Déjà vu from January 2009: "Israel declares a unilateral cease-fire in Gaza"

Earlier today Prof. Menachem Kellner in Haifa sent me a copy of a blog post I wrote in January 2009, in the closing stages of that Hamas-Is...

Hadar Goldin is dead, and Israel may be moving toward a unilateral pullout from Gaza

Yesterday the IDF officially announced it is convinced that Lt. Hadar Goldin, the Israeli soldier thought to have been captured by Hamas Fri...

Hussein Ibish on "the knowledge constituency versus the ignorance lobby" in the Arab-Israeli conflict – Why Prof. Mohammed Dajani Daoudi is no longer at Al-Quds University

Hussein Ibish is political analyst and activist, affiliated at various times with the American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee and the Am...

Stuck in Gaza?

What a difference one day can sometimes make during a war. => On Thursday, which already seems a long time ago, William Saletan of Salon ...

Meanwhile, back in (Greater) Syria

The overwhelming focus of media attention on the latest Hamas-Israel war has driven the news from Syria and Iraq almost completely off the f...

A 72-hour cease-fire in Gaza collapses almost immediately, with potentially far-reaching consequences

Last night, in what the New York Times called a " diplomatic bolt-from-the-blue ," US Secretary of State John Kerry and UN Secret...

Progressive Academics Challenge Bar-Ilan University Administration’s Rebuke of Faculty Member

I happen to be one of the "progressive academics" included in that announcement, as one of the founding members of the Academic Ad...

Michael Walzer confronts the political choices and ethical dilemmas raised by the 2014 Hamas-Israel war

As many of you are no doubt aware, the political theorist, public intellectual, and democratic socialist Michael Walzer, a distinguished aca...