The Red Sea’s escalation equation
The aims of the US’s and UK’s strikes on the Houthis were limited. But what happens next?
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The risk of a wider Middle East war is growing
The assassination of Hamas’s deputy political chief has come amid Israeli calls for action against Hezbollah and a crisis of…
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The chaos of Israel’s postwar plan
No one in Benjamin Netanyahu’s government can agree what “the day after” should look like.
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Pax Americana’s last gasp
The US appears increasingly unable to rein in Israel’s war.
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What the left gets wrong about Gaza and “decolonisation”
The West needs to remember that not all freedom movements are progressive or democratic.
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The triple betrayal of Israeli women
Between the Israeli government and atrocity deniers, the women raped in the 7 October attack are still being victimised.
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The fightback against US anti-Semitism has begun
American Jews no longer believe “it can’t happen here”. It can and it has.
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The new world disorder
A new binary of opposing powers has emerged, with the forces of chaos ranged against the West.
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Pro-Palestinian protests have been intimidating and isolating
Those closest to the conflict have greater capacity for solidarity and recognition of complexity than keyboard warriors.
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There is little tolerance in Israel for dissenting feelings
Political beliefs are one thing, but to cry for friends in Gaza or pray for all slain children is now…
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What it means to be Jewish now
With anti-Semitism rising and divisions on the left over the Gaza war, writers reflect on being Jewish now.
We must refuse the currency of fear
Mourning is always political. The space for a form of grief that is not used to justify violence is shrinking.
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Lessons of growing up black and Jewish
Many Jews of colour interpret Zionism through our experience with racism, and we recognise the supremacist logic that underpins it.
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The innocent are innocent, whichever side of the Hamas-Israel war they are on
I am an Israeli that knows you can’t defeat an ideology with brute force – there must be a better…
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Both Netanyahu’s cabinet and Hamas see this crisis as an opportunity
The Israeli left’s turn to the right comes from its sense of betrayal by the world’s left – especially by…
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As long as Palestine remains occupied, cycles of violence will continue
If there is one silver lining it is that the world has taken notice of the Palestinians in Gaza, the…
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This generation will never see Gazans and Israelis become fellow citizens
We are caught in three wars: against Hamas, against Benjamin Netanyahu’s government, and against anti-Semitism.
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The return of the “longest hatred”
Across the world anti-Semitism is surging, and Jewish people are once again living in fear.
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The flawed logic of progressives’ support for Islamist movements
Western liberals insist on universal human rights – but overlook the brutal rejection of these values by groups they champion.
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Israel and Hamas agree to a hostage deal – but the war is not over
The Israeli cabinet has voted to exchange 50 prisoners held in Gaza for 150 Palestinians, amid a four-day ceasefire.
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