Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faces a dilemma: Free the hostages or continue the war in Gaza?
The Conversation
Online Article
Are Two States Still the Solution?
Slate's "What Next" podcast, January 29, 2024
Podcast
Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism
Lakin Lecture at the Tucson Jewish Museum and Holocaust Center.
Video
Hate Crimes Against Muslims and Jews on The Rise
KQED Radio
Podcast
Sanction Students for Justice in Palestine, but Don’t Silence Them
Haaretz
Online Article
Conversations about Israel-Palestine: How Did Israel Get Here?
Boston University's Institute on Culture Religion and World Affairs (CURA)
Video
Students can support Palestine without supporting terrorism
Fox News
Video
Some Students on U.S. Campuses Think All Israelis Are Colonizers, So It’s Okay to Slaughter Them
Haaretz Podcast
Podcast
Jewish response to Hamas war criticism comes from deep sense of trauma, active grief and fear
The Conversation
Online Article
Letter to the Editor on ‘A Textbook Case of Genocide’
Jewish Currents
Online Article
Israel’s New Wartime Government
Slate, What Next podcast
Podcast
The Israel–Palestinian Conflict
Can We Please Talk podcast
Video
What happens if Israel invades Gaza?
ABC News (Australia) News Daily podcast
Podcast
Dov Waxman on The Israel–Hamas Conflict
E-International Relations' Thinking Global podcast
Podcast
Hamas assault echoes 1973 Arab-Israeli war – a shock attack and questions of political, intelligence culpability
The Conversation
Online Article
Why We Argue About Antisemitism Today
USC Shoah Foundation
Video
Israel’s democracy protests: What happens next?
The Conversation
Online Article
Israel’s assault in Jenin will only further erode the Palestinian Authority’s legitimacy
The Conversation
Online Article
The Judicial coup and West Bank Annexation
Canadian Friends of Peace Now
Video
Can Israel Be a Democracy for All?
Dissent Magazine
In my latest article, published in Dissent Magazine, I discuss the massive protest movement that has grown in Israel to stop the Netanyahu government's attempted judicial coup, and what it should do to really 'save' Israeli democracy: "Can Israel Be a Democracy for All?"
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excerpt: In my latest article, published in Dissent Magazine, I discuss the massive protest movement that has grown in Israel to stop the Netanyahu government's attempted judicial coup, and what it should do to really 'save' Israeli democracy: "Can Israel Be a Democracy for All?"
Israel enters a dangerous period –public protests swell over Netanyahu’s plan to limit the power of the Israeli Supreme Court
The Conversation
Online Article
Antisemitism isn’t just ‘Jew-hatred’ – it’s anti-Jewish racism
The Conversation
Online Article
Antisemitic comments from public figures spark concern over real-world implications
PBS Newshour
Video
Haaretz English at 25: Diaspora Jews Meet Israel’s Gritty Reality
Haaretz
Online Article
‘King Bibi’ and Israeli Illiberalism: Assessing Democratic Backsliding in Israel during the Second Netanyahu Era (2009–2021)
The Middle East Journal
Dov Waxman and Neta Oren, 76, 3 (2022): 303–26.
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excerpt: Dov Waxman and Neta Oren, 76, 3 (2022): 303–26.
Ukraine and Palestine: A False, Facile Analogy
Haaretz
Online Article
“Israel, Amnesty and the Apartheid Accusation: A Wake-Up Call”
Palestine-Israel Journal 27, nos. 1 & 2 (Summer 2022).
In the latest issue of the Palestine-Israel journal, I discuss Amnesty International's recent report charging Israel with the crime of apartheid
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excerpt: In the latest issue of the Palestine-Israel journal, I discuss Amnesty International's recent report charging Israel with the crime of apartheid
The trouble with defining antisemitism
NPR
Podcast
Biden & the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict – A Look at US Policy One Year into the Biden Presidency
Video
Identity/Crisis Podcast: The Conflict About the Conflict
Identity/Crisis: The Ideas Behind the News is a podcast of the Shalom Hartman Institute.
The American Jewish community is being pulled apart by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Both the left and the right are driving the debate to extremes, pushing the majority of Jews in the center to disengage. Yehuda Kurtzer and Dov Waxman examine this shift, and ask if the positions of the new Jewish left are still compatible with liberal Zionism.
Podcast
excerpt: The American Jewish community is being pulled apart by the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Both the left and the right are driving the debate to extremes, pushing the majority of Jews in the center to disengage. Yehuda Kurtzer and Dov Waxman examine this shift, and ask if the positions of the new Jewish left are still compatible with liberal Zionism.
Diaspora Jewry: Past & Present
My conversation with Professor Derek Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, about the changing relationship between Diaspora Jews and Israel. This conversation was hosted by Holy Blossom Temple, in York, Canada, on November 12, 2021.
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excerpt: My conversation with Professor Derek Penslar, the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History at Harvard University, about the changing relationship between Diaspora Jews and Israel. This conversation was hosted by Holy Blossom Temple, in York, Canada, on November 12, 2021.
Finding New Ways to Write About and Grapple With Israel
The New York Times Book Review
I reviewed three new books on Israel for The New York Times Book Review: "Can We Talk about Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted" by Daniel Sokatch, "Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel" by Omri Boehm, and "Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel" by Ethan Michaeli.
Online Article
excerpt: I reviewed three new books on Israel for The New York Times Book Review: "Can We Talk about Israel? A Guide for the Curious, Confused, and Conflicted" by Daniel Sokatch, "Haifa Republic: A Democratic Future for Israel" by Omri Boehm, and "Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel" by Ethan Michaeli.
How should we define antisemitism? A conversation between Dov Waxman and Jeremy Jones
Plus 61 J
I recently took part in a lively conversation about the IHRA definition of antisemitism and the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism for the Australian publication Plus 61 J.
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excerpt: I recently took part in a lively conversation about the IHRA definition of antisemitism and the Jerusalem Declaration on Antisemitism for the Australian publication Plus 61 J.
Arguing about antisemitism: why we disagree about antisemitism, and what we can do about it
Ethnic and Racial Studies
My latest article, co-authored with David Schraub and Adam Hosein, has just been published in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies: Arguing about antisemitism: why we disagree about antisemitism, and what we can do about it.
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excerpt: My latest article, co-authored with David Schraub and Adam Hosein, has just been published in the journal Ethnic and Racial Studies: Arguing about antisemitism: why we disagree about antisemitism, and what we can do about it.
Compilation of some recent television interviews
CBSN, Al Jazeera English, MSNBC, Spectrum News, BBC News, CNN International
Video
It wasn’t just politics that led to Netanyahu’s ouster – it was fear of his demagoguery
The Conversation, June 15, 2021
Online Article
New Israeli government takes power, ending Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12 year run
CBSN
Video
The Rocky Future of the U.S.-Israeli Special Relationship
(co-authored with Jeremy Pressman) The Washington Quarterly 44, 2 (Summer 2021), 75-93
Online Article
DOI
What is Zionism
Byline Times
Podcast
Is This the Third Intifada?
Slate, May 14, 2021
Online Article
Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict Over Israel
Axelbank reports History and Today(2021)
Podcast
We need a better definition of anti-Semitism
co-authored with Joshua Shanes, Slate, March 26, 2021
Online Article
Pompeo just visited the West Bank. That’s likely to deepen the partisan division over Israel-Palestine
co-authored with Jeremy Pressman, The Washington Post, November 19, 2020
Online Article
American Jews and the Future of US Support for Israel
Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania.
Video
So, you think Trump has been good for Israel?
The Times of Israel, October 20, 2020
Online Article
‘Historic’ Israel deal won’t likely bring peace to the Middle East
The Conversation, The National Interest, The Houston Chronicle, August 17, 2020
Online Article
The Nation-State Law and the Weakening of Israeli Democracy
(co-authored with Ilan Peleg) Israel Studies 25, 3 (2020): 185-200
Online Article
DOI
The Religionization of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
UCLA
Video
Israel’s West Bank settlements: 4 questions answered
The Conversation, The Associated Press, The National Interest, The Chicago Tribune, November 25, 2019
Online Article
The 4 big questions that the next Israeli government will decide
The Conversation, September 18, 2019, reprinted in Salon, The Chicago Tribune, The Houston Chronicle, The Seattle Post
Online Article
Israel’s Democracy is on the ballot in the upcoming elections
The Forward, June 5, 2019
Online Article
New Israeli elections could force Netanyahu to annex the West Bank. Americans must protest
The Forward, May 31, 2019
Online Article
Why the Trump administration’s Israeli-Palestinian peace plan shouldn’t be released
The Conversation, May 6, 2019
Online Article
What Everyone Needs to Know about the Conflict
PeaceCast
Podcast
The Palestinian issue used to be a major factor in Israeli elections. Here’s why it hasn’t been this time
Time Magazine, April 8, 2019
Online Article
Why Powerful US Pro-Israel Lobby Group’s Influence is Under Threat
The Globe Post, March 26, 2019
Online Article
Quick Thoughts: Israel’s Parliamentary Elections
Jadaliyya, March 25, 2019
Online Article
Even if Netanyahu goes, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict will continue
The Conversation, March 20, 2019; reprinted in San Francisco Chronicle
Online Article
Response to Michael Barnett’s review of Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel
Perspectives on Politics, 16, 2 (2018), 476-477
Online Article
Critical Engagement: American Jews and Israel
PeaceCast
Podcast
Punishing the PLO isn’t going to win Trump any ‘deal of the century’
Los Angeles Times, September 13, 2018
Online Article
British Jewry and Labour ask who gets to define anti-Semitism
JTA News, July 31, 2018; reprinted in The Times of Israel
Online Article
Israel’s new nation-state law restates the obvious
The Conversation, July 23, 2018; reprinted in Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle
Online Article
Trouble in the Tribe
Judaism Unbound
Podcast
As Israel turns 70, many young American Jews turn away
The Conversation, May 3, 2018; reprinted in Los Angeles Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle
Online Article
Gaza’s nonviolent protesters exploited by Hamas, but feared by Israel
The Conversation, April 4, 2018; reprinted in Los Angeles Times, Salon, April 5, 2018
Online Article
Jerusalem
Unsettled
Podcast
Young American Jews and Israel: Beyond Birthright and BDS
Israel Studies 22, 3 (2017): 177-199
Online Article
DOI
American Jews and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Part of the Problem or Part of the Solution?
Political Science Quarterly 132, 2 (2017): 313-340
Online Article
DOI
American Jews and Israel: The End of ‘Israel, Right or Wrong’
Georgetown Journal of International Affairs, October 10, 2017
Online Article
How “Israelotry” became an American Religion
The Atlantic Monthly, June 5, 2017
Online Article
Is there a silver lining to increasing Anti-Semitism?
The Forward, March 20, 2017
Online Article
Netanyahu’s meeting with Trump: Good for Israeli-Palestinian peace?
The Conversation, February 15, 2017; reprinted in Salon, February 18, 2017
Online Article
US Jews and Israel in the age of Trump
Tel Aviv Review
Podcast
Is Israeli Democracy in Danger?
Current History (December 2016), vol. 115, no. 785
DOI
Britain’s Left has a ‘Jewish problem’
CNN, July 1, 2016
Online Article
The Opening of the Jewish American Mind
Tel Aviv Review
Podcast
How Right-Wing Critics Who Slammed My Book Proved its Point on Israel
The Forward, May 29, 2016
Online Article
Hopes fade for a two-state solution. Is there another path to Middle East peace?
co-authored with Dahlia Scheindlin) The Guardian, May 7, 2016
Online Article
Why the American Jewish Establishment Won’t Condemn the Occupation
Ha’aretz, May 2, 2016
Online Article
This is why Bernie Sanders’s criticism of Israel won’t hurt him in today’s New York primary
The Washington Post, April 19, 2016
Online Article
Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel
Middle East Institute
Video
Israel’s Deepest Divide
Berman Jewish Policy Archive Newsletter, Stanford University, vol.1, no. 2, April 15, 2016
Online Article
The American Jewish argument about Israel
Limmud NY
Video
A Tale of Two Jewries: The Pew Surveys of American and Israeli Jews
Matzav Blog, Israel Policy Forum, March 16, 2016
Online Article
Sanders’s Silence on Israel
Project Syndicate, March 16, 2016
Online Article
Trump’s one good foreign policy idea—neutrality in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Los Angeles Times, March 9, 2016
Online Article
Confederalism: A Third Way for Israel-Palestine
(co-authored with Dahlia Scheindlin) The Washington Quarterly 39, no.1 (Spring 2016): 83-94
DOI
Moving Beyond Despair
Tikkun Magazine, October 26, 2015
Online Article
Why I’m still a liberal Zionist, despite it all
Ha’aretz, April 1, 2015
Online Article
It’s the Fears not the Fear Mongering that We Should Focus On
Carnegie Ethics Online, Council for Ethics and International Affairs; published in The Jewish Journal March 26, 2015)
Online Article
Judging Israel’s War
The Jewish Quarterly (Autumn/Winter 2014)
Online Article
Where is Our Compassion?
The Forward (August 1, 2014)
Online Article
A Cease-fire or Quagmire in Gaza?
The National Interest (July 31, 2014)
Online Article
American Jewry: A community divided beyond repair?
Tel Aviv Review
Podcast
Time to choose: Liberalism or Zionism?
Ha’aretz April 23, 2014)
Online Article
Where’s the all-powerful Israel lobby now?
Ha’aretz (December 30, 2013)
Online Article
Jewish Foreign Policy: Israel, World Jewry, and the Defense of ‘Jewish Interests’
(co-authored with Scott Lasensky) Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 12, 2 (2013)
Online Article
DOI
American Jews, embrace your dual loyalties
Ha’aretz (November 26, 2013)
Online Article
Israel’s Other Palestinian Problem: the Future Vision Documents and the demands of the Palestinian minority in Israel
Israel Affairs 19, 1 (2013): 1-16
Online Article
American Jews are part of the Israeli-Palestinian problem
Ha’aretz (June 25, 2013)
Online Article
The Palestinian Minority in Israel: Between Coexistence and Conflict
UC Santa Barbara
Video
Whatever happens after Tuesday’s elections, American Jews won’t abandon Israel
Ha’aretz (January 17, 2013)
Online Article
The Ties that Bind: Israel’s Fractious Tribes
World Politics Review, December 18, 2012
Online Article
Israel and Hamas: Time to Talk?
Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs (December 17, 2012)
Online Article
A Dangerous Divide: The Deterioration of Jewish-Palestinian Relations in Israel
The Middle East Journal 66, 1 (2012): 11-29
Online Article
It’s not about Israel, stupid
+972 Magazine (November 9, 2012)
Online Article
Living with terror, not Living in Terror: The Impact of Chronic Terrorism on Israeli Society
Perspectives on Terrorism 5, no. 5 (2012)
Online Article
An Open Letter to Mitt Romney
Ha’aretz (July 30, 2012)
Online Article
Romney or Obama: Why the Left in Israel should care
+972 Magazine (July 30, 2012)
Online Article
What’s in a Name?
The Daily Beast (July 5, 2012)
Online Article
There goes the neighborhood
Ha’aretz (June 22, 2012)
Online Article
Ariel versus Academia
The Daily Beast (June 11, 2012)
Online Article
Uncle Herzl Wants You
The Daily Beast (May 10, 2012)
Online Article
Israel’s Holocaust Trauma
Dissent Magazine (April 19, 2012)
Online Article
J Street comes of age
The Times of Israel (April 19, 2012)
Online Article
Unify the Palestinians, Neutralize Hamas
The Daily Beast (April 4, 2012)
Online Article
Is Europe seeing a new wave of Jew-hatred
+972 Magazine (March 25, 2012)
Online Article
The Real Problem in U.S.–Israeli Relations
The Washington Quarterly 35, no. 2 (Spring 2012): 71-87
Israel’s Palestinian Minority in the Two-State Solution: The Missing Dimension
Middle East Policy 18, no. 4 (Winter 2011): 68-82
Online Article
The Death of the Peace Process
The National Interest (September 8, 2011)
Online Article
Putting up a Big Tent in Israel
Foreign Policy (August 10, 2011)
Online Article
Israel’s Real Arab Problem
The Jewish Daily Forward (June 24, 2011)
Online Article
President Obama’s Middle East Speech: Actions Speak Louder than Words
Carnegie Ethics Online (May 21, 2011)
Online Article
What Kind of Jewish State? The Formative Decisions at Israel’s Birth
Sh’ma, A Journal of Jewish Responsibility (May 2011)
Online Article
The Boycott Debate: No Longer Taboo in Progressive Pro-Israel Circles
(with Mairav Zonszein) Dissent (March 29, 2011)
Online Article
Israel’s Demophobia
Foreign Policy (February 18, 2011)
Online Article
The Israel Lobbies: A Survey of the Pro-Israel Community in the United States
Israel Studies Forum 25, 1 (2010): 5-28
Online Article
Israel’s Wake-Up Call
Foreign Policy (October 3, 2010)
Online Article
Netanyahu’s Deal-breaker
Foreign Policy (September 7, 2010)
Online Article
From Jerusalem to Baghdad? Israel and the War in Iraq
International Studies Perspectives 10, 1 (2009): 1-17
Online Article
DOI
Neither Ethnocracy nor Bi-Nationalism: In Search of the Middle Ground
(co-authored with Ilan Peleg) Israel Studies Forum 23, 2 (2008): 55-73
DOI
From Controversy to Consensus: Cultural Conflict and the Israeli Debate over Territorial Withdrawal
Israel Studies 13, 2 (2008): 73-96
Online Article
Ideological Change and Israel’s Disengagement from Gaza
(co-authored with Jonathan Rynhold) Political Science Quarterly 123, 1 (2008): 1-27
Beyond Realpolitik: The Israel Lobby and U.S. Support for Israel
Israel Studies Forum 22, 2 (2007): 97-114
Losing Control? A Comparison of Majority-Minority Relations in Israel and Turkey
(co-authored with Ilan Peleg) Nationalism and Ethnic Politics 13, 3 (2007): 431-463
DOI
For a broad-based Jewish Politics
The Jerusalem Post (May 15, 2007)
Online Article
Israel’s Dilemma: Unity or Peace?
Israel Affairs 12, 2 (2006): 200-220
Online Article
DOI
Between Victory and Defeat: Israel after the War with Hizballah
The Washington Quarterly 30, 1 (2006-07): 27-43
Online Article
The Israel Lobby — Preserving All-Around Perspective
The Globalist (April 7, 2006)
Online Article
The Israel Lobby — Finally a Balanced Review
The Globalist (April 6, 2006)
Online Article
Kadima’s balancing act
openDemocracy (April 5, 2006)
Online Article
An Incomplete Revolution: Israeli National Identity, Cultural Change and The Camp David II Negotiations
Israel Studies Forum 19, 3 (2004): 140-157
Online Article
Between Isolation and Integration: The Jewish Dimension in Israeli Foreign Policy
Israel Studies Forum 19, 1 (2003): 34-56
Online Article
The Enemy Within: Religious Extremism, Political Violence and the Murder of Yitzhak Rabin
H-NET (July 2003)
Online Article
A Tragic Hero: The Decline and Fall of Ehud Barak
Perceptions: Journal of International Affairs 6, 2 (2001): 71-88
A Dream Become Nightmare? Turkey’s Entry into the European Union
(co-authored with Ersel Aydinli) Current History 100, 649 (2001): 381-388
DOI
Islam and Turkish National Identity: A Reappraisal
Turkish Yearbook of International Relations 30 (2000): 1-22
A Jewish Affair
World Policy Journal 17, 4 (2000/01): 75-82
DOI
Terrorizing Democracies
The Washington Quarterly 23, 1 (2000): 15-19
DOI
Terrorism: The War of the Future
The Fletcher Forum of World Affairs 23, 2 (1999): 201-208
Online Article
Turkey-Israel: A New Balance of Power in the Middle East
The Washington Quarterly 22, 1 (1999): 25-32
Online Article
From Umma to State: The Iranian Revolution in Perspective
Georgetown Compass Journal 7, 1 (1998): 53-64
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