“U.S. Foreign Policy and the Greater Israel Project,” Panel Presentation, Jerusalem Fund, Washington, D.C. November 14, 2025, C-SPAN (How what is about the worst version of Zionism that could evolved did so in large part because of the structure of American politics…)
“Ceasefire Deal: What Happens Next?” Talk Show, October 11, 2025, answering questions, on Canadian Broadcast Company’s “Just Asking,” (After emotional interview with Rachel Fink in Tel-Aviv, I answer questions from the interviewer and from callers. Omar Dajani also participating.)
“Israel and the Right to Exist,” History As It Happens Podcast, September 26, 2025, hosted by Martin Caro. (An in depth discussion of the argument I make in the Foreign Policy article that asking whether the current Israeli regime has the right to exist is not the same as questioning Israel’s existence.)
“Israel as a Crazy State,” Times of Israel (in Hebrew), September 25, 2025. (Applying Yehezkel Dror’s theory of the “crazy state” to Israel.)
“The Question of Israel’s Right to Exist is a Red Herring,” ForeignPolicy.com, September 1, 2025 (The intellectual equipment necessary to discuss Israel’s future includes distinguishing among states, regimes, and governments.)
“Israel as a ‘Crazy’ State,” World Affairs, July 2025. (With a heavy dose of irony, I apply Yehezkel Dror’s 1970s concept of “crazy state” to analyze Israel’s behavior–ironic because Dror developed the concept so as to label Israel’s adversaries as “crazy” and therefore so dangerous as to warrant international boycotts, subversion, and even invasion to thwart, defeat, or neutralize them.)
Two Minute Videos I recorded in February-May 2025 for “AcademicsForPeace” on a variety of topics: These videos are distributed via multiple social media platforms and have received more than 100,000 views.
The Antisemitism Awareness Act: Absurd and Dangerous
The Antisemitism Awareness Act and Antiracism
Trump’s Plan for Gaza is Catastrophic
Asking Questions about Israel is Not Jew Hatred
My Vist to Masafer Yatta area, June 2012: Demonstration at Susiya. Solidarity, Soldiers, and Tear Gas: V. (With all the attention being given to the powerful film No Other Land, about the struggle to protect villages in the South Hebron Hills, I thought it might be useful to post videos and photos from one of my visits to the area. Susiya is a Palestinian community in the South Hebron Hills, adjacent or basically part of Masafer Yatta. Its inhabitants have been the target of settlers and Israeli government efforts to clear the land for decades. At the time I was there this campaign featured settler attacks on vehicles taking Palestinian children to school, demolition orders against EU financed solar panels, and attempts to treat village lands as an archeological site to preserve them for settlement expansion. Years later I participated in a solidarity workdays in Um el-Kheir, also in this area.)
Videos
Protestors Marching toward Susiya; The Military uses tear gas and stun grenades against the demonstrators
Photos:
Welcome to Susiya; Livestock “Barn” in Susiya; EU financed Solar panels targeted for destruction; Preparing to March; Facepaint for Palestine ; Time to Pray; Time to Pray 2; Military vehicles including Skunk truck arrayed against demonstrators; Soldier filming journalist; Susiya man showing demolition order for his home; Palesitnian ownership and other documents; No To the Occupation; Palestinian Kids with PA and Palestine Flags_Victory Sign; Area C is Palestine; Skunk Weapon Surrounded by Demonstrators; Susiya Man in Galabiya with Palestinian Flag; Soldiers Running Toward Demonstration; Stun Grenade; Clinging to the Land No Matter What; After returning to Jerusalem I saw this group of Birthright Visitors
“Israel, Annexation, and Sovereignty: Within the Green Line and Across It,” co-authored with Michael Samuel, International Journal of Middle East Studies, January 2025.
“Forum on Gaza,” Logos, 2024 (What future after the Gaza War? Ian Lustick, Yoav Peled, Menachem Klein)
“Democracy, Liberal Zionism, and Civil-MIlitary Relations in Israel: A Review Essay,” Political Science Quarterly, October 17, 2024 (online). (The article compares Guy Ziv’s2 024 book, Netanyahu vs. the Generals and Yoram Peri’s 2006 book, Generals in the Cabinet Room. My analysis of these two worthy studies—each motivated by fear for the end of Israeli democracy–demonstrates the exhaustion of liberal Zionism in the wake of the radicalization and expansion of the Israeli state. It also registers the striking fact that each of these two divergent but compelling treatments of civil-military relations in Israel was contradicted by events that occurred shortly after their publication. Those unable to access this article through the paywall can request a copy directly from me.)
Andrea Mitchell Center Podcast: “Ian Lustick on Israel-Gaza and the United States” (Focused on the controversies over anti-Semitism and free speech on Middle East issues on American campuses, the debate within the Biden administration, and the question of Israel’s “end game.”)
“It’s Not About the Money,” ACADEME Blog Post, June 6, 2024. (Text of my remarks at an AAUP Penn rally for academic freedom held on January 22, 2024. My focus is on the difference between what billionaires and scholars are good at doing, on attempts by some wealthy donors to degrade standards of academic freedom, and on the hoax that is the IHRA “definition of antisemitism.”)
“Israel on the Cusp: Democracy in Peril or an Opportunity for Regime Change?” Israel Studies Review, Vol. 31, no. 9 pp. 83-103 (freely downloadable until June 21, 2024)
“The Two-State Solution: A Way Forward or More of the Same?” May 11, 2024, Podcast/interview, Australian Broadcasting Corporation, with Annabelle Quince. Including Khaled el-Gindy, Jeff Pressman, Yossi Beilin, and myself.
Interview about My Career and Coping with Pressures Related to Israeli-Palestinian Topics, KPFA, May 4, 2024. (Minutes 6-10:30).
“From Earthquake to Earthquake in the Middle East: Comparing 1973 and 2073,” Lecture and Discussion for the Centre for Mediterranean, Middle East and Islamic Studies, University of Peloponnese, Corinth, Greece, April 30, 2024.
“Must Every Golem Die?” Palestine/Israel Review. April 1, 2024. Originally presented as my contribution to a webinar on settler colonialism and the Gaza War, January 17, 2024.
“What Is Zionism?” Podcast Interview, Martin De Caro. “History As It Happens.” April 29, 2024.
“Sitting on the Third Rail: Studying Israelis and Palestinians, Then and Now,” MENA Politics, Published by the Middle East and North Africa Section of the American Political Science Association, Vol. 7, no. 1 (Fall 2024) pp. 11-21
“Does Israel need to be forced by the US to end the War in Gaza?” Bottom Line interview, al-Jazeera, March 24, 2024. (With Mustafa Barghouti)
“Old and New Strategies for Exploiting Structural Change in Palestine/Israel: A Review Essay,” Palestine/Israel Review, March 2024. (Books by Hillel Cohen, Amal Jamal, and Shlomo Sand and how they relate to the one-state reality)
Thoughts on the day after the war ends. My contribution to a symposium on the Gaza War, published in The Link, by Americans for Middle East Understanding, February 24, 2024.
“Israel-Palestine: Two-State Solution Obscuring One-State Reality,” Interview/podcast with the “Breakfast Grille”–The Business Solution, Malaysia’s only independent radio station, February 23, 2024.
“How the War in Gaza Ends,” An interview/podcast with Vox, Today Explained, January 18, 2024.
Palestine-Israel Review Inaugural Webinar, January 17, 2024. Five speakers asked to consider the Gaza War from the point of view of coloniality and the settler colonial paradigm. My presentation is last: ”Must Every Golem Die?”
Conversation with J.G. Michael about “What History Says about How the Israel-Hamas War Will End,” Parallax Views, January 16, 2024.
History Tells Us How the Israel-Hamas War Will End, Time Magazine, Made by History, January 10, 2024.
“There Is No Solution. Now What?” LA Jews For Peace. December 2023. (A powerpoint lecture)
Interview on Palestine-Israel by Dr. Diane Pearlman, December 14, 2023, The NewView (Wide-ranging, some focus on the origins of my deep engagement with the conflict)
Latvian Natonal Television–the Regional Context and Dangers of the Israel-Gaza War. December 11, 2023
Conversation on Israel-Palestine, Boston University, Institute on Culture, Religion, and World Affairs, November 12, 2023
Extended interview with me as part of a Swiss National Television program “The Middle East: Is There Any Hope?” Presented online November 2, 2023 (I am interviewed in English with German subtitles. A wonderful shot of Netanyhau speaking to the United Nations and holding up a map of Israel that includes the Gaza Strip within the State of Israel.)
No End in Sight Prospects for Peace and Justice in Israel Palestine, October 31, 2023, Cornell University Symposium.
“1948” History As It Happens, Interview with Martin Di Caro, October 24, 2023. (Historical background to the Gaza War. I was told this was the podcast’s most downloaded episode in 2023).
Interview, October 23, 2023, Podcast History As It Happens: “1948” (The Israel-Hamas War in Historical Context)
“Vengeance Is Not a Policy,” ForeignPolicy.com, October 13, 2023. or Here.
“Israel/Palestine: the one-state reality, implications and dynamics,” with Amal Jamal, Frontiers in Political Science, July 25, 2023.
One Hour Interview on World Prism with Ramsey Dennis: The One-State Reality: Reasons for Hope, May 30, 2023.
“What Israeli Protesters Can Learn From the U.S. Civil War,” ForeignPolicy.com, March 26, 2023.
“What and Where Is Israel: Time for a Gestalt Shift,” in The One State Reality: What Is Israel/Palestine? Michael Barnett, Nathan J. Brown, Marc Lynch, and Shibley Telhami, eds. (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2023) pp. 33-50.
“The Palestinians, Israel, and BDS: Strategies and Struggles in Wars of Position,” with Nathaniel Shils, Israel Studies Review, Vol. 37, no. 3, December 2022.
Podcast interview of Ian Lustick by Matthew Berkman for the Andrea Mitchell Center, At the Threshold of Annexation: Israelis, Palestinians and the One-State Reality, Novemer 30, 2022.
“Israel’s One-State Reality and the Challenge of Democratization,” Transatlantic Policy Quarterly, November 30, 2022.
Interview on “The Demise of the Two-State CSolution” with David Swanson, Talk World Radio, November 22, 2022.
Expert participation as commentator on Josef Avesar Israel-Palestine Confederation Simulation, October 16, 2022. Comments, arguments, responses to questions, throughout the recording.
KPFA Remarks on the Israeli Left’s Discontinuation of the Demographic Argument, October 8, 2022. Begins at about minute 7.
Israel and Palestine: Implications and Opportunities of the One-State Reality. Lecture, (Arabic) Doha Institute, September 6, 2022.
Annexation in right-wing Israeli discourse—The case of Ribonut. Frontiers in Political Science, September 20, 2022
On the Origin of My Thinking, The Future of the One-State Reality. Podcast of interview with Ian Lustick by J.G. Michael, Parallax Views, August 24, 2022
Seminar on Paradigm Lost, Sapir College, May 25, 2022. Presentation by Ian Lustick, Maya Rosenfeld commentator.
In January, 2022, Resling Press in Israel has published a Hebrew translation of Paradigm Lost. It includes a new preface to the Hebrew edition which updates the argument.
“Israel After Netanyahu: Anchored in a One-State Reality,” MichaelSmerconish.com June 29, 2021
“Strategies and Competitions: Struggles over BDS within and between Israel and the Palestinians,” Ian Lustick and Nathaniel Shils, Paper Presented at the Association for Israel Studies Conference, 2021.
KYW Radio, Philadelphia, Podcast: Israel’s New Government and the Biden Administration, June 16, 2021
POMPES Interview of Ian Lustick about Paradigm Lost, June 2021
Is a Two State Solution Possible in Israel/Palestine? Considering the Paradigms of the Conflict with Ian Lustick, Podcast with Jason Lustig, Jewish History Matters, April 2021
“Why Does Annexation Appear as a Problem and Not an Opportunity?” Logos (Fall 2020)
“The Peace Process Carousel: The Israel Lobby and the Failure of American Diplomacy,” The Middle East Journal (Summer 2020) Vol. 74, no. 2, pp. 177-201.
The One-State Reality and the Real Meaning of Annexation, The Link, Summer 2020, Vol. 53
“The One-State Reality: Reading the Trump-Kushner Plan as a Morbid Symptom,” The Arab World Geographer, Vol. 23, no. 1 (2020).
Annexation or No Annexation: Israel is the Only State Between the Sea and the River, Lecture power point for UMass Amherst’s Institute for Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, August 3, 2020.The One-State Reality: Reading the Trump-Kushner Plan as a Morbid Symptom
“New Palestinian-Israeli Unrest Underway,” Al-Ahram Online, June 25, 2020
“The One-State Reality to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict,” The Fair Observer, July 13, 2020.
“Israel in Depth,” UCLA’s Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, June 16, 2020
“Annexation and Racism: in the US and Israel-Palestine,” Middle East Eye Webinar, June 10, 2020. With Rashid Khalidi, Ian Lustick, Noura Erekat, and Richard Silverstein, hosted by David Hearst.
“The Death of the Two-State Solution,” The Real News Network, April 6, 2020.
“One-State: A Reality But Still Not a Solution,” Keeping Democracy Alive, March 3, 2020. With Burt Cohen.
Let’s Talk Politics – Episode: 12 Ian Lustick, Penn Political Review, February 23, 2020.
“Conversations on Peace,” Princeton University, February 3, 2020.
“Israel as Palestine: One State is Not the Solution, It’s Reality,” History News Network, February 2, 2020
Conversation with Professor Ian Lustick: [2-state] Paradigm Lost, The Middle East Institute, Washington, D.C. 1763 N St. NW, December 17, 2019, 10:30 AM
“Worlds Apart: Escape from reality?,” RT, May 19, 2019.
Paradigm Lost: From Two-State Solution to One-State Reality, Panel Discussion, The World Today, Perry World House, January 21, 2019, 4:30-5:30. With Sa’ed Atshan, Ian Lustick, and Trudy Rubin.
“The Two-State Illusion,” New York Times, Sunday Review, September 14, 2013.
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