2024 Will Be Remembered as the Year Israel’s Global Legitimacy Fully Unraveled

January 2, 2025

Khury Petersen-Smith

Since the state of Israel’s founding, its leaders and supporters have sought acceptance among other states as a peer, and legitimacy in the eyes of the global public. It has achieved mixed success on the former — and failed repeatedly on the latter.

 

Israeli soldiers drive past destroyed buildings in Rafah in the Gaza Strip on September 13, 2024. Sharon Aronowicz / AFP via Getty Images

The Homelessness Crisis is About to Get a Lot Worse

January 2, 2025

Chloe Atkinson

With just weeks to go before Donald Trump waltzes back into the White House, America has an additional problem on its hands.

Resistance comeback in Gaza challenges Israel’s claims of Hamas casualties: Report

January 2, 2025

Data released on 1 January estimates that the remaining fighters in Gaza are between 20,000 and 23,000, according to Israeli media, which contradicts previous figures released by Israeli authorities. 

A year of shame, and many more to come

January 1, 2025

Jonathan Ofir

The shame of Israel's genocide in Gaza will haunt the international moral conscience and the Israeli psyche for the coming century. Though Israelis, accustomed to the perpetual shaming of Germany, are unprepared for the shame they must now confront.

Imperial hubris (and its consequences) in Syria

January 1, 2025

Alastair Crooke

The Syria story, it seems, is not so simple as ‘President Assad fell’ and the ‘technocratic Salafists’ rose to power.

 

New Year’s Day massacre: Israel kills dozens of Palestinians in Gaza

January 1, 2025