Latest Articles: Genocide and Ethnic Cleansing On Our Watch

Making Fire, and Other Daily Rituals of Survival

"While sitting in front of the fire, we can’t help remembering our past days and wondering whether they will ever return," Hassan Abo Qamar writes from Gaza. "Sometimes we ask each other strange questions: 'Would you rather the gas came back or the food?' Then we laugh—we’ve forgotten that we’re supposed to have both. Even more absurd is that we’ve forgotten to talk about the war ending. We haven’t grown used to death or pain, but we’ve grown used to being abandoned."

Pogroms and Ethnic Cleansing: Now On Our Watch

"The speed of calling out the genocide has been a success. Because it has been live streamed, [we] have been able to provide evidence much faster than other cases of genocide. But for Palestinians, the people on the ground, our interest isn’t to label it as genocide or war crimes or crimes against humanity. Our interest is to stop it. All of the tactics that we have used, the techniques and the tools to try to stop a genocide, have failed.”

Documentation and Accountability in Gaza

“If we take ‘never again’ seriously, we should be forefronting the voices of Palestinians facing Israeli genocide. They are calling on us—calling on you—pleading urgently, desperately to stop the violence, not to support the Israeli perpetrators, not to allow the flow of weapons to the violent Israeli state, not to give it diplomatic cover, but to stand with Palestinians in their struggle for truth and justice.”

The Most American King: Abdullah of Jordan

"The Most American King offers readers a unique and in-depth portrait of the ruler of one of the most strategically significant countries in the Middle East. Author Aaron Magid, who has been closely following developments in Jordan for over a decade, relied on publicly available sources and conversations with more than 100 individuals based in Jordan."