Sightings Articles

Pro-palestine protesters with Palestinian flags and signs

What We Write about When We Write about the War in Gaza

Ire rises when terms that have been used to characterize violence against Jews in the past are leveled against the state of Israel....

June 12, 2024

Black and white etching of a man fighting a lion and grasping at its throat

Samson | Israel | Gaza

Samson in Gaza

The biblical story of Samson sheds light on the current war in Gaza....

January 25, 2024

A lone figure stands in a field of gray rubble among crumbling buildings, against a blue sky with white clouds.

Gaza | Journalism | bearing witness | Israel

Witnessing Genocide

The work of journalists in Gaza bridges a conception of secular truth-telling with religious witnessing....

January 11, 2024

Two men flank Moses as he sits and holds up a rod in this black and white illustration

Judaism | Memory | Trauma | Israel

Emptying the Arsenals of Memory

The gap between contemporary and ancient conceptions of memory lie at the heart of the challenge in understanding Israeli and Jewish perspectives on October 7 and its aftermath....

November 30, 2023

Is Israel Practicing Apartheid? American Churches Join the Conversation

A public debate is growing about the State of Israel’s more than fifty-year occupation of Palestinian territory: American Christian organizations are joining the conversation....

May 5, 2022