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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.
The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine.
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.
Two Jewish activists discuss the place of anti-Semitism in contemporary movements for social justice.
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