Israel-Gaza War — Bunk History

A hand holds a small rock, with a keffiyeh draping beside it.

The Horrors Inflicted for 500 Years

How Israel’s war in Gaza echoes the ancient doctrine of conquest behind Spain’s colonization of Latin America.

by Greg Grandin via Tom Dispatch on May 22, 2025

A Progressive Education Nonprofit’s Silence on Gaza

Facing History & Ourselves, known for its model lessons on genocide, has angered staff and disappointed teachers by refusing to provide resources about Gaza.

by Alex Kane via Jewish Currents on February 25, 2025

Art piece of W.E.B. DuBois and people with outstretched arms.

Solidarity and Gaza

Black people see what is happening to Palestinians, and many feel the tug of the familiar in their heart.

by Vann R. Newkirk II via The Atlantic on October 29, 2024

Refugee camp.

The Right Side of Now

Appeals against the war in Gaza are often framed through the lens of the future: “You will regret having been silent.” What about the present tense?

by Lauren Michele Jackson via The New Yorker on June 24, 2024

Pro-Israel counterprotesters hold Israeli flags on the edges of a pro-Palestine encampment at Northeastern University in Boston, April 26, 2024.

The New Anti-Antisemitism

The response to college protests against the war on Gaza exemplifies the darkness of the Trumpocene.

by Rick Perlstein via The American Prospect on May 8, 2024

Anwar El-Sadat, Jimmy Carter, and Menachem Begin after the Camp David Accords.

Jimmy Carter and the Israel-Hamas War

How America's failures in the Palestinian-Israeli crisis of the 1970s hurt U.S. security and contributed to the current war.

by Benjamin V. Allison via Made By History on November 17, 2023

Zohran Mamdani.

Zohran Mamdani, John Lindsay, and the Specter of "Kahanism" in 2025 America

What does 1968 have to do with 2025?

by Shaul Magid via Shaul's Substack on November 5, 2025

The author as a boy.

We Have Talked Enough About Ourselves

How the marriage of American exceptionalism and liberal Zionism led to genocide.

by Benjamin Moser via Equator on October 29, 2025

Israeli soldiers patrol along a destroyed fence near the Gaza Strip.

The Myth of Israeli Innovation

Israel has long relied on Western patrons for arms and backing—even as it has cast itself as a security “innovator” the West can’t afford to do without.

by Rhys Machold via Jewish Currents on October 27, 2025

President Dwight D. Eisenhower meets with five national labor leaders.

American Labor’s Shameful History of Support for Zionism

The US labor movement has never been neutral: its union officialdom has a more-than-century-long history of allying with Zionism.

by Jeff Schuhrke via Jacobin on October 12, 2025

Billboards advertising the new Superman film in Times Square.

Superman Was Always a Social Justice Warrior

A closer look at the character’s history shows that the latest movie is true to his past.

by Ryan Biller via New Lines on July 25, 2025

A man pushes a bicycle as he walks amid rubble in the devastated area around Gaza’s Al-Shifa hospital, April 3, 2024. (AFP via Getty Images)

Gaza and the Undoing of Zionism

A historian reviews new books by Peter Beinart, Avi Shlaim and Pankaj Mishra on the project that animates Israel’s violence.

by Yakov M. Rabkin via New Lines on June 20, 2025

Catholic activists burn draft files to protest the Vietnam War in Catonsville, Maryland, 1968.

Resistance Reexamined

The complex, sometimes romanticized, but ultimately prophetic Catholic peace movement has critical lessons for today's America amid a genocidal war in Gaza.

by Arvin Alaigh via Commonweal on April 23, 2025

Edward Said.

Said’s Specter

Columbia is at war with its intellectual heritage.

by Timothy Brennan via The Chronicle of Higher Education on April 14, 2025

Collage of protesters holding up signs against war taxes.

Could Tax Protests Defund the American War Machine?

Tax resistance has long opposed war and empire in North America, and could be a way to resist U.S. funding of violence in Gaza today.

by Lauren Fadiman via Current Affairs on March 18, 2025

A bulldozer juxtapositioned with destroyed buildings and barren land.

The Shrouded, Sinister History Of The Bulldozer

From India to the Amazon to Israel, bulldozers have left a path of destruction that offers a cautionary tale for how technology can be misused.

by Joe Zadeh via Noema on February 20, 2025

Donald Trump and Benjamin Netanyahu in the White House.

Trump’s Gaza Plan May Mark the End of the Postwar Order

Although the West has long tolerated forced expulsions when convenient, its postwar framework at least nominally rejected them. Now the US is endorsing it.

by Dirk Moses via Jacobin on February 16, 2025

A Guatemalan police officer standing in front of a memorial to Guatemalan civilians murdered during the country's civil war that depicts their photographs.

By Rejecting Evidence of Genocide in Gaza, the US Is Following a Familiar Pattern

For decades, Washington has denied, downplayed and rationalized atrocities by its allies.

by Stephen Zunes via New Lines on February 14, 2025

What Is the Role of the Historian?

Rethinking the job of history — and the American Historical Association — after the veto of the Gaza “scholasticide” resolution.

by Barbara Weinstein via HNN on February 4, 2025

Destroyed buildings in Gaza.

Can Genocide Studies Survive a Genocide in Gaza?

A discipline born from the study of the Holocaust faces its contradictions as Israel stands accused of the “crime of crimes.”

by Mari Cohen via Jewish Currents on December 19, 2024

Protest encampment at University of California Berkeley.

The Free Speech Movement at Sixty and Today’s Unfree Universities

Can speech be free when billionaires buy influence on campus?

by Robert Cohen via Academe on December 4, 2024

Protestors at Oxford University, with one holding a sign that reads "End Racism Now."

What Is Decolonisation?

There’s more talk of decolonisation than ever, while true independence for former colonies has faded from view. Why?

by Lydia Walker via Aeon on November 21, 2024

You Had to Be There

Whose side is the war correspondent on?

by Zoë Hu via The Baffler on November 5, 2024

Bill Clinton meeting with the Emir of Qatar, Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani, in the White House.

How Qatar Became a Major Middle East Power Broker

The history behind the country's role as a key American ally that also maintains warm relations with Iran and others.

by Allen Fromherz via Made By History on September 30, 2024

University of California, Los Angeles students protest against Israel's war in Gaza.

Why Do Student Protest Movements Fail?

The uncompromising idealism of student protesters is rooted in social and economic isolation and detachment.

by Paul Baumann via Commonweal on September 27, 2024

Art piece of a hand holding barbed wire.

Do Border

Who can migrate to the US and make their home here? Who gets to drop US-made bombs, and who is expected to suffer them? These are not unrelated questions.

by Daniel Denvir via n+1 on August 22, 2024

Barbara Ransby speaks to protesters at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, March 20, 1987.

My Time Organizing on Campus Against Apartheid in South Africa

Black internationalism broadened our politics of solidarity.

by Barbara Ransby via Hammer & Hope on July 23, 2024

Human figures colored either blue or green.

Mortality Wars

Estimating life and death in Iraq and Gaza.

by Shaan Sachdev via The Drift on July 8, 2024

Joe Biden lifting finger.

Hey Man, We’re Out of Runway

On three histories of the Biden White House, and the 2024 election.

by Christian Lorentzen via London Review of Books on July 8, 2024

Palestinians inspect the ruins of a building destroyed in Israeli airstrikes in Gaza, October 8, 2023.

The Desire to Annihilate Gaza Wasn’t Born on 10/7 — It’s Part of a Long Tradition

A long Euro-American tradition of genocide and ethnic cleansing imagined freeing a barren Palestine from Palestinian barbarity and heathenism.

by Adam Yaghi via Religion Dispatches on June 17, 2024

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