There may not be a mathematical test for “proportionality,” in the war in Gaza, but to paraphrase a U.S. Supreme Court justice addressing a different issue, “I think I know it when I see it,” writes former American official Fred Hof in @newlinesmag.bsky.socialnewlinesmag.com/argument/i-a...
Nasrallah made a crucial point of saying escalation is tied to events in Gaza, raising the possibility that a war in Lebanon is possible after all, under certain circumstances. An approaching elimination of Hamas could reveal what those are. By Faysal Itani newlinesmag.com/argument/why...
In sitting out the conflict, for now, Iran’s ally in Lebanon sees no need to take part in a conflict that could weaken both sides
Current top read: "The Western world’s bloodlust drove Jews away from the antisemitism that it seemed no amount of assimilation could undo. And the Western world’s hypocrisy now sustains violence that threatens to unravel the entire Middle East into chaos." @danaelkurd.bsky.social for New Lines.
A Palestinian scholar describes the whiplash of learning about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and reflects on moral juxtapositions and worlds overturned
New from me for @newlinesmag.bsky.socialnewlinesmag.com/spotlight/is...
Since Oct. 7, hundreds of citizens — most Palestinian but many Jewish as well — have been fired, threatened or harassed in an official campaign to throttle antiwar dissent
Hands down one of the most iconic essays on Gaza and Israel yet. The Palestinian scholar Dana El Kurd @danaelkurd.bsky.socialnewlinesmag.com/first-person...
A Palestinian scholar describes the whiplash of learning about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and reflects on moral juxtapositions and worlds overturned
I know people will be angry but I wrote this in the immediate aftermath of Oct 7 and I couldn't just sit with it. newlinesmag.com/first-person...
A Palestinian scholar describes the whiplash of learning about the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks while visiting the Jewish Museum of Berlin, and reflects on moral juxtapositions and worlds overturned
We at @newlinesmag.bsky.social gathered some of the very best minds on the Arab-Israeli conflict, including Arwa Damon, Hisham Melhem, Lisa Goldman, Gilbert Achcar, Ali Hashem, Mairav Zonszein and Aziz Alghashian. A thread, with two eerily prescient essays at the end.
Last spring I visited Israel-Palestine, my former home, for the first time in 12 years. Everyone I spoke to expressed deep anxiety about the situation on the ground -- but hardly anyone mentioned Gaza. Here's my article for New Lines Magazine. newlinesmag.com/spotlight/is...
A veteran reporter could see during a recent visit to the region that it was at a violent inflection point, but she never thought the catalyst would come from Gaza
Foreign mining companies are racing to extract lithium in Congo. A months-long @newlinesmag investigation has found them cutting corners, and cutting out the local community in the process. By Sophia Pickles, Jack Wolf and Janvier Murairi Bakihanaye. newlinesmag.com/reportage/th...