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New Year’s Gift

The Palestine Exception to Free Speech Rarely Ends with Palestine

How Ultra-Orthodox Jews View Zionism

Don’t Ban “Globalize the Intifada”

After the Bondi Chanukah Massacre

Thoughts about the Chanukah Massacre in Australia

Mahmood Mamdani

Lessons from the Satmar Chassidim

How to Think About Boycotts

Jeremy Ben-Ami Thinks I Made a Mistake

The Trump administration’s dangerous obsession with Jews

Boycott, Solidarity and Taking Responsibility: Ahmed Moor speaks to Peter Beinart about the TAU speech

A Short History of the Gaza Strip

November “Ask Me Anything”

The Life and Politics of Edward Said

A Conversation with Rabbi Elliot Cosgrove

When Equality Feels like a Mortal Threat

What Zohran Mamdani's Election Tells Us About the Politics of Israel-Palestine

What Will Establishment Jewish Leaders Sacrifice to Defeat Mamdani?

How Zohran Became Possible

“What If We Didn’t Suck?”

October “Ask Me Anything”

Mamdani’s Extraordinary Speech About Being Muslim

Jewish Leaders Keep Calling Zohran Mamdani an Antisemite

There is No Ceasefire

"Hopelessness is a Privilege We Don't Have"

It Was Never About Hamas

Historian Ilan Pappé

Thank God the Israeli Hostages Are Coming Home

What Now?

It’s a Blessing if the Hostages Go Free and the Bombs Stop

"Genocide Starts in the Mind"

"Go Birds, F--k ICE, and Free Palestine"

Days of Judgement

The Author of the IHRA Definition of Antisemitism Explains Why It’s a Threat to American Freedom

The Other Political Violence

Ways to Help

"A Kingdom of Wickedness"

September “Ask Me Anything”

Je Ne Suis Pas Charlie

Dr. Abdullah Awwad is Trying to Escape the Carnage

Nelson Mandela’s Grandson Is Right

Angela Davis

Shabbos Kestenbaum

No, You Don’t Support the Two State Solution

Abducted: Mohsen Mahdawi

August “Ask Me Anything”

A Stain on Judaism Itself

Why Can Jonathan Greenblatt Lie With Impunity?

Abdul El-Sayed on Reaching Across Divides

Larry Summers on Israel, Antisemitism, and Harvard

Harvard Must Not Surrender

Gabor Maté, Liberation from Illusion

How Ms. Rachel Was Called to Speak Out

The Dam Breaks

New York Times Columnist Michelle Goldberg

July “Ask Me Anything”

Do Our Rabbis Believe in God?

How a Mind is Changed

More deaths than Kishinev, Sharpeville or Bloody Sunday. Every Day.

Former Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert

Why Two Chicago Jews Undertook a Hunger Strike for Gaza

Zohran Mamdani Didn’t Lie on His College Application

Ahmed Moor and Mairav Zonszein on What's Next in Gaza

Now They Tell Us

Brad Lander on Cross-Endorsing Zohran Mamdani

June “Ask Me Anything”

Why Are National Democrats Attacking Zohran Mamdani?

Congressman Ro Khanna on Iran and the War Powers Act

Jonathan Chait and I Discuss Zohran Mamdani and "Globalize the Intifida"

What Zohran’s Victory Means

Trita Parsi on the US Attack on Iran

The Media is Asking the Wrong Questions about Trump’s Attack on Iran

What Trump’s Racist Fantasies Get Wrong about Post-Apartheid South Africa

Why Israel Attacked Iran—and Why It’s a Disaster for Israel and the World

How to Oppose Hamas without Excusing Genocide

Michael Roth, President of Wesleyan, on Trump’s Assault on Academic Freedom

The Gaza Debate is Over

Fania Oz-Salzberger and Aziz Abu Sarah Discuss their Differences and Agreements on Israel

May “Ask Me Anything”

Desecrating God’s Name

On the Preciousness of Life

The Moral Abdication of the American Jewish Establishment

Khaled Abou El Fadl on Muslim Ethics in an Age of Authoritarianism and Slaughter

What I’ve Learned on My Book Tour

Omar El Akkad - One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This

Is the Antisemitism Awareness Act Antisemitic?

Joy Reid Pulls Back the Curtain on the News

The Gaza Template

Jonathan Freedland Has Issues with my Book

Oops

NYC Mayoral Candidate Zohran Mamdani

April “Ask Me Anything”

Against “Even-Handedness”

Rev. Munther Isaac on the Christian Response to Gaza

Israel Says It’s Only Fighting Hamas

Muhammad Shehada on the Gaza Protests

Jenner Stands Firm

Arab Barghouti on his Imprisoned Father

What if Columbia Were Investigated for Anti-Palestinianism?

Nadia Abu El-Haj: “Mahmoud is Not Safe”

Nadia Abu El-Haj: Mahmoud is Not Safe

Debate with Jeffrey Lax

March Ask Me Anything

You Are No Longer a Jew

James Schamus on the Crisis at Columbia

Columbia Professor Joseph Hawley on the Federal Assault on His University

Trump’s Attack on Universities Rests on a Lie

Jordan Elgrably on Palestinian Steadfastness

Susie Linfield on Why She Doesn’t Like My Book

Guidelines for Comments and Chat

Why Trump Treats Zelensky Differently than Netanyahu

Rabbis Alissa Wise and Jill Jacobs

Khalil Sayegh on Hamas, the Left and the Ceasefire

Inhumanity is a Choice

Ethan Leib

Jonathan Freedland Disagrees with Me

Mahmoud Muna on the Attack on his Bookstore

The Next Assault on Gaza Will Be Worse

Raef Zreik on Why Israeli Jews are Embracing Mass Ethnic Cleansing

February Ask Me Anything

Raef Zreik on Why Israeli Jews are Embracing Mass Ethnic Cleansing

The Banality of Evil

Debra Dash Moore

Daniel Immerwahr on Why American Imperialism isn't Hiding Anymore

From Greenland to Gaza

Elise Stefanik Is Wrong

Rashid Khalidi

Frequently Asked Questions

January Ask Me Anything

Idolatry

Jamaal Bowman on What He Learned in Congress

Muhammad Shehada

For a Moment, Joy

Jamil Dakwar on Free Speech and Authoritarianism

Mairav Zonszein on the Israel-Hamas Ceasefire Deal

Gideon Levy on Being Hated

Jake Sullivan’s Mental Prison (A Sequel)

Rachel Shabi and the Truth about Antisemitism

The Truth About Antisemitism

Mikhael Manekin, Sermons from the Abyss

Antony Blinken’s Mental Prison

Grazia Careccia of Amnesty International

Grazia Careccia of Amnesty International