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The forgotten history of American Jewish dissent against Zionism
In resurrecting stories of non- and anti-Zionist critics, a new book shows American Jews how questioning Israel is deeply rooted in their community.
By
Shaul Magid
February 14, 2024
The Haredi Zionist who advocated radical openness
From the Jewish diaspora to the Palestinians, R. Binyamin's ideas show how alternatives to mainstream Zionism were imagined even in its earliest days.
By
Tom Pessah
September 27, 2023
Why are American Jews so shocked by Israel’s far-right turn?
Israel's electorate is forcing U.S. Jews to grapple with the dissonance not only between liberal values and Zionism, but their understandings of Judaism itself.
By
Shaul Magid
April 25, 2023
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The Palestinian intellectual who loved Hebrew and fought Zionism
Ribhi Kamal was one of a handful of Palestinian elites who mastered Hebrew before 1948. After his exile to Syria, he deployed it as a weapon against Israel.
By
Caroline Kahlenberg
April 21, 2023
The sad truth behind Israeli ‘happiness’
How can a country that administers constant violence and suffers deep inequalities be ranked the fourth happiest in the world?
By
Asaf Calderon
April 17, 2023
The dilemmas of the Mizrahi left in the Israeli protest movement
Prof. Smadar Lavie discusses the possibilities and contradictions of the Ashkenazi-dominated protests against the government, and traces the efforts of a small cohort of Mizrahi activists to make their voices heard.
By
Shane Burley
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Ben Lorber
March 28, 2023
Israeli protesters chanted for Huwara. Why not for Nablus?
The selective outrage over settler attacks renders only some Palestinians worthy of sympathy, legitimizing a far more dominant form of violence.
By
Dan Owen
March 12, 2023
The danger of treating Smotrich as an anomaly
By marking one Israeli politician as unacceptable, U.S. Jews are sidestepping the need to reckon with the wider system that enables his genocidal views.
By
Edo Konrad
March 9, 2023
The radicalization of the Israeli elites
In the struggle against the far-right government's plans for total control, Israel's elites could bring the regime to a breaking point.
By
Nimrod Flaschenberg
February 14, 2023
Learning the wrong lessons from the Holocaust
After World War II, states rightly took seriously the fight against antisemitism. But that mission must not embolden Israel's oppression of Palestinians.
By
Alon Confino
February 2, 2023
One Palestinian film and the colonizer’s endless anxiety
‘Farha’ holds up a mirror to Israelis and their victimless narrative about the 1948 war — and they don't like what they see.
By
Shaul Magid
February 2, 2023
Religious Zionists have captured the state. What will it mean for Palestinians?
Unlike Israeli Jews, who are opposing the government to protect the status quo, Palestinians across the Green Line are fighting a more existential danger.
By
Ameer Makhoul
January 22, 2023
The racial logic behind Palestine’s partition
Partition was rarely endorsed as a solution to settler colonialism. But Europe's racialization of Jews distinguished Zionism from other settler enterprises.
By
Yair Wallach
January 10, 2023
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