American foreign aid to Israel has long relied on the support of American Jews. But American Jews have never been unified in their support for Israel or about Israel’s role in American Jewish life.
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Modi has resorted to overtly Islamophobic language as he looks to secure a third term in office.
Jewish activists have been central to protests against how Israel is conducting the war with Hamas, and not just on campuses – the movement goes back decades.
Student protests on campuses are calling attention to atrocities in Gaza and challenging university administrators to divest. What is the best way forward that avoids unnecessary violence?
Israel’s tourism industry has taken a hit since the start of the war, and it may never fully recover.
The Lemba view is that one can be indigenous to more than one place, and that more than one people can be indigenous to a single place.
When the real-life impact of anti-Zionism results in cries advocating for the killing of Jews, then anti-Zionism can only be understood as antisemitism.
The destructive force that Israeli leader Benjamin Netanyahu has unleashed in Gaza is rooted in a century-old ideology that says overwhelming power is how Israel should deal with Palestinians.
Scholars say Israel’s destruction of Gaza’s schools, universities and museums are part of an ongoing project to destroy Palestinian people, identity and ideas.
The two sides got very close to a deal in the 1990s but have drifted apart since then.
In recent years, the relationship between antisemitism and anti-Zionism has taken on renewed importance and competing definitions of antisemitism have emerged. What is antisemitism?
Israel’s settler movement, which is already sparking sectarian violence in the West Bank, is laying claim to the Gaza Strip – with support from some senior politicians.
Political Zionism underpins the country we today call Israel. It’s a political movement that’s evolved over time. So what is the history of Zionism, and what has that evolution looked like?
A historian of the Middle East examines the decades-old ‘special relationship’ between Israel and the US.
With the Israel-Palestine conflict continuing, we asked a range of academics to nominate works that can help explain things.
Modern settlers to Palestine viewed the desert as something they needed to “make bloom.” But it already was, thanks to the long history of Palestinian agricultural systems.
Western stances and comments on civilian deaths in Israel and Palestine highlight the double standard that permeates across western governments and institutions.
Israel’s foundational social contract – that the government would keep Israelis safe – was severed with the deadly attacks by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023.
For the first time, the United Nations will mark the commemoration of the displacement of 750,000 Palestinians from their homes in 1948.
Israel may no longer be a fledgling state – but it has yet to overcome the basic contradiction that has defined it from the very beginning.
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Lecturer in Middle East Studies, Deakin University
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Professor, Sociology, Mount Royal University
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Rhoda and Richard Goldman Chair in Jewish Studies, San Francisco State University
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Fellow, The University of Melbourne
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Honorary Fellow in Political Science, Bar-Ilan University
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Lecturer in International History, Aberystwyth University
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Lecturer, History of Ideas, Trinity College, The University of Melbourne
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Scholar-in-residence at the Center for Israeli Studies, American University
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Research Scholar, Centre for Arab and Islamic Studies, Australian National University
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Professor of Anthropology and Social Theory, The University of Melbourne
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Affiliate Researcher, The Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University
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Professor of Modern Middle Eastern History, University of California, Los Angeles
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Senior Lecturer, Macquarie School of Social Sciences, Macquarie University
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Lecturer in law, City, University of London
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Kronhill Senior Lecturer in East European Jewish History, Monash University
