James Robins

The ceasefire was urgently needed and wildly overdue. But as long as Israel clings to land that is not its own and covets more, it’s not the end of the fighting.

What was in early 2024 still a fantasy for the messianist movement is today on the verge of being realized.

The two highest courts in the world now have open cases against the state of Israel and its current leadership. The United States couldn’t care less.

Hamas’s attack should have triggered not military retaliation but the immediate resumption of negotiations for a just peace.

For a week, Britain’s far right had its own way. Then a temporary alliance of police and anti-fascists stood them down.

Yes, Labour is headed toward a historic victory. But is anything going to change?

But what does it mean for Labour?

A provisional order for Israel to withdraw from Rafah would provide a clear legal standard the United States would be obliged to follow.

It’s the International Law Department, which gives the army permission to kill 15 to 20 civilians per combatant death and pastes a veneer of properness over IDF operations.

During war, cultural property is supposed to be immune from attack. ​In Gaza, it’s being rapidly destroyed.

The settlers and their allies take for granted that fewer Palestinians—not counting those already slain—will live in their homeland once the conflict is over.

The judges’ provisional ruling dismissed almost every objection—moral, technical, procedural—thrown up by the Israeli defense team.

Lawyers for Israel defended the country’s bombardment of Gaza with a polite, legal form of blackmail.

We reach for the term when we want to condemn the worst crimes, but the U.N.’s Genocide Convention excuses more perpetrators of mass murder than it condemns.

Workers once confronted industrialization by taking a hammer to the new machines.

The year that Europe went to the barricades changed the world. But it has not left the same impression on the public imagination as 1789 or 1917.

The novelist China Miéville aims to show that Marx’s words remain just as vital as when they were first hastily composed.

Their secondhand experience of past horrors can debilitate them.

There’s no question that climate change is killing people—but you could also argue that it qualifies as wanton extermination of entire cultures.