Natasha Roth-Rowland

Natasha Roth-Rowland

Natasha Roth-Rowland is director of research and analysis at Diaspora Alliance. She has a PhD in History from the University of Virginia, where she wrote her dissertation on the Israeli- and American-Jewish far right, and is a former editor at +972 Magazine. She lives in Queens, New York, with her wife and daughter.

Recent Articles
Right-wing activists attend a ceremony honoring late Jewish extremist leader Rabbi Meir Kahane in Jerusalem, Nov. 17, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
How Kahanism found its way into the Israeli political mainstream
Genocidal rhetoric is not new to Israeli politics. But Gaza's destruction mirrors the apocalyptic language pouring out of the Knesset — where the establishment has gradually absorbed members of a former terrorist group.
By Natasha Roth-Rowland May 14, 2025
A convoy of Israeli tanks at sunset near the southern Israeli border with Gaza, October 12, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
When ‘never again’ becomes a war cry
In an Israeli war that has been retrofitted onto a Holocaust template, it is obscene that a plea to stop further killing is now read as moral failure.
By Natasha Roth-Rowland October 28, 2023
Tsedek! member Simon Assoun. (Courtesy)
For these French Jews, anti-racism cannot succeed without anti-Zionism
Facing a largely right-wing and Zionist French-Jewish community, Tsedek! is advocating a decolonial vision to combat state racism at home and in Israel-Palestine.
By Natasha Roth-Rowland August 14, 2023
People attend a rally in Jerusalem held in solidarity with Jews in the United States and across the world following a wave of antisemite attacks on Jews and in parallel to the rally held in New York, January 5, 2020. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
Is the ‘antisemitism crisis’ on US college campuses real?
Journalist Arno Rosenfeld explains how the narrative pushed by establishment groups is disconnected from most Jewish students' experiences on campus, especially around Israel.
By Natasha Roth-Rowland June 28, 2023
President Joe Biden takes part in a ceremony at Yad Vashem, Israel's largest Holocaust memorial, Jerusalem, July 13, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Biden’s antisemitism strategy gets a lot right — but has one problem
By failing to push back on problematic definitions of antisemitism, the White House is missing a golden opportunity in the fight against hate.
By Natasha Roth-Rowland May 27, 2023
Far-right Israeli activists from the Im Tirzu movement at Tel Aviv University hold book showing Palestinian leader Amin al-Husseini with a swastika, during a protest against the annual Nakba ceremony, May 11, 2014. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
The Israeli right’s most dangerous anti-Palestinian smear
The Jewish far right has been calling Palestinians 'Nazis' for almost 80 years, casting them as an irredeemable enemy in an eternal war.
By Natasha Roth-Rowland April 20, 2023
Right-wing activists protest the annual Pride parade, Jerusalem, August 2, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
The far right always has a next target
The threat to Israel's LGBTQ community underlines how a state designed to eject a particular group from its midst will always look for new targets.
By Natasha Roth-Rowland January 21, 2023
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu shakes hands with Otzma Yehudit party head Itamar Ben Gvir during a Knesset session to vote on forming the government, December 29, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Land grabs. Homophobia. Radicalized police: What to expect from Israel’s far-right government
The new coalition is set to deepen colonization on both sides of the Green Line, while expanding its tools to oppress Palestinians, leftists, and LGBTQ people.
By Natasha Roth-Rowland December 29, 2022
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits a school in the city of Harish, September 1, 2017. (Avi Ohayon/GPO)
Netanyahu rewrites history, again
This article originally appeared in “The Landline,” +972’s weekly newsletter. Subscribe here. Incoming Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu continues to advance his mission of retconning Jewish history, one century at a time. His latest efforts were, as usual, designed to paint Palestinians, and Arabs more generally, as responsible for the worst episodes of anti-Jewish oppression over the…
By Natasha Roth-Rowland December 24, 2022
Head of the Otzma Yehudit party MK Itamar Ben Gvir arrives to the opening session of the 25th Knesset in Jerusalem, November 15, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
Ben Gvir’s dream ministry brings Kahane’s vision one step closer
With the portfolio he’s craved, the far-right lawmaker can accelerate Israel’s colonial violence against Palestinians on both sides of the Green Line.
By Natasha Roth-Rowland November 30, 2022
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