A Makeshift Alliance
A professor’s critical support for the student protests.
Winter 2025
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The Spirit of Yiddish Socialism
The history of the Bund as a party came to an end long ago, but the effects of its cultural and political work live on.
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.
A Shared Language Lost
The Netanyahus captures a time before American and Israeli Jews underwent a great fissure.
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 Amos Oz Couldn’t See
The late writer’s displays of moral courage will serve as a kind of record for future historians, proof of the efforts of Israelis who did not stand idly by as their country’s skies darkened—as well as proof of their shortcomings.
What Comes After Labor Zionism?
Israel’s founding ideology has run its course.
After the Israeli Elections
The project of rebuilding the Israeli Jewish left can no longer wait.
Neither Master Nor Subject: Zionism, Empire, and the Balfour Declaration
It was just a three-sentence letter, written 100 years ago—and many claim it’s still shaping the Middle East. But we should be careful about what we read into the Balfour Declaration.
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.
Why We Argue
A left that doesn’t relish arguing with itself is a left that’s not prepared to change the world.
Ten Points Towards a Two-State Solution
A secure, well-run Palestinian state is more essential than ever, for the sake of justice and for the security of both sides.
Between Israel and Social Democracy: Tony Judt’s Jewishness
Beyond Zionism and its discontents, Tony Judt’s Jewishness was a vibrant companion of the historian’s aspiring cosmopolitanism.
