Israel

Friend Zone of Conflict

Edited by Gidi Weitz,

From a 2017 conversation between Yoram Ne’eman, then chief superintendent of the Israeli police, and Benjamin Netanyahu, the prime minister of Israel. The police were investigating whether Netanyahu had been…

Secrets and Lies

By Linda Stasi,

Sexual abuse in the world of Orthodox Judaism

Remains of the Day

From descriptions of findings at Abel Beth Maacah, a site in northern Israel, near the Lebanese border. The reports were published between 1986 and 2018 by the biblical archaeologists Nava…

My Holy Land Vacation

By Tom Bissell,

Touring Israel with 450 Christian Zionists

Inside the July Issue

By Ellen Rosenbush, on June 16, 2016

Tom Bissell on touring Israel with Christian Zionists, Joy Gordon on the Cuban embargo, Lawrence Jackson on Freddie Gray and the makings of an American uprising, a story by Paul Yoon, and more

The Trouble with Israel

By Bernard Avishai,

Netanyahu takes the country to the brink

Discussing the “Radical Otherness” of Israel with Frédéric Brenner

By Sam Cate-Gumpert, on November 4, 2014

"Only such a spectrum of perspectives could really do justice to the complexities and to the fact that Israel is totally un-understandable."

Israel and Palestine

By Bernard Avishai, Dani Dayan, Forsan Hussein, Eva Illouz, Bassim Khoury, Erel Margalit, Danny Rubinstein, Khalil Shikaki,

Where to go from here

Untitled

By Gilles Peress,

The Other Zionism

By I. F. Stone,

The main current of Zionism has always nourished itself on the illusions that the Jews were “a people without a land” returning to “a land without a people.” But there…

A Jerusalem Education

By John R. MacArthur, on July 17, 2014

“It gradually dawned on me that since 1967, I had made very little progress in seeing Arabs or empathizing with their plight.”

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