Israel’s Rightward Turn
The backlash against the increasingly vocal demands for recognition and equality on the part of Israel’s Arab citizens has decisively shaped twenty-first-century Israeli politics.
Spring 2025
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Belabored: Strippers Seek Justice at Work, with Velveeta
A group of strippers at the Star Garden Topless Dive Bar in North Hollywood hopes to break new ground in organizing their field nationwide as part of the Actors’ Equity Association.
Asymmetric War and Its Journalists
If we ask the right questions, we might well conclude that political struggle rather than war is the better strategy for both sides in virtually all asymmetric conflicts.
A Shared Language Lost
The Netanyahus captures a time before American and Israeli Jews underwent a great fissure.
Jerusalem: City or Symbol?
What is happening in Sheikh Jarrah lies at the heart of the Israeli occupation of Palestine.
Belabored: General Strike in Palestine
Political economy researcher Riya Al-Sanah joins us from Haifa to talk about this week’s historic general strike.
Bring Back Health Planning
We need a health system where the distribution of infrastructure and resources is not left to the dictates of the market, but rationally planned according to the needs of communities—and the certainty of future disasters.
Where Everything Old Is New Again
Benjamin Netanyahu has used the coronavirus to resuscitate his political career.
Israel–Palestine Today: A Values-Based Approach
Refusing to hold Israel to the standards to which we hold all other states would be wavering in our commitment to freedom, democracy, and equality. (With a reply from Michael Walzer.)
Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism
What’s wrong with anti-Zionism is anti-Zionism itself. (With a response from Joshua Leifer.)
What Comes After Labor Zionism?
Israel’s founding ideology has run its course.
What Is a Generation?
Surely it is not just a matter of age or biology, but something more—a collective frustration with the world as it is and a desire to find new ways to change it.
Toward a Post-Zionist Left
The left must move beyond the false binaries of liberal Zionism and embrace a post-Zionist politics of civil rights and nonviolent resistance.
With a counter-argument by Susie Linfield.
Is a Left Zionism Possible?
The spirit of left Zionism, which was strong enough to build a country, has receded to the margins of Israeli politics. Can it be revived?
With a counter-argument by Joshua Leifer.
Israel’s #BlackLivesMatter Moment?
Ethiopian-Israelis face systematic discrimination and violence at the hands of the police. But comparisons to #BlackLivesMatter in the United States do not capture the complexities of their situation.
