Palestine, Palestinians
The Lede
The Shock of a Gaza Ceasefire Deal
In Israel, grief and frustration about a long, brutal war is mixed with joy that some hostages may soon return.
By Ruth Margalit
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Could the War in Gaza Cost Kamala Harris the Election?
A co-founder of the Uncommitted National Movement tells the staff writer Andrew Marantz why Muslim voters in Michigan are turning in droves to Jill Stein—and Donald Trump.
The Weekend Essay
The Pain of Travelling While Palestinian
This year, I learned the difference between a traveller and a refugee.
By Mosab Abu Toha
Q. & A.
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.
By Isaac Chotiner
The New Yorker Radio Hour
Israel’s Other Intractable Conflict
The writer Nathan Thrall and the lawyer Raja Shehadeh on the occupation of the West Bank, and whether there can be any prospect for peace.
The Weekend Essay
What We Know About the Weaponization of Sexual Violence on October 7th
Rape is a shocking and sadly predictable feature of war. But the nature of the crime makes it difficult to document and, consequently, to prosecute.
By Masha Gessen
Q. & A.
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.
By Isaac Chotiner
Cultural Comment
The Right Side of Now
Appeals against the war in Gaza are often framed through the lens of the future: “You will regret having been silent.” What about speaking—and feeling—in the present tense?
By Lauren Michele Jackson
News Desk
What Does Benny Gantz Want for Israel?
The former general, who resigned from Israel’s wartime cabinet this month, seemingly has the ability to oppose Netanyahu while remaining above the political fray.
By Ruth Margalit
Photo Booth
The View from Palestinian America
In Kholood Eid’s photographs of Missouri, taken six months into the war in Gaza, the quiet act of documenting life is a kind of protest against erasure.
By Zaina ArafatPhotography by Kholood Eid
Daily Comment
Israel’s Politics of Protest
As demonstrations roil American campuses, the Israeli right is using them to its own ends.
By Ruth Margalit
Fault Lines
A Generation of Distrust
Among the protesters on college campuses—and among the students who oppose them, too—there is a deepening disillusionment with American institutions.
By Jay Caspian Kang
Q. & A.
How Much Aid Is Actually Reaching Gazans?
The chief economist of the U.N.’s World Food Programme on imminent famine and what’s needed to avoid it.
By Isaac Chotiner
Daily Comment
How Columbia’s Campus Was Torn Apart Over Gaza
The university asked the N.Y.P.D. to arrest pro-Palestine student protesters. Was it a necessary step to protect Jewish students, or a dangerous encroachment on academic freedom?
By Andrew Marantz
Q. & A.
How Gaza’s Largest Mental-Health Organization Works Through War
Dr. Yasser Abu-Jamei on providing counselling services to Palestinian children: “When relatives are killed, we try somehow to calm the child and then ask questions: What are you going to do tomorrow? What are you going to do the day after tomorrow?”
By Isaac Chotiner
The Weekend Essay
Is This Israel’s Forever War?
Foreign-policy analysts whose careers were shaped by the war on terror see troubling parallels.
By Keith Gessen
Q. & A.
Inside Israel’s Bombing Campaign in Gaza
The Israeli journalist Yuval Abraham on his investigations of the I.D.F.’s use of A.I.-backed targeting systems and the dire cost to Palestinian civilians.
By Isaac Chotiner
News Desk
What It Takes to Give Palestinians a Voice
A new poll conducted during war in Gaza and escalating tensions in the West Bank allows Palestinians to tell the world what they want for their future.
By Robin Wright
Q. & A.
The Brutal Conditions Facing Palestinian Prisoners
Since the attacks of October 7th, Israel has held thousands of people from Gaza and the West Bank in detention camps and prisons.
By Isaac Chotiner
Dispatch
The Children Who Lost Limbs in Gaza
More than a thousand children who were injured in the war are now amputees. What do their futures hold?
By Eliza Griswold