Israeli-Palestinian conflict

  • The Commune

    The Commune

    Our house, we believed, was a microcosm of that country. Every month, we’d gather at the kitchen table for our house meeting, where we, like politicians, unveiled our big plans for change.

  • The Dilemma of Wartime Journalism

    At Guernica, Richard Falk discusses journalism during the Vietnam War and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, and how remaining ‘objective’ is actually being biased by turning a blind-eye to suffering: I came to realize that the journalistic ethos as applied to foreign…

  • The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Song in the Subjunctive

    The Saturday Rumpus Essay: Song in the Subjunctive

    Perhaps the city looked more poignantly lovely because I was conscious of its tragic history.

  • An American In Jerusalem

    Slate‘s Dahlia Lithwick took a year off to live with her family in Israel and work on a book about the US Supreme Court. Then the current conflict started. She writes about her experience in a piece titled “I Didn’t…