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Inefficacious Ummah
The Arabic word “Ummah” could be translated as “nation”, though it broadly represents a grouping of people who are united by ...
As part of the Long Reads podcast on Jacobin Radio, we’ve produced a miniseries called Red Star Over Palestine: Histories of ...
One of the most chilling developments came in early March, when Mahmoud Khalil, a Palestinian graduate student at Columbia ... to transform the U.S. political order through religious nationalism, ...
The ACLU of Michigan and the Arab American Civil Rights League filed a federal lawsuit Wednesday against the Plymouth-Canton ...
Whether this is the beginning, middle or end of this stage of Israel history — and what comes next — will take more time to figure out.  The post What comes next? In Israel, past success is no ...
Whatever one’s position in a conflict, certain actions cannot be justified. Targeting civilians, destroying essential services, blocking aid, using civilian areas for military purposes or punishing en ...
The first Jewish anti-Zionist congress was held last weekend in Vienna, Austria —the city where Theodor Herzl came up with the idea of political Zionism, and proposed a Jewish state in Palestine. The ...
The Palestinian-ruled areas in the West Bank would become another state. Gaza, currently caught between Hamas and the Israeli Defence Forces, would form yet another.
Zionism is akin to Christian nationalism. A difference in Zionism is that it existed originally as political/religious thought among a diverse population spread across national borders in Europe ...
A study guide meant to help 10th graders prepare for New York State's Regents Exam drew backlash over the material in its "Israel-Palestine Conflict" section.