Israel, Gaza, and Proportionality
Simply counting the dead does not produce a moral verdict.
Shlomo Cohen
· 8 min read
Gaza
A collection of 63 posts
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
· 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
· 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
· 8 min read
The Barbarian Evasions
Hamas’s progressive apologists seek self-justification in the moral incoherence of relativistic absolutism.
David A. Eisenberg
· 4 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
· 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
· 9 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
· 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
· 11 min read
Queers for Palestine: Identity Politics at Its Most Absurd
In Palestine, they’d be killed.
Armin Navabi
· 7 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
· 8 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
· 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
· 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
· 9 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
· 7 min read