by Matthew Friedman | Jun 16, 2024 | Gaza Journal
A friend sent me a DM in response to my post this week about performative politics, asking why I will not display the Palestinian flag in my profile, and while I will not wear a keffiyeh, despite my support for Palestinian autonomy and human rights and my opposition...
by Matthew Friedman | Jun 9, 2024 | Gaza Journal
I’m just tired. The Israeli War on Gaza has dragged on and on, and there is no reasonable end in sight. The State of Israel seems utterly resistant to diplomatic pressure due, in large part, to the Waffle House policies of it’s main sponsor, the United States. I have...
by Matthew Friedman | Jun 2, 2024 | Gaza Journal
I struggle with the word “Zionism.” It seems to clearly describe the ideology – a set of beliefs, values, and assumptions following from a specific premise – that animates the policies of the State of Israel and its support in the Jewish Diaspora and among...
by Matthew Friedman | May 26, 2024 | Gaza Journal
I feel a strange kind of hopelessness about Gaza and the cause of Palestinian human rights and autonomy. It is not that I believe that the State of Israel’s War on Gaza will never end; it must, if only because it is ultimately self-defeating. Nor is it because I...
by Matthew Friedman | May 19, 2024 | Gaza Journal
The Israel Defense Forces must be the most incompetent armed force on the face of the planet. I know that this contradicts the image of a highly trained, well-armed, and ruthlessly efficient military but let’s face it: that’s marketing. Make no mistake, the IDF has...
by Matthew Friedman | May 12, 2024 | Gaza Journal
The State of Israel has lost. That will be cold comfort to the people of Gaza who are suffering, starving, dying, and waiting for the IDF’s long-promised Rafah offensive. Still, six months into its bloody War on Gaza, the State of Israel not only can’t win, but it has...
