The slipperiness of ceasefire
Why the path to peace is shorter in Gaza than Ukraine.
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The Iran problem
How the US is losing control of the Middle East.
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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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“It’s too late for the Jewish state”
A discussion on the war in Gaza, free speech and the future of the two-state solution.
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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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“They kill anything that moves”
A discussion on the mass expulsion of Gaza, genocide and South Africa’s case against Israel.
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Pax Americana’s last gasp
The US appears increasingly unable to rein in Israel’s war.
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“They want monsters”
This has been the most violent year on record for Palestinians in the West Bank.
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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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UN commissioner: “Gazans could start dying of hunger”
Philippe Lazzarini on the worsening refugee crisis in Gaza.
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When men don’t listen to women
Female Israeli soldiers had warned for months that Hamas was planning something. They weren’t taken seriously.
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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 Policy Ask with Daniel Gorman: “We are in a human rights emergency”
The director of English PEN on the erosion of civil liberties, protecting free speech and calling for a ceasefire.
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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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This Christmas, it is hard to watch as our ancestral lands fragment
Israelis, Palestinians, Ukrainians and Armenians around the world have had to witness horrifying events from afar.
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Israelis and Palestinians have been taken back to the traumas of 1948
Reporting from the front line in Gaza, I have seen the destruction wrought on all sides by this long conflict.
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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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This is a time to insist on Jewishness
To abandon our identity, as left-wing Jews did in the past, would be to surrender to those who allow only…
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