The Gaza We Leave Behind
I no longer recognize many parts of my homeland. Only my memories of them remain.
[AURDIP Note: Palestinian poet Mosab Abu Toha has just won the Pulitzer Prize for this article published on October 7th in the New Yorker.]
Source: The New Yorker
What’s Legally Allowed In War
How U.S. military lawyers see Israel’s invasion of Gaza—and the public’s reaction to it—as a dress rehearsal for a potential conflict with a foreign power like China.
The Radicalization of Israel’s Military
How the response to alleged abuse of Palestinian detainees reveals a wider ideological war within the I.D.F.
A Holocaust Scholar Meets with Israeli Reservists
Omer Bartov on his experience speaking with right-wing students who had just returned from military service in Gaza.
A Palestinian Poet’s Perilous Journey Out of Gaza
Following Hamas’s October 7th attack and Israel’s invasion, Mosab Abu Toha fled his home with his wife and three children. Then I.D.F. soldiers took him into custody.
In the Shadow of the Holocaust
How the politics of memory in Europe obscures what we see in Israel and Gaza today.
Inside the Israeli Crackdown on Speech
Since the October 7th attack, Palestinians and peace activists in Israel have increasingly been targeted by employers, universities, government authorities, and right-wing mobs.
The Gaza-ification of the West Bank
As the war in Gaza escalates, so, too, has the forcible displacement of Palestinians in the West Bank. Is Israel’s approach to the two regions linked?
WhatsApp Sues an Israeli Tech Firm Whose Spyware Targeted Human-Rights Activists and Journalists
This spring, a team of engineers at WhatsApp detected a series of suspicious calls on the messaging service’s networks, many of them emanating from phone numbers in Sweden, the Netherlands,….