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Tag: Israel and Palestine

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

Deborah Chasman, Noura Erakat

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
Andrew Ross

Daniel Boyarin makes the seemingly paradoxical proposal that in order to end Zionism, Jewishness should be defined as nationhood.

Joshua Abramson Cohen

They might, given growing disaffection with Israel among young American Jews.

Jeremy Pressman

In Palestine and Kurdistan, promising experiments in self-determination draw on the region’s pluralist history.

Omar Dajani, Aslı U. Bâli

Palestinian women and feminist organizations are reimagining what liberation can look like beyond national independence.

Noura Erakat

Condemning U.S. deference to Israel, a cousin remembers the life and legacy of the slain Palestinian American journalist.

Jennifer Zacharia

Remembering the Nakba is not optional.

Raja Shehadeh
A recording of our event featuring Noam Chomsky, Sally Abed, Omar Dahi, Alon-lee Green, Congressman Jim McGovern, and Dr. James Zogby, President of the Arab-American Institute.

On language and belonging.

Ariella Aïsha Azoulay

In the high-tech culture of Tel Aviv, military-grade spying on civilians has become just another office job.

Sophia Goodfriend

A Palestinian mother’s perspective.

Muzna Awayed-Bishara

The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine.

Maryam Jamshidi

His milieu was one of global, and specifically Palestinian, anticolonial struggle.

Esmat Elhalaby

Accounts still get the history of Palestinian diplomacy wrong.

Helena Cobban

The city is running out of graves, and against the backdrop of the Israel–Palestine conflict, burial is often a political matter.

Etan Nechin

Under the guise of fighting hate speech, the ADL has a long history of wielding its moral authority to attack Arabs, blacks, and queers.

Emmaia Gelman

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.

Radhika Sainath

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.

Deborah Chasman, Cornel West

Two Jewish activists discuss the place of anti-Semitism in contemporary movements for social justice.

Mark Tseng-Putterman, Donna Nevel

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