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Yair Wallach

Yair Wallach is a social and cultural historian of modern Palestine and Israel and a reader in Israeli studies at Soas, the University of London.

Jewish progressives are deeply critical of Israel, yet inextricably tied to it

The horrendous killing and abduction of Israeli civilians placed many Jewish activists in unfamiliar territory.

By Yair Wallach

Jewish progressives are deeply critical of Israel, yet inextricably tied to it

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The deadly logic of existential war

Warnings that the escalating Israel-Hamas conflict could become a genocide should be heeded.

By Yair Wallach

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