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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
Essay
Must the Sword Devour Forever?
With lessons from past deadly invasions of Lebanon shoved aside, the US and Israel are escalating toward endless war.
Seth Anziska
Essay
What It Means to Speak With the Dead
A session with a Florida medium in a time of genocide
Fargo Nissim Tbakhi
Lebanon
Inside the Movement to Settle Southern Lebanon
Building on the successes of the Israeli settler movement, a new ultra-right group is seeking to open yet another front for conquest.
Maya Rosen
Regional War: An Explainer
Answers to common questions about the broadening war in the Middle East.
Alex Kane and Jonathan Shamir
The Escalating Regional War
Alex Kane speaks to Trita Parsi and Karim Makdisi about Israel’s assassinations of Hamas and Hezbollah leaders—and the likely dire consequences.
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Analysis
After the Encampments
For the student movement, translating chaos into real leverage will require a “long-haul protest” that sustains the crisis semester after semester.
Aparna Gopalan
Photo Essay
The Siege of Jenin
In a brutal, ten-day-long incursion, the Israeli army reduced large swaths of the West Bank city to ruin.
Wahaj Bani Moufleh
Review
The Hösses’ Colonial Paradise
Jonathan Glazer’s The Zone of Interest disrupts the genre of Holocaust cinema by re-situating the Shoah in history.
Jonathan Shamir
Report
Searching for the Jewish Future in South Florida
Does Miami’s hardline Zionist consensus make it an outlier in American Jewish life—or a harbinger of things to come?
Max Freedman
Chevruta
(How) Should We Vote?
An investigation through Jewish text on the ethics of choosing the “lesser of two evils.”
Raphael Magarik
Analysis
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
Analysis
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
Poetry
PURE&LOVE
“because the/ heart can’t pump love / all day, it takes it away / for matters of living—”
Ahmad Almallah
Report
The Book of Randy
How a Jewish, pro-Israel Florida state rep is building power within the “America First” right.
Alex Kane
Report
The Rise of October 7th Tourism
Harrowing “solidarity tours” of Israel are reinscribing American Jews’ sense of victimhood.
Maya Rosen
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
Editor’s Picks
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    A Textbook Case of Genocide
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    “We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other”
  3. 3
    Understanding Apartheid
  4. 4
    The Hindu Nationalists Using the Pro-Israel Playbook
  5. 5
    Bad Memory
  6. 6
    The Problem of the Unionized War Machine
  7. 7
    After the Hit-and-Run
  8. 8
    “Biden’s Legacy Will Be Apartheid”
  9. 9
    Point of No Return
  10. 10
    Teshuvah: A Jewish Case for Palestinian Refugee Return
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Letter From the Editor
Florida Is Everywhere
And we’re all out of time.
Arielle Angel
Review
Is This Anything?
Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise reproduces the nullity at the heart of contemporary American Jewish life.
Mitchell Abidor
Essay
The Work of the Witness
Three months into a livestreamed genocide, we must ask—what does all this looking do?
Sarah Aziza
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
Comic
Put Up, Take Down
A hostage poster diary comic
Solomon Brager
Analysis
Anatomy of a Moral Panic
The repressive machine currently arrayed against campus protests follows a familiar pattern.
Adam Haber and Matylda Figlerowicz
Comic
Kamala’s Convention
Eli Valley
Conversation
The Complicity of Israeli Academia
Scholar Maya Wind discusses Israeli universities’ longstanding role in Palestinian subjugation.
Raphael Magarik
Essay
Weaponization and Denial
Since October 7th, Israel’s use of evidentiary claims as justification for its devastation of Gaza has fed a countervailing strain of untruth.
Linda Kinstler
Archival
“In the Middle of Fighting for Freedom We Found Ourselves Free”
June Jordan’s 1993 tribute to Audre Lorde, her sister-in-arms from the ’60s student protests and beyond
Alexis Pauline Gumbs
Conversation
“The Law Cannot Let Itself See the Nakba”
Rabea Eghbariah on the restorative potential of codifying “Nakba” as a legal concept.
Joshua Abramson Cohen
Dispatches
“Any Second They Could Come”
As Israeli demolitions and settler attacks escalate, Palestinians in the village of Umm al-Khair stare down the possibility of expulsion.
Maya Rosen
“The Scenes in Rafah Are Straight From a Nightmare”
Three displaced Palestinians describe unlivable conditions in a city bracing for imminent Israeli invasion.
Zak Hania, Ahmed Totah, and Sameera Wafi
“Even as We Are Trying to Help, We Are Being Attacked”
Three humanitarian workers in Gaza describe the challenges of providing aid while struggling to survive.
Jameel, Juliette Touma, and Mohammed Al Khatib
“We Have Lost the Ability to Provide True Care”
Three doctors describe coping with fatal shortages and agonizing choices in Gaza’s overwhelmed hospitals.
Hammam Alloh, Yousef Al-Akkad, and Reda Abu Assi
Report
An Israeli “Buffer Zone” Could Shape Gaza’s Post-War Reality
Alex Kane
Analysis
A Legal Justification for Genocide
By expanding the human shielding charge to every inch of Gaza, Israel is using a familiar strategy at an unprecedented scale.
Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon

Letters from Our Readers

On “Kamala’s Convention”
It seems that you published Eli Valley’s disgusting attack on Kamala Harris because the magazine disagrees with her policy position on Israel and the Gaza Strip. This kind of absolutism in politics never wins elections. Jewish Currents should take a lesson from Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, who is mature enough to... more
David Gurin
Copake Falls, NY
On “The Hösses’ Colonial Paradise”
Like Jonathan Shamir, I long for a disruption to the monotony of Holocaust films that “prioritize pathos, catharsis, and blunt moral force over historical precision.” Most cultural production “about the Holocaust” actually shields us from having to look too directly at that genocide. Before I watched The Zone of Interest... more
Helen Betya Rubinstein
Brooklyn, NY
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