Israel and Palestine

What Isn’t Taught in Israeli Schools

A Palestinian mother’s perspective.

  • Muzna Awayed-Bishara

How Israel Weaponizes International Law

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

  • Maryam Jamshidi

Israel’s War on Palestine

The current crisis reflects decades of brutal Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank.

The World of Edward Said

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

  • Esmat Elhalaby

How We Speak About the Failure of the PLO

Accounts still get the history of Palestinian diplomacy wrong.

  • Helena Cobban

Dying in Jerusalem

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

  • Etan Nechin

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The Anti-Defamation League Is Not What It Seems

Under the guise of fighting hate speech, the ADL has a long history of attacking Arab, Black, and queer people.

  • Emmaia Gelman

The Right to Boycott

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

Speaking the Truth

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.

  • Cornel West
  • Deborah Chasman

How To Talk About Anti-Semitism

A reading list.

What Anti-Semitism Is—And What It Is Not

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

  • Donna Nevel
  • Mark Tseng-Putterman

Two-State Head, One-State Heart

For a two-state solution to succeed, Israeli Jews must first forswear their righteous narrative of moral superiority.

  • Jeremy Pressman

Look Up

We can advocate for the well-being of both Jewish and Palestinian-Arab citizens simultaneously, reversing the zero-sum mentality deeply entrenched in Israeli politics.

  • Hannah Pollin-Galay

A Turning Point in Israel

The government’s new Nation State Law codifies prejudice, but therein lies a silver lining.

  • Odeh Bisharat
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  • Hannah Pollin-Galay

Jews in Britain Are Not Facing an Existential Threat

But it is increasingly difficult to question Israel’s policies without accusations of anti-Semitism.

  • David R. K. Adler

Dispatches from the Land of Erasure

Arab American poetry and the work of liberation.

  • Boston Review

Lost Utopias

Alternatives to Zionism, from the Uganda Scheme to Birobidzhan, present a complex history of the search for a Jewish home.

  • Ezra Glinter

Choosing Violence

War is almost always a choice, a madness we go along with.

  • Oded Na’aman

Half a Loaf

In Israel and Palestine, two states are still better than one.

  • Assaf Sharon

The Growing Orthodox Threat to Israeli Democracy

It is becoming impossible to ignore the growing theocratic elements in a nation that sees itself as the only democracy in the Middle East.

  • Elad Uzan

How the Truth About Palestine Won Netanyahu the Israeli Election

He now has the power to establish, if he wishes, a coalition consisting exclusively of extreme right and religious parties.

  • Omri Boehm

The Jerusalem Forest

Serving in the Israeli army as a foreign volunteer.

  • J. A. Bernstein

Netanyahu Is Right: U.S.-Israel Relations Are Here to Stay

“Reports of the demise of Israeli-U.S. relations are not only premature, they’re just wrong.” It is hard to disagree.

  • Simon Waxman

The Law Behind Torture

Justifying the necessity defense in Israel and the United States.

  • Itamar Mann
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