by Matthew Friedman | Oct 20, 2024 | Gaza Journal
I have not heard from my friend Yael (not her real name) for a year now. The silence has been deafening. We had been at graduate school together, where she would always call me out when I was peddling bullshit in seminar (which was often enough) and she would...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 13, 2024 | Gaza Journal
I got nothing. After almost a year of commenting on the War on Gaza, I find that there is little left to say. The war has taken on an air of surreality for those of us who are not dying under Israeli bombs, a strange sense that this is just the way things are, like...
by Matthew Friedman | Oct 6, 2024 | Gaza Journal
It is the end of one year, and the beginning of the next. This day marks, of course, the end of 5784 by the Hebrew calendar, and the beginning of 5785. We celebrate with apples and honey, honey cake,and prayers to express our hope that the next year will be sweet. But...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 29, 2024 | Gaza Journal
Benito Mussolini addressed the League of Nations. “The League is very well when sparrows shout, but no good at all when eagles fall out,” he said from the dais, his hands reaching out performatively and coming to fists in the air above his head. “We become...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 22, 2024 | Gaza Journal
It has not been difficult to work my head around this week’s pager bomb attacks. Israeli agents compromised the supply chain of the Gold Apollo pagers used by Hezbollah, planting small quantities of PETN explosive in about 4,000 units. When the detonation signal was...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 15, 2024 | Gaza Journal
I said kaddish for Aysenur Eygi this week. I don’t know if that was an arrogation or a cultural appropriation; I don’t know if Eygi who, after all, was not Jewish, would have been offended, or if she would have accepted my gesture in the spirit intended. I know that...
