The multiple wars and conflicts cutting across the Middle East and North Africa have not ended despite the global and…
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So, how many settlements are there? Counting, tracking, and normalizing Jewish settlements in the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) Yearbook, 1967 to the present
Sivan Hirsch-Hoefler, Interdisciplinary Center, Herzliya and Lihi Ben Shitrit, University of Georgia[1] On January 28, 2020, the Trump administration…
Changing American Public Attitudes On Israel/Palestine: Does It Matter For Politics?
SHIBLEY TELHAMI, UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND Over the past decade, there have been some important shifts in American public attitudes…
SEGREGATION, INTEGRATION, AND INTERGROUP RELATIONS IN ISRAEL
Chagai M. Weiss, University of Wisconsin Madison[1] Segregation, conceptualized as “the extent to which individuals of different groups occupy…
Voluntary Grassroots Organizations, Civil Society, and the State in Palestine
Catherine E. Herrold, Indiana University “The classic understanding of civil society is nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) that operate between the…
No Longer Sacred: Religious Post-Zionist Beliefs about the State of Israel
Michael Freedman, Hebrew University and University of Haifa Rebbe Chanina, the assistant High Priest, says: Pray for the welfare…
GAZA AND THE ONE-STATE CONTEST: AN INTERNAL DECOLONIZING DISCOURSE
Imad Alsoos, Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology and Shir Hever, scholar and journalist INTRODUCTION The increasingly plausible discussion…
(Re)framing Jewish Privilege and Rebuffing Arab Rights
Gershon Shafir, UCSD Israeli Jews have articulated at least four different ways over the previous century and a quarter…
THE POWERFUL STRATEGIC LOGIC OF A HAZY MENTALITY WITH HARD EDGES: ISRAEL (AND I KINDA GUESS PALESTINE) AS A …WELL, NOT OFFICIALLY ONE STATE BUT Y’KNOW SORTA LOOKS LIKE ONE
Nathan J. Brown, The George Washington University The international discussion surrounding “what Israel is” has always been driven by…
Military Rule in the West Bank
Diana B. Greenwald, City College of New York “Those who have weaponized the term ‘occupation’ in order to criticize…