Israel and Palestine

The Boomerang Comes Back

How the U.S.-backed war on Palestine is expanding authoritarianism at home—from Project Esther to violence at the border.

  • Noura Erakat

The “Terrorists” in My Grandmother’s Neighborhood

Not only a tool to justify U.S. and Israeli intervention, the label is increasingly dividing Iranian society from within.

  • Alex Shams

The New Old Warfare

The self-serving myths of a new wave of defense tech, from Palantir’s Gotham to Israel’s Gospel.

  • Sophia Goodfriend

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

The Harris Doctrine

Would Kamala Harris’s foreign policy depart from Biden’s? Clues from the work of her national security advisor, Philip Gordon.

  • Michael Brenes

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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

UCLA’s Unholy Alliance

House Republicans accuse student protesters of vicious anti-Semitism, but it is administrators who are courting violence. 

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

Many Speak for Palestine

The solidarity movement doesn’t have a single leader—and it doesn’t need one.

  • Ayça Çubukçu

Letter to Columbia President Minouche Shafik

You are keeping no one safe, except for your donors, trustees, and the university’s endowment.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

The Real Scandal of Campus Protest

It’s not that there has been too much student protest. It’s that there has not been much, much more of it.

  • Madeleine Baker

Labor and the Bibi-Modi “Bromance”

India’s recruitment drives to send workers to Israel resemble British indenture.

  • Michelle Buckley
  • Paula Chakravartty

Who’s Afraid of Frantz Fanon?

Long decried by liberals and conservatives alike, the Martinican psychiatrist remains one of the most piercing critics of colonialism.

  • Sam Klug

We Are Not from Where We Are From

A Palestinian catalog of ruin and resilience.

  • Ahmed Moor

A Menacing Silence

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

  • Oded Na’aman

“We Are Neither Prophets nor Mad”

An interview with poet Fady Joudah about writing his latest collection amid war in Gaza.

  • Fady Joudah

Aaron Bushnell and the Power of Protest

A Vietnam veteran on the political legacy of self-sacrifice and antiwar movements.

  • David Cortright

Shockwaves in the Global Order

While the U.S.–Israel alliance has become isolated, new ones are emerging.

  • Helena Cobban

Can Divestment Campaigns Still Work?

Decades after apartheid South Africa, student activists face a new obstacle: the financialization of university endowments.

  • Kian Braulik

The Silencing of Fred Dube

Forty years ago, the exiled South African activist dared to teach Zionism critically. A furious backlash ensued.

  • Abena Ampofoa Asare

False Messiahs

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

  • Barnett R. Rubin

The Future of Speech on Campus

Private universities should respond to the charge of hypocrisy with a maximalist approach to free speech.

  • Ethan Bueno de Mesquita

The War on Hospitals

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

  • Joelle M. Abi-Rached
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