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Mihran Kalaydjian

Aug 12, 2026, 10:00 AM

The West Bank Map That Was Never Supposed to Last

More than 30 years after Oslo, Israelis and Palestinians are still living inside a map that was supposed to disappear. Open almost any political map of the West Bank and three letters dominate the landscape: A, B and C. They...

Aug 7, 2026, 12:43 AM

Should You Get Back Together With Your Ex?

My breakup with Confident Guy, my first love, was your typical first love breakup. First loves tend to feel like your only love. Like your last. I had said those three sacred words to other men before but needed...

Joseph P. Rhinewine

Aug 3, 2026, 9:30 AM

We Must Admit Our Peace Policies Failed

I have belonged to the Zionist left for nearly forty years. I began as a teenager in Hashomer Hatzair. I believed that peace with the Palestinians and the Arab world would eventually come through territorial compromise and mutual recognition. Over...

Rebecca Sealfon

Jul 26, 2026, 9:18 PM

Anti-Zionists Taught Me About Jewish Confidence

From Khan Hadera Archive and Museum. Photo: Sonia Kolodany / Photo Sonia, CC BY 2.5 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/. Colorized using MyHeritage In Color and cropped.

For more than seven years, I have spoken regularly with anti-Zionists, including Palestinians, mostly online. Throughout, I openly displayed my Jewishness and my commitment to Jewish cultural continuity. That experience has changed how I understand the current wave of...

Jul 25, 2026, 9:18 AM

In Israel and Palestine, only outsiders are free to see the whole land

An American traveler crosses from Israel into the West Bank with a passport, a backpack, and freedoms unavailable to many people born there. For outsiders, the land can appear continuous and open; for Israelis and Palestinians, laws, permits, checkpoints, walls, and military zones divide the geography into separate worlds. (AI-generated).

I have spent more hours than I care to admit watching travel vlogs from Israel and Palestine – those breezy, handheld, parasocially intimate videos in which a 20-something with a backpack and a foreign passport lands at Ben Gurion,...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Jul 15, 2026, 9:08 PM

Too Israeli for Palestinians, Too Palestinian for Israelis

When news surfaced that Israeli national soccer player Anan Khalaili was being considered by Inter Milan, the story should have been about talent, opportunity, and the next step in a promising athletic career. Instead, it quickly became another referendum...

Jul 8, 2026, 7:41 AM

Morocco, the team both Israelis and Palestinians won’t fight over

Players of Morocco pose for the photo during the FIFA World Cup 2026 Group C match between Brazil and Morocco at New York New Jersey Stadium on June 13, 2026 in East Rutherford, New Jersey. YantsImages / Wikimedia Commons

On Saturday, in the heat of Houston, Morocco beat Canada 3-0 and became the first nation to reach the quarterfinals of this World Cup. Azzedine Ounahi scored twice, Soufiane Rahimi added a third in stoppage time, and the Atlas...

Rebecca Sealfon

Apr 22, 2026, 6:34 PM

The Peace That Endured, and Our Modern Dilemmas

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For the past few months or perhaps years, depending on how you count, I've been bushwhacking my way off the beaten path of contemporary Jewish discourse. The familiar responses never sat right with me. Diaspora should not be a choice...

Mar 17, 2026, 8:01 PM

Bridging the Unbridgeable: A Prima Facie Case for Middle East Complexity

Different young women and men surrounded by a question mark. Flat style cartoon vector illustration.

Every period produces its own divisions — ideological, political, social — but this moment feels different: the fractures run deeper. Today, social media and journalism increasingly follow the tone set by podcasters and influencers, many of whom traffic in...

Mar 17, 2026, 6:50 AM

Standing Together Across the Layers of the Middle East

In December, I wrote an article outlining what I see as the four layers of the Middle East conflict — a framework for understanding the forces that shape the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the broader region. That article was prompted...

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