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
Most Read
  1. The Haredi Zionist who advocated radical openness
  2. My first letter as +972's new editor-in-chief
  3. The permit regime is Oslo’s enduring legacy. It must be abolished
  4. 'Your grandparents couldn't return to Al-Sajara. But I know they died hoping'
  5. 'I told Arafat: Israel will promise you an inch and not give you a millimeter'
  1. The permit regime is Oslo’s enduring legacy. It must be abolished
  2. 'Your grandparents couldn't return to Al-Sajara. But I know they died hoping'
  3. 'I told Arafat: Israel will promise you an inch and not give you a millimeter'
  4. Israel's armed drones are heralding an era of automated killing
  5. My first letter as +972's new editor-in-chief
  1. ‘It’s like 1948’: Israel cleanses vast West Bank region of nearly all Palestinians
  2. 'I told Arafat: Israel will promise you an inch and not give you a millimeter'
  3. 'Youth Against Dictatorship': Meet Israel's new class of conscientious objectors
  4. 'Don’t raise your voice — you're not in Britain anymore'
  5. My last letter: Speak the words we were taught to fear