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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
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ADL Shutters Flagship Anti-Bias Program
Alex Kane
Dispatch
Palestinian Hostage Families’ Long Wait
For the loved ones of some Palestinian captives, the short-lived ceasefire offered a painful road to reunion.
Oneg Ben Dror
Crackdown on Campus
The Civil Rights Law Shutting Down Pro-Palestine Speech
Pro-Israel groups have remade Title VI into a tool of repression—and a second Trump term will supercharge their crusade.
Alex Kane
More Truth
To truly oppose the right’s attacks on education, Jewish communities must face Palestinian history.
Who Has the Right to “Disrupt” the University?
The very administrators now cracking down on student protests’ “disruptiveness” have been dismantling higher education for decades.
Dennis M. Hogan
The Push to “Deactivate” Students for Justice in Palestine
Civil liberties experts say a law banning “material support for terrorism” is being used to quash pro-Palestine speech.
Alex Kane
Current IssueFall/Winter 2024
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Fiction
On the Squeezing
The Parable of the Lemons
Tawfiq Da’adli
Report
A Progressive Education Nonprofit’s Silence on Gaza
Facing History & Ourselves, which is known for its model lessons on genocide, has angered staff and disappointed teachers with its refusal to provide resources about Gaza.
Alex Kane
Fiction
Rochelle
“Our friendship was the ideology of my life.”
Lily Meyer
Analysis
The Perils of Universities’ Unscholarly Antisemitism Reports
By relying on pro-Israel organizations’ analysis of antisemitism—rather than recruiting the scholars on their own campuses—university antisemitism task forces are enabling the assault on academic freedom.
Peter Beinart
Review
No Exit
Rachel Kushner’s Creation Lake cedes the sense of possibility that animates her earlier novels.
Nora Caplan-Bricker
Review
Sonic Bloom
The film The Klezmer Project suggests a new ethic of diasporism—rejecting both the violence of Zionism and the sentimental dream of recovering a Yiddish past.
Sanders Isaac Bernstein
Dispatch
After the Ceasefire
Ahmad Abu Yahia, Hamza Salha, and Aisha
Report
A Reconstructionist Reckoning
Clashes between a liberal Zionist rabbinical school and its heavily anti-Zionist student body encapsulate a broader fight over the Jewish future.
Shane Burley
Essay
The Algeria Analogy
We must turn to histories of decolonization not in order to predict outcomes, but to expand our sense of how to fight without knowing the future.
Arthur Asseraf
Rereadings
On the “Victims of the Victims”
Revisiting Edward Said’s ethical humanism in the context of the Gaza genocide
Ussama Makdisi
Editor’s Picks
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    A Textbook Case of Genocide
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    Anatomy of a Moral Panic
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    The Work of the Witness
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    The Problem of the Unionized War Machine
  5. 5
    More Truth
  6. 6
    The Rise of October 7th Tourism
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    Ghosts of the Groves
  8. 8
    “In the Middle of Fighting for Freedom We Found Ourselves Free”
  9. 9
    Weeping for Babylon
  10. 10
    Our Catastrophe
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Defunding Dissent
Philanthropists have quietly withdrawn funding from grassroots groups that spoke out for Gaza, imperiling a broad range of social justice movements.
Will Alden
Opinion
We Are Never Going Back
Democrats’ bid to return to a bygone liberal era failed—and now we’re all going to pay the price.
David Klion
Poetry
PURE&LOVE
“because the/ heart can’t pump love / all day, it takes it away / for matters of living—”
Ahmad Almallah
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Inside the Movement to Settle Southern Lebanon
Maya Rosen
Comic
Hey Chubbs!
Christopher Blackwell
Art
Things Not Seen
Since October 7th, 2023, fault lines around Palestinian solidarity have changed the landscape of visual art.
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Inside the Yale Police Department’s War on Student Protesters
Exclusive documents reveal the YPD’s use of counterterrorism tactics in suppressing pro-Palestine activism.
Theia Chatelle
Conversation
“Resistance Through a Realist Lens”
Palestinian writer Abdaljawad Omar discusses the left’s relationship to Hamas and armed resistance.
Arielle Angel
Report
The Settler Strategy Accelerating Palestinian Dispossession
By establishing dozens of new pastoral outposts, Israeli settlers are hastening land seizures in the Jordan Valley.
Dalia Hatuqa
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Weekly Parshah Commentary
Mar
28
Parshat Pekudei

After several parshiyot of extensive detail about the products and processes needed to assemble the Tabernacle, it is finally erected in our parshah, Pekudei. Upon its completion, the Torah states: “And when Moses saw [vayar] all the labor [melakha], and...

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Mar
14
Parshat Ki Tissa

In late November 2023, I stared at photos of Israeli soldiers preparing for Chanukah by erecting a 15-foot tall menorah in Beit Hanoun in northern Gaza. Horrified but unsure how to respond, I texted myself the link. I began sending...

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The US Right
The Book of Randy
How a Jewish, pro-Israel Florida state rep is building power within the “America First” right.
Alex Kane
A Dangerous Alliance
UCLA students arguing that Zionism is a First Amendment-protected religious belief have joined a powerful right-wing legal project.
Raphael Magarik
The Right’s Anti-Israel Insurgents
A burgeoning anti-Zionist strain in the America First movement looks to capitalize on popular disaffection over Palestine for its own ends.
Ben Lorber
The Energetic Executive
Ron DeSantis wants to make his blueprint for Florida—outlined in the rancorous memoir written for his failed presidential campaign—into a model for the rest of the country.
Samantha Schuyler
Dispatch
“No One Is Coming to Save Us”
Eight Florida activists on the experience of organizing under Governor Ron DeSantis’s far-right onslaught.
Zaina Alsous
Essay
What It Means to Speak With the Dead
A session with a Florida medium in a time of genocide
Fargo Nissim Tbakhi

Letters from Our Readers

On “The Perils of Universities’ Unscholarly Antisemitism Reports”
As a Jewish professor who studies antisemitic tropes, I am just the kind of faculty member whom Peter Beinart argues should have been included in my university’s recent antisemitism task force, but whose expertise was sidelined. I welcome Beinart’s analysis of this issue, but I am dismayed by his framing... more
Anonymous
New York
On “On the ‘Victims of the Victims’”
In Ussama Makdisi’s recent reconsideration of Edward Said’s description of Palestinians as “victims of victims,” he asks in what sense Israeli Jews can meaningfully be deemed victims, given the ongoing displacement, dehumanization, and violence they have directed toward Palestinians since 1948. I believe that Said’s formula still offers a relevant... more
David N. Myers
Los Angeles, California
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Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?

A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”

Mari Cohen