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The Rhythm of Revolution

A new edition of a landmark anthology of Palestinian poetry testifies to both a steadfast lineage of anti-colonial resistance and an increasingly under-resourced leftist internationalism.

Zaina Alsous
News Desk
The Healthcare System Is Collapsing in the West Bank
As Israel chokes the Palestinian Authority, patients can’t get basic medical services in the West Bank.
Charlotte Ritz-Jack
News Desk
Mamdani is Showing the Way
If Democrats want to beat the populist right, they should follow the New York City mayor on Israel.
Peter Beinart
News Desk
An Earthquake Just Hit New York Politics
Our political reporter explains the left’s near-sweep in the city’s Democratic primaries.
Josh Nathan-Kazis and Alex Kane
The End of Aid to Israel Isn’t a Win For the Pro-Palestine Left
As the US and Israel trade military aid for military integration, the pro-Palestine left loses one of its most potent political weapons.
Josh Nathan-Kazis
Supporters of Palestine Are Winning Inside the Democratic Party
Four years ago, unconditional support of Israel was the safest position for Democrats. Not anymore.
Peter Beinart
The Phantom Boycott
The Anti-Defamation League says BDS would cost New Yorkers billions. It’s overstating the demands of divestment campaigners.
Josh Nathan-Kazis
Current IssueSpring 2026
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Letter From the Editor
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A letter from the outgoing editor-in-chief
Arielle Angel
Essay
Does the Jewish Body Keep the Score?
Parts of the Jewish left believe trauma explains attachment to Zionism. But what they call “trauma” is more likely a collective story than a biological fact.
Jon Danforth-Appell
Analysis
“The War to Bring Democracy to Iran”
The American press has long covered the US’s wars not as criminal invasions but as well-intentioned, if reckless, efforts to spread freedom—a pattern that continues with Iran.
Zachary Jablow
Feature
Dispatches From Catastrophe
Twenty-three Palestinians reflect on the lives they have lost and the political futures that have been foreclosed in the wake of genocide.
Maya Rosen and Jonathan Shamir
Essay
Minnesota Goddam
In the Twin Cities, the hand of a polluted country reaches to choke the future out of us.
Danez Smith
Essay
The Death of Asylum
How centuries of efforts to deny refuge to persecuted people paved way for authoritarianism
Tanvi Misra
Conversation
Criminal Governance
Political scientist As’ad Ghanem argues that the rise of crime in Palestinian communities inside Israel is not a policy failure, but the result of decades of state efforts to weaken Palestinian collective life.
Eliyahu Freedman
Report
The Land Registration Campaign Remaking East Jerusalem
Using a revived colonial-era legal process, the Jewish National Fund is quietly transferring long-inhabited Palestinian property into Israeli hands.
Charlotte Ritz-Jack
Report
The Many Equivocations of Curt Mills
The MAGA journalist wants to bring respectability to “America First” opposition to Israel. Just don’t ask him about the Groypers at his heels.
Will Alden
Conversation
When Jewishness Means Genocide
Philosopher Elad Lapidot discusses how our understanding of antisemitism changes in an era in which Jews and Zionism have been conflated.
Arielle Angel and Daniel May
Review
Wallace Shawn’s Moral Cliffs
While his latest show, What We Did Before Our Moth Days, trades political violence for marital strife, it is still an exercise in audience complicity.
Alisa Solomon
Comic
Running Toward ICE
A record of resistance in Chicagoland
Sarah Lazare
History
Reclaiming the Ladino Left
The early 20th century saw a flurry of left activism by Ladino-speaking Sephardic Jews in the US. Recovering their legacy can enrich the Jewish left of today.
Devin E. Naar
Analysis
The Anti-Politics of Disengagement
Ariel Sharon’s 2005 settlement withdrawal solidified a consistent policy toward Gaza: Act alone, and make negotiation impossible.
Elisheva Goldberg
News Desk
Support for Settlement of Lebanon Goes Mainstream in Israel
What was once a fringe curiosity is now an organized movement with broad governmental and public support.
Maya Rosen
Review
The Dream Logic of Fascism
In Charlotte Beradt’s study of nightmares under Nazism, the analysis often seems inadequate to the material.
Raphael Magarik
Poetry
Fish
Birhan Keskin
Editor’s Picks
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    How Support for Palestine Became a Hate Crime
  2. 2
    We Need New Jewish Institutions
  3. 3
    Rhetoric Without Reckoning
  4. 4
    The Making of a Coal Boycott
  5. 5
    Against Zionist Realism
  6. 6
    The Betrayal of Light
  7. 7
    History Lesson
  8. 8
    The View from Evin
  9. 9
    Exile from Gaza
  10. 10
    The Myth of Israeli Innovation
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Elaine Mokhtefi
“There was a current of confidence and warmth between all of us who were in Algiers working with liberation movements.”
Ari M. Brostoff
Report
Degrees of Separation
Israel’s new international college programs offer American students an escape from campus activism while training them as state cheerleaders.
Maya Rosen
Chevruta
How Should We Engage in Communal Rebuke?
An investigation through Jewish text on moving fellow Jews
Aron Wander
Essay
Higher Ed’s Bad Bargain
Madeleine Baker
Essay
The Line Between Affinity and Conspiracy
Epstein relied on Jewish in-group bonds to cultivate the network that facilitated his crimes.
David Klion
Report
Why Hungarian Jewish Institutions Are Embracing Orbán and Netanyahu
Since October 7th, Hungary’s Jewish federation has backed away from criticism of its right-wing prime minister, prompting an increasingly vocal anti-Zionist Jewish response.
Larkin Cleland
Memoir
Crying Is Not Surrender
In wartime, expressions of sorrow are pushed away. But our grief is sacred. It demands to be felt.
Abdullah Hany Daher
Report
An Educational Crusade in East Jerusalem
Under the pretext of “national security,” Israel is ramping up its longstanding attacks on Palestinian education in the city.
Jonathan Shamir
Poetry
about the rich and only the rich
“the rich keep telling us this is the best possible world. they kill and we die, but this is all we get to hope for. some rich people put on dresses and what splendor.”
Roque Raquel Salas Rivera
Excerpt
Memoirs of a Palestinian Communist
Najati Sidqi’s reminiscences, which chronicle the upheavals of the early 20th century, resonate with shocking familiarity today.
Najati Sidqi
Report
Cryptocurrency Comes to Gaza
With formal banking infrastructure in ruins, Palestinians in Gaza are forced to rely on unregulated digital currencies for survival.
Hani Qarmoot
Analysis
The Genocides The New York Times Forgot
The paper’s Gaza coverage continues its pattern of downplaying US-backed atrocities in Bangladesh, East Timor, and Guatemala.
Zachary Jablow
Shabbat Reading List
Weekly Parshah Commentary
Jul
3
Parshat Pinchas from Avi Garelick

This week’s parshah opens in the aftermath of a shocking episode of violence: Pinchas, the grandson of the high priest Aaron, has summarily executed an Israelite man and a Midianite woman having sex. The pair, both of noble birth, had...

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Jun
26
Parshat Chukat-Balak from Lexie Botzum

The narrative of Parshat Balak, the second reading in this week’s double portion, is unique: It’s the only parshah in the last four books of the Torah that doesn’t feature the Israelites as the main characters. Most of this week’s...

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Letters from Our Readers

On “Hasan Piker’s Politics of Appeal”
In a recent episode of On The Nose, Arielle Angel and Hasan Piker dismissed congressional candidate Scott Wiener’s decision to start calling Israel’s actions in Gaza a genocide. “Nobody believes him,” they both concur. I’ll tell you who does believe him: the Jewish establishment. Wiener’s switch in language is causing... more
Sonja Trauss
Berkeley, CA
On “Joe Kent’s Resignation Was Brave. His Analysis Is Faulty.”
In his March 24th article “Joe Kent’s Resignation Was Brave. His Analysis was Faulty,” Peter Beinart conflates speculative statements concerning Israel’s actions with antisemitic claims about “Jewish conspiracy” that have been historically mobilized to justify the displacement, disenfranchisement, and mass murder of Jews. Near the end of the article, Beinart... more
Lisa Cerami
Rochester, NY
Report

Portrait of a Campus in Crisis

UCLA capitulated to its own hardline pro-Israel activists long before President Trump came calling. As a result, its students have repeatedly become targets of vigilante and police violence.

Will Alden