Policy Analysis

Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza
Discrediting the Living and Denying the Dead in Gaza: Justifying Indiscriminate Attacks on Civilians
Sep 12, 2024Yara M. Asi
In mid-August 2024, the world stood witness to one of the few personal tragedies from Gaza to make global headlines. Israeli airstrikes killed two 3-day-old tw…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelViolent Extremism
Sde Teiman and Beit Lid Events: A Reading into the Militiazation of the Israeli State
Aug 21, 2024Mohanad Mustafa
The storming by right-wing groups of the Sde Teiman military camp in the Negev—a brutal detention center for residents of Gaza—and the Beit Lid barracks on the…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelThe War on Gaza
“A Cycle of Deprivation”: The Challenges of Getting Humanitarian Aid into Gaza
Aug 14, 2024Yara M. Asi
On March 7, exactly five months after Israel initiated a military campaign in the Gaza Strip that has been increasingly described as a genocide, President Joe …
Intern Corner
Palestine/IsraelInternational Law
Israel’s Use of White Phosphorus and the Inadequacy of International Law
Aug 7, 2024Karam Burjas
On October 16, 2023, Israel indiscriminately targeted civilians in Al-Duhayra, a town in Southern Lebanon, with a chemical agent that can burn skin to the bone…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelConflicts and Conflict Resolution
Israel Has Opted for War on All Fronts
Jul 31, 2024Khalil E. Jahshan Tamara Kharroub Imad K. Harb Yousef Munayyer Hanna Alshaikh
Israel's assassination of Hamas’s Political Bureau chief Ismail Haniyeh and Hezbollah military leader Fuad Shukr is an unwarranted escalation that could lead t…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelSecurity and Defense
Explosive Remnants of War in Gaza: A Long-Term Threat to Palestinian Life
Jul 17, 2024Yara M. Asi
Before Israel’s current war on Gaza, the deadliest of the previous four Israeli assaults on the Strip occurred in 2014. Over 50 days, Israel killed at least 2,…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelGlobal Health and Health Policy
The Lancet and Genocide By “Slow Death” in Gaza
Jul 12, 2024John Quigley
A recent survey of Middle East scholars found that most regard Israel’s actions in Gaza since October 2023 either as “genocide” (34 percent) or as “major war c…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelEducation and Development
The US Academy and the Destruction of Gaza’s Education System
Jul 3, 2024Hanna Alshaikh
After Columbia University students set up a pro-Palestinian encampment on April 17, similar ones formed on campuses not only in the United States but worldwide…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelJustice, Equality, and Human Rights
Israel’s War on Palestinians in the Occupied West Bank
Jun 21, 2024Jonathan Kuttab
Since October 7, 2023, much of the world’s attention has rightly been focused on the Gaza Strip, which had been largely forgotten for many years. The intensity…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelMigrants, Refugees, and IDPs
Isolating Gaza from the World: Humanitarian Implications of Israel’s Seizure of Rafah
Jun 6, 2024Yara M. Asi
Prior to the fall of 2023, Rafah was a relatively unknown city in the already poorly understood Gaza Strip, especially to much of the world outside of the Midd…
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelRegional Relations and Geopolitics
Seven Months of War on Gaza, Israel Is in International Distress
May 17, 2024Mtanes Shihadeh
The Israeli government has described the war on Gaza since last October as an “existential war and a second war of independence.” Israel’s official and public …
Policy Analysis
Palestine/IsraelInternational Law
Is International Law Still Relevant after the Carnage in Gaza?
Apr 23, 2024Susan Akram John Quigley
According to the UN’s Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA), the death toll in Gaza by Israel’s onslaught has passed 34,000 Palestinians, …