Jonah Naghi, at The Blogs

Mar 13, 2025, 3:55 PM

As an Iranian Jewish Zionist, I do not Want to See a Second Nakba

Ever since Hamas’s brutal onslaught on October 7, 2023, I – and many people in my community – have been experiencing the strongest sense of pain and grief in generations. For me, the pain not only came from seeing...

Sep 17, 2024, 7:16 PM

Securing the Philadelphi Corridor

The brutal murder of Hersh Goldberg-Polin, Carmel Gat, Ori Danino, Alex Lubanov, Eden Yerushalmi, and Almog Sarusi by their Hamas captors in the Gaza Strip has increased the sense of urgency in Israel to sign a hostage deal to...

May 16, 2024, 11:14 AM

Reconciling the Stories of Zionism and the Nakba

This time of year is when Israelis’ and Palestinians’ conflicting memories of the 1948 War may be the most salient. On May 14, Israelis and diaspora Jews like myself celebrated Yom Ha'atzmaut, the day the Zionist dream of a Jewish...

Dec 26, 2023, 9:50 AM

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New hope for a shared Arab-Jewish future

Cooperation and shared grief are uniting populations with a history of conflict and mutual suspicion

Nov 14, 2023, 7:16 PM

What happens to the Gaza Strip the day after Hamas?

If Israel succeeds in dismantling Hamas within the next few months, we will need to not only talk about the ongoing war, but we will also need to talk about what the future holds for the Gaza Strip and...

Nov 30, 2022, 8:47 PM

From Isfahan to Jerusalem: Finding the other half of the world

“Isfahan Nesfe Jahan” – “Isfahan is Half the World.” This was a saying I often heard growing up in America. It is a saying in Farsi by many people from Isfahan, an ancient city in Iran. Isfahan is where my...

Nov 14, 2022, 10:29 AM

Rejecting Itamar Ben Gvir while reaching out to his voters

With the fifth round of Israel’s elections in the past three and a half years in the books, Benjamin Netanyahu seems set to return as prime minister with a solid right-wing majority coalition. In light of this significant event,...

Oct 19, 2022, 12:36 PM

Bridging the gulf between Israel’s Arab citizens and the Gulf

This past summer was my first trip to Israel since the signing of the historic Abraham Accords. I was curious to see the impact the accords have had over the past two years, but the insight I received may...

Sep 12, 2022, 11:54 PM

IPF Atid Summer Delegation 2022: Connecting Ourselves with the People in Israel and Palestine

From July 10 to 17, I was one of 15 people who participated in IPF Atid’s second Summer Delegation, where we traveled throughout Israel and the West Bank. Our experiences humbled us with the facts on the ground, but...

Jun 15, 2022, 6:20 PM

When anti-Zionist tropes become antisemitic tropes

On Thursday June 2, the Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) movement's Boston branch shared an interactive map on its Instagram page identifying various "Zionist" organizations throughout Massachusetts that they accused of being behind "policing, evictions, and privatization locally, and...

About Me

Jonah Naghi is a Boston-based writer and former Chair of Israel Policy Forum's IPF Atid Steering Committee in the city of Boston. A frequent commentator on Middle Eastern affairs, Jonah has spent extensive time in the region and his articles have appeared in the Times of Israel, Jerusalem Post, Forward, Israeli Policy Exchange, and the Fathom Journal. He is also a professional clinical social worker where he has received his Masters in Social Work at Boston College (2020), his LICSW (2023), and his EMDR certificate (2024). All the views expressed are his own.