Who would have imagined that secular Palestinian nationalism would degenerate into this: Abbas vehemently refusing to meet with democratically-elected Hamas as he…
Bashir Abu-Manneh
Any reader of Israel Studies‘s recent issue on the “Americanization of Israel” would be likely to conclude that the most important…
[A review of The Iron Cage: The Story of the Palestinian Struggle for Statehood by Rashid Khalidi and One Country: A Bold…
Being in Israel these days is as strange as ever: an Israeli military machine that kills Palestinians daily is wedded to a…
In recent weeks in Palestinian politics, one thing is certain: Mahmoud Abbas’s group has decided to either rule or ruin Hamas’s victory.…
Israel has created a media spectacle out of a tactical maneuver. This simple fact can be easily forgotten when one is daily…
One of the features of living in our contemporary societies is the prevalence of a certain kind of understanding of history. History…
[Text of a talk given at a teach-in at Columbia University, April 4, 2005] There’s a lot one can say about…