Joel Schalit

Joel Schalit is a writer and editor based in Milan, Italy. An Israeli-American pundit noted for his unique views on Middle Eastern politics and US culture, over the past fifteen years, Schalit has produced four books and contributed to numerous online and print periodicals including Alternet, The Guardian, France 24 and XLR8R. The former managing editor of Berkeley's Tikkun magazine and associate editor of Chicago's award-winning Punk Planet, Schalit served two terms as the co-director of the world's longest-running online publication, Bad Subjects. He is the online editor of Zeek. Schalit's fifth publication, Israel vs. Utopia, is forthcoming in October from Akashic Books.

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My Year in Consumption

Despite another year of falling sales, declining readerships, and crashing stock markets, 2008 turned out…

An Israeli in Palestine: Resisting Dispossession, Redeeming Israel

In the fall of 1982, I found myself in a large, mainstream, Conservative shul in…

The Queer Orthodox Jew

There is a certain element of schizophrenia to it–biblical verses run through my head even…

The Origins of Israeli Post-Rock

During the late 1970s, I can't remember how many times my siblings and I would…

Welcome to My Neighborhood

My wife and I moved to San Francisco's Bernal Heights neighborhood four years ago. Located…

Netanya Fish Fry

She's dead, now, but I can still hear her speaking as though she were right…

Interview with Beaufort Director Joseph Cedar

Towards the end of Joseph Cedar's Beaufort, the first Israeli film nominated for an Academy…

(De)Programming the Middle East: A Conversation with Jamal Dajani

If you haven’t seen it before, Mosaic will change the way you think about the…