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“In the shade of an olive tree.”
A grandmother remembers al–Nakba. Note to readers: After ruminating on this matter, and with the encouragement of various people who have written to us, we have decided to make our Palestinian Voices...
View ArticlePatrick Lawrence: Power for the Sake of Power
When I awoke Saturday morning, I found my thoughts wandering back a decade, when my siblings and I plotted to get our father’s car keys out of his frail, unsteady hands. Watching Joe Biden in a...
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: Netanyahu Goes for Broke
The Israeli prime minister has chosen this moment to mount a go-for-broke attempt to bring the U.S. into some kind of once-and-for-all conflict that would leave Israel supreme in the region. It is a...
View Article“Democracy or global supremacy.”
Democratic Party delegates must choose one come August. In this brief note, the novelist Peter Dimock calls upon Americans to reject Joe Biden’s desperate bid for a second presidential term by...
View Article“Introducing: West Bank Alerts.”
Recent news from Occupied Palestine. Note to readers, I now announce the launch of a new Substack newsletter devoted to keeping readers up-to-date on events in occupied Palestine: West Bank Alerts....
View Article“Impunity in the West Bank.”
Israel’s seven-front war. I had been back from the West Bank one month when I called a friend in al–Bireh, a friend I cannot name. It was Friday, 14 June. I had been worrying, and it was something of...
View ArticlePatrick Lawrence: ‘Brain Dead’ and Dangerous, NATO Proceeds
It is now five years since Emmanuel Macron, in one of those blunt outbursts for which he is known, told The Economist, in a reference to the collective West, “What we are currently experiencing is the...
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“‘Soldiers! Soldiers! Soldiers!’”
The kindergartners of al–Mughayyir. The children of Palestine are striking for their curiosity and fearlessness. Small groups approached whenever I was out walking, often trailing me for several...
View ArticlePatrick Lawrence: Gaza, We Cannot Remain Silent Any Longer
I do not know how it is in your household, but in mine we have developed the practice over the past nine months of reciting to one another the most appalling of the news bulletins from Gaza that come...
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: The Wreckage Biden Leaves
A lightweight when it came time to prove himself as a statesman and a leader, the White House has simply defeated him. “BIDEN DROPS OUT OF 2024 RACE” was the banner headline across The New York...
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“West Bank update.”
My al–Mughayyir kindergarten fundraiser. I am happy to report that the al–Mughayyir kindergarten GoFundMe campaign has raised $3,955 since I launched it less than one week ago. That amount will fully...
View ArticlePatrick Lawrence: The Murder of Ismail Haniyeh
Some reflections, written urgently in response to the urgency of the moment, on the assassination early Tuesday of Ismail Haniyeh. The 62–year-old chairman of Hamas’s Politburo, murdered during an...
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“Al–Mughayyir begins to build its playground.”
Please help us cross the funding finish line. The al–Mughayyir kindergarten fundraiser has raised just over $6,000, I am pleased to report. It is enough to begin breaking ground. This afternoon I...
View ArticlePatrick Lawrence: Israel Runs the U.S. No, the U.S. Runs Israel. No, Wait …
That deranged speech Bibi Netanyahu delivered to a joint session of Congress last month: I cannot get it entirely out of my mind. It did not change anything — neither the Israeli prime minister nor...
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PATRICK LAWRENCE: James Baldwin at 100
Things got lost in our remembrances. James Baldwin would have celebrated his 100th birthday on Aug. 2, had he lived so long. He didn’t: He died young. He was but 63 on Dec. 1, 1987, the day he slipped...
View Article“‘All due respect.'”
News from the West Bank. It gives me great pleasure to inform you that I deposited the final donations for the al–Mughayyir kindergarten playground into an account with Nonviolence International. It...
View ArticlePatrick Lawrence: Zelensky’s Misadventures in Kursk
It has been three weeks since ground units of the Armed Forces of Ukraine crossed into the Kursk province in southwestern Russia, surprising — or maybe not surprising — the U.S. and its clients in the...
View ArticlePatrick Lawrence: The Sound of Enforced Silence
Is there some connection, — not quite official but it may as well be— between censorship and presidential politics? I pose the question as a survivor of the Russiagate years, when illiberal liberals...
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“‘Our soul is here.’”
The Judaization of Jerusalem. A taxi dropped me off on a busy street outside of the Jaffa Gate near the old city of Jerusalem. It was already dark. I had just flown into Ben–Gurion Airport to begin...
View ArticlePatrick Lawrence: Gaza: Kamala Harris and the Disgrace of Denial
Outrage is a very fine thing. So is indignity. They are good for the circulation and keep one alert, I have always found. This is why I read The New York Times as diligently as I do. The...
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