by Matthew Friedman | Jan 7, 2024 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
I am not an optimist by nature. That is perhaps an occupational hazard of being a Jew and a historian. It is difficult to see a bright future through a Jewish historian’s lens. The past, I often tell my students, is full of bad news since history is always the story...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 31, 2023 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
I have to ask what would happen if Washington simply stopped making “emergency weapon sales” to the State of Israel. Would Israelis suddenly find themselves in peril? Would the IDF suddenly grind to a halt? Or, would it just become that much more difficult...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 24, 2023 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
I have been posting in social media about the War on Gaza, and collecting these posts in weekly installments in The Typescript for more than two months. It began as an act of witness and resistance. The Holocaust historian Yehuda Bauer wrote in Rethinking the...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 17, 2023 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
I have always expected a rupture in Am Yisroel; the definitive and irreconcilable cleavage between the Jews of Zionism and the rest of us. But I did not expect it to come so soon, or with such vehemence. I really don’t believe that there will be any going back...
by Matthew Friedman | Dec 10, 2023 | Commentary, Gaza Journal
Chanukah is coming. If you know me at all, you will know that I have conflicted feelings about the holiday. I welcome any holiday that brings us together as a community, and as a people, to share our heritage. I love the lights and the latkes, and it was always a...
