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While I have only known of Professor Stoler's work indirectly, I am truly grateful for the chance to engage with it more closely. Duress is a compelling work, an intellectual provocation demanding ...

The tragic ongoing violence between Palestinians and Israelis shields a greater tragedy currently unfolding in the West Bank and Gaza Strip: the dismemberment of the Palestinian economy.

WHEN I WAS A CHILD OF FIVE I attended a yeshiva, a Jewish parochial school. My parents were not religious people, but they were survivors of the Holocaust, and in the aftermath of Auschwitz they believed that a yeshiva was the best place for me to learn about Judaism and what it means to be a Jew. One day I brought home a magazine published by the school, and in it was a fictional story set in a Nazi concentration camp. In this camp on this day, the story told, hundreds of Jews were about to be murdered. They were all starving and emaciated and listlessly stood in line before their final march into the gas chambers. As the Jews huddled together awaiting death, a miracle suddenly occurred: manna began to fall from the sky. The manna was everywhere and fell in great abundance, and the Jews ate voraciously. Once they had eaten and were no longer

While an Islamist alternative still remains unacceptable to most Palestinians, the Islamists, notably Hamas, increasingly have become a … part of the Palestinian political landscape; as such, they will need to be incorporated into—not marginalized from—any future political arrangement. Despite its militant extremism, the Islamist movement has shown that it can be pragmatic.

(2002). Living with the Holocaust: The Journey of a Child of Holocaust Survivors. Journal of Palestine Studies: Vol. 32, No. 1, pp. 5-12.

The ongoing crisis among Israelis and Palestinians is not primarily the result of a failed summit, poor implementation, or Netanyahu's intransigence: it is instead the result of a ‘peace’ process that by design altered the political, economic, and physical landscape of the Palestinian territories in a manner that intensified rather than mitigated Palestinian dispossession, deprivation, and oppression, and so precluded a fair and workable settlement of the Palestinian–Israeli conflict.