The NYT Misrepresents the History of the IsraeliâPalestinian Conflict A welter of factual errors and misleading judgments has produced a distorted description of the 1948 War. Benny Morris 27 Feb 2024 · 12 min read
Israelâs Occupation of Gaza in 1956â57 Many of the questions that have arisen since October 7 have been raised before. Benny Morris 13 Jan 2024 · 12 min read
Israelâs Grim Future: Attrition on All Fronts The Jewish state is facing security threats from groups based in Gaza, the West Bank, Lebanon, and Yemenâall of them supported by Iran. Benny Morris 16 Dec 2023 · 11 min read
Muslim Antisemitism and the Western Left The pro-Hamas demonstrations are driven by the identification of Israel with âcolonialismâ and the idea that the Palestinians are anti-colonialists. This approach is based on ignorance. Benny Morris 7 Nov 2023 · 9 min read
PODCAST 127: Historian Benny Morris on the Forgotten 19th-Century Genocide of Turkey's Christians Jonathan Kay speaks to famed Middle Eastern historian Benny Morris, whose latest book explores the ethnic cleansing of Turkey during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. Transcript Jonathan Kay: Benny Morris is one of the world's most well-known historians of Israel and its conflict with the Palestinians, Quillette / Benny Morris 8 Dec 2020 · 19 min read
My Military Jail-Time in Israel In combat, the IDF was more disciplined, which accounts for its battlefield successesâthough these probably also owed a lot to the character and quality of the armies they had faced. Benny Morris 5 Oct 2020 · 20 min read