Category: 6. Opinion

On May 20, 2025, UN Humanitarian Chief, Tom Fletcher warned that more than 14,000 babies face imminent death due to starvation as a direct result deliberate blockade of food, water and medicine in Gaza. Despite hundreds of aid trucks ready to go in, Israeli authorities have repeatedly blocked their entry into Gaza. This extremely dire deliberately created humanitarian crisis raises urgent and important questions about the complicity of U.S. medical societies including the American…

We are not witnessing a rupture with how things used to be. 

What is unfolding today in Gaza, where food aid falls from the sky like ordinance and “humanitarian corridors” double as kill zones, is not the collapse of humanitarianism, but its logical consummation under conditions of settler-colonial necropolitics. 

It is tempting to read these scenes — the parachute that failed, the sacks of flour soaked in blood — as tragic malfunctions. They are not.

They are the…

Evidence of strain in Western support for Israel’s genocide and regional aggression continues to mount, yet also continues to fall frustratingly short of the sort of material pressure that would get Israel to stop its constant, wholesale slaughter of Palestinians.

As is so often the case, President Donald Trump’s administration sent out mixed messages over the Memorial Day holiday. Initial reports told us that the United States had reached an agreement with Hamas on a temporary…

The genocidal references of Israeli leaders to “Amalek,” the biblical enemy nation whom God commanded the Israelites to eradicate down to the last baby and oxen, continue to flow from Israeli leaders. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has used the euphemism several times since October 7, and his statements have been closely scrutinized in Amnesty International’s report on Israel’s genocide. Yesterday, on Jerusalem Day, Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich (who also holds…

“Where do you stand on the question of evil?” That question has echoed around my mind ever since interviewing Palestinian author and Nakba survivor Dr Ghada Karmi last June. She told me that her own childhood experiences—being ethnically cleansed from Jerusalem in 1948—almost feels like “nothing” compared to what’s unfolding in Gaza today. 

This weekend, we woke to the news that Israel had incinerated 33 more Palestinians—mostly children—as they sheltered in a…

Hamas and the U.S. reportedly reached an “understanding” for a comprehensive ceasefire agreement in Gaza, but the Israeli government publicly rejected it and declared it unacceptable, according to Drop Site News on Monday. While the state of the latest round of ceasefire negotiations remains uncertain, the Israeli army announced on Sunday that it is planning on taking over 75% of Gaza and corralling its population into three concentrated zones across the Strip.

Israeli military…

On Wednesday, Israeli forces in the West Bank opened fire in the direction of a delegation of European, Arab, and Asian diplomats. In yet another mark of Israeli hubris, the Israeli military said it “regrets the inconvenience.”

The timing of this incident is not coincidental. Earlier this week, the European Union, many of its member states, and other Western countries issued statements and took steps that appeared to finally represent concrete actions to pressure Israel to…

In the weeks since the unveiling of “Operation Gideon’s Chariots,” the renewed Israeli offensive to permanently “conquer” all of Gaza, it has become increasingly clear that Israel’s internal decision-making is not oriented toward a singular strategic endgame, but toward a recursive logic of exhaustion. 

Israel isn’t choosing between total conquest and technocratic containment via an Arab-brokered ceasefire plan. Instead, it is deploying these options as devices to…

The Roman Emperor Caracalla was known as one of the cruelest and most unstable of Rome’s leaders. His reputation was based not only on his treatment of his own people, but also on his travels to the eastern margins of the empire, where he led a series of massacres against the Parthians, an ancient people of the Persian Gulf who Caracalla sought to subdue. 

It didn’t end well for Rome. The Parthians defeated the Roman legions, Rome was forced to pay reparations, and Caracalla…

In October, I bled for ten days without access to a proper bathroom.

The house we fled to — like most shelters in Gaza — had no privacy. Forty people slept in two rooms. The bathroom had no door, only a torn curtain. I remember waiting for everyone to sleep so I could clean myself with a bottle of water and scraps of cloth. I remember praying I wouldn’t stain the mattress I shared with three cousins. I remember the shame — not of my body, but of being unable to care for…