Israel’s New Kingmakers
After an inconclusive election, Israel’s Arab parties hold the balance of power—but a renewed war with Iran may yet hand Netanyahu another chance.
Benny Morris
· 11 min read
Israel
Analysis and commentary on Israel, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, antisemitism, and Middle East politics from Quillette.
How Wikipedia Rewrote Zionism
Since October 2023, four-fifths of the encyclopedia’s article on Zionism has been replaced, and the historians it cites—Benny Morris among them—are misrepresented.
Mark Zlochin
· 16 min read
Omar Mohammed on Mosul, ISIS and the Jews Iraq Forgot
The anonymous chronicler of the Islamic State’s occupation talks to Pamela Paresky about growing up under Saddam, the 1941 Farhud, and why he believes antisemitism unites every jihadist movement.
Pamela Paresky
· 36 min read
A Dishonest (and Dangerous) Nobel Laureate
Navi Pillay’s appalling treatment of Hamas’s sexual violence provides ample reason to deny her any prestigious honours. But she is also dangerous to the very international legal system that she pretends to uphold.
Norman J.W. Goda
· 12 min read
War Stories
Yonah Jeremy Bob and Elliot Kaufman’s account of the 7 October massacre and its aftermath is a triumph of dogged reporting and shrewd analysis.
Michael M. Rosen
· 8 min read
Danielle Haas on How Activism Took Over Human Rights | Quillette Cetera Episode 73
Former Human Rights Watch senior editor Danielle Haas on how NGO reports get made, what happens to staff who dissent, and why she wants outside oversight.
Zoe Sankey, Danielle Haas
· 29 min read
Trauma and Terror
If you’re not already familiar with the casus belli that ignited the Gaza war, watching the fifth season of ‘Fauda’ will be good for you, but it will also be bad for you.
Michael J. Totten
· 11 min read
Genocide and Its Jurors
In 1967, left-wing intellectuals accused America of genocide in Vietnam—they were wrong then, and they’re wrong again now.
Maia Zelkha
· 8 min read
History Uprooted
A new exhibition at the Canadian Museum for Human Rights in Winnipeg peddles PLO myths about Israel’s war for independence in 1948.
Jeffrey Herf
· 13 min read
Zineb Riboua on Islamism, Israel and the West’s New Culture War | Quillette Cetera Episode 72
Political analyst Zineb Riboua discusses Iran’s declining influence, the Houthis, Turkey’s ambitions, Israel’s changing role in the Middle East, Islamist radicalisation in Europe, AI doomerism, third-worldism and the West’s demographic decline.
Zoe Sankey
· 29 min read
Richard Landes on Jihad and the Apocalyptic Mind
A medievalist on apocalyptic movements, shame–honour cultures, and why he believes the Western press has spent twenty-five years reporting jihad backwards.
Pamela Paresky, Richard Landes
· 47 min read
The Real End of the Arab–Israeli Conflict?
The strategic case for Syria–Israel normalisation.
Aurele Tobelem
· 8 min read
Israel's Most Consequential Election
Israelis go to the polls on 27 October. After seventeen years of Netanyahu, former IDF chief Gadi Eisenkot is in the lead.
Benny Morris
· 15 min read
Creeping Annexation
Israeli governments have never decided what to do with the West Bank—so the settlers have begun deciding for them.
Benny Morris
· 9 min read
Is the Pro-Palestine Movement Israel’s Unlikely Ally?
By framing terrorism and armed struggle as legitimate resistance, the pro-Palestine movement has unwittingly strengthened Israel’s case that withdrawal and concessions carry unacceptable risks.
Royee Zvi Atadgy
· 6 min read