My conversation with @ezrakleinbot.bsky.social and @abuaardvark.bsky.social: Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’ www.nytimes.com/2026/04/14/o...

Opinion | Reckoning With Israel’s ‘One-State Reality’

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I know this will sound trite, but seeing the incredible photos of earth from space juxtaposed against the Middle East going up in flames, with the prospect of further unfathomable levels of destruction, is so hard to swallow. What sort of inspiration/hope should we entertain for humanity's future?

In pre-Gaza days, an unimaginable war crime that would have led to endless investigations and analysis and potential invocation of international law. In post-Gaza days, should be the same.

Keith Boykin@keithboykin.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The New York Times analyzed newly released satellite imagery, verified videos, and official government statements and detemined that U.S. missiles likely destroyed tbe elementary school in Minab, Iran, killing 175 people. The Trump administration would only say that it’s “investigating” the matter.

Help me find a brightspot to go into Shabbat with. Skyrocketing oil prices mean Trump is going to back dow soon? How much economic blowback can he absorb?

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+972 Magazine@972mag.com · 6mo ago

Israel’s last regime-change war backfired. This one could, too For the first time since 1956, Israel is openly fighting alongside a Western imperial power in a war whose political repercussions are far from certain. By Meron Rapoport @mekomit.bsky.social www.972mag.com/israels-last...

The predictable regional fallout has begun from America's reckless war of choice against Iran. New roundtable from @tcambanis.bsky.social @peterjsalisbury.bsky.social @sajadjiyad.bsky.social @yaelmiz.bsky.social @abujamajem.com tcf.org/content/comm...

Israel has shifted from managed containment to comprehensive destruction writes @yaelmiz.bsky.social. Long-term consequences will be devastating.

I wrote about how Democratic voters are forcing their party into resolving cognitive dissonance on Israel and what it means for American Jewish voters for @forward.com forward.com/opinion/8103...

Gavin Newsom just confirmed the demise of the Democratic party's support for Israel

American Jewish voters, who overwhelmingly trend liberal, are about to face some difficult choices

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Honored to be included amongst such a dedicated and smart group of people.

Thanassis Cambanis@tcambanis.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Enduring instability, disorder, and needless death will be the predictable consequences. American leaders have no good choices, but ought to focus single-mindedly on stopping the war. Contributions from @peterjsalisbury.bsky.social @abujamajem.com @sajadjiyad.bsky.social @yaelmiz.bsky.social

Already just a few days into the conflict, the law of unintended consequences has kicked in. New @centuryintl.bsky.social roundtable features frontline analysis to spotlight the most clear and present dangers. tcf.org/content/comm...

Roundtable: War on Iran Was Easy to Start. It Won’t Be Easy to End.

President Donald Trump decided to join Israel and attack Iran early on Saturday, February 28—a reckless move that positions the United States as a rogue

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I heard y'all wanted a thread on "El Apagón"

Post doctoral fellowship at Oxford - Israel Studies - to work with Professor Yaacov Yadgar. Please see below my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecru...

I just saw All That's Left of You. I knew it would be devastatingly intense, but the narrative shines so beautifully it almost makes it bearable. Go see it! www.rogerebert.com/reviews/all-...

All That's Left of You Review: West Bank Drama Has Impeccable Craft

Beyond the film’s narrative qualities is its near-pristine craft.

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@centuryintl.bsky.social colleague @yaelmiz.bsky.social on the band-aid solution of Western sanctions on extremist settlers, when the settlement enterprise is in fact a decades-long Israeli state project: tcf.org/content/comm...

Sanctions Can’t Solve the Israeli Settlement Problem

Burned houses and mosques, kidnappings, pogroms, masked thugs attacking unarmed olive harvesters: in the last few years such Israeli settler violence has

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My first piece with @centuryintl.bsky.social. The settlement enterprise is deeply embedded in the Israeli state. Sanctioning a few individuals is not enough to obstruct the state mechanisms facilitating increasing levels of violence and dispossession in the West Bank. tcf.org/content/comm...

Sanctions Can’t Solve the Israeli Settlement Problem

Burned houses and mosques, kidnappings, pogroms, masked thugs attacking unarmed olive harvesters: in the last few years such Israeli settler violence has

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For @forward.com, I wrote about Anne Frank, ICE, and what we risk in making - and in refusing to ever make - comparisons forward.com/opinion/8009...

What we talk about when we talk about Anne Frank hiding from ICE

Is it ok to invoke Anne Frank in discussing kids hiding from ICE? Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz and the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum disagree.

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After two years of BS propaganda The IDF: about 70,000 Palestinians were killed in Gaza

I think that the International, regional and internal-Israeli dynamics will not allow the Israeli government to return to hostilities. But at the moment that's all we can count on - the "dynamics". There seem to be no clear mechanism to prevent that.

"I believe a durable, mutually agreed upon resolution to the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict requires what Trump’s plan sidelines: Palestinian self-determination."

Dana El Kurd@danaelkurd.bsky.social · 11mo ago

My article on the 20 point gaza "peace plan" is now out. Let me tell you why peace processes in the Israeli Palestinian conflict seem to keep failing, with a focus on Tony Blair the menace of the middle east theconversation.com/a-gaza-peace...

My comments in @warontherocks.bsky.social in their October 7 brief on what it will take to end the war. We're all breathing a sigh of relief, but I don't think we're there yet. The plan still has a main weakness of having no enforcement mechanisms or timelines. warontherocks.com/2025/10/the-...

The Ripple Effects of the Oct. 7 Attack on Israel

This is a special edition of our members-only newsletter, In Brief, where each week, experts will dig deep into a single issue happening in the world to

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الحمد لله رب العالمين שהחיינו וקיימנו והגיענו לזמן הזה

"no matter the costs, principled integrity is a priority, taking a stand means standing fast, and contesting the predations of the powerful gives meaning to the lives we lead." An inspiring essay by the preeminent feminist historian Joan Wallach Scott. www.bostonreview.net/articles/a-g...

A General Air of Anxiety - Boston Review

The Red Scare targeted my father. He taught me the meaning of resistance.

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Elizabeth Tsurkov, for me, is an example of a rare Jewish Israeli who decided to embrace the Middle East as her home, immersed itself in Arabic language and culture, struggled and put herself at risk for justice and liberty for people in Palestine, Syria and Iraq. She's a model of how things can be.

Syria Notes@syrianotes.org · 12mo ago

Elizabeth Tsurkov has been released after being kidnapped by Kata’ib Hezbollah and spending more than two years in captivity. www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...

A non-insignificant part of the Witkoff success is his recent appearance on the scene. Dems have four more years of soul searching, and a huge part of that should be on revamping their foreign policy priorities. It's embarrassing that our hopes for a more peaceful future rest on his shoulders.

Akbar Shahid Ahmed@akbarshahidahmed.bsky.social · last yr.

NEW: My deep dive on Trump in the Middle East Details on Witkoff's WhatsApp habits; what plans for aid in Gaza suggest for the prospects of meaningful progress; how infighting + $ concerns are affecting policy talk; the latest on Iran, Syria, the Qatar plane & more www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-...

If jewish currents isn't one of the best outlets we have, I don't know what is jewishcurrents.org/on-the-squee...

On the Squeezing

The Parable of the Lemons

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On the day that Israel enacted a complete blockade on aid and commercial goods entering Gaza, COGAT released a report on OCHA's "biases and methodological inconsistencies." As if we could trust COGAT to begin with, they have since stopped producing any statistics for what entered in March.

The scale and intensity of atrocities committed by Israel during the last 18 months dwarfs anything in the previous 78 years. Torture, mass detention, executions, massacres, destruction, ethnic cleansing. None of it is new, but the scale and intensity is.

A weird time to be on a Fulbright in Israel/Palestine. My funding is fine, and it's the last cohort of Hays for the foreseeable future. I take this responsibility & my PhD very seriously, yet I can't help but feel it's a futile endeavor in this environment both at home and what's happening here.

“‘No Other Land,’ an audacious and devastating film, was 2024’s most decorated documentary“ and just won the Oscar for Documentary Feature but still doesn’t have a US distributor. Gift link for context: www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/m...

‘No Other Land’: An Eye-Opener About the West Bank and the Movies (Gift Article)

A team of Palestinian and Israeli directors take a daring approach to the subject. But the Oscar-nominated film could not find a U.S. distributor.

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SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies has the pleasure of hosting next week two excellent scholars - Professor Zvi Ben Dor Benite and Dr Eirik Kvindesland - talking on the Jews of the Indian Ocean www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/jews-of-th...

Jews of the Indian Ocean

A panel of two lectures by Professor Ben-Dor Benite and Dr. Kvindesland

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