Hamas Holds Elections in Gaza While the U.S. and Israel Prepare for the Next Round with Iran
Time might not be on the Islamic Republic’s side.
April 27, 2026
Gazology.
Visiting an American bookstore, Matti Friedman was struck by the sheer number of titles on Gaza. Then he read them, and realized that they share not so much an interest in this beleaguered strip of land, but in what he calls “Gazology,” a metaphysical obsession with Israeli evil. The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth, for instance, “argues for a special link between Israel and global environmental degradation.” Some are more self-indulgent:
Time might not be on the Islamic Republic’s side.
Gazology.
An idea endorsed by the Jewish leader of the British Green party.
To hate one is to hate the other.
The disappearing image of God.
Visiting an American bookstore, Matti Friedman was struck by the sheer number of titles on Gaza. Then he read them, and realized that they share not so much an interest in this beleaguered strip of land, but in what he calls “Gazology,” a metaphysical obsession with Israeli evil. The Destruction of Palestine Is the Destruction of the Earth, for instance, “argues for a special link between Israel and global environmental degradation.” Some are more self-indulgent:
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