Natasha Roth-Rowland

Natasha Roth-Rowland is a writer and researcher at Diaspora Alliance, and a former editor at +972 Magazine. She has a PhD in History from the University of Virginia, and wrote her dissertation on the history of the Jewish far right in Israel-Palestine and the United States. Natasha previously spent several years as a writer, editor, and translator in Israel-Palestine, and is now based in New York.

Recent Articles

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

Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin addressees Jewish leaders at the Conference of Presidents of Major Jewish Organizations at the Shoreham American Hotel, April 17, 1980. (Moshe Milner/GPO).

The war that canonized America’s hasbara playbook

The defensive line taken by the American-Jewish establishment during the 1982 Lebanon invasion solidified many of the methods that are deployed when Israeli violence makes headlines today.

By Natasha Roth-Rowland October 28, 2022