Yousef Munayyer

Yousef Munayyer is a Palestinian-American scholar based in Washington, D.C.

Recent Articles

Thousands of Israeli protesters rally against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's new government in Tel Aviv, February 11, 2023. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)

The settler-colonial origins of Israel’s constitutional crisis

The government’s assault on the judiciary is driven by the same urge as the state’s founders: to protect their power to privilege Jews over Palestinians.

By Yousef Munayyer February 24, 2023

Podium at the 2020 Democratic National Convention in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. (DNC Official Photo)

Annexation shouldn’t be the threshold for conditioning aid to Israel

By hinging U.S. leverage on de jure annexation, Democrats are giving Israel the green light to proceed with other crimes against Palestinians.

By Yousef Munayyer August 18, 2020

Israelis take part in an annual 8-km march in the Jordan Valley, led by then-Interior Affairs Minister Gideon Saar. February 21, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/FLASH90)

Liberal Zionism paved the Israeli right’s path to annexation

The world's frantic attempts to stop annexation remain stuck in the liberal Zionist fantasies that kept the occupation running smoothly for decades.

By Yousef Munayyer June 23, 2020

Head of the Blue and White party Benny Gantz at an election rally in Ramat Gan, ahead of the Israeli general elections, February 25, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)

Israel’s opposition campaigned on democracy. Netanyahu won on Zionism.

Blue and White thought Israeli voters would opt for a copy of Likud without the corruption. It lost that bet three elections in a row.

By Yousef Munayyer March 3, 2020