Israeli writer says aiding Gaza is like ‘feeding sharks’

April 25, 2025

In a post remembering the Holocaust, Gil Kopatz called for the extermination of Palestinians and described the war on Gaza as an essential ‘pesticide’

 

 A Palestinian child eats his portion of a hot meal at a free food distribution point at the Nuseirat refugee camp, central Gaza Strip, on 19 April 2025 (AFP/Eyad Baba)

Three Theses on Trump’s Rule

April 25, 2025

Stephen F. Eisenman

Preface: Emigre politics

When writers go into exile, I read somewhere, they discuss the politics of their former countries more than before they left. I have an image of that in my head – scruffy emigres huddled over coffee and schnapps in a smoke-filled café. Voices are raised, tables are pounded, and drinks are spilled, before a quiet settles on the group — the silence of displacement.