Israel - Quillette (Page 7)

Woke Antisemitism: A Reckoning

In their rationalizations of violence against Jews and Israelis, they’ve outed themselves as the extremists they are.

David Bernstein

16 Oct 2023 · 10 min read

The Gazan Gordian Knot

Following a litany of failures, Israel must now contemplate a menu of bad options.

Shmuel Bar

13 Oct 2023 · 14 min read

Israel’s New Reality

In these dire circumstances, deterrence will only be restored with overwhelming force.

Brian Stewart

12 Oct 2023 · 6 min read

The Ideology of Mass Murder

Hamas and the origins of the October 7th attacks.

Jeffrey Herf

10 Oct 2023 · 9 min read

Israel’s Everywoman at War

Helen Mirren’s Golda Meir offers a profile of greatness in the face of overwhelming adversity.

Michael Oren

8 Sep 2023 · 16 min read

Remembering ‘Exodus’

A perennially controversial bestseller turns 65.

Kevin Mims

4 Sep 2023 · 18 min read

Israel’s Perilous Moment, Then and Now

Herf tells the complicated and often surprising story of the internal political struggles in Western capitals, as well as in the halls of the United Nations, that erupted at the end of the Second World War.

Sol Stern

18 May 2022 · 14 min read

PODCAST 127: Historian Benny Morris on the Forgotten 19th-Century Genocide of Turkey's Christians

Jonathan Kay speaks to famed Middle Eastern historian Benny Morris, whose latest book explores the ethnic cleansing of Turkey during the last decades of the Ottoman Empire. Transcript Jonathan Kay: Benny Morris is one of the world's most well-known historians of Israel and its conflict with the Palestinians,

Quillette / Benny Morris

8 Dec 2020 · 19 min read

My Military Jail-Time in Israel

In combat, the IDF was more disciplined, which accounts for its battlefield successes—though these probably also owed a lot to the character and quality of the armies they had faced.

Benny Morris

5 Oct 2020 · 20 min read

The War of Return—A Review

The War of Return is an important book and, unquestionably, a welcome corrective to the plethora of myths, lies, and misconceptions that litter the discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Benjamin Kerstein

28 Apr 2020 · 19 min read

PODCAST 54: New York Times Editor Bari Weiss on Her New Book

New York Times editor and opinion writer Bari Weiss talks to Jonathan Kay about How to Fight Anti-Semitism, her new book on the rise in anti-Semitism in the U.S. on the Left and the Right, and what we can do to combat it. Featured image, Bari Weiss on Real

Quillette / Jonathan Kay

21 Sep 2019 · 1 min read

Is Liberal Immigration Anti-Democratic?—A Reply to Gadi Taub

Immigration restrictions, like tariffs and other restrictions on trade, affect the activities of citizens above all.

Sam Kiss

5 Aug 2019 · 12 min read

Are Anti-BDS Laws an Assault on Free Speech?

Pluralism has been curiously absent from the BDS debate, which is currently gridlocked over the more narrow question of state neutrality.

Aaron Sibarium

8 Feb 2019 · 8 min read

An Israeli Agent on Campus

The need for bridge-building and constructive dialogue has been overtaken by the belief that everyone in Israeli society is complicit in that nation’s uniquely deplorable sins.

Ari David Blaff

9 Nov 2018 · 12 min read

What Makes a 'Self-Hating' Muslim?

Wajahat Ali’s crime is that by mere association with a Jewish group, he was tarred by important sections of the Islamic community as a traitor.

Tanveer Ahmed

23 Jul 2018 · 7 min read