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Oil and Water

By Elizabeth Whitman, on March 27, 2019

Olive farmers confront climate change in the West Bank Read More

House Hunters Transnational

By Jamie Levin, Sarah Treleaven,

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…

Untitled

By Gilles Peress,

Helter Seltzer

By Jamie Levin, Sarah Treleaven,

To view a larger version of the Annotation, click on the image below:… Read More

Drip, Jordan

By Ben Ehrenreich,

We had come to the Jordan River—the one from the spirituals, which our souls yearn to cross. The same one, in name at least, that forms the boundary between the…

The Economics of Occupation

By Bernard Avishai,

Subdivide and conquer

By Paul Maliszewski,

Absolut exodus

By Harper’s Staff,

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