Reckoning or reverting? Israeli society after the ceasefire
Two years after October 7, Israeli public opinion remains shaped by fear, grief, and a siege mentality. But could the fragile ceasefire mark a turning point — or will Israel slip back into an “October...
23 Okt 202543min
Rethinking Palestinian public opinion
How do Palestinians conceive of liberation and hope today, after decades of disillusion, and beyond the narrow language of statehood? In this bleak moment, what forms of governance, sovereignty, or re...
9 Okt 202541min
The only eyes on the ground
More journalists have been killed in Gaza since October 7, 2023 than in any other conflict since the Committee to Protect Journalists began collecting data in 1992. According to the Palestinian Journa...
25 Sep 202524min
Israel's eternal war, from Gaza to Tehran
It’s been nearly two years, and Israel’s genocide in Gaza shows no signs of abating. At the same time, Israel has further entrenched its control over Palestinians in the West Bank, and accelerated its...
28 Aug 202534min
What happened to the Green Line?
Last month, a controversy erupted in Israel when the Tel Aviv municipality, in time for the new school year, distributed maps to classrooms that showed the Green Line. Although the 1949 armistice line...
16 Sep 202243min
The Jewish Comedian Calling Out Apartheid in Arabic
Noam Shuster-Eliassi, an Israeli comedian based in south Tel Aviv, spent her childhood and early adulthood invested in a traditional model of coexistence between Israelis and Palestinians. Growing up ...
25 Feb 202233min
Excavating Israel's underground settlements
Archeology is presumed to be a neutral endeavor, a practice of excavation that merely uncovers clues about the past. But according to Israeli archeologist Yonathan Mizrahi, it's easy to frame archeolo...
13 Jan 202225min
The Role of Fiction in Palestinian Liberation
When Sahar Mustafah, a Palestinian-American author and teacher, heard about the 2015 murder of three Muslim students in North Carolina by their white neighbor, she turned to writing to process the att...
9 Nov 202139min
