Advertisements There really isn’t any way to sugar-coat Joe Biden’s and his whole administration’s approach to Middle East policy. The foibles that have always plagued U.S. policy in the region are magnified to a monstrous degree with Biden. That includes the extreme bigotry that places no value on Arab, andContinue Reading
Advertisements Sahar Aziz and I had a great, in-depth discussion with Khaled Elgindy of the Middle East Institute about our report, Presumptively Antisemitic: Islamophobic Tropes in the Palestine–Israel Discourse. You can hear the conversation here.Continue Reading
Advertisements On May 31, the paperback version of Except for Palestine: The Limits of Progressive Politics by myself and Marc Lamont Hill will be released. If you were waiting for the paper version to get your copy, well, your time has come! Order it here from Uncle Bobbie’s Coffee and Books,Continue Reading
Advertisements My latest piece for Responsible Statecraft explores the recent half-hearted attempt by the Joe Biden administration to re-open the US consulate in Jerusalem that had served as a headquarters for diplomatic contacts with the Palestinian Authority until Donald Trump absorbed it into the US embassy when he moved that officeContinue Reading
Palestinians may be facing a new kind of catastrophe, one that will take another awful toll on them. But they’ve already survived two of them. They may not have flourished, but they have survived and multiplied. Trump’s effort to destroy the Palestinians as a nation won’t succeed, but it will certainly have terrible consequences. After it fails, it will fall on the United States and Western Europe to finally live up to their responsibilities and use their considerable levers of influence to protect the rights of Palestinians as assiduously as those of Israelis.Continue Reading
