January/February 2024 Volume 48, Issue 1

January/February 2024
Viewpoint
In Gaza, Palestinians Are Running Out of Water and Tears
Yousef Aljamal
Don’t Let the Flailing Center Box Out the Left’s Powerful Possibilities
Dania Rajendra and Rebecca Vilkomerson
Feature
Every Jew a .22 and MZ-4: The Path from Kahane to Ben-Gvir
Natasha Roth-Rowland
"If I Must Die," A Poem by Refaat Alareer
Refaat Alareer
Palestine
“Terrorist” Rhetoric Makes Us All Less Safe
Dayton Martindale
Letters From Gaza
Sherell Barbee
Heba Zagout, We Will Not Forget You
Aya Ghanameh

PalestineDepartments
“Terrorist” Rhetoric Makes Us All Less Safe
“Terrorism” is a term that lumps everyday Palestinians and Nelson Mandela in with ISIS and white supremacists. Is it time to retire it?
Dayton Martindale

PalestineCulture
Letters From Gaza
“I yearn for our voices to echo across the globe with the truth,
reaching out to those who seek it.”
Sherell Barbee

ViewpointPalestine
Our Union Called for a Cease-Fire. It's About Our Students.
Why the membership of the Chicago Teachers Union voted overwhelmingly to support a cease-fire—and how we see ourselves as part of a larger labor movement for peace and justice.
Dave Stieber

PalestineComics
Comics Against Genocide

PalestineCulture
Heba Zagout, We Will Not Forget You
Aya Ghanameh

ViewpointPalestine
In Gaza, Palestinians Are Running Out of Water and Tears
“I don’t know what it will take for the world to stop the Israeli genocide in Gaza.”
Yousef Aljamal

ViewpointPalestine
Don’t Let the Flailing Center Box Out the Left’s Powerful Possibilities
Public fractures within Jewish communities provoked by Gaza genocide offer lessons—and paths forward—for progressives, Jewish and not.
Dania Rajendra and Rebecca Vilkomerson

PalestineDispatch
The Largest Pro-Palestinian Protest in U.S. History Was "A Turning Point." Now It's Spreading.
"Felt like this was a new wave or a turning point in the struggle for Palestine.”
Henry Hicks IV