My writing about Israel-Palestine has built up enough that I realized I needed an index. By general topic:
I have starred a few links I find most useful & important.
Several key points:
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All people of conscience must stand for the liberation of Palestinians from their longstanding oppression and disenfranchisement.
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All people of conscience must stand against Israel’s ongoing genocide in Gaza.
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The Likudniks who have authored the current round of horrors belong in the dock at The Hague for crimes against humanity.
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All people of conscience must support a just resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict which enfranchises everyone where they now stand, which could be …
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a unified, egalitarian, secular, democratic state
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two sovereign democracies, with at a minimum complete withdrawal of Israel from Gaza &
the West Bank with security guarantees which make the PA into a truly sovereign state,
and true equality for Palestinians inside Green Line Israel
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other novel possibilities, like a federated state
… and while it is legitimate to have preferences — on the merits I prefer the first — one should be skeptical of the seriousness of anyone who rejects any of those options as illegitimate.
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Some kind of return and / or reparation for Palestinians disposed in the Nakba which does not dispossess Israelis of the only home they have ever known. We should admit that this is tricky, but it can and must be done.
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We must embrace a range of different efforts toward Palestinian liberation as good, and must respect even more projects which may be dumb but legitimate.
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The moral case for Palestinian liberation is clear and uncomplicated. Anyone who says otherwise is a bad actor.
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The history and current context of the Israel-Palestine conflict is messy and complicated. Anyone who says otherwise is a bad actor.
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Diaspora Jews like me have an extraordinary opportunity to stand for Palestinian liberation but we do not bear an extraordinary obligation.
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I count myself a post-Zionist — I am neither a Zionist nor an anti-Zionist, though there are both Zionisms and anti-Zionisms that I respect
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The movement for Palestinian liberation makes serious mistakes.
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Israel boosters often abuse accusations of “antisemitism” to dismiss legitimate criticisms;
criticizing Israel is not necessarily antisemitic.
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Deliberate antisemitism cloaked as criticism of Israel — including entryism by actual Nazis
is more common than the movement for Palestinian liberation generally recognizes.
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Unwitting antisemitism perpetuated by supporters of Palestinian liberation of good
conscience is much more common than he movement for Palestinian liberation generally recognizes.
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The Left commonly demonstrates distinctive failings in its support for Palestinian
liberation violating their own principles.
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The rightness — and current urgency — of Palestinian liberation is not contingent
on the movement doing better.
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It is deeply unfair that the movement for Palestinian liberation must labor under the additional
burden of navigating these complexities of antisemitic entryism.
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The movement still has an obligation to do better.
A survey of the history of Israel focused on debunking common canards on all sides
Another short statement of my principles, in support of Palestinian liberation without the disenfranchisement of Israelis
Resources explaining why Clinton’s attempt to broker an agreement between Israel and the PLO was doomed, illuminating a lot more than just that moment
Quote from a long essay about the radically liberal side of the Zionist movement which
opposed the creation of a nation-state as a homeland
Why this turn of phrase is a bad way to make a good point about condeming Israel’s actions without faulting Israel as a uniquely illegitimate state
Unpacking some common analogies which create confusion rather than clarity
On para-fascist Likud rule in Israel not just brutalizing Palestinians but even violating core
Zionist principle
A grab bag of commentaries about the dynamics of Zionism and politics in Israel
On
embracing a false telling of history in which Palestinians have only ever demanded a sovereign Gaza & West Bank
On the deaths of Ariel Sharon and Yasir Arafat
Grumbles about uninformed commentators
Critiquing a common image misrepresenting history; I need to revist this one because the image
is bad … but so is my critique
A hopeful note from 2011 which now seems tragic and naïve
Tragic fundamentals
Why people of conscience
must use the word in 2025, because Israel’s attack on Gaza
became an attempt to expell or murder all Arab Palestinians and annex the territory
An explanation of why I have not used the word “war” but have used the word “genocidal” to describe Israel’s attack, and the complexities in that decision
A close examination of the reasons why it is a mistake to assume that Israel’s attack on Gaza was an attempt to annex the territory from the start
Capture of an elaborate and informative Twitter thread by a Palestinian commentator, which animated my read of Israel’s intentions in 2024
Outside link — the open letter which persuaded me in October 2023 that while Israel’s attack on Gaza was not (yet) eliminationist violence pursuing the expulsion and / or murder of all Arab Palestinians in Gaza, it was such an unmistakable attempt to violently disrupt them
as a people that we needed to register it as genocidal
Why — despite Biden & Harris falling far short of their moral obligation to stand against Israel’s genocidal attack on Gaza — all people of conscience needed to vote for Harris in the Presidential election, even if protecting Gaza was the
only thing they cared about
On avoiding a Both Sides shrug while recognizing culpability by both Likud and Hamas
On the Biden administration making a weird, clever move attempting to deliver aid to Palestinians in Gaza
Outside link — a survey of antisemitic tropes and how to recognize & avoid them
On misrepresentations of Zionism which reflect an ugly general tendency to describe wrongs Israel commits as the inevitable fruit of Israel’s uniquely evil roots, and antisemitic consequences
Outside link — an open letter to leftists about avoiding facile forms of opposition to wrongs Israel commits which implicitly compromise leftist principle and invite antisemitism
Examining attention-hungry theocratic reactionary Jewish cultists as an example of how easily gentiles unfamiliar with Judaism & and the complexities of Israel-Palestine can get confused about the allies they cultivate in supporting Palestinian liberation
In case you need this simple rule explained
Closely examining this slogan as an exemplar of the movement for Palestinian liberation offering subtly antisemitic propaganda to people of good conscience who do not understand the implications
A case study in the movement for Palestinian liberation making irresponsibly antisemtic demands in a community
A dialogue with a leftist anti-Zionist, exemplifying common bad ideas offered by people motivated by good conscience
Breaking down an example of a bad policy
Less about Israel-Palestine itself than about opposing MAGA fascism attempting to veil itself as opposition to antisemitism
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