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Israel and Palestine

Global Justice

What Isn’t Taught in Israeli Schools

A Palestinian mother’s perspective.

Muzna Awayed-Bishara

Global Justice, Law & Justice

How Israel Weaponizes International Law

The country has manipulated rules of engagement to serve its colonialist project in Palestine. Legal scholars must face this fact head on.

Maryam Jamshidi

Global Justice, Reading Lists

Israel’s War on Palestine

Contrary to Israeli claims of self-defense in response to acts of terrorism, the current crisis reflects decades of brutal Israeli occupation in Gaza and the West Bank.

Boston Review

Philosophy & Religion

The World of Edward Said

Attempts to cast Said as the consummate New York intellectual miss the point that his milieu was one of global, and specifically Palestinian, anticolonial struggle.

Esmat Elhalaby

Global Justice

How We Speak About the Failure of the PLO

A recent Foreign Affairs article gets history wrong and obscures a robust Palestinian discourse.

Helena Cobban

Law & Justice

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

Forum

A Turning Point in Israel

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

Odeh Bisharat

Politics

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

Global Justice, War & Security

Choosing Violence

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

Oded Na’aman

Global Justice, Politics

Half a Loaf

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

Assaf Sharon

Global Justice, Philosophy & Religion

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

Global Justice, War & Security

Protecting (Violent) Protest

The legacy of the Gaza flotilla incident, five years later.

Itamar Mann

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