Conversation

Criminal Governance

Political scientist As’ad Ghanem argues that the rise of crime in Palestinian communities inside Israel is not a policy failure, but the result of decades of state efforts to weaken Palestinian collective life.

Eliyahu Freedman May 15, 2026

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When Jewishness Means Genocide

Philosopher Elad Lapidot discusses how our understanding of antisemitism changes in an era in which Jews and Zionism have been conflated.

Arielle Angel and Daniel May April 9, 2026

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Is Israel’s Economy Collapsing?

Labor historian Joel Beinin argues that narratives of imminent economic demise overlook sources of Israel’s resilience—and the work needed to challenge them.

Maya Rosen March 25, 2026

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Trump Wants a “Depoliticized” Gaza

Middle East expert Robert Malley discusses the Board of Peace, its plan for Gaza, and what it means for Palestinians.

Alex Kane February 18, 2026

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“Giving Palestinians Fewer Rights than Eichmann Received”

Sociologist Ron Dudai discusses the new death penalty bill that has become a vehicle for the Israeli right’s revenge.

Maya Rosen February 16, 2026

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Trump’s New Travel Ban Targets Palestinians

Immigration law expert Samah Sisay says the new restrictions are about politics, not security.

Alex Kane December 22, 2025

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How the Swedish Public Saw Israel/Palestine

Director Göran Hugo Olsson discusses his latest documentary, assembled from three decades of state TV footage.

Mitchell Abidor October 16, 2025

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“An Elegy for All of Palestine”

The Gazan poet Adel al-Ramadi reflects on making art under genocide.

Maram Faraj October 7, 2025

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The Consequences of New US Sanctions on Palestinian Human Rights Groups

Attorney Shayana Kadidal discusses how Trump’s sanctions could curtail American support for ICC prosecutions of Israel.

Alex Kane September 22, 2025

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Who Might We Become for Each Other?

A conversation about Black–Palestinian interconnectedness and the legacy of June Jordan

Marina Magloire June 17, 2025

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“A Void Only the Houthis Are Filling”

Yemen scholar Helen Lackner explains how the rebel group, once unpopular among its subjects and peripheral in the region, has seen its legitimacy grow due to its action on Gaza.

Jonathan Shamir April 15, 2025

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Parsing Anti-Hamas Protests and Pro-Israel PR

Political analyst Muhammad Shehada discusses the cynical exploitation of Gazans’ demonstrations, and Israel’s investment in keeping Hamas in power.

Mari Cohen April 1, 2025

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Difference Without Power

In her recent book, The Reeducation of Race, Sonali Thakkar excavates the mid-century roots of contemporary liberal anti-racism.

Ben Ratskoff December 17, 2024

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“Resistance Through a Realist Lens”

Palestinian writer Abdaljawad Omar discusses the left’s relationship to Hamas and armed resistance.

Arielle Angel November 5, 2024

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“Burning the Off-Ramps”

Daniel Levy explains how unceasing US support for Israel has locked the region in an escalatory spiral.

Alex Kane October 10, 2024

Conversation

Bodies of Water

Shoog McDaniel’s photographs of queer life in rural Florida present a world where all bodies are sacred.

Sasha Wortzel August 12, 2024

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“The Law Cannot Let Itself See the Nakba”

Rabea Eghbariah on the restorative potential of codifying “Nakba” as a legal concept.

J.A. Cohen July 2, 2024

Conversation

Self-Rule Without Sovereignty

Political scientist Diana B. Greenwald on the promises and pitfalls of Palestinian local governance in the shadow of Israeli occupation.

Dana El Kurd June 17, 2024

Conversation

The Complicity of Israeli Academia

Scholar Maya Wind discusses Israeli universities’ longstanding role in Palestinian subjugation.

Raphael Magarik May 23, 2024

Conversation

Reviving the Language of Empire

Aziz Rana on revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.

Nora Caplan-Bricker May 9, 2024

Conversation

Weeping for Babylon

Avi Shlaim discusses the factors behind the exodus of Iraqi Jews and how the concept of the “Arab-Jew” can chart an alternative future.

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite April 15, 2024

Conversation

“Nothing Is Immutable”

Literary scholar Saree Makdisi discusses Zionism’s structures of denial, imperial racial logics, and the horizon of coexistence.

Claire Schwartz April 12, 2024

Conversation

The Suppressed Lineage of American Jewish Dissent on Zionism

In his recent book Our Palestine Question, historian Geoffrey Levin uncovers the long history of American Jewish concern for Palestinian rights.

Emma Saltzberg March 13, 2024

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“A Counterrevolution Always Comes”

Vincent Bevins on the lessons that the global mass protests of the 2010s hold for our moment.

Alex Press March 6, 2024