Middle East

Palestinians carrying flags and banners gather at the Nelson Mandela Square to demonstrate in support of the genocide case filed by South Africa against Israel at the International Court of Justice, on January 10, 2024, in Ramallah, the West Bank.

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

Former Palestinian football player Said al-Kurd carries recovered medals from his destroyed family home where eight of his family members were killed following an Israeli shelling attack in Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on October 30, 2023.

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

Smoke rises after an Israeli airstrike on the Palestinian city of Khan Yunis on January 8. Photo: Abed Rahim Khatib/dpa

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

Noa Tishby reads during a launch event for her book “Israel: A Simple Guide.”

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

Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) hugs Joe Biden upon the US president’s arrival at Tel Aviv's Ben Gurion airport on October 18, 2023. (Brendan Smialowski / AFP via Getty Images)

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

A projected picture of President Joe Biden with the text reading “Genocide Joe” on the wall of the African American Civil War Memorial Museum during in a Pro-Palestinian demonstration in Washington, D.C. Pro-Palestinian demonstrators gathered at Thomas Circle to hold a rally with Palestinian flags and banners, calling for a cease-fire in Gaza.

The Empire Strikes Back The Empire Strikes Back

Once more, wars abroad threaten domestic reform.

Jan 4, 2024 / Robert L. Borosage

Knesset member Ayman Odeh attends a memorial service for Vivian Silver in Tel Gezer, Israel.

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

An Israeli drone struck a Hamas office as smoke rises in Beirut, Lebanon, on January 2, 2024. Lebanese Prime Minister Najib Mikati has declared the Beirut explosion to be a “new Israeli crime” with the alleged intention of pushing Lebanon into a fresh phase of confrontations.

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 child eats amid the rubble of destroyed buildings following Israeli bombardment in Rafah on the southern Gaza Strip on December 29, 2023, amid the ongoing battles between Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas.

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

A funeral ceremony is held for Palestine TV correspondent Mohammed Abu Hatab, who was killed along with his family members in an air strike on his home in Khan Yunis, Gaza, on November 3, 2023.

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

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