Gaza - Quillette (Page 2)

Israel, Gaza, and Proportionality

Simply counting the dead does not produce a moral verdict.

Shlomo Cohen

20 Nov 2023 · 7 min read

The Deadly Logic of Decolonization

Western countries are seen as colonizing nations and imperialists, while foreign autocracies and sectarian extremists like Hamas are perceived as freedom fighters and even forces for good.

Jay Sophalkalyan

19 Nov 2023 · 11 min read

The Return of the Progressive Atrocity

It is the responsibility of Western activists to know who and what they support, and to separate themselves—openly and decisively—from programs and regimes that are predicated on violence and repression.

Susie Linfield

18 Nov 2023 · 21 min read

The Postcolonial Left's Blindness to Islamic Homophobia

For Western LGBT rights activists to support Hamas's continued rule over Gaza is hypocritical in the extreme.

Alexander von Sternberg

15 Nov 2023 · 7 min read

The Barbarian Evasions

Hamas’s progressive apologists seek self-justification in the moral incoherence of relativistic absolutism.

David A. Eisenberg

9 Nov 2023 · 3 min read

Muslim Antisemitism and the Western Left

The pro-Hamas demonstrations are driven by the identification of Israel with “colonialism” and the idea that the Palestinians are anti-colonialists. This approach is based on ignorance.

Benny Morris

7 Nov 2023 · 9 min read

A Generation of Misguided Policy in Israel

For more than a generation, defence policy and much else has been increasingly determined by the dictates of Israel’s religious settler lobby and its Messianic visions.

Michael Ben-Gad

5 Nov 2023 · 8 min read

Faking Hope: AI Art as Propaganda

There is a new contender for the most effective weapon in the propaganda wars: photorealistic, generative AI art.

Julia Friedman

3 Nov 2023 · 8 min read

Whose Genocide Is It Anyway?

The libel that Israel is engaged in genocide attempts to do the unthinkable—to link the Jewish state with Nazi Germany. This cynical calculus is as wrong as it is obscene.

Zachary R. Goldsmith

2 Nov 2023 · 10 min read

Queers for Palestine: Identity Politics at Its Most Absurd

In Palestine, they’d be killed.

Armin Navabi

2 Nov 2023 · 6 min read

Dead Civilians and the Allocation of Blame

Sometimes, we simply have to stop the bad guys—even at the cost of civilian casualties.

David Bernstein

28 Oct 2023 · 7 min read

You Can Be Pro-Palestinian or Pro-Hamas. You Can't Be Both.

Make no mistake: dead Israelis are good for Hamas, but dead Palestinians are even better.

Ali A. Rizvi

28 Oct 2023 · 8 min read

Failing the Hamas Litmus Test

The inflammatory Al-Ahli hospital hoax shows that much of the Western media remains compulsively addicted to dangerous and self-defeating war journalism.

Richard Landes

25 Oct 2023 · 13 min read

What Comes Next For Israel?

Today's political and military leaders never imagined that the Hamas was capable of launching a successful invasion of Israel's borderlands.

Benny Morris

23 Oct 2023 · 8 min read

It’s Not the Occupation

It is rarely the case that all of the blame for a conflict belongs on one side. But that does not mean blame should be equally divided.

David Benatar

21 Oct 2023 · 7 min read