In the wake of October 7, scholars of antisemitism, genocide, and Jewish history have warned of the ways that particularly traumatic episodes in Jewish history have been evoked to justify Israel’s onslaught on Gaza and crack down on those who criticize it.

More than the lack of humanitarian aid, it was the incessant artillery fire that made Youssef flee the Jabalia refugee camp, much worse, he says, than the air raids. Buildings have been destroyed and there have been no rescuers for several weeks to go and save the victims, he reports....

In Israel minors aged 12 to 14 can be sentenced to prison and held in a facility until they turn 14, at which point Israeli law permits transferring them to jail .In Israel, criminal responsibility starts at age 12, but prison sentences could only be applied from age 14. The...

Israel has historically obstructed political solutions that would bring about a fully sovereign Palestinian state,  Yezid Sayigh, an expert on Israel-Palestine and the Middle East for the Carnegie Middle East Center think tank in Beirut, told Al Jazeera.“Israel has assassinated many Palestinian leaders before and it will continue doing that....

Mainstream academia and media still refuse to define the Zionist project as a colonial, or as it is referred to more accurately a settler-colonial project. However, as Israel intensifies the colonisation of Palestine in the next year, that might prod more individuals and institutions to frame the reality in Palestine...

Israeli Diaspora Minister Amichai Chikli says that Israel has every right to invade and seize southern Lebanon. He also believes neither Syria nor Iran counts as states, and so don’t merit protection for their status as sovereign nations. Chikli was one of several government ministers who recently urged the Israeli...

Israel’s Channel 12 said three Israeli captives, Nik Beizer, Ron Sherman and Elia Toledano, were killed in an Israeli airstrike targeting a senior military official of the Palestinian Hamas group in the northern Gaza Strip. According to the Israeli channel, the Israeli military was unaware that the Israeli captives were...

An Israeli source familiar with the cease-fire and hostage release talks said Netanyahu’s demands were to blame for the deaths of the hostages. The Hostage Families Forum said that “the finding of the bodies yesterday is a direct result of Netanyahu’s thwarting of the deals.”

The organized Zionist leadership in the 1930s played a key role in defeating a nascent anti-Hitler boycott being organized by trade unions and Jewish War Veterans of the First World War. The authors of the Jewish Holocaust are not only those so-called Western democracies that systematically barred desperate Jews fleeing...