Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

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.

While condemning terrorism should be a no-brainer, "moral clarity" has not guaranteed sound U.S. counterterrorism policy.

In Bush’s naïveté about the magic of elections, he ignored a crucial point about democracy.

How 30 years of U.S. policy ended in disaster.

How Black support for Zionism morphed into support for Palestine.

The biopic starring Helen Mirren shies away from the moral implications of Golda Meir’s decisions.

In her new role as antisemitism envoy, Deborah Lipstadt will attempt to fight a scourge of antisemitism that she seems to regard as incurable.

The Dodgers great didn’t just break Major League Baseball’s color line. He was also an activist whose legacy reaches from Brooklyn to South Africa to Palestine.

For more than 150 years after it was coined, “terrorism” meant violence inflicted by the state on its people. How did the word come to mean the reverse?

He helped build Jewish American support for Israel. What’s his legacy now?

The history of the ADL and AJC reveals that they were created to consolidate the power of wealthy men and stifle the grassroots left.

Although major U.S. newspapers hosted thousands of opinion pieces on Israel-Palestine over 50 years, hardly any were actually written by Palestinians.

Leon Uris's bestselling book "Exodus" portrayed the founding of the state of Israel in terms many Americans could relate to.

A new book asks why the left fell out of love with Zionism, but what it reveals is why liberal Zionists fell out of love with the left.

Amy Kaplan’s new book examines the pioneering cultural myths that have tied Israel and the United States together.

The rising tie between black activism and pro-Palestinian advocacy.

Today's Israel lobby is one of the most powerful forces in Washington, but how did it start?

Democrats like Lyndon Johnson staunchly supported Israel. Now the party is leaving that legacy behind.

Historian Sara Yael Hirschhorn explains what has driven some American Jews to the most contentious real estate on earth.