Mairav Zonszein Senior Analyst, Israel-Palestine Please submit all media inquiries to media@crisisgroup.org or call +32 (0) 2 536 00 71 Crisis Group Role Mairav joined the International Crisis Group in January 2021 as Senior Analyst on Israel-Palestine. She is responsible for covering Israeli domestic politics, relations with the Palestinians, and regional conflict settings and policies. Professional Background Mairav is an Israeli-American journalist and commentator who has covered Israeli politics and U.S. foreign policy for over a decade. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books, Foreign Policy, The Guardian, The Columbia Journalism Review, The Nation, The American Prospect, VICE, The Intercept, and more. She is a founding editor of +972 Magazine and a contributor to Jewish Currents. She has an MA in Nationalism Studies from the Central European University in Budapest. Languages English Hebrew Spanish Select Publications Israel's war against George Soros, New York Times (2017) Democrats can't allow Biden to pursue annexation without consequences, Foreign Policy (2020) Christian Zionist philosemitism is driving Trump's Israel, Washington Post (2020) Israelis take on Netanyahu and coronavirus, The Intercept (2020) How the right has tried to rebrand antisemitism, New York Review of Books (2019) In The News 1 Apr 2022 There is total despair and lack of any political horizon on the Palestinian front. Israelis have become accustomed to continuing the status quo with no price to pay. The New York Times Mairav Zonszein Senior Analyst, Israel-Palestine 13 Jul 2021 Conceptually, Hamas put the Palestinians back on the radar and Jerusalem at the center of their issues. The [Israeli] government has realized that Palestinians are uniting; that the fragmentation isn’t as effective as they would like it to be; that they empathize with each other’s struggles, regardless of whether they are in the West Bank, Jerusalem or Gaza Foreign Policy Mairav Zonszein Senior Analyst, Israel-Palestine 12 May 2021 Palestinian citizens have been increasingly voting for their representatives to have increased power in politics and to try to change their situation through the political system. AJE Mairav Zonszein Senior Analyst, Israel-Palestine Latest Updates Commentary / Middle East & North Africa 14 April 2022 The Impact of Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine in the Middle East and North Africa Spikes in prices of grain and fuel, with uncertain political reverberations, are the Ukraine war’s primary effect to date on Middle Eastern and North African countries. But diplomatic and military developments are important, too, as Crisis Group experts explain in this look around the region. Also available in العربية Commentary / Europe & Central Asia 4 March 2022 The Ukraine War: A Global Crisis? The overwhelming support for a UN resolution condemning Russia’s invasion shows that countries around the world see it as attacking global norms. Yet policymakers also view the crisis in terms of their own national interest. Crisis Group experts assess the war from thirteen vantage points. Also available in Español Op-Ed / Middle East & North Africa 16 December 2021 Why Jerusalem Cannot be ‘Taken Off the Table’ Originally published in DAWN, Democracy in Exile section. Op-Ed / Middle East & North Africa 27 July 2021 Israel Wants to Have Its Ice Cream and Cybersecurity, Too Originally published in The New York Times Q&A / Middle East & North Africa 11 June 2021 In Israel, Change Coalition Ousts Netanyahu, But Little Change Expected A new Israeli government is set to replace long-serving Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. As Crisis Group expert Mairav Zonszein explains, however, not much but antipathy for the ex-premier holds the prospective cabinet together. It may well struggle to survive. Load more