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Tag: Israel and Palestine

As you stand at the checkpoint, you must constantly consider the various ways you may be attacked.

Oded Na’aman

Talking about Gaza is like talking about God. We face the ineffable. We cannot talk about what we see. 

Colin Dayan

Revolutionary theater in Palestine.

Robin D. G. Kelley

Farmers and settlers clash in South Hebron.

David Shulman

Palestinians are ambivalent about statehood bid.

Mya Guarnieri

I was fifteen when we left Palestine in the summer of 2000, just a few months before the al Aqsa Intifada.

Ahmed Moor

A Palestinian peacemaker gives up on politics.

Assaf Sharon, Avner Inbar
Protests and Violence On the Lebanon-Israel Border
James Reddick

David Grossman’s article of faith.

Vivian Gornick

A peace activist faces judgment in Israel.

David Shulman

The uses of anti-Semitism in Chávez’s Venezuela.

Rafael Sánchez, Claudio Lomnitz

Despite large obstacles, Obama is right to push the two-state solution.

Jeremy Pressman

For the last seven weekends in a row, violent settlers from neighboring Bat Ayin have attacked the Palestinian farmers here.

David Shulman

The decline of Israel’s progressive movement.

Helena Cobban

Martha Nussbaum’s bat mitzvah talk, on grief and the foundations of justice.

Martha C. Nussbaum

Why we must acknowledge the claims of the Palestinians.

Joseph Levine

Imagining justice in Palestine.

Elias Khoury

Hamas and the end of the two-state solution.

Helena Cobban

Hannah Arendt on being Jewish.

Vivian Gornick

The Iraq War spreads.

Nir Rosen

On Israel’s existential crisis.

Jeremy Pressman, Robert Blecher
The poetry of Taha Muhammad Ali. 
Victoria Chang

Hizbullah's victory, Israel's choice.

Helena Cobban

An Arab citizen of Israel and a native speaker of Palestinian Arabic, Sayed Kashua writes in Hebrew.

Laila Lalami

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