by Matthew Friedman | May 5, 2024 | Gaza Journal
What we all remember from participating in a protest march, or a demonstration for social justice, human rights, or peace, is the almost overwhelming feeling of being part of something. Long after the chants have echoed away, that sense of belonging, an undefinable...
by Matthew Friedman | Apr 28, 2024 | Gaza Journal
One of the most pernicious narratives promoted by pro-Israel organizations like Hillel International, the World Jewish Congress, and the ADL is that (some) Jewish college students are being made to feel uncomfortable, or unwelcomed by the campus antiwar demonstrations...
by Matthew Friedman | Apr 21, 2024 | Gaza Journal
I had planned to take it a bit easy this week. As the War grinds on, it wears me down. I am tempted to look away and write about other things, but I can’t. Still, it has been difficult to keep up the pace and engage with the horror in Gaza, and I wanted to dial it...
by Matthew Friedman | Apr 14, 2024 | Gaza Journal
News outlets are describing Iran’s attack on the State of Israel as a “retaliatory strike.” This means that they are responding to the State of Israel’s bombing of the Iranian embassy in Damascus. So, by any standard, the State of Israel...
by Matthew Friedman | Apr 7, 2024 | Gaza Journal
In reply to a meme going around that to the effect of “how can the world stand by and just let the genocide in Gaza happen?…” In fact, this is exactly how it happens. The world always stands by while other countries commit atrocities and genocides against other...
by Matthew Friedman | Mar 31, 2024 | Gaza Journal
I had no idea when I started this journal more than five months ago that it would become, in part, an extended meditation on Zionism, Jewishness, and belonging. Yet, my comments about Matisyahu last week have become characteristic of where my thoughts often go, as I...
