West Bank Archives

West Bank

After Nonviolence

The end of peaceful resistance in Palestine

To Be Born in Beit Jala

From Strangers in Light Coats: Selected Poems, 2014–2020, which was published in November by Seagull Books. Translated from the Arabic by Robin Moger. I was born into the Christian households…

Israel’s War Within

by Bernard Avishai,

On the ruinous history of Religious Zionism

The Trouble with Israel’s Supreme Court

Host Violet Lucca,Guest Bernard Avishai

On the ongoing culture war that’s reshaping the country, and the proposed changes to its judiciary

Oil and Water

by Elizabeth Whitman,

Olive farmers confront climate change in the West Bank

House Hunters Transnational

by Jamie Levin, Sarah Treleaven,

Israel’s economic settlers in the West Bank

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,

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

Untitled

by Gilles Peress,

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

Helter Seltzer