Neve Gordon Israel’s Universities: The Crackdown Last October, Palestinian students and academic staff in Israel faced unprecedented penalties for their speech. Now the repression persists. June 5, 2024
Yasmin El-Rifae A View from Cairo The Egyptian government’s repression of its citizens and the Israeli government’s occupation of Palestine are inextricably linked. May 12, 2024
Andrew Ross Migrant Workers in Their Own Land After closing its borders to Palestinians employed in critical sectors, Israel’s government has faced a labor shortage—which is being met by Indian migrant workers. April 21, 2024
Amjad Iraqi Unilateral Actions The impending invasion of Rafah—where over 1.4 million Palestinians are trapped—shows how far Israel has pushed its ambitions in Gaza. March 2, 2024
Nadia Abu El-Haj ‘The Eye of the Beholder’ Administrators at Columbia and other US universities have been cracking down on student protest against the war in Gaza—even as right-wing politicians demand they go further. December 24, 2023
Sara Roy The Long War on Gaza Over fifty-six years, Israel has transformed Gaza from a functional economy to a dysfunctional one, from a productive society to an impoverished one. December 19, 2023
Charles Glass Letter from Mount Lebanon Peace is precarious in Lebanon, where everyone remembers the toll of previous conflicts and fears the spread of war. December 10, 2023
Jeffrey Herf, Norman J. W. Goda, Alon Confino, David Feldman, et al. An Exchange on Holocaust Memory Is the history of Nazism and the Holocaust a useful point of comparison for Hamas’s crimes, or a false analogy? December 8, 2023
Sulaiman Khatib and Avner Wishnitzer Combatants for Peace We are a group of former Israeli soldiers and formerly imprisoned Palestinians. Our work is a model for the nonviolent way forward. November 23, 2023
Omer Bartov, et al. An Open Letter on the Misuse of Holocaust Memory Appealing to the memory of the Holocaust obscures our understanding of the antisemitism Jews face today and dangerously misrepresents the causes of violence in Israel-Palestine. November 20, 2023