On November 8, IIJS’ Knapp Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Journalism at the Columbia Journalism School, Gershom Gorenberg, published an article in The New Republic discussing his visit to Kibbutz Be’eri—where Hamas murdered eighty-five people on October 7—and the nature of terrorism. His article, “Here’s the Horror Hamas Left in Its Wake at One Kibbutz,” is available to read online now.
Gershom Gorenberg is the Knapp Adjunct Senior Research Scholar and Adjunct Professor of Journalism at Columbia University. An Israeli historian and journalist, Gorenberg has been covering Middle Eastern affairs for three decades. Gorenberg is the author of The Accidental Empire: Israel and the Birth of the Settlements 1967-1977 and The End of Days: Fundamentalism and the Struggle for the Temple Mount, and coauthor of Shalom Friend, a biography of Yitzhak Rabin that won the National Jewish Book Award.
Gorenberg is a columnist for the Washington Post and a senior correspondent for The American Prospect. He has written for The New York Times Magazine, The Atlantic Monthly, The New York Review of Books, The New Republic, Foreign Policy and other leading publications in North America, Europe and the Middle East. He holds degrees from the University of California at Santa Cruz and the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Gorenberg recently published a guest essay about the October 7 attacks in The New York Times.
Click here to read Gershom Gorenberg’s article in The New Republic.