Helena CobbanSome key resources for understanding Hamas(This resource list is a work in progress, as I’m planning to add additional resources and more commentary onto it. It is part of Just…4 min read·5 days ago--1--1
Helena CobbanIsrael’s two big provocations of April 1Here are some quick thoughts on the two big military provocations the Israeli government undertook last Monday, April 1. The first, which…5 min read·Apr 7, 2024--6--6
Helena CobbanRamadan coming. Gazans starving. U.S. policy in chaos. Hamas sketches political future.These past couple of days have seen several important revelations and analyses related to Israel’s still-continuing genocide against the…·8 min read·Mar 7, 2024--5--5
Helena CobbanMy longform article on Gaza and the shifting global balance… is now up at the Boston Review website, here.2 min read·Feb 16, 2024----
Helena CobbanThe Red Sea in history and todayM/v Marlin Luanda afire after a Houthi missile attack10 min read·Jan 30, 2024--1--1
Helena CobbanIsrael’s latest shameful attacks on UNRWALet us be clear. Israel — a country whose entire existence is the result of the Partition Plan for Palestine that the United Nations…8 min read·Jan 28, 2024--13--13
Helena CobbanTo the people of Gaza: Empathy and admiration, not ‘pity’I haven’t written much here recently. In the past two months I’ve been really busy with the book-publishing business, from which I’d…11 min read·Jan 18, 2024--13--13
Helena CobbanThe politics of ending Gaza’s misery(The following essay was first distributed in my newsletter series for Just World Ed.)5 min read·Dec 31, 2023--3--3
Helena CobbanThe clocks ticking for Gaza (political and otherwise)For the most of the 2.3 million Palestinians of Gaza, time has entered a horrifying and quite disorienting warp. How long since they were…9 min read·Dec 15, 2023--4--4
Helena CobbanOn claims of rape during Hamas’s October 7 breakout from GazaThe high-profile former Meta exec Sheryl Sandberg headlined an event on this issue for the Israeli Mission to the U.N., December 46 min read·Dec 7, 2023--9--9
