Popular Writing and Interviews

• ​David N. Myers with Aaron Greenberg and Kate Pynoos, "Trump's claim of fighting antisemitism at UCLA is a dangerous charade." Los Angeles Times, ​August 19, 2025. 
• "The horror in Gaza is a catastrophe for Jews--this Tisha B'av must be a reckoning." Forward​, July 31, 2025.
• ​David N. Myers and Adam Raz, "Ghettos in Gaza? When It Comes to Palestinians, Israel's Holocaust References Are as Old as the State." Haaretz, July 27, 2025. 
• "After the DC shooting, both pro-Palestine and pro-Israel groups are failing." Forward, May 30, 2025. 
• Natalie B. Dohrmann and David Myers, “Anne Albert Flies the Coop.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, April 23, 2025.
• “Sticking It to the Man.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, April 1, 2025.
• "Trump wants campuses to fight antisemitism. Here's how they should actually do it. One Idea: invest in Palestine studies as well as Israel studies." Forward​, March 13, 2025.
• David N. Myers and Salam Al-Marayati, "Opinion: Trump's antisemitism executive order mistakes dissent for bigotry." Los Angeles Times, Feb 10, 2025.
• On "On the 'Victims of the Victims.'" Jewish Currents, Jan 17, 2025.
• "Amnesty International makes it crystal clear: Israel is in desperate need of a reality check." Forward, December 6, 2024. 
• "Opinion: Can legitimate campus protest be distinguished from antisemitism? This guide aims to help." Los Angeles Times​, September 16, 2024.
• "ההיסטוריון שניפץ את מיתוס האין־אונים של היהודי הגלותי: עם מותו של דוד ביאל," Haaretz (Hebrew), August 12, 2024. 
• "Remembering Arnold Band, a towering figure in Jewish studies." Forward, July 8, 2024. 
• ​"I'm a UCLA Professor. Why Didn't the Administration Stop Last Night's Egregious Violence?" Forward​, May 1, 2024.
• David N. Myers and Salam Al-Marayati, "USC Got it Wrong in Canceling Valedictorian’s Speech." 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. 
• “On ‘The Most Anti-Zionist Text.’” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies with JQR, September 13, 2023.
• "There Has Never Been a Worse Crisis in Israel's Democracy, or A Greater Need for Reform."  Los Angeles Times, July 24, 2023.
• "Dem-o-kray-yah Now: The Egregious Erosion of Democracy in Israel." Australian Book Review, May 2023.
• Interview, "'Don't Tell Me I'm Not Jewish Enough for Not Believing in a Dictatorship.'" Haaretz, March 10, 2023. 
• David N. Myers and Daniel Sokatch, "Palestinians in Israel Have New Cause for Fear for Their Future." Los Angeles Times, February 1, 2023. 
• “Legal Theory and Jewish History.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies with JQR, January 18, 2023.
• Nomi M. Stolzenberg and David N. Myers, "Private Religious Schools Have Public Responsibilities Too." The Atlantic, September 18, 2022.
• “Hasidic Education in New York: A Class of Law, Politics, and Culture.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, September 16, 2022.
• "Vaccine Hesitancy is Not a Uniquely Haredi Problem." Forward, July 25, 2022. 
• “The State of Eastern European Jewish Studies.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies with JQR, June 16, 2022.
• “The Ironies of History: The Ukraine Crisis through the Lens of Jewish History.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies with JQR, March 9, 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, July 2, 2021. 
• David N. Myers with Yoram Bilu, Samuel Heilman, Michal Raucher, and Naomi Seidman. “The Haredi Moment: A Postscript on the Tragedy at Mt. Meron, Part 4.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies with JQR, June 21, 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.
• David N. Myers with Orit Avishai, Itamar Ben-Ami, and Joshua Shanes. “The Haredi Moment: An Online Forum, Part 3.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies with JQR, April 26, 2021. 
• David N. Myers with Netta Barak Corren, Lotem Perry-Hazan, Lea Taragin-Zeller, Nechumi Yaffe, and Shuki Friedman. “The Haredi Moment: An Online Forum, Part 2.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies with JQR, April 19, 2021.
• David N. Myers with Ayala Fader, Samuel Heilman, and Shaul Magid. “The Haredi Moment: An Online Forum, Part 1.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies with JQR, April 12, 2021.
• "Trump Still has his Jewish Supporters, and Gadi Taub is One of Them." Haaretz, 7 February 2021 (Hebrew version).
• David N. Myers, Todd Presner, et al., "As Jewish Historians, We See Only One Path Forward — Trump Must Be Removed from Office." 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.
• “JQR Contributor Conversation: Wojciech Tworek on Hasidism between the World Wars.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies with JQR, September 8, 2020.
• "Remembering Professor Ruth Gavison, Scholar, Activist, and Friend."  Forward, August 17, 2020.
• David N. Myers with Judith Butler, Cheryl Greenberg, Marianne Hirsch, and Robin D. G. Kelley. “Knowing the Victim? Reflections on Empathy, Analogy, and Voice from the Shoah to the Present.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, June 25, 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.
• David N. Myers and Daniel Sokatch, “Equality for all.” Los Angeles Review of Books, July 15, 2020. 
• “Climate change, inequality, anti-Semitism, occupation: Corona is a chance for a reset.” Forward, May 24, 2020. 
• David N. Myers and Daniel Sokatch, “Netanyahu is using coronavirus to assault Israel’s democracy.” Forward, March 23, 2020. 
• “Coronavirus is no excuse to demonize Haredim.” Forward, March 23, 2020. 
• “JQR Contributor Conversation: Hadar Feldman Samet on Sabbatian Hymns.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, March 9, 2020.
• “Annexations in Israel and India would threaten the very idea of international law.” Los Angeles Times, February 10, 2020.  
• David N. Myers and Chaim Seidler-Feller, “In going after UCLA, the Trump administration is attempting to chill free speech about Israel.” Los Angeles Times, January 23, 2020. 
• “JQR Contributor Conversation: Ismar Schorsch on Wissenschaft.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, November 11, 2019.
• "Dear Jewish Supporters of Trump: What More Evidence Do You Need?"  Forward, April 16, 2019. 
• "Trump's Silence on Kashmir Sends a Dangerous Signal to the World's Autocratic Leaders."  Los Angeles Times, August 30, 2019.
• "Lost and Found in Israel." Jewish Week, August 20, 2019.  
• "Israel Will Be Liberal Again, One Day." Forward, April 15, 2019. 
• "Ukraine, Where Some of History's Worst Attacks on Jews Occurred, Has a Jewish President." Los Angeles Times, April 23, 2019.
• “The Rule of Sevens in Israel and Zionism.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, November 29, 2018. 
• Interview with Yair Ettinger, "Antisemitism, Assimilation, and the Paradox of Jewish Survival." Haaretz, November 18, 2018.
• Interview, "Jewish History Matters with Jason Lustig." November 10, 2018
• "Prominent Scholar David Myers to Succeed Talia Sasson as President of New Israel Fund." Haaretz, October 12, 2018.
• Interview, "Art Scene with Erika Funke." WVIA, September 18, 2018.
• "Why I Left the Center for Jewish History." Forward, July 3, 2018.
• "Inside the Satmar Plan to Win Independence for Kiryas Joel." Forward, November 11, 2017.
• "Belonging by Simon Schama--after the Explusion." Financial Times, November 10, 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, August 17, 2017.
• "Working to Get Memory, and the Past, Right." The Jewish Week, August 16, 2017.
• "Think Google Killed the Library? Think Again." Tablet, July 5, 2017.
• "The Importance of Learning the Other's Past." The Jewish Journal, May 12, 2017.
• "Would Ahad Ha-am be Denied Entry to Israel Today." The Jewish Journal, April 5, 2017.
• "Remembering Korematsu: A Jewish Obligation." The Jewish Journal, February 20, 2017.
• "My New Patriotism." The Jewish Journal, January 22, 2017.
• "Rabbi Hier, Please Do Not Go to the Inauguration."  The Jewish Journal, January 12, 2017.
• "Six Take-Aways from a Turbulent December." The Jewish Journal, January 3, 2017.
• "6 Jewish Historians Tell Us What to Expect in 2017--and Beyond." The Forward, January 8, 2017.
• Interview about Ambassador-designate David Friedman. KPCC, December 16, 2016
• "The Function of the University in the Age of Trump." The Jewish Journal, December 15, 2016.
• “If Gerson Cohen Responded to Mark Lilla in the Age of Trumpism.” Blog Post, Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, December 8, 2016.
• "How Bad Can It Get? A Glance at History"  The Jewish Journal, November 18, 2016.
• "UNESCO and the Culture of Denial." The Jewish Journal, October 19, 2016.
• "Brexit and the Global Democracy Deficit." The Jewish Journal, June 29, 2016.
• "Sanders Reignites Potent Strain of Progressivism."  The Jewish Journal, June 15, 2016.
• "Can Institutions Like UCLA Ever Truly Prepare for Campus Shootings?"  Zócalo, June 13, 2016.
• "On Michael Feige z"l--A Colleague and a Victim of the Tel Aviv Terror Attack."  The Jewish Journal, June 10, 2016.
• Chaim Seidler-Feller and David N. Myers, "These Rare Texts Will Remind You What Israel Once Aspired to Be." The Forward, May 9, 2016.  (Also in The Jewish Journal as "Renew our Days as Old," May 26, 2016.)
• "Who is Simone Zimmerman?"  The Jewish Journal, April 19, 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, April 12, 2016.
• "UC Regents Need a History Lesson."  The Jewish Journal, March 20, 2016.
• Radio interview with Gilad Halperin of the Tel Aviv Review, March 15, 2016.
• "What if Tom Friedman is Right?" The Jewish Journal, February 24, 2016.
• "Can Israel Save Itself?"  The Jewish Journal, January 5, 2016.
• "Donald Trump's 'State of the Union Address.'" The Jewish Journal, December 14, 2015.
• "Partition and the Triumph of Zionist Pragmatism." The Jewish Journal, November 24, 2015.
• "Another Way to Think about BDS." The Jewish Journal, October 14, 2015.
• "The Long History of Jewish Violence." The Jewish Journal, August 5, 2015.
• "Crossing Borders: A Tribute to Theo Bikel z"l.." The Jewish Journal, July 22, 2015
• "Owning up to Truths: The UNHRC and Its Report." The Jewish Journal, June 23, 2015.
• "Care for the Kinder--Arab and Jewish."  The Jewish Journal, June 9, 2015.
• "Remembering the Satmar Movement's Chronicler." Tablet, April 3, 2015. Story and Translation in Der Id, May 8, 2015.
• David N. Myers, Chaim Seidler-Feller, and Maia Ferdman, "UCLA Campus Must Take Action to Address Anti-Semitism," Daily Bruin, March 9, 2015.
• "The Triumph of the Majority, and the Decline of Democracy," Marginalia, LA Review of Books, February 12, 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, December 28, 2014. (Begin at minute 48).
• "The Great Leonard Beerman z"l: Inspiration Through Word and Deed."  Jewish Journal, December 25, 2014.
• David Myers on the "Religion and Ethics Hour," ABC National Radio, Australia, November 12, 2014.
• David Myers on the Ian Masters Show with Amy Wilentz, October 9, 2014.
• "Whether You Fire Him or Not, Condemn Salaita's Words," The Jewish Journal, September 2, 2014.
• "After Gaza: The Trail of Destruction and Its Costs," The Jewish Journal, August 12, 2014.
• "How Many More Cycles of War for Israel and Gaza?" The Jewish Journal, July 31, 2014.
• "Legacies of the Great War," The Jewish Journal, July 2, 2014.
• "USAC Ethics Statement Exacerbates Israeli Palestinian Situation," The Daily Bruin, May 23, 2014.
• Interview, "The Faith of Fallen Jews: The Greatest of a Jewish Historian," TLV1, April 6, 2014.
• "Why I Oppose a Boycott, Mostly," Los Angeles Review of Books, March 16, 2014.
• "The Failed Promise of Ari Shavit's 'My Promised Land," The Jewish Journal, February 18, 2014.
• "Freud and the Marranos: How Yosef H. Yerushalmi Gave Voice to Jews Caught Between Worlds," Tablet Magazine, February 10, 2014.
• David N. Myers and Daniel Sokatch, "Israel's Dilemma: Who Can Be an Israeli?" LA Times, January 14, 2014.
• "US Academics Should Not Boycott Israeli Universities," The Jewish Journal, December 18, 2013.
• "Dr. Sam Goetz z"l," The Jewish Journal, October 30, 2013.
• "The End of Culture," The Jewish Journal, October 3, 2013.
• "Hollywood and the Nazis: Two Historians, Two Opinions," The Jewish Journal, September 12, 2013.
• “The Rebirth of Hope,” The Jewish Journal, June 19, 2013.
• “Cut from the Top to Save UC,” The Los Angeles Times, May 31, 2013
• “History Matters: Garcetti and the History of Jewish Politics," The Jewish Journal, May 29, 2013.
• “Response to Gordis: A Simplistic Misreading of History,” Times of Israel, November 19, 2012.
• “In defense of academic freedom,” The Los Angeles Times, October 14, 2012.           
• “The Jews of Kaifeng,” The Jewish Journal, August 15, 2012.
• “Jewish Studies Flourish in China,” Cover story, The Jewish Journal, August 15, 2012.
• “Law, Politics, and the Settlements,” Jewish Journal, July 18, 2012.
• “Benzion Netanyahu: In Life and Death,” The Jewish Journal, May 15, 2012.
• “Who are the Charedim?” The Jewish Journal, February 8, 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, September 27, 2011.
• “Recognize Palestinian Statehood—Today,” The Jewish Journal, May 16, 2011.
• “Against Complacency: The Lesson of Goldstone,” The Jewish Journal, April 5, 2011.
• David N. Myers and Nomi M. Stolzenberg, “Sometimes ‘Un-American’ is Ultra-American,” The Forward, October 22, 2010.
• “When Right Becomes Left—and Right,” The Jewish Journal, July 27, 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, March 25, 2009.
• “R. B. Kitaj, 1932-2007—An Appreciation,” The Jewish Journal, October 25, 2007.
• “ADL’s Decision Doesn’t Go Far Enough,” The Jewish Journal, August 30, 2007.
• Daniel Sokatch and David N. Myers, “‘Never Again’ for Armenians Too,” The Los Angeles Times, May 1, 2007.
• “Illuminating the Jewish Chapters of the Los Angeles Story,” The Jewish Journal, November 9, 2006.
• “Symbolic Slugfest,” The Los Angeles Times, July 14, 2006.
• “Satmar Fight Underlines Its Assimilation,” The Jewish Journal, May 11, 2006.
• David N. Myers and Michael Berenbaum, “A Public Intellectual Passes Away, But Not His Legacy,” The Forward, April 28, 2006.
• “LA Jewry Needs More Exploring,” The Jewish Journal, November 10, 2005.
• “Show Gaza Sympathies to the Other,” The Jewish Journal, August 25, 2005.​
• David N. Myers and Daniel Sokatch, “Apparent Allies Might Not Be Our Friends,” The Jewish Journal, October 14, 2004.
• “Open Debate Preferable to Blind Support,” The Jewish Journal, July 17, 2003.
• Michael Berenbaum and David N. Myers, “Imagine a Jewish World without Denominations,” The Forward, November 1, 2002.
• “The Return of Big Brother?” The Jewish Journal, October 17, 2002.
• “A Code of Civility in Jewish Public Discourse,” The Jewish Journal, June 6, 2002.
• “A Marshall Plan for Palestine,” The Jewish Journal, April 4, 2002.
• “Rally Later,” The Jewish Journal, July 26, 2001.
• “Can We Find the Golden Mean?” The Jewish Journal, May 17, 2001.
• “On Jewish Liberalism—and Power,” The Jewish Journal, March 8, 2001.
• “Ceding Control,” The Jewish Journal, January 18, 2001.
• “Facing Truths,” The Jewish Journal, October 26, 2000.
• “My German Question,” The Jewish Journal, August 24, 2000.