A collection of 208 posts
As missiles fly between Tehran and Tel Aviv, Iranian dissident Danial Taghaddos joins Zoe to explain what the West gets wrong about the regime, the nuclear threat, and the future of his homeland.
The Israeli attack on Iran is in line with its longstanding policy of never allowing its neighbouring enemies to acquire nuclear weapons. But it is also the latest episode in the wider war against Israel launched in late 2023 by Iran’s proxies.
On 10 May, US historian Jeffrey Herf spoke at a small café in Berlin established to discuss antisemitism and the Western Left’s growing hostility to the state of Israel.
Douglas Murray’s new book looks at the dangers posed by the burgeoning coalition of radical leftists and Islamists in the wake of 7 October.
"That was the moment I realised I had underestimated the ideological rot inside academia."
Israel prepares for a final push into Gaza—but will it be stymied by criticism from abroad and discontent at home?
My travels through a demonised democracy.
Israeli intelligence and the Hamas attack on 7 October 2023.
The ongoing Arab–Israeli war appears to be entering a new escalatory phase, in which the eye of the storm has shifted to Syria and Yemen, as well as back to Gaza.
Louis Theroux’s new documentary suggests that he is unfamiliar with the complex history behind the Israeli occupation of The West Bank, and does not understand the political and ideological factors at stake there.
Why we all need to read Benny Morris.
Let us not confuse the freedom to speak with the freedom to mislead.
Joe Sacco’s graphic works provide vivid and moving depictions of the terrible suffering in the Strip. But his accounts of the causes of that suffering are simplistic and one-sided in the extreme.
Israel is a struggling, desperate, deeply flawed liberal democracy.
An honest conversation with the hard-hitting Israeli historian Gadi Taub.