Israel
Never Again for Everyone
In April 2025, the author accompanied his mother, a child survivor of Bergen-Belsen concentration camp, to a memorial ceremony marking 80 years since the camp’s liberation. At the time, famine was raging in Gaza. As a pro-Palestinian activist and Israeli citizen, the author was filled with complex emotions.
Building New Realities in the West Bank
Stripped of their permits since Oct. 7, 2023, 160,000 West Bank Palestinian construction workers are desperate to return to work in Israel. Meanwhile, as radical settlers terrorize Palestinians in one part of the West Bank, Palestinian citizens of Israel are finding peace of mind by purchasing apartments in another.
‘The Course of Empire’ Reimagined in Middle Eastern Graffiti
Through graffiti, political expression has slipped out of gilded frames and onto concrete and stone. Modern murals in Cairo, Bethlehem and Amman show how the measure of a civilization lies not in its monuments, but in people insisting on being seen, claiming space and painting themselves back into the landscape.
The Army Prosecutor, the Sexual Assault and the Videotape
Israel’s military advocate general has been arrested for illegally leaking a video that shows military prison guards carrying out a brutal sexual assault on a Palestinian prisoner. Liberal Israelis see her as a guardian of democracy, while the far right regard her as a traitor.
The Shape of Gaza’s Future
Following the ceasefire, an imaginary yellow line divides Gaza into two sectors, with the Israeli army in charge of one and an international force poised to take control of the other. A new future is beginning to emerge.
A Palestinian Citizen of Israel Reflects on Life in the Shadow of Genocide in Gaza
What does the future hold for Palestinian citizens of Israel after the Gaza genocide? The author, a Palestinian citizen who “thinks and dreams in Hebrew,” attempts to address the question through the lens of his first visit home since Oct. 7.
Lebanon Is Still Haunted by Its Last War
Nearly a year after Lebanon’s war with Israel formally ended, the resulting peace feels fragile. Hezbollah faces intense international pressure to disarm, while Israeli strikes continue and fear of renewed conflict is spreading from Beirut’s suburbs to the southern border villages.