Israel-Gaza War

The history of American Communism shows that dogma and fervor are no substitute for popular support.

A shocking image of the 1906 atrocity survived but failed to become a humanitarian touchstone.

On (not) voting.

For generations of American radicals, the path to liberation required a new constitution, not forced removal.

In trying to freeze reality into a cudgel that can be used to assault political opponents, the New Atheists deny the observable evidence in front of them.

The City University of New York has long stood at once for meritocratic uplift and for civil disobedience.

From Dow to now.

With the Dow sit-ins of the 1960s, students drew attention to links between the campus, war, and imperialism.

Universities spent years saying that activism is not just welcome but encouraged on their campuses. Students took them at their word.

We don’t need to imagine a world ravaged by nuclear war – we’re already living in it.

The UN’s failure to dismantle the colonial order foreclosed the application of the Genocide Convention to Israel, South Africa, and the United States.

For as long as Americans have been subjected to lousy candidates, they’ve been told to suck it up and vote for one of them.

Aaron Bushnell and the age of immolation.

It has been an article of faith that Jews and Black Americans have a natural bond, but a ‘Black-Jewish alliance’ is not, or at least not reliably, a thing.

Long before 9/11, Zionist groups like the Anti-Defamation League lobbied for counterterror legislation that singled out Palestinians.

In resurrecting stories of non- and anti-Zionist critics, a new book shows American Jews how questioning Israel is deeply rooted in their community.

How Kahanism infiltrated the political mainstream.

A historian of the Middle East examines how connections have shifted since long before the 1948 founding of the Jewish state.

An interrogation of The New York Times’ archive reveals a sordid record of support for American wars, right-wing dictatorships and U.S.-backed regime-change.

We reach for the term when we want to condemn the worst crimes, but the UN’s Genocide Convention excuses more perpetrators of mass murder than it condemns.

Fierce disagreements over Zionism have played out from the movement’s inception among Jews, including community leaders who worried it would spark antisemitism.