Amahl Bishara

Amahl Bishara is Professor of Anthropology at Tufts University. She is author of Crossing a Line: Laws, Violence, and Roadblocks to Palestinian Political Expression (Stanford 2022) and Back Stories: US News Production and Palestinian Politics (Stanford 2012).

Recent Articles
A Palestinian flag at a protest against U.S. Immigrations and Customs Enforcement (ICE) in Chicago, June 10, 2025. (Paul Goyette/CC BY 2.0)
Fighting fascism in America during a genocide in Palestine
We must insist on drawing connections across time and place — from the Holocaust to Gaza, or ICE detention to Israeli prisons — to disrupt the normalization of authoritarianism at every turn.
By Amahl Bishara December 30, 2025
Palestinians collect drinking water in the city of Rafah, in the southern Gaza Strip, December 23, 2023. (Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90)
In Gaza, Israel has turned water into a weapon of mass destruction
By denying Palestinians safe water since the war began, Israel has created an unparalleled health crisis and risks causing irreversible ecological damage.
By Nancy Murray and Amahl Bishara January 16, 2024
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  2. A restored history of Jewish anti-Zionism — and the loss it cannot repair
  3. ‘NAZA’ is forcing Israelis to reflect. But we Palestinians are not your mirror
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