Gaza War Coverage

Covering the Palestinian–Israeli Conflict: Between Exasperation and Empathy

By Lawrence Pintak

February 7, 2024 / Winter 2024

A personal reflection of American involvement in the region’s wars through the eyes of a correspondent

Security and Peace After the War in Gaza

By Ibrahim Awad

February 5, 2024 / Winter 2024

Is the two-state solution feasible? In order to pursue such a policy, the international community must be able to overcome three main points of contention: Israeli occupation, the creation of a Palestinian state, and the role of Hamas

Israel’s Ever-Existing Plan to Depopulate the Gaza Strip

By Nadia Naser-Najjab

February 4, 2024 / Winter 2024

The recent violence in Gaza may be unprecedented in its intensity, but the Zionist rhetoric underlying Israel’s current brutal strategy has roots going back much earlier than October 7

A Palestinian Gandhi or an Israeli de Gaulle? Why the Context of Violence Matters

By Sharif Elmusa

February 1, 2024 / Winter 2024

Questioning why there hasn’t been a Palestinian Gandhi or Mandela ignores the history and context in which Palestinian resistance occurs, especially the abiding violence visited on the Palestinians since 1917

How American Public Opinion on Palestine Shifted

By Geneive Abdo

February 1, 2024 / Winter 2024

Overlapping connections among young activists struggling for the rights of women, 2SLGBTQIA+, Black Lives Matter, indigenous Indians, Latinos, and all people of color have produced a dramatic shift in how the Palestinian–Israeli conflict is being perceived in the United States

The EU’s Response to the Gaza War Is a Tale of Contradiction and Division

By Martin Konečný

February 1, 2024 / Winter 2024

In the face of worst-ever Israeli–Palestinian violence, Europe’s selective moralism has also led to strategic blindness

Is There Hope for Gaza Under International Law?

By Abigail Flynn

January 28, 2024 / Winter 2024

Why has international law failed to hold Israel responsible for its destruction of Gaza? It was built to enable the colonizer, not to protect the colonized, explains legal expert Jason Beckett.

South Africa vs. Israel – with Jason Beckett

By Nadeen Shaker

January 25, 2024

Voices for Peace – with Lara Friedman

By Nadeen Shaker

January 14, 2024

Expelling Palestinians From Gaza Is Playing With Fire

By Karim Haggag and Omar Auf

January 11, 2024

A mass population transfer of Palestinian refugees in Gaza to Egypt would not only entail significant security risks for Egypt, but also make Egypt complicit in Israel’s policy of bringing about a second Nakba

From Gaza to Regional War? – with Abdalhadi Alijla

By Nadeen Shaker

January 6, 2024

Nakba 2.0 – with Sharif ElMusa

By Nadeen Shaker

December 20, 2023

“We Lost Our Dignity in this War” – with Nour Swirki

By Nadeen Shaker

December 14, 2023

Egypt’s Catch-22 in Gaza: Threats and Opportunities

By Khaled Mansour

December 13, 2023

What are Egypt’s top policy challenges should Palestinians in Gaza have no choice but to seek safety in Egypt?

Peace Needs a New Balfour Declaration—A “Biden Declaration”

By Abderahman Salaheldin and Michael Harari

December 3, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden should issue a declaration spelling out a one-year plan that would end with launching negotiations for the establishment of an independent and viable Palestinian State.

The Day Before – with Raja Khalidi

November 30, 2023

Gaza Conflict Cascading Effects: The Rafah Question

By Maryam El-Prince

November 13, 2023

Ringside Seat to Real-Time Radicalization

By Lawrence Pintak

November 8, 2023

Research on radicalization finds that exposure to violence leads to further violence. Israel’s military campaign has made Gaza a “living Hell.”

A Palestinian man reacts next to the bodies of Palestinians killed in Israeli strikes

Failures of International Law and Violence in Gaza

By Abigail Flynn

October 31, 2023

The recent attacks on Gaza have raised important questions regarding the effectiveness of international law in preventing violence

‘I Just Wish Palestinians Would Disappear’

By Geoffrey Aronson

October 26, 2023

The war being fought today offers the latest evidence that the brutal reality of Palestinian dispossession has changed little in the decades since Israel’s founding