Popular Writing and Interviews

• ​"I'm a UCLA Professor. Why Didn't the Administration Stop Last Night's Egregious Violence?" Forward​, May 1, 2024.
• "USC Got it Wrong in Canceling Valedictorian’s Speech" (Salam Al-Marayati). Los Angeles Times​, April 17, 2024.
• "Antisemitic Imagery at UC Regents Meeting Protest Threatens Campus Discourse." Daily Bruin​, April 2, 2024.
• "How the Fight against Anti-Semitism is Now Used to Promote an 'Anti-Woke' Agenda." Los Angeles Times, January 24, 2024.  
• "Eulogy for David Ellenson z"l." New York, NY, December 10, 2023 (eulogy begins at 47:25).
• "Opinion: Gaza's devastation and Palestine's Future will Require a new Marshall Plan." Los Angeles Times, November 21, 2023. 
• "His call for empathy has made this Jewish studies professor feel isolated." NPR, October 22, 2023. 
• "Op-ed: We must move beyond zero-sum thinking in Israel-Palestine." Daily Bruin, October 15, 2023. 
• "Opinion: The Hamas attack tore off Israel’s veneer of invincibility. Is there a sustainable path forward?" Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2023. 
• "There Has Never Been a Worse Crisis in Israel's Democracy, or A Greater Need for Reform."  Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2023.
• "An Act of Dissimilation: On Max Czollek’s “De-integrate!”  Los Angeles Review of Books, July 10, 2023. 
• "Dem-o-kray-yah Now: The Egregious Erosion of Democracy in Israel." Australian Book Review, May 2023.
• David N. Myers and Daniel Sokatch, "Palestinians in Israel Have New Cause for Fear for Their Future." Los Angeles Times February 1, 2023. 
• With Nomi Stolzenberg, "Private Religious Schools Have Public Responsibilities Too." The Atlantic, September 18, 2022.
• "Vaccine Hesitancy is Not a Uniquely Haredi Problem." Forward, July 25, 2022. 
• "An Ontology of Hate: On Shaul Magid's Meir Kahane." Los Angeles Review of Books, April 7, 2022.
• "Butchery in the Bloodlands." Review of Jeffrey Veidlinger, In the Midst of Civilized Europe, Literary Review, February 2022.
• David N. Myers and Nomi M. Stolzenberg, "How Satmar Hasidim Used Liberal Values." JTA, January 18, 2022. 
• "I'd Be the Loser and Murdered: On Joshua Cohen's 'The Netanyahus.'"  Los Angeles Review of Books, July 30, 2021.
• "Against Un-Jewing: Recalling the History of Radical Dissent."  Jewschool, 2 July 2021. 
• Daniel Sokatch and David N. Myers, "To Uphold its Founding Promise, Israel Must Treat its Arab Citizens as Truly Equal." Forward, May 20, 2021.
• "Trump Still has his Jewish Supporters, and Gadi Taub is One of Them." Haaretz, 7 February 2021 (Hebrew version)
• "A Combustible Compound: On Paul Hanebrink’s “A Specter Haunting Europe” and Elissa Bemporad’s “Legacy of Blood.” review essay, Los Angeles Review of Books, January 20, 2021.
• "As Jewish Historians, We See Only One Path Forward — Trump Must Be Removed from Office."  (David N. Myers, Todd Presner, et. al.) Forward, January 11, 2021.
• "Yes, Palestinians have the right to speak about antisemitism." Forward. December 4, 2020.
• "What the current crisis shows about Haredi leadership and politics." Forward. October 12, 2020.
• "Remembering Professor Ruth Gavison, Scholar, Activist, and Friend."  Forward. August 17, 2020
• "Prof. Zeev Sternhell, Historian, Zionist, and Israel Critic Dies at 85." Forward. June 23, 2020
• "Remembering Steven M. Lowenstein, Prominent Jewish Historian."  Forward. June 2, 2020
• “Equality for all.” (With Daniel Sokatch) Los Angeles Review of Books. July 2020. 
• “Climate change, inequality, anti-Semitism, occupation: Corona is a chance for a reset.” Forward. May 2020. 
• “Netanyahu is using coronavirus to assault Israel’s democracy.”  (With Daniel Sokatch) Forward. March 2020. 
• “Coronavirus is no excuse to demonize Haredim.” Forward. March 2020. 
• “Annexations in Israel and India would threaten the very idea of international law.” Los Angeles Times. February 2020.  
• “In going after UCLA, the Trump administration is attempting to chill free speech about Israel” (With Chaim Seidler-Feller) Los Angeles Times. January 2020. 
• "Dear Jewish Supporters of Trump: What More Evidence Do You Need?"  Forward, 16 April 2019. 
• "Trump's Silence on Kashmir Sends a Dangerous Signal to the World's Autocratic Leaders."  Los Angeles Times, 30 August 2019.
• "Lost and Found in Israel." Jewish Week, 20 August 2019.  
• "Israel Will Be Liberal Again, One Day." Forward, 15 April 2019. 
• "Ukraine, Where Some of History's Worst Attacks on Jews Occurred, Has a Jewish President."  Los Angeles Times, 23 April 2019
• Interview with Yair Ettinger, "Antisemitism, Assimilation, and the Paradox of Jewish Survival." Haaretz, 18 November 2018.
• Interview, "Jewish History Matters with Jason Lustig." 10 November 2018.
• "Prominent Scholar David Myers to Succeed Talia Sasson as President of New Israel Fund." Haaretz, 12 October 2018.
• Interview, "Art Scene with Erika Funke." WVIA, 18 September 2018.
• "Why I Left the Center for Jewish History." Forward, 3 July 2018.
• "Inside the Satmar Plan to Win Independence for Kiryas Joel." Forward, 11 November 2017. 
• "Belonging by Simon Schama--after the Explusion." Financial Times, 10 November 2017. 
• The First Leonard I. Beerman Award for Social Justice.  Leo Baeck Temple, October 29, 2017.
• "Why We Need More History Lessons." The Jewish Journal, 17 August 2017.
• "Working to Get Memory, and the Past, Right." The Jewish Week, 16 August 2017.
• "The Importance of Learning the Other's Past." The Jewish Journal, 12 May 2017.
• "Would Ahad Ha-am be Denied Entry to Israel Today." The Jewish Journal, 5 April 2017.
• "Remembering Korematsu: A Jewish Obligation." The Jewish Journal, 20 February 2017.
• "My New Patriotism." The Jewish Journal, 22 January 2017.
• "Rabbi Hier, Please Do Not Go to the Inauguration."  The Jewish Journal, 12 January 2017.
• "Six Take-Aways from a Turbulent December." The Jewish Journal, 3 January 2017.
• "6 Jewish Historians Tell Us What to Expect in 2017--and Beyond." The Forward, 8 January 2017.
• Interview about Ambassador-designate David Friedman. KPCC, 16 December 2016
• "The Function of the University in the Age of Trump." The Jewish Journal, 15 December 2016.
• "How Bad Can It Get? A Glance at History"  The Jewish Journal, 18 November 2016.
• "UNESCO and the Culture of Denial." The Jewish Journal, 19 October 2016.
• "Brexit and the Global Democracy Deficit." The Jewish Journal, 29 June 2016.
• "Sanders Reignites Potent Strain of Progressivism."  The Jewish Journal, 15 June 2016.
• "Can Institutions Like UCLA Ever Truly Prepare for Campus Shootings?"  Zócalo, 13 June 2016.
• "On Michael Feige z"l--A Colleague and a Victim of the Tel Aviv Terror Attack."  The Jewish Journal, 10 June 2016.
• "These Rare Texts Will Remind You What Israel Once Aspired to Be."  Chaim Seidler-Feller and David N. Myers, The Forward, 9 May 2016.  (Also in The Jewish Journal as "Renew our Days as Old," 26 May 2016.)
• "Who is Simone Zimmerman?"  The Jewish Journal, 19 April 2016.
• "Listening in as Jews Talk: Reflections on Free Will." Tablet Magazine, Passover 2016.
• "The Pew Israel Survey: A View from the Margins." The Jewish Journal, 12 April 2016.
• "UC Regents Need a History Lesson."  The Jewish Journal, 20 March 2016.
• Radio interview with Gilad Halperin of the Tel Aviv Review, 15 March 2016.
• "What if Tom Friedman is Right?" The Jewish Journal, 24 February 2016.
• "Can Israel Save Itself?"  The Jewish Journal, 5 January 2016.
• "Donald Trump's 'State of the Union Address.'" The Jewish Journal, 14 December 2015.
• "Partition and the Triumph of Zionist Pragmatism." The Jewish Journal, 24 November 2015.
• "Another Way to Think about BDS." The Jewish Journal, 14 October 2015.
• "The Long History of Jewish Violence." The Jewish Journal, 5 August 2015.
• "Crossing Borders: A Tribute to Theo Bikel z"l.." The Jewish Journal, 22 July 2015
• "Owning up to Truths: The UNHRC and Its Report." The Jewish Journal, 23 June 2015.
• "Care for the Kinder--Arab and Jewish."  The Jewish Journal, 9 June 2015.
• "Remembering the Satmar Movement's Chronicler." Tablet, 3 April 2015. Story and Translation in Der Id, May 8, 2015.
• Co-written with Chaim Seidler-Feller and Maia Ferdman, "UCLA Campus Must Take Action to Address Anti-Semitism," Daily Bruin, 9 March 2015.
• "The Triumph of the Majority, and the Decline of Democracy," Marginalia, LA Review of Books, 12 February 2015.

• Radio Broadcast on Rabbi Leonard Beerman, "Middle East in Focus," KPFK.  4 January 2015.
• David Myers at the funeral service of Rabbi Leonard Beerman, z"l, 28 December 2014. (Begin at minute 48).
• "The Great Leonard Beerman z"l: Inspiration Through Word and Deed."  Jewish Journal, 25 December 2014.
• David Myers on the "Religion and Ethics Hour," ABC National Radio, Australia, 12 November 2014.
• David Myers on the Ian Masters Show with Amy Wilentz, 9 October 2014.
• "Whether You Fire Him or Not, Condemn Salaita's Words," The Jewish Journal, 2 September 2014.
• "After Gaza: The Trail of Destruction and Its Costs," The Jewish Journal, 12 August 2014.
• "How Many More Cycles of War for Israel and Gaza?" The Jewish Journal, 31 July 2014.
• "Legacies of the Great War," The Jewish Journal, 2 July 2014.
• "USAC Ethics Statement Exacerbates Israeli Palestinian Situation," The Daily Bruin, 23 May 2014.
• Interview, "The Faith of Fallen Jews: The Greatest of a Jewish Historian," TLV1, 6 April 2014.
• "Why I Oppose a Boycott, Mostly," Los Angeles Review of Books, 16 March 2014.
• "The Failed Promise of Ari Shavit's 'My Promised Land," The Jewish Journal, 18 February 2014.
• "Freud and the Marranos: How Yosef H. Yerushalmi Gave Voice to Jews Caught Between Worlds," Tablet Magazine, 10 February 2014.
• David N. Myers and Daniel Sokatch, "Israel's Dilemma: Who Can Be an Israeli?" LA Times, 14 January 2014.
• "US Academics Should Not Boycott Israeli Universities," The Jewish Journal, 18 December 2013
• "Dr. Sam Goetz z"l," The Jewish Journal, 30 October 2013.
• "The End of Culture," The Jewish Journal, 3 October 2013.
• "Hollywood and the Nazis: Two Historians, Two Opinions," The Jewish Journal, 12 September 2013.
• “The Rebirth of Hope,” The Jewish Journal, 19 June 2013.
• “Cut from the Top to Save UC,” The Los Angeles Times, 31 May 2013
• “History Matters: Garcetti and the History of Jewish Politics," The Jewish Journal, 29 May 2013.
• “Response to Gordis: A Simplistic Misreading of History,” Times of Israel, 19 November 2012.
• “In defense of academic freedom,” The Los Angeles Times, 14 October 2012.           
• “The Jews of Kaifeng,” The Jewish Journal, 15 August 2012.
• “Jewish Studies Flourish in China,” Cover story, The Jewish Journal, 15 August 2012.
• “Law, Politics, and the Settlements,” Jewish Journal, 18 July 2012.
• “Benzion Netanyahu: In Life and Death,” The Jewish Journal, 15 May 2012.
• “Who are the Charedim?” The Jewish Journal, February 2012.
• David N. Myers and Nomi M. Stolzenberg, “Kiryas Joel: Theocracy in America,” Huffington Post, December 4, 2011.
• “Avoid Zero-Sum Thinking,” The Jewish Journal, 27 September 2011.
• “Recognize Palestinian Statehood—Today,” The Jewish Journal, 16 May 2011.
• “Against Complacency: The Lesson of Goldstone,” The Jewish Journal, 5 April 2011.
• David Myers and Nomi Stolzenberg, “Sometimes ‘Un-American’ is Ultra-American,” The Forward, 22 October 2010.
• “When Right Becomes Left—and Right,” The Jewish Journal, 27 July 2010.
• “Between Past and Present, Jew and Arab: An Exchange between Gil Anidjar and David N. Myers,” AJS Review 34 (2010): 400-403.
• Jaime Rapaport and David N. Myers, “Extremist Opinions Must Not Go Unchecked,” The Jewish Journal, 25 March 2009.
• “Foreword,” Western States Jewish History 41 (2009): xii-xiv.
• “Victory and Sorrow,” Review of Khirbet Khizeh by S. Yizhar, The New Republic, 22 October 2008, 44-47.
• “R. B. Kitaj, 1932-2007—An Appreciation,” The Jewish Journal, 25 October 2007.
• “ADL’s Decision Doesn’t Go Far Enough,” The Jewish Journal, 30 August 2007.
• Daniel Sokatch and David N. Myers, “‘Never Again’ for Armenians Too,” The Los Angeles Times, 1 May 2007.
• “Illuminating the Jewish Chapters of the Los Angeles Story,” The Jewish Journal, 9 November 2006.
• “Symbolic Slugfest,” The Los Angeles Times, 14 July 2006.
• “Satmar Fight Underlines Its Assimilation,” The Jewish Journal, 11 May 2006.
• David N. Myers and Michael Berenbaum, “A Public Intellectual Passes Away, But Not His Legacy,” The Forward, 28 April 2006.
• “LA Jewry Needs More Exploring,” The Jewish Journal, 10 November 2005.
• “Show Gaza Sympathies to the Other,” The Jewish Journal, 25 August 2005.
• Review of The Jewish Century by Yuri Slezkine, The Jewish Journal, 31 December 2004.
• David N. Myers and Daniel Sokatch, “Apparent Allies Might Not Be Our Friends,” The Jewish Journal, 14 October 2004.
• “Open Debate Preferable to Blind Support,” The Jewish Journal, 17 July 2003.
• Michael Berenbaum and David N. Myers, “Imagine a Jewish World without Denominations,” The Forward, 1 November 2002.
• “The Return of Big Brother?” The Jewish Journal, 17 October 2002.
• “A Code of Civility in Jewish Public Discourse,” The Jewish Journal, 6 June 2002.
• “A Marshall Plan for Palestine,” The Jewish Journal, 4 April 2002.
• “Rally Later,” The Jewish Journal, 26 July 2001.
• “Can We Find the Golden Mean?” The Jewish Journal, 17 May 2001.
• “On Jewish Liberalism—and Power,” The Jewish Journal, 8 March 2001.
• “Ceding Control,” The Jewish Journal, 18 January 2001.
• “Facing Truths,” The Jewish Journal, 26 October 2000.
• “My German Question,” The Jewish Journal, 24 August 2000.