How governments, advocacy groups, and pundits respond to the recognition of Palestinian statehood is a good indicator of whether they genuinely support the Palestinian right to self-determination or not (although this right won't be realized until Israel ends its occupation of Palestinian land).

Poll of Palestinian opinion by Zogby. Please note -The universal revulsion towards Hamas in Gaza (92% hold them responsible for the "situation") -Low support for armed struggle (only 4% in Gaza) -Low support for "one democratic state" - around 13% institute.global/insights/geo...

The Israeli hostages still held in Gaza have now spent 700 days in cruel captivity. While Hamas is responsible for this crime, the fact remains that all the hostages could have been freed by now if Netanyahu's government had prioritized their release.

An interview I did with New York magazine: nymag.com/intelligence...

This has nothing to do with combatting campus antisemitism. This is a shakedown and an effort to bring the best public university system in the country to its knees: www.nytimes.com/2025/08/08/u...

Last August, a plurality of American voters (43%) believed that Israel is not committing genocide in Gaza. Now, a year later, a plurality (47%) believe Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, while the share of those who don't believe this has dropped by 10% to just a third of Americans (33%).

NEW: The University of California said Wednesday that Trump has frozen a total of $584 million in federal grants to UCLA. The figure is more than twice the initial amount tallied last week. UC also confirmed today that it will negotiate to restore the funds www.latimes.com/california/s...

Since I publicly stated my view that Israel is committing genocide in Gaza, I have, unsurprisingly, received some very critical reactions from some supporters of Israel as well as from some supporters of the Palestinians. I've written some reflections on these reactions: medium.com/p/some-refle...

Coincidentally, just after I wrote about why I had changed my mind about what's happening in Gaza and reached the conclusion that Israel was committing genocide, my colleague in the field of Israel Studies, Dr. Lihi Ben Shitrit, published a similar piece: forward.com/opinion/7598...

We are completely horrified and sickened by the cynical videos of hostages Rom Braslavski and Evyatar David, who are starving and emaciated, that were published this weekend. (1/5)

This. It is tragically obvious that the goal of freeing the hostages has been deemed far less important to the Israeli government than ethnically cleansing Gaza and keeping Netanyahu in power. If the priority were the lives of the hostages, this war would have ended a long time ago.

This is a well-reported deep dive on how the Anti-Defamation League went from an organization that at least on paper tried to balance support for domestic US liberalism with Zionism, to an organization that is no longer even trying for the former: nymag.com/intelligence...

My article, coauthored with @djpressman.bsky.social, titled "No Limits: The Biden Administration's Support for Israel's War on Gaza," has just been published in the journal World Affairs. The article is freely available for everyone to read and share: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

For the past 21 months of horrific violence and heartbreaking suffering in the Gaza Strip, I've been wrestling with the contentious question of whether Israel is committing the crime of genocide in Gaza. I initially rejected the genocide charge, but now I don't. A thread on why I've changed my mind:

Significantly, all 22 member states of the Arab League have signed onto a declaration condemning Hamas’s Oct. 7 attack on Israel and calling for Hamas to disarm. The next necessary step is for all these Arab states to apply real pressure on Hamas to disarm: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/31/w...

This is an excellent interview, it is mandatory viewing.. for those who care about human rights, Gaza, Palestine and Israel, as well.

More than half of the Senate Democratic caucus voted for a resolution to block arms sales to Israel. Things really are changing.

For @forward.com, I wrote about how we know that Israel has been withholding food as a military tactic because Israeli officials have said versions of “we are withholding food as a military tactic” for the entirety of the war and pretending otherwise is willful ignorance forward.com/opinion/7586...

Israel's military campaign in Gaza has killed 60,000 people. 18,500 were children. Here are their names. www.washingtonpost.com/world/intera...

Well this undermines some widespread narratives out there: www.insidehighered.com/news/faculty...

The UK should recognize a Palestinian state, but not as a punitive action against Israel. Recognition is a long-overdue step that acknowledges the Palestinian right to self-determination and could help save a two-state solution. www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...

I'm glad that the UK has finally expressed a willingness to recognize a Palestinian state. For those who think this is a purely symbolic step without practical significance, this article provides some explanation of what it could mean in practice: www.nytimes.com/2025/07/29/w...

The World since 7 October www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

It's too soon to know whether the US strikes succeeded in destroying Iran's nuclear facilities, particularly Fordow, but even if they did, Iran will still be able to reconstitute its nuclear program eventually, and Iran now has a greater incentive to seek a nuclear weapon.

Israel has once again demonstrated its military prowess, intelligence capabilities, and tactical ingenuity (as it did previously vis-a-vis Hezbollah). The big question is whether this attack on Iran will be a strategic success: How long will Iran's nuclear program be setback?

Jews are not made safer by treating antisemitism like an imported problem, or by using Jewish safety as pretense for pushing through divisive policies, or by whipping up xenophobia, or by pitting minorities against each other. In other words, Jews will not be made safer by any of this.

A shameful, albeit unsurprising, vote for the U.S., underscoring its global isolation when it comes to Israel-Palestine: "U.S. Vetoes U.N. Resolution Demanding Immediate Gaza Cease-Fire" www.nytimes.com/2025/06/04/w...

The Israeli government appears to want to take Gaza back to the post-1967 era of full military occupation – where the Israeli military runs every facet of Palestinian daily life.

Several hospitalized with burns after man attacks pro-Israel gathering in Colorado: forward.com/news/724708/...

Former head of International Law Department of the IDF writes that the current attempt of forced removal of population in the Gaza Strip could fall under "deliberately inflicting on the group conditions of life calculated to bring about its physical destruction in whole or in part" i.e genocide.

The admin that cites its concern about antisemitism to justify deporting students who write op-eds for Palestine, is now defending the German far-right party with a neo-Nazi wing, the party that calls for "moving beyond" Holocaust memory. You know, because they care so much about antisemitism.

While the Trump administration detains and tries to deport international students for their political speech, a white supremacist student has murdered people on a Florida campus. Yet the Trump administration ignores far-right violence and even pardons the perpetrators of it.

"He knows that what he's trying to achieve – a peaceful solution to the Palestine question – is very complicated and it’s challenging, but he tries very hard to take the long-term look and work on staying calm and peaceful”

The Trump administration is trying to justify deporting a green card holder for his peaceful activism in support of Palestinians with the ludicrous claim that his presence in the US threatens a peace process that doesn't exist, while at the same time allowing Israel to wage its brutal war on Gaza.

Good for Harvard for resisting the Trump administration's far-reaching demands, which clearly have nothing to with countering antisemitism: "Harvard Says It Will Not Comply With Trump Administration’s Demands" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/u...

The Trump admin has just detained Mohsen Mahdawi, who: –has green card –was Columbia Buddhist club president –saw his best friend shot & killed by Israeli soldier –said "we are against antisemitism because antisemitism is a form of injustice, and injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere"

Labeling Israel the new “hegemon of the Middle East” is a textbook misuse of the concept of hegemony. Israel has military domination, yes, but absolutely no legitimacy or even soft power in the region. Power that rests on military domination is inherently fragile. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/14/o...

DAYS BEFORE.

We are dismayed that the home of one of America's highest profile Jewish elected officials, @governor.pa.gov, was targeted in a vicious act of arson on a night when Jewish families come together to celebrate freedom and justice.

This appears to be blatant Islamophobia: "Texas Muslims Want to Build Homes and a Mosque. The Governor Says No." www.nytimes.com/2025/04/13/u...

American Jews are opposing the Trump administration's authoritarian actions against pro-Palestinian students who are being falsely accused of antisemitism: "Jewish Groups and Synagogues Defend Students Detained by ICE" www.nytimes.com/2025/04/12/u...

I'm pleased to have been able to contribute to this plan by the Nexus taskforce. www.axios.com/2025/03/31/c...

Abducting, detaining and threatening to deport pro-Palestinian students, as the Trump administration is doing, will not resolve the problem of antisemitism on college campuses. Nor are these repressive actions really driven by concern for the welfare of Jewish students. That's just a pretext.

Starvation Is Not a Negotiating Tactic www.nytimes.com/2025/03/13/o...

Netanyahu cares more about the messianic extremists in his coalition than bringing back 59 hostages in Gaza. Listen to Einav Zangauker, who has been fighting for her son, Matan, for 16 months.

Oxfam: “Israel’s decision, to block aid to over 2 million Palestinians in the Gaza Strip as Ramadan begins, is a reckless act of collective punishment, explicitly prohibited under international humanitarian law."

The audio version of my book, "The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know," is out today, thanks to @TantorAudio. In an engaging, jargon-free Q&A format, the book provides an even-handed and judicious guide to the world's most intractable dispute.

The GOP has a Christian nationalist leading DOD, a guy who suggested COVID was designed to spare Jews probably running HHS, a lady who pushed Great Replacement at the UN, a guy too tied to white supremacists for Trump 1 headed to State, and a guy who podcasted w a Holocaust denier running FBI 1/2

Trump's blatant disregard for international law and Palestinian rights not only threatens Palestinians in the Gaza Strip, but also those in the West Bank because it suggests that his administration might not object to Israel's formal annexation of the West Bank.

Trump's outrageous proposal for Gaza is almost certainly not going to happen, but what it will do is immediately embolden the Israeli far-right who want to force Palestinians out of Gaza, and help legitimize their immoral and illegal plan for what amounts to ethnic cleansing.