WHEN ‘TROPES’ ARE TRUE

The Observer published ‘gross antisemitism’ in the form of a ‘remarkably dishonest’ article that was ‘a projection of anxieties and racist fantasies about Jews’. So alleged Shany Mor, an Israeli academic and former foreign policy official. The article in question reported on Israel’s failure to provide COVID vaccines to Palestinian inhabitants of the territories it…

Does Israel Have the Right to Cage Two Million People in a Coronavirus-Ravaged Prison Camp?

My new article in Jacobin asks: If international calls to end the Gaza closure are ignored, and Israel’s blockade remains in force, would Israel have the right to obstruct Gazans fleeing a COVID-19 emergency? The article argues that, if our answer to this question is 'no', it follows that Israel also had no right to forcibly prevent…