doi:10.1353/jqr.0.0076Jordan D. RosenblumUniversity of Pennsylvania Press
The theme of his book could be summarized by saying, à la Orwell, “Israel bad, Palestine good.” To arrive at this theme, he has to completely neglect anything bad ever done by the Palestinians and anything good ever done by Israel. But I’m getting ahead of myself: There are the ...
5, 2023. The Jordan River is a winding, 200-plus-mile run to the east of Israel and the West Bank. The sea is the glittering Mediterranean to its west. But a phrase about the space in-between, “from the river to the sea,” has become a battle cry with new power to roil ...
The Israelis did not merely fall into the trap Hamas laid; they jumped into it headfirst, and unleashed a war of terrifying devastation on a largely defenseless population, in which Hamas was embedded. Israel did thistotally understandably— given the horror of Hamas’ murder, rape, and torture...
The violence in Gaza was reinflamed by Hamas's October 7 attack on Israel and the retaliatory attacks on Palestine. Collective punishment, scapegoating and mass violence are things Jews know well, and many baulk at the way the events unfolding are being manipulated to further political agendas ...