Jeremy Scahill, Ryan Grim, and Daniel Boguslaw at The Intercept: Anat Schwartz had a problem. The Israeli filmmaker and former air force intelligence official had been assigned by the New York Times to work with her partner’s nephew Adam Sella and veteran Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman on an investigation into sexual violence by Hamas onContinue reading “The Story Behind the New York Times October 7 Exposé”
Category Archives: Middle East
The War in Gaza is Creating a Health Crisis That Will Span Decades
Grace Wade in New Scientist: The situation in Gaza is rapidly devolving into the worst humanitarian crisis in modern memory, and international health organizations have no long-term plans for addressing the territory’s post-war needs. More than three-quarters of Gaza’s 2.2 million residents, half of whom are children, are internally displaced, trapped in one of theContinue reading “The War in Gaza is Creating a Health Crisis That Will Span Decades”
Pankaj Mishra: The Shoah After Gaza
Mishra is an Indian author based in the West and a staunch supporter of Israel’s victims. He is a frequent contributor to the London Review of Books and the author of ‘Age of Anger’, among other books. A powerful Western narrative holds the Shoah to be the incomparable crime of the modern era. But weContinue reading “Pankaj Mishra: The Shoah After Gaza”
WhatsApp Share: A Video From Gaza
Irshad Salim from Karachi: Back in December, a poetic expression of emotive thoughts on Israel’s Gaza invasion enabled me to curate this clip (below) –selecting what’s available on the Internet (why recreate the wheel) and curating a 30+ second powerpack of my take on the situation as I saw things unraveling: Months later, Majid, aContinue reading “WhatsApp Share: A Video From Gaza”
Shockwaves in the Global Order
While the U.S.–Israel alliance has become isolated, new ones are emerging. Helena Cobban in the Boston Review: Just days before October 7, President Joe Biden’s national security advisor, Jake Sullivan, was radiating confidence that Washington had effectively brought all of West Asia’s long-roiling conflicts under control. Washington could now, he believed, accelerate the pivot ofContinue reading “Shockwaves in the Global Order”
An Israeli and a Palestinian Talk Peace
About Ali Abu Awwad and Ami Dar: Nonviolence activist Ali Abu Awwad works to establish international peacebuilding movements. In 2016, he brought his focus to building a national nonviolent movement of Palestinian people, cofounding the Taghyeer Movement, which means “change” in Arabic. He received the 2023 Luxembourg Peace Prize. Ami Dar is the founder andContinue reading “An Israeli and a Palestinian Talk Peace”
Netanyahu, the Palestinians, and the Price of Neglect
Aluf Benn in Foreign Affairs: One bright day in April 1956, Moshe Dayan, the one-eyed chief of staff of the Israel Defense Forces (IDF), drove south to Nahal Oz, a recently established kibbutz near the border of the Gaza Strip. Dayan came to attend the funeral of 21-year-old Roi Rotberg, who had been murdered theContinue reading “Netanyahu, the Palestinians, and the Price of Neglect”
The World’s First Author
Anna Della Subin at the LRB: The earliest known author was married to the moon. In the 1920s, in the shadow of an anti-colonial uprising against British rule in Mesopotamia, the archaeologists Leonard and Katharine Woolley dug up the ruins of the ancient city of Ur in present-day Iraq. Near a ziggurat they unearthed evidenceContinue reading “The World’s First Author”
Meet Israel’s First Lady, Sara Netanyahu
“Sara Netanyahu, the prime minister’s wife, closest adviser, and fiercest defender, is seen as a mix of Lady Macbeth and Eva Perón, but without the charm or the cult following” By Yossi Melman and Dan Raviv in Air Mail: When her husband is in a meeting, she bursts into his office and declares that sheContinue reading “Meet Israel’s First Lady, Sara Netanyahu”