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A Liberal Zionist Lobby Faces an Anti-Israel Moment

As the Democratic base turns on Israel, J Street struggles to find its footing.

Josh Nathan-Kazis
Feature
Dispatches From Catastrophe
Twenty-three Palestinians reflect on the lives they have lost and the political futures that have been foreclosed in the wake of genocide.
Maya Rosen and Jonathan Shamir
Report
The Land Registration Campaign Remaking East Jerusalem
Using a revived colonial-era legal process, the Jewish National Fund is quietly transferring long-inhabited Palestinian property into Israeli hands.
Charlotte Ritz-Jack
Newsletter
In New York, a Rift in Jewish Politics
In two of the most Jewish Congressional districts, the debate over Israel is diverging.
Alex Kane
Israel and Lebanon’s Bloody Ceasefire
Middle East expert Thanassis Cambanis says that excluding Hezbollah from negotiations to end fighting in Lebanon is a mistake.
Alex Kane
Isaac Herzog, Accused by UN Panel of Inciting Genocide, to Deliver JTS Commencement Address
New York’s Jewish Theological Seminary will honor Herzog and pro-Israel advocate Debra Messing next month.
Josh Nathan-Kazis
No School in Umm al-Khair
In a Palestinian village cut off from its schoolhouse, children ask for education.
Maya Rosen
Current IssueSpring 2026
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Essay
The Death of Asylum
How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism
Tanvi Misra
History
Writing Amid Catastrophe
In the wake of the Nakba, Jabra Nicola and his cohort of Arab communists created a vibrant anti-Zionist literary landscape.
Hana Morgenstern
Conversation
Is Israel’s Economy Collapsing?
Maya Rosen
Conversation
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
Review
Israeli Grotesque
Nadav Lapid’s new film, which asks what it means to affirm the Jewish state now, is his most vitriolic repudiation yet.
Mitchell Abidor
Analysis
The Iran War Is About Palestine
By helping Israel demolish what’s left of international legal constraint, the Iran war is hastening the dissolution of the Palestinian question.
Jonathan Shamir
Essay
The Line Between Affinity and Conspiracy
Epstein relied on Jewish in-group bonds to cultivate the network that facilitated his crimes.
David Klion
Comic
Running Toward ICE
A record of resistance in Chicagoland
Sarah Lazare
History
Reclaiming the Ladino Left
The early 20th century saw a flurry of left activism by Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jews in the US. Recovering their legacy can enrich the Jewish left of today.
Devin E. Naar
History
Kansionario Sosialista
Selections from a 1919 Ladino Socialist songbook
Devin E. Naar
Report
“Education Cannot Wait”
Gaza’s decimated universities are trying to build an improvised academic life under siege.
Taqwa Ahmed Al-Wawi
Newsletter
Support for Settlement of Lebanon Goes Mainstream in Israel
What was once a fringe curiosity is now an organized movement with broad governmental and public support.
Maya Rosen
Memoir
A Body That Outlived Its Heart
The grief that at first flowed with my tears now has calcified in my chest with no release.
Abdullah Hany Daher
Poetry
Fish
Birhan Keskin
Review
The Dream Logic of Fascism
In Charlotte Beradt’s study of nightmares under Nazism, the analysis often seems inadequate to the material.
Raphael Magarik
Minneapolis
Fugitive Sanctuaries
It has only ever been migrant movements, rather than benevolent states, that have granted true safety for the endangered.
Ananya Roy
Minnesota Goddam
In the Twin Cities, the hand of a polluted country reaches to choke the future out of us.
Danez Smith
Sand in the Gears
As the Trump administration draws down its invasion of Minneapolis, the citywide mobilization against ICE offers lessons in fighting the deportation machine.
Daniel May
How Can We Care for Our Neighbors?
With institutions capitulating to the ICE invasion, a Twin Cities medical provider reflects on avenues for resistance.
Muna Hada
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    Against Zionist Realism
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    The Betrayal of Light
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    Exile from Gaza
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    The Myth of Israeli Innovation
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Report
Alex Pretti’s Killer May Be Part of His Union
Border Patrol agents belong to the same federal workers union as VA nurses, a situation some of Pretti’s colleagues are determined to change.
Sarah Lazare
Office Hours
Elaine Mokhtefi
“There was a current of confidence and warmth between all of us who were in Algiers working with liberation movements.”
Ari M. Brostoff
Report
Degrees of Separation
Israel’s new international college programs offer American students an escape from campus activism while training them as state cheerleaders.
Maya Rosen
Chevruta
How Should We Engage in Communal Rebuke?
An investigation through Jewish text on moving fellow Jews
Aron Wander
Essay
Higher Ed’s Bad Bargain
Erik Baker
Report
Why Hungarian Jewish Institutions Are Embracing Orbán and Netanyahu
Since October 7th, Hungary’s Jewish federation has backed away from criticism of its right-wing prime minister, prompting an increasingly vocal anti-Zionist Jewish response.
Larkin Cleland
Memoir
Crying Is Not Surrender
In wartime, expressions of sorrow are pushed away. But our grief is sacred. It demands to be felt.
Abdullah Hany Daher
Report
An Educational Crusade in East Jerusalem
Under the pretext of “national security,” Israel is ramping up its longstanding attacks on Palestinian education in the city.
Jonathan Shamir
Poetry
about the rich and only the rich
“the rich keep telling us this is the best possible world. they kill and we die, but this is all we get to hope for. some rich people put on dresses and what splendor.”
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Excerpt
Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist
Najati Sidqi’s reminiscences, which chronicle the upheavals of the early 20th century, resonate with shocking familiarity today.
Najati Sidqi
Report
Cryptocurrency Comes to Gaza
With formal banking infrastructure in ruins, Palestinians in Gaza are forced to rely on unregulated digital currencies for survival.
Hani Qarmoot
Analysis
The Genocides The New York Times Forgot
The paper’s Gaza coverage continues its pattern of downplaying US-backed atrocities in Bangladesh, East Timor, and Guatemala.
Zachary Jablow
Shabbat Reading List
Weekly Parshah Commentary
May
1
Parshat Emor from Lexie Botzum

In this week’s parshah, after delivering a set of prohibitions on offering physically blemished animals as sacrifices, God informs Moses of certain restrictions on the sacrifice of perfectly healthy animals: A newborn must be allowed to stay with its mother...

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Apr
24
Parshat Acharei Mot-Kedoshim from Raphael Magarik

The Facebook comments and WhatsApp diatribes I have written and deleted over the past several years, if compiled, would fill a book. Thank God they will not be. It would be a chronicle of aggravation, in which I repeatedly trip...

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Letters from Our Readers

On “Joe Kent’s Resignation Was Brave. His Analysis Is Faulty.”
In his March 24th article “Joe Kent’s Resignation Was Brave. His Analysis was Faulty,” Peter Beinart conflates speculative statements concerning Israel’s actions with antisemitic claims about “Jewish conspiracy” that have been historically mobilized to justify the displacement, disenfranchisement, and mass murder of Jews. Near the end of the article, Beinart... more
Lisa Cerami
Rochester, NY
On “Portrait of a Campus in Crisis”
I appreciated Will Alden’s well-researched exposé on UCLA’s excessive militarization in response to the student-led Palestine solidarity movement, which brought much-needed attention to the scale of the university’s violence. However, I believe this piece would have been strengthened by fore­grounding the agency and dynamism of grassroots student organizing. What might... more
Alona Weimer
Los Angeles, CA
Report

Portrait of a Campus in Crisis

UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become targets of vigilante and police violence.

Will Alden