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While the U.S.–Israel alliance has become isolated, new ones are emerging.
How Zionism’s dreams of liberation became entangled with colonialism.
A conversation with Palestinian human rights attorney Noura Erakat on the need for a political solution.
Amid ongoing reporting and ethical outrage, we need context for the fight between Hamas and Israel—and how it shapes possibilities for peace.
In Palestine and Kurdistan, promising experiments in self-determination draw on the region’s pluralist history.
From street demonstrations to song, dance, film, and poetry, women are advancing a long legacy of struggle against authoritarianism in Iran.
Noam Chomsky on lies, crimes, and savage capitalism.
Far from a metaphysical battle between fanaticism and tolerance, the Rushdie affair exemplifies the marketization of hurt sentiments.
Accounts still get the history of Palestinian diplomacy wrong.
The explosion was only the latest tragedy in the city’s long decline.
In the wake of the devastating explosion, civil society has shown the way forward—filling the void of a nonexistent and incapacitated state.
In a world imperiled by global pandemic, it is long past time to put an end to sanctions—including new ones against Iran—and to reconstruct U.S. foreign policy around international solidarity.
In linking the assassination of Iranian General Qasem Soleimani to the 1979 Iran hostage crisis, Trump invokes a fantasy of poetic justice—positioning himself as Rambo, the avenger of American humiliation abroad.
Under the guise of fighting hate speech, the ADL has a long history of wielding its moral authority to attack Arabs, blacks, and queers.
For a two-state solution to succeed, Israeli Jews must first forswear their righteous narrative of moral superiority.
In a bid to consolidate power, ErdoÄŸan is reshaping Turkish politics in the image of the Ottoman past.
As the Trump–Putin summit made clear, U.S. policy in Syria has always been about grand strategy—never about what would actually help the people on the ground.
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