All Articles
Review
Is This Anything?
Taffy Brodesser-Akner’s Long Island Compromise reproduces the nullity at the heart of contemporary American Jewish life.
Mitchell Abidor August 2, 2024
Chevruta
(How) Should We Vote?
An investigation through Jewish text on the ethics of choosing the “lesser of two evils.”
Raphael Magarik August 1, 2024
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 July 17, 2024
Dispatch
“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 July 11, 2024
Report
The Rise of October 7th Tourism
Harrowing “solidarity tours” of Israel are reinscribing American Jews’ sense of victimhood.
Maya Rosen July 3, 2024
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 July 2, 2024
How To
Safer in the Streets, Volume 2
A free, shareable tool for protesters illustrating best practices for dealing with the police.
SITS June 25, 2024
Explainer
Why Ceasefire Talks Are Stuck
A breakdown of the political dynamics that have prevented a ceasefire in Gaza.
Alex Kane June 24, 2024
Analysis
Examining the ADL’s Antisemitism Audit
A line-by-line reassessment of the organization’s data illuminates the flaws in its methodology.
Shane Burley and Jonah ben Avraham June 17, 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
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 May 29, 2024
Conversation
The Complicity of Israeli Academia
Scholar Maya Wind discusses Israeli universities’ longstanding role in Palestinian subjugation.
Raphael Magarik May 23, 2024
Report
After More Than 100 Arms Shipments to Israel, Biden Withholds One
Experts say the administration’s attempt to “send a message” to Israel falls flat as it skirts legal requirements to cut off arms transfers.
Alex Kane May 16, 2024
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 May 15, 2024
Translation
Yiddish Anarchists’ Break Over Palestine
An exchange in the anarchist newspaper Di fraye arbeter shtime after the 1929 Hebron massacre offers a case study in Jewish discourse and political reaction after immense violence.
Eyshe Beirich May 10, 2024
Analysis
The Anti-Union Lobby’s Newest Weapon
Now armed with cynical antisemitism allegations, the corporate-backed effort to destroy unions is ramping up.
Jeff Schuhrke May 10, 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
Analysis
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 May 3, 2024
Comic
Campus in Crisis
Eli Valley May 3, 2024
Analysis
Anatomy of a Moral Panic
The repressive machine currently arrayed against campus protests follows a familiar pattern.
Adam Haber and Matylda Figlerowicz May 2, 2024
Chevruta
How Much Must We Sacrifice for Justice?
An investigation through Jewish text, in the wake of Aaron Bushnell’s self-immolation for Gaza
Lexie Botzum April 26, 2024
Comic
Weird Passover
Hal Schrieve April 19, 2024
Essay
Co-Resistance at a Crossroads
As anti-Palestinian violence in the West Bank reaches new heights, a beleaguered movement gathers to reflect.
Maya Rosen April 16, 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