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While countless publications offer a daily hot-take on the violence that has been unfolding in Israel and Gaza, we thought readers might be interested in articles that offer greater background on the conflict. Here, we offer a selection of curated articles, some from The Revealer and others from elsewhere, that will give you nuanced insights into the issues facing Israelis and Palestinians today.

Articles in The Revealer

1) What Does BDS Really Mean?
Adele Oltman
The movement to boycott Israel is divorced from the day-to-day problems facing Palestinians, and new strategies are urgently needed

2) Book Review: In Jerusalem: Three Generations of an Israeli Family and a Palestinian Family
Rebecca Alpert
A personal reflection on the conflict in Israel/Palestine and a review of Lis Harris’s book

3) Prophetic Except for Palestine: Social Justice and Reform Judaism
Martha Schoolman
Reform Judaism promotes social justice activism in the United States, but stays mostly silent on Israel’s treatment of Palestinians

4) El Pueblo de Israel: Evangelicos and Christian Zionism
Amy Fallas
Why have so many evangelical Latinos embraced Jewish rituals and Zionism?

Articles from other publications

1) From 1947 to 2023: Retracing the Complex, Tragic Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Natasha Li and Jean-Luc Mounier
An explanatory timeline from immediately before Israel’s establishment to today

2) We Cannot Cross Until We Carry Each Other
Ariel Angel
A reflection on how Jewish groups should respond to what Hamas did and what the Israeli government is doing

3) After the Israel-Hamas War: Palestinian Perspectives
Yezid Sayigh and Khalil Shikaki
A conversation between two experts about what they think will happen following this war

4) Bibi’s War: How Incompetence, Opportunism, and Rejection Led to a Catastrophe for Israel and Palestine
Jay Michaelson
How Netanyahu’s decades of cynical policies, corruption, and lust for power have led to this horrific moment