Mitchell Cohen is co-editor emeritus of Dissent in New York and professor emeritus of political science at Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York. His books include Zion and State: ...

New York University, photo by Benjamin Kraft via Flickr. Licence at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode ...

Cary Nelson is the author, most recently, of Hate Speech and Academic Freedom: The Antisemitic Assault on Basic Principles (2024). He argues that the latest document of the Nexus Task Force – a body ...

A Horse Walks Into a Bar, an opening line to many a haggard joke, is not necessarily what one would expect as the title of a new David Grossman novel. Yet here we are, at the tale’s beginning, inside ...

In Cape Town, protesters march against increased Israeli “security” measures at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in 2017. Photo by Ashraf Hendricks, GroundUp.

Israel’s military operation to stop rocket fire at Israeli cities and to destroy Hamas tunnels under the Gaza-Israel border has drawn increasing criticism due to civilian casualties. To discuss the ...

Australian journalist Michael Gawenda reflects on tensions on the Australian Jewish left through the prism of 7 October. Recalling his days as a teenager in Bundist circles, Gawenda wonders of his ...

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In a briefing, Maj. Gen. (ret.) Giora Eiland, former head of the Israeli National Security Council, Strategic Planning Branch of the IDF, emphasises the existential importance of Hamas being ...

Yadgar’s book was born out of a difficulty he found while teaching at Berkeley of recommending reading that made explicit the link between Israel’s internal sociology, culture and politics, and the ...

Matthias Kuntzel is the author of the award-winning book Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11. In this essay in intellectual history he argues that the main cause of both ...

General Edmund Allenby entering Jerusalem on foot out of respect for the Holy City after the British's victory in Palestine, 11 December 1917. Wikipedia.