Israel-Gaza War

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

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

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

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?

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

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

A petition accusing Palestinians’ advocates of committing a “blood libel” occasions a reflection on Solomon Schecter‘s 1909 speech about Abraham Lincoln.

Invoking the memory of Jewish persecution to denounce the assault on immigrants today is not an offense but a moral imperative.

From Syria to Lebanon to Gaza, the coercion central to the new regime has been incubated in the Middle East.

Leaders of the American Historical Association overruled a motion to condemn scholasticide in Gaza, opting for cowardice over ethical clarity.

Before Donald Trump's takeover proposal for Gaza, another New York real estate magnate had his own plans for the region.

The paper’s Gaza coverage continues its pattern of downplaying US-backed atrocities in Bangladesh, East Timor, and Guatemala.

A century ago, artists who survived the trenches captured humanity’s capacity for destruction. What can they teach us in a new age of genocide?

What does 1968 have to do with 2025?

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

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.

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

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

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

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

Columbia is at war with its intellectual heritage.

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.

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.

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

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

An anti-war student’s strange death decades ago and how it resonates on college campuses today.

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

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

Can speech be free when billionaires buy influence on campus?

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