Latest Articles: Israel and the West

Can Israel Survive Without the West? The Answer Reveals Our Collective Power

"Prior to the war, there were occasional outbursts from Israeli officials proclaiming that Israel is an independent country, not another star on the U.S. flag," Ramzy Baroud comments. "These voices have since been largely silenced, replaced by a constant stream of begging and pleading for the U.S. to come to Israel's rescue."

Palestinian Liberation From Israeli Colonization Will Liberate the United States, Too

"In time, North Americans will look back with incredulity at the way a partisan force had them rooting for so long for a settler colonial project (Jim Crow on steroids, fraudulently packaged as 'the only democracy in the Middle East') that terrorized an entire region, wiped out at least 1,400 bloodlines in Gaza alone and celebrated the slaughter as necessary for its self-defense," Ida Audeh writes. "The end of that settler colonial project, which will remove one shackle choking this country, cannot come soon enough."

Hell Behind Bars: A Detainee Describes His Ordeal

"When I met Palestinian journalist Ameen Baraka, his face was gaunt, his eyes sunken and shadowed with exhaustion, and his frame noticeably thinner than in the photos I’d seen of him before his arrest. 'I lost so much weight,' he confirmed, his voice heavy with fatigue. 'We were starved, humiliated and broken, day after day.' His hands trembled slightly as he spoke, a lingering sign of the physical and psychological toll of his captivity."

I’ll Tell You When I’m Home: A Memoir

"Hala Alyan said that in high school, she was best at learning what people wanted and giving it to them: 'a mirror smuggled in the form of a story.' Maybe it is simply a testament to Alyan’s skill as a writer—or her skill as a mirror—but reading her memoir, I’ll Tell You When I’m Home, evoked a feeling of familiarity, as if I was being trusted with a family secret by an older version of myself, a mother, even."