Jo-Ann Mort | The New York Review of Books

Jo-Ann Mort

Jo-Ann Mort, a journalist and poet, has written about and reported from Israel, the Palestinian Occupied Territories, and the Arab sector in Israel for Foreign Policy, The American Prospect, the Chicago Tribune, and Dissent (where she is also on the editorial board). She is the co-author of Our Hearts Invented a Place: Can Kibbutzim Survive in Today’s Israel (2003). (February 2020)

The Trump–Netanyahu Population Transfer Plan

In Israel, demographics is always politics. An idea first floated by the Israeli far right thus made it into the mainstream of Israeli electoral politics, thanks to Netanyahu’s seizing upon it opportunistically as a potential gerrymandering scheme. Now it has been embraced by the Trump administration.

February 3, 2020