Israel

Secrets and Lies

By Linda Stasi,

In 1973, when Barry Singer was a fifteen-year-old student at New York’s Yeshiva University High School for Boys, the vice principal, Rabbi George Finkelstein, stopped him in a stairwell. Claiming…

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,

i. stand with israelI listen to a lot of conservative talk radio. Confident masculine voices telling me the enemy is everywhere and victory is near — I often find it…

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…

The Trouble with Israel

By Bernard Avishai,

One day this April, two weeks after the Israeli elections gave Benjamin Netanyahu a fourth term as prime minister, the morning after the framework for a nuclear agreement with Iran…

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. Read More

Israel and Palestine

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

In June, days before Harper’s contributor Bernard Avishai brought together a panel of experts for a conversation about the prospects of a lasting resolution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, three Israeli…

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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.” Read More

Kerry, Iran, and the Wisdom of James Baker

By Andrew Cockburn, on November 15, 2013

Why John Kerry was bested by France and Israel in negotiations with Iran, and how the Obama Administration could get around the U.S. sanctions regime Read More

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