Rhona Burns, at The Blogs

May 23, 2024, 9:07 PM

The war in Gaza and the (real) road to peace

This week, Ireland, Spain, and Norway announced that they would soon recognize Palestinian statehood. According to CNN, “Hamas, the militant group which governs Gaza, urged other countries to follow suit and ‘recognize our legitimate national rights, support the struggle...

Apr 13, 2024, 10:52 PM

Are you a Zionist?

On the delegitimization of Israel through language ** Are you a Zionist? Among many Progressives and intellectuals all around the liberal world, being called a Zionist today is similar to being called an imperialist or a colonialist. Very often, this is...

About Me

Rhona Burns is a historian of ideas (Ph.D.), currently a Fulbright research fellow at Harvard University's Center for Jewish Studies, an expert on Jewish nationalism, and a researcher of nationalism at large. She is Israeli, and until September 2023, lived in Jerusalem and Haifa with her family (she was born in 1987, married, and a mother to a child). In the past, she has published critiques, op-eds, short stories, and poetry in many news outlets in Israel, including Haaretz, Maariv, Local Call, +972, The Jerusalem Post, and others (mostly in Hebrew). Over the years, she has also worked as a newspaper editor and high-school teacher in Israel.