From the cover of Chaim Gans's book 'A Political Theory for the Jewish People' (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Widener Library, Harvard University, Cambridge Massachusetts. Photo by John Phelan, via Wikimedia. Licence available at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0 ...

Gershom Gorenberg, a historian and journalist, has spent years researching and writing this account of dramatic events in North Africa in the early stages of World War Two as German armies led by ...

Alexandra Fishman and Max Samarov take issue with what they see as ‘leading’ questions used in a recent and much-publicised opinion poll about US attitudes to Israel’s future. The editors have invited ...

Samuel Nurding: Why did you create the Wasatia Initiative and what does the term mean? Mohammed S. Dajani-Daoudi: On a Friday morning during the month of Ramadan back in late 2006 I was standing on ...

Ernest Bevin (left) in 1942. Photo by Howard Coster, National Portrait Gallery. Creative Commons.

Daniel Gordis’s We Stand Divided is the latest book on the growing rift between American Jews and Israelis. What distinguishes Gordis’s work is the way he locates the relationship, for him now at an ...

Vivian Silver was a universally admired Israeli peace activist who advocated for Palestinian rights. She was murdered by Hamas during the massacre of her kibbutz, Be’eri, on 7 October. Amal Elsana Alh ...

Richard L. Cravatts is President Emeritus of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East. The Boston ‘Mapping Project’ proves conclusively that many anti-Israel activists inhabit an ideological universe of ...

Liam Hoare launches a new Fathom series in which our writers re-read classic texts. Past Continuous, Yaakov Shabtai’s novel of three friends set in 1970s Tel Aviv, was first published in Hebrew in ...

New York University, photo by Benjamin Kraft via Flickr. Licence at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/legalcode ...

Aaron MacLean: How is Israel’s war against Hamas proceeding and how do battlefield and diplomatic developments there fit into the broader regional competition with Iran? The Israelis took out a senior ...