I missed David Shulman’s blogpost in the New York Review of Books last week on the expulsions in Susya, a Palestinian village surrounded by illegal settlements in the Hebron Hills. Shulman’s reporting focuses on a large Israeli protest of the action, but it seems most significant for the commitment the NYRB is making to Shulman, a writer of real confidence who is not afraid to interrogate Jewish identity construction. When will the New Yorker get to this? I believe Shulman is echoing David Remnick’s fears about the occupation; Remnick should be running this stuff.

Two excerpts below. The second is a nice bit of reporting on the Palestinian resistance. But the first passage is from where Shulman begins, reading Israeli writer S. Yizhar’s 1949 story about the destruction of a Palestinian village during the Nakba, and Yizhar’s agony about what he had participated in.