Analysis
Analysis
Chuck Schumer Cannot Meet the Moment
In his new book on antisemitism, the minority leader offers a vision of progress without popular struggle that profoundly underestimates the Trump threat.
Peter Beinart April 3, 2025
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 February 14, 2025
Analysis
Bernard-Henri Lévy Speaks the American Media’s Lingua Franca
In a new book, the French intellectual exemplifies a liberal Zionist discourse that has fewer and fewer spokespeople to choose from.
Peter Beinart December 9, 2024
Analysis
Trump’s Israel Instincts Don’t Matter
In his second term, as in his first, Trump may criticize Netanyahu—but his advisers will outmaneuver him to ensure that Israel enjoys a free hand.
Peter Beinart November 26, 2024
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.
A. Gopalan September 26, 2024
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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 September 13, 2024
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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
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 Naomi Bennet June 17, 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
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
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
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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
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Between Exclusion and Exploitation
Israel’s far right wants to permanently replace Palestinian workers, but employing them has become key to maintaining the occupation.
Jonathan Shamir March 20, 2024
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The Campaign to Abolish UNRWA
The recent defunding of the aid agency is part of a longstanding effort to extinguish Palestinian refugees’ dreams of return.
Peter Beinart February 13, 2024
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What the UAW Ceded in Endorsing Biden
Union leaders have not only betrayed their ceasefire call, but also backtracked on their fight to redefine the labor movement as a truly political force.
A. Gopalan February 2, 2024
Analysis
Harvard Is Ignoring Its Own Antisemitism Experts
The university’s new advisory group on antisemitism elevates political concerns over academic integrity.
Peter Beinart December 11, 2023
Analysis
The Problem of the Unionized War Machine
Union workers in the US weapons industry present a paradox for anti-war labor activists, but a history of “conversion” campaigns offers a route through the impasse.
Jeff Schuhrke November 22, 2023
Analysis
A Textbook Case of Genocide
Israel has been explicit about what it’s carrying out in Gaza. Why isn’t the world listening?
Raz Segal October 13, 2023
Analysis
Revaluing the Strike
Rather than viewing strikes as a last-resort bargaining tactic, the labor movement must embrace them as engines of political transformation.
Erik Baker September 27, 2023
Analysis
Abbas Is America’s Man
American condemnations of the PA president’s antisemitism gloss over the US’s role in propping up his authoritarian rule.
Dana El Kurd September 14, 2023
Analysis
The PA’s Slow-Motion Collapse
In the aftermath of Israel’s attack on Jenin, the Palestinian Authority’s efforts to regain legitimacy risk hastening its potentially terminal decline.
Joshua Leifer July 18, 2023
Analysis
Recent Polls of US Jews Reflect Polarized Community
Trying to keep up with shifting opinion on Israel/Palestine, surveys of American Jews are beginning to ask new questions.
Caroline Morganti June 29, 2023
Analysis
Netanyahu’s Salami Method
Using a classic authoritarian strategy, the Israeli right has quashed dissent and entrenched the occupation slice by slice.
Joshua Leifer June 6, 2023
Analysis
Iron Dome Is Not a Defensive System
The Iron Dome cannot meaningfully be considered “life-saving” in any value system that recognizes Palestinian humanity.
Dylan Saba May 25, 2023
