Israeli/Palestinian Conflict

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.

Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and the making of 9/11.

On revisiting the anti-imperialism of the 1960s and ’70s amid the return of left internationalism.

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

Despite frequent litigation, U.S. courts have created a blurry line that puts administrators in an impossible situation.

Today's pro-Palestinian activists are utilizing anti-apartheid tactics from thirty years ago.

The term is 80 years old. Everyone is still fighting over its meaning.

Bayard Rustin tried to forge a mass coalition to deliver progressive change. His failure to do so in the 1960s tells us much about building one today.

How fascists and authoritarians have used antisemitic conspiracy theories to harm Jewish communities and undermine democracy.

Justifying civilian casualties has a long history.

You can't be neutral on a tour bus rolling toward the foot of Masada.

At 12 years old, Martha Hodes was on board a hijacked plane and was taken hostage for a week. How did she forget much of the experience?

In 1920, like 2020, race became the pivot of a historic turning point.

Judith Shklar fled Nazis and Stalinism before discovering in African-American history the dilemma of modern liberalism.

Oscar night has become a platform for stars to pitch political causes.

Edward Said's Orientalism is still with us forty years after his influential book’s publication, but it is not the same as it was.

Zbigniew Brzezinski’s Cold War.

A new book says the conflict began in the late 19th century and subsumed even World War II as our defining event.

On Edward Said, othering, and the depictions of Arabs in America.