look like beyond national independence.
Condemning U.S. deference to Israel, a cousin remembers the life and legacy of the slain Palestinian American journalist.
In the high-tech culture of Tel Aviv, military-grade spying on civilians has become just another office job.
A Palestinian mother’s perspective.
Attempts to cast Said as the consummate New York intellectual miss the point that his milieu was one of global, and specifically Palestinian, anticolonial struggle.
Accounts still get the history of Palestinian diplomacy wrong.
The city is running out of graves, and against the backdrop of the Israel–Palestine conflict, burial is often a political matter.
Under the guise of fighting hate speech, the ADL has a long history of wielding its moral authority to attack Arabs, blacks, and queers.
Since 2014 twenty-seven states have adopted laws that aim to discourage boycotts of Israel. At stake is our First Amendment right to protest state policies.
Cornel West and Deborah Chasman discuss the disproportionately white publishing world, the responsibilities and burdens of public life, and the predicament of black intellectuals today.
For a two-state solution to succeed, Israeli Jews must first forswear their righteous narrative of moral superiority.
The government’s new Nation State Law codifies prejudice, but therein lies a silver lining.
But it is increasingly difficult to question Israel’s policies without accusations of anti-Semitism.
Alternatives to Zionism, from the Uganda Scheme to Birobidzhan, present a complex history of the search for a Jewish home.
If Hamas uses civilian shields, is the IDF responsible for their deaths?
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