Zionism

New immigrants to Israel living in the southern town of Dimona study Hebrew at a state-sponsored ulpan, January 12, 1955. (Moshe Pridan/GPO)

Can Hebrew be decolonized?

For many, the language is indelibly linked to Zionism and now forever tainted by genocide. But it was not always so — and a growing movement of Palestinians and anti-Zionist Jews are attempting to reclaim it.

By Raphael Mimoun July 2, 2026

Protesters commemorate the 77th anniversary of the Nakba in Milan, Italy, May 15, 2025. (Avishay Mohar/Activestills)

The Palestine movement must seek power over purity

To confront a genocidal regime, we need to translate global attention into measurable achievements and build coalitions in every arena of influence.

By Abed Abou Shhadeh June 18, 2026

An Israeli soldier ignores a Palestinian woman as he protects a settler grazing cows on agricultural lands belonging to the Palestinian village of Susiya, in Masafer Yatta, January 31, 2026. (Avishay Mohar/Activestills)

Jews have historical ties to Palestine. Israel is still a settler-colonial project

The debate over origins is irrelevant to defining the nature of the Zionist regime, which is built on the dispossession and erasure of the Palestinians.

By Sleman Altehe June 10, 2026

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Israelis protest in support of the Iranian people near the U.S. Embassy Branch Office in Tel Aviv, January 16, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

On Iran’s protests, Israeli hypocrisy knows no limits

Only moments ago, Israelis were cheering on a holocaust in Gaza — and now they dare to celebrate the valiant uprising of the Iranian people.

By Orly Noy January 16, 2026

Travelers at Ben Gurion International Airport, October 23, 2025. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)

Why Israelis are leaving in record numbers

Over 150,000 citizens have left the country in the past two years alone — many of them with a one-way ticket and no plans of returning.

By Hila Amit January 7, 2026

An activist waves a Palestinian flag at the front a feminist march in Paris, March 7, 2025. (Anne Paq/Activestills)

The Gaza genocide radicalized the world — and there’s no going back

People can't unsee a live-streamed annihilation defended under the banner of liberal democracy. They know the Israeli apartheid regime can no longer exist.

By Tareq Baconi December 24, 2025

Activists from Standing Together protest against the Gaza war, in Tel Aviv, January 16, 2025. (Yahel Gazit)

Can Standing Together bear the weight of its contradictions?

The Jewish-Arab movement is celebrating its 10th anniversary after a period of rapid expansion. But as it grows, so do questions about its political stances, its electoral ambitions, and the limits of binational organizing.

By Samah Watad December 19, 2025

Right-wing Israelis protest near the Gaza border in support of the re-establishment of Israeli settlements in the Strip, in southern Israel, July 30, 2025. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)

Israel is waging a holocaust in Gaza. Denazification is our only remedy

The deadly ethno-supremacy inherent to Israeli society runs deeper than Netanyahu, Ben Gvir, and Smotrich. It must be confronted at its root.

By Orly Noy September 18, 2025

Israeli police surround and destroy the mosque in Umm Al-Hiran, Nov. 14, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

The entire history of Zionism’s injustices, in one Bedouin village

The destruction of Umm Al-Hiran exemplifies the Zionist view of Palestinians as impermanent; moveable chess pieces in a game of demographic engineering.

By Orly Noy November 20, 2024

Professor Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian during her court proceeding in Jerusalem, April 19, 2024. (Oren Ziv)

The orchestrated persecution of Nadera Shalhoub-Kevorkian

A vicious campaign by Israeli academia, police, and media to silence the professor shows Palestinians they have no safe place in Zionist institutions.

By Shahrazad Odeh April 30, 2024

American Jews protest outside Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's New York hotel in support of democracy for all in Israel-Palestine, September 19, 2023. (Gili Getz)

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

Martin Buber and Rabbi Binyamin, founders of the bi-national Brit Shalom movement, seen in Palestine. (Central Zionist Archives)

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

Protest against the Israeli government’s plans for judicial overhaul, Washington Square Park, New York, April 2, 2023. (Gili Getz)

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