The Israeli Left Should Take a Time Out in the Upcoming Election

The election of Israel’s 24th Knesset will be the first in the country’s history in which the two parties with the best prospects of forming a...

The Israeli Left Should Take a Time Out in the Upcoming Election

The election of Israel’s 24th Knesset will be the first in the country’s history in which the two parties with the best prospects of forming a...

In Praise of Author John Le Carré and His Jewish Spies, Traitors and Killers

The novelist, despite his fulminations against the Conservative party, publicly refused to vote for the Labour Party because of Jeremy Corbyn's...

Don't Let God or Politicians Take Credit for Us Surviving the Year of COVID-19

Hanukkah is the result of one of the most successful rabbinical PR spins in Jewish history. On COVID-19, too, the holy men and politicos are...

Don't Let God or Politicians Take Credit for Us Surviving the Year of COVID-19

Hanukkah is the result of one of the most successful rabbinical PR spins in Jewish history. On COVID-19, too, the holy men and politicos are...

Mike Pompeo, Messiah of the BDS Movement

The Israel boycott movement is a dismal failure, but the hard-right in the U.S. and Israel is determined to keep it alive. And Pompeo has excellent...

Stop Talking About Jeremy Corbyn

Stop Talking About Jeremy Corbyn

Corbyn's already been tossed on the scrap heap of history, and Trump is on his way. But with populist antisemitism still growing, the threat Jewish...

Get Over Your Liberal Guilt About Israel’s Peace With the Gulf

Can the Israel-UAE, Israel-Bahrain and whatever other normalizations follow be detoxified – and should they?

Defund the WZO, Defund the JNF, Defund UIA, Defund JAFI

Packed with cronyism, slush funds and political corruption: Meet Zionism's 'national institutions' to see why every Zionist with a conscience should...

Donald Trump Has Split the Jewish People, Perhaps Forever

Even if the U.S. president loses on November 3rd, Trump Jews are here to stay, and they're not just in America. We could be witnessing the defining...

Donald Trump Has Split the Jewish People, Perhaps Forever

Even if the U.S. president loses on November 3rd, Trump Jews are here to stay, and they're not just in America. We could be witnessing the defining...

Facebook Fighting Holocaust Denial Is an Amoral but Politically Convenient Farce

It’s no coincidence that Mark Zuckerberg has cynically 'discovered' Facebook’s social responsibility right now, three weeks before the U.S....

Facebook Fighting Holocaust Denial Is an Amoral but Politically Convenient Farce

It’s no coincidence that Mark Zuckerberg has cynically 'discovered' Facebook’s social responsibility right now, three weeks before the U.S....

Why ultra-Orthodox Trump-worshipping Mobs Are Attacking Fellow Jews in New York

Demagogues like Trump (and Netanyahu) have nothing in common with ultra-Orthodox Jews, but they tap into deep resentments and empower the...

Why ultra-Orthodox Trump-worshipping Mobs Are Attacking Fellow Jews in New York

Demagogues like Trump (and Netanyahu) have nothing in common with ultra-Orthodox Jews, but they tap into deep resentments and empower the...

America’s Jewish Leftists Are Heading for Self-righteous Irrelevance, Just Like Israel’s

The Israeli left shrunk to a tiny marginalized shadow when, shunning all others, it went down an ideologically pure rabbit-hole. When U.S. Jewish...

America’s Jewish Leftists Are Heading for Self-righteous Irrelevance, Just Like Israel’s

The Israeli left shrunk to a tiny marginalized shadow when, shunning all others, it went down an ideologically pure rabbit-hole. When U.S. Jewish...

Inside the Jewish Fundamentalists’ Joyous, Deadly Strategy for COVID-19

Praying as usual, playing with death: Ultra-Orthodox Jews will shape the Jewish future. That’s why their response to coronavirus is our problem too

Inside the Jewish Fundamentalists’ Joyous, Deadly Strategy for COVID-19

Praying as usual, playing with death: Ultra-Orthodox Jews will shape the Jewish future. That’s why their response to coronavirus is our problem too

Israelis' Much-vaunted Solidarity, Honed by War, Has Failed in Time of Plague

Israelis are grimly reaping the result of decades of Netanyahu’s divide and rule and incitement: We can no longer come together to fight the...

Israelis' Much-vaunted Solidarity, Honed by War, Has Failed in Time of Plague

Israelis are grimly reaping the result of decades of Netanyahu’s divide and rule and incitement: We can no longer come together to fight the...

Israel’s COVID-19 Tragedy: How Hubris, Hasbara and Netanyahu Downed the Start-Up Nation

How an enticing slogan fed the complacency which led to our downfall against the coronavirus, while our prime minister was focused on tearing the...

Israel’s COVID-19 Tragedy: How Hubris, Hasbara and Netanyahu Downed the Start-Up Nation

How an enticing slogan fed the complacency which led to our downfall against the coronavirus, while our prime minister was focused on tearing the...

The Toxic Antisemitism That Trump and Corbyn Share

Jeremy Corbyn’s gone, but Donald Trump traffics in exactly the same selective antisemitism

The Toxic Antisemitism That Trump and Corbyn Share

Jeremy Corbyn’s gone, but Donald Trump traffics in exactly the same selective antisemitism

With This Bombshell Resignation, Netanyahu Completes Erasure of Likud’s Old Liberal Elite

A paragraph at the end of departing budget chief Shaul Meridor’s letter hints at a divide within the Israeli right wing over much more than just...

The Anarchic ultra-Orthodox Jews Prepared to Die for Their Pilgrimage

20 percent, and rising, of the Jewish people live in closed communities run by rabbinical edict. COVID-19 is exposing a core conflict with wider...

The Anarchic ultra-Orthodox Jews Prepared to Die for Their Pilgrimage

20 percent, and rising, of the Jewish people live in closed communities run by rabbinical edict. COVID-19 is exposing a core conflict with wider...

No Tsunami, No Problem: What Bibi's Denialism Means for the Occupation and Peace

Netanyahu always denied not only the real existence of the Palestinians as a separate nation, but also the existence of a problem for Israel in the...

Adin Steinsaltz, a Key Player in Judaism’s Oldest Conflict

Adin Steinsaltz was a key protagonist in a millenia-long debate within Judaism: Should access to its core texts be confined to an elite or to the...

COVID-19 Is a Crisis for Jewish Life in the Diaspora – and a Chance to Remake It

A major post-coronavirus shakedown is about to hit Jewish institutional life. Who is best prepared to survive it?

Peter Beinart's One State Solution Sounds So Perfect It's Practically Utopian

I’d love to live in Beinart’s peaceful hyphenated state of 'Israel-Palestine.' But I can’t vote for it. No one actually living here is proposing...

No, Diaspora Jews Won't Divorce Israel Over Annexation

It's a pipe-dream to expect that annexation will trigger a wholesale disengagement of Jewish Diaspora communities from an Israel running towards...

Tzipi Hotovely Is the Ugly, Extremist Face of Israel. British Jews Should Welcome Her

Israel has been represented for too long by urbane professionals who lull a liberal audience into forgetting they represent a Netanyahu government

Holocaust Survivors Like My Late Grandfather Rejected Jewish Victimhood

Decades of Occupation Killed Eyad Hallaq, Not Racism

Comparisons between George Floyd and an autistic Palestinian killed by Border Police are false and unhelpful

Netanyahu in the Dock Doesn’t Make Israel a Shining Beacon of Justice

Preventing annexation while the 53 year-old occupation continues is as fleeting, ironic and illusory a victory as seeing Netanyahu in the dock on...

Israel's Election Had One Good Result You May Have Missed

Naftali Bennett never wanted to be the leader of a religious party. If 12 years ago, when he was chief of staff for the leader of the opposition, he...

Israel's Election Had One Good Result You May Have Missed

Naftali Bennett never wanted to be the leader of a religious party. If 12 years ago, when he was chief of staff for the leader of the opposition, he...

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Second-rate Jews

Two and a half months after a majority of Israelis voted for parties opposed to joining a government led by him, Benjamin Netanyahu will next week...

Bill De Blasio’s ‘Jewish Community’ Tweet Was Intemperate, but He Wasn’t Wrong

The greatest Jewish city on earth is in an uproar over its mayor’s rather intemperate tweet about "the Jewish community." Early Tuesday...