Nation Topics - Tom Segev | The Nation

As Tom Segev’s biography makes clear, in the entire pantheon of Jewish superheroes there is no more unlikely figure than Simon Wiesenthal.

If a conclusive disrespecting of Genesis was required, wouldn't you think R. Crumb was the man for the job?

In a pair of groundbreaking books, Israeli historian Hillel Cohen explores the thorny issue of Palestinian collaboration with Zionists.

To those who follow the Israeli-Palestinian conflict closely, the prospects for a two-state solution have never seemed dimmer. So why does veteran peacenik Uri Avnery remain so hopeful?

A spirited daily paper is the last remaining defender of Israel's tradition of dissent.

According to the Western media, most Israelis, including leading peace
advocates, support the ongoing war in Lebanon. But Israeli doves are
beginning to speak out. Will it make a difference?

Criticisms of the Israel lobby have circulated for years, but it took two professors and the Iraq War to inject realist ideas into the debate.

I have witnessed what Bernard Lewis, and later Samuel Huntington, designated the "clash of civilizations" between Christendom and Islam up close in at least two wars.

Is Zionism a failed ideology? This question will strike many people as
absurd on its face.

Roane Carey has edited two collections of writings on the Middle East: The New Intifada (Verso, 2001) and The Other Israel (The New Press, 2002).