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The world is living through a period of profound turbulence. From Eastern Europe to the Middle East, from cyber warfare to proxy conflicts, global wars—whether direct or indirect have reshaped the architecture of international relations. In…

A colloquium entitled “Palestinian history between past and present,” scheduled to take place on Friday, March 6, at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan, should trigger all kinds of alarm bells.

A legitimate academic event is supposed…

During this current war, we here in Israel have been advised multiple times a day by the Home Front Command to enter the “protected space” as incoming rockets or drones are launched from Iran (or from Hezbollah if one lives in the north…

Silenced for Stability? Freedom of Speech and the Cost of “National Interest” in Somaliland

Freedom of speech is a fundamental human right that enables individuals to express ideas, opinions, and beliefs without fear of retaliation,…

I write this first as a Jew.

Then as a Jerusalemite.

And also as a Californian.

I was raised in a home where the idea of a Jewish homeland was not an abstraction but a living inheritance — something my family believed in deeply and proudly….

Almost 66 million years ago, an animal that looked like a rat, or maybe a squirrel, died in Corral Bluffs, Colorado. Its name was Purgatorius. It was either our earliest ancestor or a relative of it, and its discovery 800 miles south of its…

History is full of moments of opposites, when the world seems at a crossroads of disaster and redemption. We are now in one of those moments. Living in Israel today, amid an existential war where we have come face to face with those who seek…

Two days ago, I spoke with an American-Israeli tech entrepreneur about the US-Israeli strikes on Iran and the deaths of over a hundred and sixty girls and staff at the Shajareh Tayyebeh primary school in Minab. My interlocutor dismissed those…

These days feel unprecedented as our region confronts the consequences of Iranian aggression. In moments like these, nations are tested, not only in the strength of their defence systems, but in the resilience of their people and the unity of…

How modern debates quietly become permission structures

I had stepped away from writing for a while.

Not because there was nothing happening in the world. Quite the opposite. The world seems determined to produce new events by the hour.

What…