A less than comprehensive but still expansive library of previous published work.
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Israel/Palestine
“Primer on Palestine, Israel and the Arab-Israeli Conflict” 3rd ed., with Lisa Hajjar, Feb. 2014.
“The Political Context of the Crisis in Gaza,” interview with Stephen Shalom, New Politics, Jan. 2024
“A century after its founding, the Israeli Communist Party is at a crossroads ,” +972, July 28, 2023; reprinted in Portside, July 30, 2023.
“Palestinian Solidarity at the World Cup and the Bankruptcy of U.S. Policy,” Democracy in Exile (DAWN), Dec. 14, 2022.
“Israel's Negev Summit Consolidated a Reactionary Axis in the Middle East,” Democracy in Exile (DAWN), Apr. 6, 2022.
“On Ukraine, Israel’s Communists Choose Not to Choose,” interview with Joshua Leifer, Jewish Currents, Mar. 31, 2022
“Palestinian Workers Have a Long History of Resistance,” Jacobin, June 6, 2021.
“Sheikh Jarrah: Epicentre of Israel's plan for Jewish supremacy in Jerusalem,” Middle East Eye, May 20, 2021.
“Remembering Reuven Kaminer, the godfather of Israel’s radical left,” +972 webzine, Nov. 2, 2020.
“Splintered but not broken: A history of Israel’s independent left,” +972 webzine, May 28, 2020 (with Matan Kaminer)
“Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, U.S. Politics and the Future of Palestine,” Democratic Left, Aug. 20, 2019.
“Building of ‘Israeli’ Golan Heights: Trump’s Recognition Climax of Decades-Long Process,” The Globe Post, April 3, 2019.
“It’s not all about the Benjamins. It’s about the empire too.” Middle East Report Online, Feb. 19, 2019.
“From Gaza to Jerusalem to Iran” Lobe Log, July 14, 2018; Middle East Report Online, July 12, 2018.
“What is the Future of Gaza?” State of Nature blog, June 28, 2018.
“Recognizing Annexation: Moving the US Embassy to Jerusalem,” Middle East Report Online, May 12, 2018.
“‘Beautiful Israel’ and the 1967 War,” Middle East Report Online, June 5, 2017
“Can a Two-State Solution Survive?” Tikkun, Jan. 18, 2017.
“Historians react to that weird thing Rep. Steve King said about whites and ‘subgroups,’” Washington Post, July 20, 2016
“How Not to Talk About the Nazi Era and Israel/Palestine,” Truthdig, May 18, 2016.
“Letter to Bernie, II,” Middle East Research and Information Project, Feb. 15, 2016.
“More details about Bernie Sanders and Kibbutz Sha‘ar ha-‘Amakim,” Mondoweiss, Feb. 12, 2016.
“Destruction and Appropriation of Palestinian History and Cultural Property: The Responsibilities of Historians,” in Sherna Berger Gluck (ed.), Impediments to Education in the Occupied Palestinian Territories (Palestine-Israel Working Group of Historians Against the War, September 2015)
“Strategies of Solidarity: Israel/Palestine and the Empire,” Viewpoint.com, Aug. 31, 2015
“Coexistence, Equality, and Universal Principles in Israel/Palestine: Regrouping in the Absence of a Two-State Solution,” Tikkun 30 (no. 2, Spring 2015)
“Racism is the Foundation of Israel’s Operation Protective Edge,” Stanford University Press Blog, July 30, 2014
“The First Intifada and the Non-emergence of a Palestinian State, Mondoweiss, Dec. 13, 2012
“The Left, the Jews and Defenders of Israel: A Review Essay,” Middle East Report Online, August, 2012.
“A Day in the Wilderness of Judea,” Jadaliyya, Dec. 26, 2010.
“The Problem is the Israeli Occupation: al-Nabi Saleh,” Jadaliyya, Dec. 20, 2010.
“Contesting Past and Present at Silwan,” Middle East Report Online, Sept. 17, 2010.
“Confronting Settlement Expansion in East Jerusalem,” Middle East Report Online, Feb. 14, 2010
“Building a Different Middle East,” The Nation, Jan. 15, 2010
“Rachel Corrie in Palestine…and in San Francisco” Middle East Report Online, August 2009.
“Three Months in the Wilderness,” MR Zine, Oct. 22, 2008
“The Heart Wants to Hope, But the Brain Cannot,” MR Zine, Sept. 22, 2008.
Palestine and Israel: What's Iran Got to Do with It?” MR Zine, July 22, 2008.
“Letter from Tuwani,” Middle East Report no. 244 (Fall 2007)
Egypt & the Arab World
“US Empire Is Changing Its Strategies in the Middle East,” Jacobin, June 15, 2022 (panel discussion with Jamie Allinson, Aslı Bâli, and Allison McManus)
“Egypt’s Gamal Abdel Nasser Was a Towering Figure Who Left an Ambiguous Legacy,” Jacobin, Sept. 28, 2020; Arabic version, Jadaliyya, Oct. 19, 2020.
“Futures of the Arab Spring”, SSRC Items, Jan. 4, 2022.
“The Biden Administration is Embracing Egypt’s Dictator Sisi,” Jacobin, Aug. 25, 2021 (with Allison McManus); reprinted in The Wire, Aug. 27, 2021.
“The Remaking of the Arab Working Class,” Interview, Jacobin, Aug. 8, 2021.
Egypt's Uprising and Its Fate, Against the Current No. 212, May/June 2021; reprinted in International Viewpoint, May 21, 2021.
“The Long Struggle Over the Suez,” Tribune, Mar. 31, 2021.
“The Biden Administration and International Law in the Middle East,” Democracy in Exile, Feb. 11, 2021.
“Don’t Expect Biden Administration to Change Fundamentals of US Middle East Policy,” Democracy in Exile, Dec. 22, 2020.
“Arab Workers and the Struggle for Democracy,” Jacobin, May 10, 2020.
“The Roots of the Egyptian Crisis,” Jacobin, Jan. 9, 2018.
“Tunisia’s Periphery Rises Up Again,” Stanford University Press Blog, Feb. 1, 2016.
“Sanitizing the Tunisian Revolution: How the Nobel committee’s pick for the Peace Prize obscures the country’s struggle,” Stanford University Press Blog, Oct. 12, 2015 (a “Top 10” blog post for 2015); Turkish version: “Tunus Devrimini Arındırmak,” Birikim, Jan. 6, 2016.
“The People Still Demand ‘Bread, Freedom, and Social Justice,’” Stanford University Press Blog, Jan. 24, 2014.
“Egyptian Workers After June 30,” Middle East Report Online, Aug. 23, 2013.
“Egypt: Back to Square One” interview with Alina Mogilyanskaya, Independent, Aug. 17, 2013
“Egypt’s New Interim Government is Not a Leftist Coalition,” interview with Giuseppe Acconcia, Open Democracy, July 29, 2013.
“Was there a January 25 Revolution?” Jadaliyya.com, Jan. 25, 2013.
“Workers, Trade Unions, and Egypt’s Political Future,” Middle East Report Online, Jan. 18, 2013
“In Search of a New Political Language,” Egypt Independent, June 27, 2012.
“A Revolution Is Not a Marketing Campaign,” Middle East Research and Information Project Blog, June 18, 2012
“The Middle East’s Working-Class Revolutions?” The Nation, Sept. 12, 2011.
“Revolution and Repression in Suez,” Jadaliyya, July 12, 2011.
“Egypt: The Struggle Continues,” Jadaliyya, July 2, 2011.
“Egypt’s Workers Rise Up,” The Nation, Mar. 7, 2011.
“The Militancy of Mahalla al-Kubra,” Middle East Report Online, Sept. 29, 2007
“Strikes in Egypt Spread from Center of Gravity,” with Hossam el-Hamalawy, Middle East Report Online, May 9, 2007.
“Egyptian Textile Workers Confront the New Economic Order,” with Hossam el-Hamalawy, Middle East Report Online, Mar. 25, 2007