Joel Schalit / 19 Aug 2026
Good News From The Battleground
Letter From the Editor
It wasn’t supposed to go this well. As July drew to a close, The Battleground recorded its highest monthly readership ever.(...)
Mitchell Plitnick
Mitchell Plitnick / 30 Jul 2026
The War Over Genocide
Israelis, Americans and Gaza
Do Israeli actions in Gaza constitute genocide?(...)
Ari Paul / 07 Jul 2026
When False is True: The New Anti-Antizionism
Ruthless Cosmopolitan
Finding the perfect tweet to describe social media’s damage to collective knowledge feels futile.(...)
Mitchell Plitnick / 07 May 2026
Taking the Gaza War to Europe
Israel’s Greek Flotilla Raid
According to the Rome Statute, it’s a war crime to attack a humanitarian mission.(...)
Mitchell Plitnick / 02 May 2026
After Zionism
Omer Bartov’s Israel: What Went Wrong?
On 15 July, 2025, The New York Times ran an op-ed titled, “I'm a Genocide Scholar. I Know It When I See It.”(...)
Mitchell Plitnick / 23 Apr 2026
Above the Law
Israel and the European Union
Israel is in breach of its Association Agreement with the European Union due to human rights violations.(...)
Mitchell Plitnick / 10 Apr 2026
False Messiah Syndrome
Netanyahu as Bar Kokhba
While the war in Iran is far from over, the losers are obvious.(...)
Mitchell Plitnick / 12 Mar 2026
End Times Strategy
Israel, America and Iran
In a recent television appearance, I was confronted by an anti-Muslim “expert” who insisted on framing Iranian politics in terms of “millennial, end times ideology”.(...)