South Africa’s ICJ Case Against Israel Is a Call to Break Free From the Imperial West South Africa’s ICJ Case Against Israel Is a Call to Break Free From the Imperial West
South Africa is not only challenging Israel—it is trying to break the spell of US hegemony.
Jan 11, 2024 / Tony Karon
Will the IOC Do Anything About the Killing of Palestinian Athletes? Will the IOC Do Anything About the Killing of Palestinian Athletes?
Israel killed a Palestinian Olympic coach in an air strike. It turned a stadium into an interment camp. But the International Olympic Committee will not act unless we make it.
Jan 10, 2024 / Dave Zirin
Israel Is Not Promising to “Scale Back” Its War Israel Is Not Promising to “Scale Back” Its War
As the US secretary of state shuttles to stop the war from expanding, the Israeli defense minister vows “months” more war on Gaza and suggests taking the fight to Iran.
Jan 8, 2024 / Column / Spencer Ackerman
How Israel’s Special Antisemitism Envoy Is Getting Antisemitism Totally (and Dangerously) Wrong How Israel’s Special Antisemitism Envoy Is Getting Antisemitism Totally (and Dangerously) Wrong
In equating criticism of Israel and Zionism with antisemitism, Noa Tishby relies on the same conspiratorial tropes that fed Jew-hatred through the centuries.
Jan 8, 2024 / Anat Plocker
Why Is Biden Risking a New Regional War in the Middle East? Why Is Biden Risking a New Regional War in the Middle East?
The president’s foreign policy is mired in a deeply retrograde and one-sided view of Israel.
Jan 5, 2024 / Jeet Heer
The Empire Strikes Back The Empire Strikes Back
Once more, wars abroad threaten domestic reform.
Jan 4, 2024 / Robert L. Borosage
The Whole World Is a Narrow Bridge: Finding the Courage to Stand for a Cease-Fire The Whole World Is a Narrow Bridge: Finding the Courage to Stand for a Cease-Fire
As long as some Israelis and Palestinians still risk arrest and intimidation to call for a cease-fire and an end to occupation, we Jews in the diaspora owe them our support.
Jan 4, 2024 / Phil Aroneanu
Will Israel Drag the US Into Another Ruinous War? Will Israel Drag the US Into Another Ruinous War?
President Biden refuses to pursue the most obvious way of de-escalating tensions and avoid American deaths: a cease-fire in Gaza.
Jan 3, 2024 / Trita Parsi
A Palestinian Whose Childhood Was Destroyed by War Pleads for Peace A Palestinian Whose Childhood Was Destroyed by War Pleads for Peace
Never letting children endure war again is the “never again” that might actually heal our wounded humanity.
Jan 3, 2024 / Ibtisam Barakat
The Impossibility of Reporting the Story of Gaza The Impossibility of Reporting the Story of Gaza
The work of Gaza’s journalists has been essential these past months, but as the challenges of reporting continue to mount, the world is getting only a fraction of the story.
Dec 29, 2023 / Afnan Abu Yahia and Lila Hassan