Articles
The Right to Speak for Ourselves — The Nation
For far too long, Palestinians have been denied the freedom to tell our own story.
An Inevitable Rupture: Al-Aqsa Flood and the End of Partition — al-Shabaka
To limit the blood that will be spilled as Israel’s system of apartheid is challenged, the international community, particularly the West, must first reckon with the fact that it has enabled an ethnonationalist political system that has eviscerated Palestinian rights and lives.
The Hebrew Reconquista of Palestine: From the 1947 United Nations Partition Resolution to the First Zionist Congress of 1897 — Journal of Palestine Studies
Challenging the widely accepted premise that the 1948 war was a war of Jewish self-defense, the author demonstrates that the 1947 United Nations General Assembly (UNGA) partition resolution was fundamentally a green light for the Yishuv’s fully mobilized paramilitary organizations (supported by the resources of the World Zionist Organization) to effect the long-planned establishment of a Jewish state by force of arms. He further argues that as a national movement, Zionism was inherently conquest-oriented from the moment of its birth in Basel in 1897 and that it most closely resembles—in the alchemy of its religious and secular motivation and its insatiable land hunger, irredentism, and indifference to the fate of the “natives”—the Iberian Reconquista of the thirteenth to the sixteenth centuries.
The Shootings in Vermont Cannot Be Separated From Dehumanization of Palestinians Globally — The Nation
The attack on Hisham Awartani, Kinnan Abdalhamid, and Tahseen Ahmed comes as Palestinians are silenced and oppressed across the Global North.
The Ultimate Cost of Biden’s Refusal to Call for a Full Cease-fire in Gaza — New Republic
Gen Z overwhelmingly supports a permanent cease-fire between Israel and Hamas. Biden does not—and he’s getting clobbered in the polls as a result.
We Don’t Have to Guess What MLK Thought About the Israel-Palestine Conflict — Mother Jones
There’s a long tradition of claiming to speak for King. Here’s what he really said.
Israel Arms the World’s Autocrats—With Weapons Tested on Palestinians — New Republic
“The Palestine Laboratory” outlines how Israel sells its “battle-tested,” “field-proven” weapons and spyware to practically anyone, no matter how malevolent.
The Long, Bloody History of the Israel-Gaza “Border” — The Nation
The current conflict has its roots in the 75-year struggle over the constantly shifting physical boundaries between Israel and the Palestinians whose land it has occupied.
A Bitter Season in the West Bank — New York Review of Books
The war in Gaza has provided Israeli settlers fresh opportunity and impunity. I see entire villages fleeing in panic.
An Open Letter on the Misuse of Holocaust Memory — New York Review of Books
Appealing to the memory of the Holocaust obscures our understanding of the antisemitism Jews face today and dangerously misrepresents the causes of violence in Israel-Palestine.
Vengeful Pathologies — London Review of Books
The only thing that can save the people of Israel and Palestine, and prevent another Nakba – a real possibility, while another Holocaust remains a traumatic hallucination – is a political solution that recognizes both as equal citizens, and allows them to live in peace and freedom, whether in a single democratic state, two states, or a federation. So long as this solution is avoided, a continuing degradation, and an even greater catastrophe, are all but guaranteed.
What Would a Lasting Peace Between Israel and Palestine Really Look Like? — New Yorker
Nathan Thrall, the former director of the International Crisis Group’s Arab-Israeli project, and an expert on the conflict, who lives in Jerusalem, is the author of the recent book “A Day In The Life Of Abed Salama,” which tells the story of the occupation through a Palestinian man’s search for his son after a fatal bus accident.
One Family’s Perilous Escape from Gaza City — New Yorker
When Israel invaded Kamal Al-Mashharawi’s neighborhood, he crowded into a basement with his extended family. “The world is closing in on us,” he wrote on WhatsApp.
The Trauma of Gaza’s Doctors — New Yorker
The head of mission for Doctors Without Borders in Palestine on the horrors of practicing medicine under siege.
Podcasts
Why Palestinians Feel They’ve Been ‘Duped’ — The Ezra Klein Show
Amjad Iraqi, a senior editor at +972 magazine and a policy analyst at Al-Shabaka think tank, discusses the history of Gaza and its role within broader Palestinian politics, the way Hamas and the Israeli government under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reached a “violent equilibrium,” why Palestinians feel “duped” by the international community, what Hamas thought it could achieve with its attack, whether Israeli security and Palestinian liberty can coexist, Iraqi’s skepticism over peace resolutions that rely on statehood and nationalism, how his own identity as a Palestinian citizen of Israel offers a glimpse at where coexistence can begin and much more.
Queers for Palestine & The Power of Pinkwashing — Matt Bernstein
Are “Queers for Palestine” really like “Chickens for KFC”? No, but understanding intersectional justice can be hard, and sharing memes is easy. Joined by Moe Dabbagh, a gay Palestinian American with family currently in Gaza, we Venn diagram gay liberation and Palestinian liberation. They’re less at odds with each other than you’d think. Gal Gadot makes a cameo.
1948 — The Daily (New York Times)
As the Israeli-Palestinian conflict enters its darkest chapter in decades, both sides are evoking the same foundational moment in their past: the events of 1948.
David K. Shipler, a former Jerusalem bureau chief for The New York Times and the author of a Pulitzer Prize-winning book about the conflict, discusses the meaning and reality of what happened that year.
Reports
Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine–Israel Discourse — Rutgers University’s Center for Security, Race and Religion
The struggle for Palestinian rights has never been more important – or more dire.
The conflict has reached a turning point, as the year 2023 became the deadliest for Palestinians on record. In the Gaza Strip, Palestinians face an existential crisis. Leading genocide scholars, experts in international law, and respected human rights organizations have warned that the world is witnessing a genocide, unchecked war crimes, ethnic cleansing, and crimes against humanity by the state of Israel.
Simultaneously, the demonization of pro-Palestinian voices in the United States has risen to a fever pitch – particularly when those voices are Muslim and Arab. Zionists and Islamophobes attack critics of Israel’s policies and practices by conflating anti-Zionism with antisemitism and seek to censor discussions within the context of the 56-year-long illegal Israeli occupation and the Nakba. Instead, antisemitism is weaponized to silence and discredit advocates of Palestinian human rights.
Documentary (Short)
He Claimed God Sent Hitler to Create Israel. Now He’s Speaking at the Pro-Israel Rally. What? — Mother Jones
He claimed God sent Hitler to create Israel. And on Tuesday, he is prominently featured in one of the country’s biggest pro-Israel demonstrations since the conflict began on October 7.
The Final Work of an Israeli Filmmaker Killed by Hamas, in “The Boy.” — New Yorker
Yahav Winner’s film captures the discordant reality of life along the Israel-Gaza border.
Gaza, explained — Vox
Why Palestinians in Gaza have suffered for decades.
