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 15 Nov 2023 · 8 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 7 Nov 2023 · 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 5 Nov 2023 · 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 3 Nov 2023 · 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 2 Nov 2023 · 11 min read
Queers for Palestine: Identity Politics at Its Most Absurd In Palestine, they’d be killed. Armin Navabi 2 Nov 2023 · 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 28 Oct 2023 · 8 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
Palestine Misunderstood Humeniuk’s essay lends implicit support to the notion that a Palestinian state will be modern, open, and peaceful, if not positively progressive, and not the bastion of fanaticism that exists in Israelis’ fearful imagination. Petra Marquardt-Bigman 31 Oct 2019 · 10 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
Traitors to the Human Mind As an aggressive activist strategy, the “pinkwashing” charge is shameless and shrewd. As moral reasoning, it is inane. Jamie Palmer 3 Feb 2016 · 10 min read
