David’s Unholstered Sling
Lessons from 7 October and the 2023–25 war.
Brian Stewart
· 17 min read
Israel
A collection of 202 posts
The Honour and the Duty
Yossi Cohen has written a bracing and lively memoir about his time as head of Mossad.
Michael M. Rosen
· 6 min read
Romance Across the Divide with David Christopher Kaufman | Quillette Cetera Ep. 55
David Kaufman on what followed when a Palestinian date mentioned genocide—in bed—with a Zionist.
Zoe Booth, David Christopher Kaufman
· 22 min read
Israel’s Hard-Won Victory
The Jewish state has secured its borders, recovered all living hostages, and put its enemies on notice as to what awaits them if they attempt a reprise of 7 October.
The Quillette Editorial Board
· 6 min read
An Uneasy Peace
Trump’s peace plan brings the hostages home and halts fighting in Gaza, but Hamas’s refusal to disarm and Israeli concerns about Palestinian statehood threaten the deal’s long-term survival.
Benny Morris
· 15 min read
Rewarding Rejectionism
A new book by two former peace processors makes clear that statehood was never the goal of the Palestinian cause.
Shany Mor
· 12 min read
The Problem with Alt. Media
What the Hughes/Smith debate tells us about the podcast era.
Matt Johnson
· 14 min read
The Media War on Israel
HonestReporting’s Executive Director, Gil Hoffman, joins Pamela Paresky to discuss how the global media has misrepresented Israel since the October 7 Hamas attacks—fueling a narrative war with real-world consequences.
Pamela Paresky
· 13 min read
All at Sea
Greta Thunberg’s sailing trip to Gaza was a confused piece of activist theatre of a kind that is sadly very much in vogue.
John Aziz
· 8 min read
The Genocide Libel
A new report from the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies separates verifiable facts from politically motivated fiction in Gaza.
Andrew Fox
· 24 min read
Trump’s Gaza Plan
Donald Trump’s twenty-point peace proposal marks a potential turning point in the Israeli–Palestinian conflict—though whether it can be implemented remains uncertain.
Benny Morris
· 9 min read
The New Antisemitism
Jake Wallis Simons argues that Western democracies have abandoned their values and their Jews—and that Israel’s fight for survival is a warning the West cannot afford to ignore.
John Lloyd
· 11 min read
The Art of Middle Eastern Pillow Talk
Amir and I had very different ideas about which side had committed a ‘genocide.’ But it didn’t stop us from being civil.
David Christopher Kaufman
· 6 min read
Schrödinger’s Palestine: Einat Wilf on Statehood, Refugees, and Jewish Sovereignty
Pamela Paresky speaks with Israeli intellectual and former Knesset member Einat Wilf about the contradictions of Palestinian statehood, the role of UNRWA, and the enduring rejection of Jewish sovereignty.
Pamela Paresky, Einat Wilf
· 21 min read
Peace and Appeasement
Israel now stands accused of genocide for refusing to accept its own annihilation.
Yuki Zeman
· 8 min read