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The grave of Hamas’s top political leader Saleh Arouri. Gravestone, flowers, a picture of Arouri.

The Pros and Cons of Targeted Killing

By striking Shukur and Haniyeh in the capital cities of Lebanon and Iran respectively, Israel has sent Iran a humiliating and painful message.

Andrew Fox

12 Aug 2024 · 11 min read

Benjamin Netanyahu, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Karim Ahmad Khan, Winston Churchill

Double Effect and Human Rights in War

The flawed moral reasoning of the ICC’s panel of legal experts would have approved the arrests of Churchill and Eisenhower.

Nigel Biggar

11 Aug 2024 · 6 min read

Two men in suits sit on a couch facing an ayatollah in robes on a chair. There is an Iranian flag next to him.

Shadow Boxing: The Conflict Between Iran and Israel

The mini-war between Israel and Iran’s proxies has gradually begun to approach open Israeli-Iranian conflict, and the threat of an all-out, full-scale war is now palpable.

Benny Morris

1 Aug 2024 · 18 min read

A burnt home in Kibbutz Kfar Aza. A sign reads "Ofir Shoshani was brutally murdered in this house."

An Interrupted Genocide

The widespread reluctance to describe the atrocities of 7 October correctly is an impediment to peace.

Jeffrey Herf

18 Jul 2024 · 11 min read

Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, raising his finger with image of Khamenei and Khomeini in the background

Israel, Hamas, and Hezbollah

Updates on the military situation facing Israel, especially the possibility of all-out war with Hezbollah.

Benny Morris

20 Jun 2024 · 17 min read

A young woman in a keffiyeh wrapped around her face. She is in a crowd of pro-Palestine supporters

Something Is Wrong

It is time for leftists to forego ideology and embrace a people-centred politics.

Michael Walzer

14 Jun 2024 · 11 min read

Nicholas D. Kristof speaking. World Economic Forum in the background.

Vapid Antiwar-ism

Since 7 October, Nicholas Kristof has produced a torrent of outraged testimony that betrays a refusal to grapple with the world as it is.

Brian Stewart

13 Jun 2024 · 9 min read

A sticker photographed in London, UK. 11 Nov 2023. Alamy

Open Letter Against the Boycott of Israeli Universities

The Academic Boycott of Israel Is Selective, Unfair and Counterproductive. Sign Our Open Letter Below.

Maarten Boudry

10 Jun 2024 · 7 min read

A woman and two men, in suits, at a podium.

The Politicisation of International Justice

A dissection of the ICC’s warrant application reveals that obvious liberties have been taken with the truth.

Norman J.W. Goda

29 May 2024 · 11 min read

A female demonstrator offers a flower to military police on guard at the Pentagon during an anti-Vietnam demonstration

Waltzing Down the Road to Hell

The unintended consequences of the Sixties’ antiwar protests have become the farce of their 21st-century iteration.

Adam Garfinkle

27 May 2024 · 15 min read

Sad-looking pallbearers wearing kippahs carry the coffin of Shani Louk.

The War in Gaza: No End in Sight

After seven months of campaigning, Israel’s most pressing problem remains the continued existence, indeed resilience, of Hamas.

Benny Morris

20 May 2024 · 17 min read

Anti-Israel March, London, UK. 9 Dec 2023. Alamy

Replacing Israel with Palestine: A Dangerous Delusion

The only plausible way forward for Palestinians is a commitment to peaceful coexistence alongside Israel.

John Aziz

8 May 2024 · 10 min read

Demonstrators gather at the gates of Columbia University in Morningside Heights, Manhattan, NY, on Saturday, 20 April 2024.

Springtime for Sinwar

Notes on the pro-Hamas Left and its antecedents.

Jeffrey Herf

2 May 2024 · 21 min read

Iranian men burn Israeli flag in Tehran .

Iran Contra Israel

The Iranian missile strike against Israel marks a watershed moment in the Middle East conflict, even though it was unsuccessful.

Benny Morris

16 Apr 2024 · 8 min read

Frantz Fanon and university Palestine supporters

The Prophet of October 7?

Frantz Fanon’s defenders try to distance him from the of ethos of violence he advocated, even as they embrace his anti-colonialist rhetoric to promote anti-Zionism.

Leon Hadar

6 Apr 2024 · 12 min read