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Robin DG Kelley — The UN’s failure to dismantle the colonial order foreclosed the application of the Genocide Convention to Israel, South Africa, and the United States.

By positioning October 7 as Israel’s Ground Zero, Hamas’s assault becomes the self-evident point of origin of the current conflict in Gaza and the obligatory reference point for all critical analysis and moral judgment regarding subsequent events. No matter what Israel does, any criticism of Operation Swords of Iron is forestalled by this eternal return of the ever-same.

Today’s events are the product of the founding of Israel in 1948 through the forcible expulsion of Palestine’s existing Arab population and of the three-quarters of a century of brutality and mass murder that followed.

In July 1976, Nairobi allowed IDF jets to cross Kenyan airspace and refuel at JKIA on their way to Entebbe.

Golda Meir, Israeli politician and stateswoman who helped found (1948) the State of Israel and later served as its fourth prime minister (1969–74). She was the first woman to hold the post. Meir previously served as foreign minister (1956–66). Learn more about Meir’s life and career.

Our series continues with a WWII veteran and labor organizer who loved cantorial music and was Israel’s first chairman of the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee

Four former soldiers reflect on their journeys as Israel's earliest heroes, having enlisted in the military of the nascent Jewish state amid a fierce war surrounding its creation

Our deep dive into Israel's Declaration of Independence continues with a man known for his linguistic flair, a love of organized labor and his oversized autograph.

Israel Is a Work in Progress and Major Flaws in Its Democracy Remain. But Israel Is Also a Much Better Place Than Anyone Had Any Realistic Expectation of It Being When It Was Founded 75 Years Ago. The Events of the Last Few Months Only Further Prove This

Israeli forces, who turned over the Gaza Strip yesterday, evacuated the base this morning although a few will return to ship out the last of their equipment.