Israel and Palestine

Zionism and the Right to Culture

Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?

  • Omri Boehm

The Haifa Mob

On July 19 I joined a licensed march in Haifa against the Gaza war.

  • Noam Chayut

When Protesting Israel Becomes Hating Jews

History has shown time and again that it is not possible to dehumanize an enemy while treating their cousins, aunts, and uncles with respect. 

  • Jason Stanley

The Moral Siege

The militarization of Jewish supremacism in Israel.

  • Assaf Sharon

On Human Shields

If Hamas uses civilian shields, is the IDF responsible for their deaths?

  • Seth Lazar

Taking Just War Seriously in Gaza

Many more Palestinians have been killed in Gaza than Israelis. Is this, on its own, justified?

  • F. M. Kamm

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The Presbyterian Church’s All-American Divestment from the Israeli Occupation

The Church is taking charge of the role its own funds play in enabling the criminality of Israel.

  • Yarden Katz

Three Assumptions that Led to Kerry’s Failure in the Middle East

The conflict doesn’t need more architects.

  • Assaf Sharon

Letter from Israel: Leftists on Zionism’s Past, Present, and Future

While “left” in the West is now a virtual synonym for anti-Zionism, the same is far from true in Israel.

  • Susie Linfield

The Checkpoint

On patrolling West Bank checkpoints as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces.

  • Oded Na’aman

How Not to Talk about Gaza

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

  • Colin Dayan

Beautiful Resistance

Revolutionary theater in Palestine.

  • Robin D. G. Kelley

The Plague

Farmers and settlers clash in South Hebron.

  • David Shulman

What State? Whose Authority?

Palestinians are ambivalent about statehood bid.

  • Mya Guarnieri

A Beautiful Place

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

  • Ahmed Moor

A Too-Modest Proposal

A Palestinian peacemaker gives up on politics.

  • Avner Inbar
  • Assaf Sharon

Another Year, Another Nakba

Protests and Violence On the Lebanon-Israel Border

  • James Reddick

Saving Souls

David Grossman’s article of faith.

  • Vivian Gornick

The Trial of Ezra Nawi

A peace activist faces judgment in Israel.

  • David Shulman

United By Hate

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

  • Claudio Lomnitz
  • Rafael Sánchez

The Best Hope–Still?

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

  • Jeremy Pressman

Dispatch from the Hebron Hills

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

  • David Shulman

Peace Out

The decline of Israel’s progressive movement.

  • Helena Cobban

The Mourner’s Hope

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

  • Martha C. Nussbaum
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