Nathan Thrall

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rdf:langString Nathan Thrall is an American author, essayist, and journalist based in Jerusalem. Thrall is the author of The Only Language They Understand: Forcing Compromise in Israel and Palestine (Metropolitan/Henry Holt, 2017; Picador, 2018) and a contributor to The New York Times Magazine, the London Review of Books, and The New York Review of Books. His reporting, essays, and criticism have also appeared in GQ, The Guardian Long Read, The New Republic, Slate, and The New York Times, and have been translated into more than a dozen languages. Thrall is the former Director of the Arab-Israeli Project at the International Crisis Group, where he covered Israel, the West Bank, Gaza, and Israel's relations with its neighbors from 2010 to 2020. Thrall's reporting and analysis have been cited on the floor of the UN General Assembly by Noam Chomsky and in the UN Security Council by former UN Special Envoy Lakhdar Brahimi. His analysis is often featured in print and broadcast media, including the Associated Press, the BBC, CNN, Democracy Now!, The Economist, The Guardian, Jacobin, The New York Times, PRI, Reuters, Slate, and The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post. The historian Perry Anderson wrote in the New Left Review that Thrall has written "the most acute analysis of American policy towards Israel, from Clinton to Obama. ... In their combination of clear-eyed criticism and level-headed realism, Thrall's reports from and on Israel have consistently been outstanding." The New York Review of Books described Thrall as having "published a series of articles over recent years—notably in The New York Times Magazine, The Guardian, and the London Review of Books—that have defined the new intellectual and political parameters for what is increasingly recognized as Israel-Palestine's one-state (or post-two-state) reality," and the Financial Times called him "one of the best-informed and most trenchant observers of the conflict."