Joshua Leifer A ‘Moral, Strategic, and Diplomatic Abyss’ In the latest round of disputes within Israel’s ruling coalition, the eliminationist, messianic far right seems poised to triumph. July 2, 2024
Kenneth Roth Crimes of War in Gaza Civilians in Gaza are in grave danger from Israel’s disregard for international law. July 27, 2024 issue
Isabella Hammad Acts of Language Amid the actual violence of Israel’s assault on Gaza, why have so many writers treated pro-Palestine speech as a threat? June 13, 2024
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
Aryeh Neier Is Israel Committing Genocide? I have been engaged for six decades in the human rights movement, which has endeavored to restore peace by enforcing International Humanitarian Law. Can the law bring a measure of justice to the victims of Israel’s and Hamas’s violence? July 27, 2024 issue
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
Omar al-Najjar In Gaza’s Hospitals It’s not easy to work under continuous military attack, to wake up and close your eyes to injuries and corpses, to feel helpless to stop it all. April 19, 2024
David Shulman Israel: The Way Out If Israel is to survive, physically and spiritually, it needs to undergo, collectively, a sea change in its vision of reality and face some unpleasant though obvious facts. July 27, 2024 issue
Neve Gordon The Road to Famine in Gaza Hundreds of thousands of people in Gaza are at the brink of famine—a human-made disaster with roots in Israel’s history of using food as a weapon. March 30, 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
David Klion The American Jewish Left in Exile Those of us whose Jewishness isn’t tethered to Israel find ourselves increasingly at the margins of American Jewish life. Do we need our own institutions? January 28, 2024
Sari Bashi Gaza: Two Rights of Return Most Palestinians in Gaza are now displaced at least twice over. They have a right to choose where to return. January 27, 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
David Shulman A Bitter Season in the West Bank The war in Gaza has provided Israeli settlers fresh opportunity and impunity. I see entire villages fleeing in panic. July 27, 2024 issue
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
Ursula Lindsey Jordan’s Balancing Act In Amman, the regime is trying both to channel popular outrage over the bombardment of Gaza and to keep it in check. November 16, 2023
Fintan O’Toole Biden’s Selective Outrage The rhetorical choice to pair Israel and Ukraine has not created a common moral cause. It has exposed a double standard. November 14, 2023
Dahlia Scheindlin Israel: The Left in Peril Since October 7, Israel’s left has encountered unprecedented repression. Could its ideas nonetheless point the way forward? November 12, 2023
Seth Anziska ‘Let Us Not Hurry to Our Doom’ The first Lebanon War helped lay the groundwork for Israel’s escalations of violence in Gaza. Who will heed its warnings? November 9, 2023
Susan Neiman Germany on Edge In recent weeks, Germany’s reflexive defenses of Israel and suppression of its critics have assumed a fevered pitch. November 3, 2023
Fintan O’Toole No Endgame in Gaza After weeks of bombardment and thousands of deaths, what are Netanyahu’s political and ethical limits? July 27, 2024 issue
Sari Bashi Gaza’s Blocked Relief By restricting aid into Gaza, Israel is reducing food and fuel supplies to far below the “humanitarian minimum” its own officials set years ago. October 30, 2023
Fintan O’Toole The Many and the Few Israel’s own pre-statehood history illustrates the dangers of distinguishing between “civilized” and “barbarous” peoples. October 21, 2023
Ben Rhodes Gaza: The Cost of Escalation The consequences of the US’s vengeful reaction to September 11 should remind us of the risks of responding to violence with greater violence. October 18, 2023
Ta-Nehisi Coates, et al. An Open Letter from Participants in the Palestine Festival of Literature We call for the international community to commit to ending the catastrophe unfolding in Gaza and to finally pursuing a comprehensive and just political solution in Palestine. October 14, 2023
Sari Bashi Nowhere to Go in Gaza Today’s evacuation order from the Israeli military directed over a million Gazan civilians to abandon their homes with no safe passage. October 13, 2023
Joshua Leifer Inhumane Times Israel’s current war seems to be as much a brutal insistence on the collective punishment of the Palestinian people as an offensive against Hamas. July 27, 2024 issue
David Shulman Déjà Vu in Israel The conceptual system that has dominated Israeli thinking and policy for decades has been exposed, repeatedly, as dangerous and delusional. October 11, 2023
Tareq Baconi Gaza Without Pretenses For years Israel and Hamas maintained an unstable equilibrium that kept the Gaza Strip contained. But it was always likely to be temporary. October 11, 2023
Fintan O’Toole Eyeless in Gaza What lessons do people actually learn from the cruelties they applaud and the ones they suffer in return? October 10, 2023
Raja Shehadeh Causes for Despair The human suffering that the people of Gaza have endured in the past three weeks is beyond comprehension. July 27, 2024 issue
