by Matthew Friedman | Sep 8, 2024 | Gaza Journal
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has scuttled Gaza ceasefire talks. Color me surprised. It isn’t as if he hasn’t done it before, in fact, making optimistic, conciliatory sounds about the possibility of an agreement, only to step back when one seems to be near...
by Matthew Friedman | Sep 1, 2024 | Gaza Journal
Strangely enough, the War on Gaza artificially prolonged my social media life well beyond its natural span. Last summer and early fall, I was ready to pack it in. I had already closed my Twitter account (because, you know, Elon Musk), and I downloaded my Facebook data...
by Matthew Friedman | Aug 25, 2024 | Gaza Journal
I have rarely thought of political parties as vehicles for significant social change, or as agents for my personal political goals and commitments. I gave up that fantasy many years ago, when I chose not to renew my membership in the New Democratic Party. Political...
by Matthew Friedman | Aug 18, 2024 | Gaza Journal
I am not a Zionist. It feels weird to have to say that – JD Vance-level weird – considering that I am pretty public about my opposition to the State of Israel and contemporary Zionism. Yet, I know that I am always suspect by virtue of the fact that I am Jewish and...
by Matthew Friedman | Aug 11, 2024 | Gaza Journal
I have Israeli friends. It seems strange to say that, since I seem to be setting up the classic bigot’s apologia: “some of my best friends are Jewish… Or Black… Or Gay… Or whatever.” Yet, I mention this only because many people don’t, and I believe that this is...
by Matthew Friedman | Aug 4, 2024 | Gaza Journal
President Lyndon Johnson stood before the American people late at night sixty years ago today, on 4 August 1964, and lied. Two American warships, the USS Maddox and the USS Turner Joy, had come under an “unprovoked attack” by North Vietnamese gunboats in international...
