20 Years on From 9/11, Western Democracy Is Still Winning

The Google photos app on my smartphone reminded me that six years ago this week, I was in central Europe, reporting on the hundreds of thousands of...

From Texas to the Taliban, the Dark Politics of Fundamentalism Is Rising

The late journalist Marie Colvin once described it to me, dismissively, as the “story every Western journalist in Kabul does.” At that time, it...

From Texas to the Taliban, the Dark Politics of Fundamentalism Is Rising

The late journalist Marie Colvin once described it to me, dismissively, as the “story every Western journalist in Kabul does.” At that time, it...

American Jews Aren't Soldiers in Israel's Political Wars

On Wednesday evening, hundreds of young men and women stood on the parade ground in an IDF base up north, marking the end of their lives as Diaspora...

Netanyahu Is Using the Third COVID Vaccine to Try to Remain Relevant

Six weeks after losing power, Benjamin Netanayhu is desperately trying to remain relevant. It’s not easy. People are getting used to calling Naftali...

Netanyahu Is Using the Third COVID Vaccine to Try to Remain Relevant

Six weeks after losing power, Benjamin Netanayhu is desperately trying to remain relevant. It’s not easy. People are getting used to calling Naftali...

Jews' Existential Dread About Antisemitism Is Warping Our Judgment Jews' Existential Dread About Antisemitism Is Deep – and It's Warping Our Judgment

Two thousand years ago, give or take a decade, the moneyed classes of Jerusalem had a new exclusive club or, as they would have called it, a...

Lieberman Breaks Ground on the Haredi Education Revolution

The decision of Finance Minister Avigdor Lieberman to cancel the subsidy for daycare for the children of yeshiva students has angered the...

Who’d Have Thought the Evyatar Settlers Would Go Quietly?

By the time you read this column, the last Israeli civilians will be leaving the settler outpost of Evyatar. This will have followed their acceptance...

Who’d Have Thought the Evyatar Settlers Would Go Quietly?

By the time you read this column, the last Israeli civilians will be leaving the settler outpost of Evyatar. This will have followed their acceptance...

Naftali Bennett Is Progressive Jews' Most Unlikely Champion

The most vehement opponents to the new Bennett-Lapid government are those who on the face of it have the least in common with the now former Prime...

Abolish Israel’s Most Impotent, Patronizing and Useless Ministry

Among the many arguments still ongoing between and within the eight parties which may, or may not, form a new Israeli government Sunday evening is one...

'King Bibi' Wasn't the Only Big Myth Shattered in Israel This Week

Diplomatic protocol dictates that you don’t rush to congratulate the leaders of another country on coming to power before you’re certain that...

Antisemitism Is Good for Both Palestinians and Israelis. It’s Still Wrong

I’ve been accused in the past of being an antisemitism-denier because in this column I wrote a number of times that the ancient hatred of Jews is no...

Antisemitism Is Good for Both Palestinians and Israelis. It’s Still Wrong

I’ve been accused in the past of being an antisemitism-denier because in this column I wrote a number of times that the ancient hatred of Jews is no...

End U.S. 'Aid' to Israel. For the Sake of American Jews

In the weeks following the defeat of Nazi Germany in May 1945, Jewish leaders, from America, Britain and the Yishuv in Mandatory Palestine all...

Racism, Hate and Violence Are Jewish Values, Too

Did you see the boys singing? Of course you did. It was all over social media, after all. Those Israeli teenagers with their kippot and white shirts,...

Racism, Hate and Violence Are Jewish Values, Too

Did you see the boys singing? Of course you did. It was all over social media, after all. Those Israeli teenagers with their kippot and white shirts,...

Does Anyone Really Care About the Haredim?

On Monday, the household of the 93-year-old Chaim Kanievsky, the senior rabbi of the “Lithuanian” ultra-Orthodox stream, published words he is...

If the Israeli State Cared More About the ultra-Orthodox, Fewer Disasters Would Happ If the Israeli State Cared More About the ultra-Orthodox, Fewer Disasters Would Happen

On Monday, the household of the 93-year-old Chaim Kanievsky, the senior rabbi of the “Lithuanian” ultra-Orthodox stream, published words he is...

So Israel’s an Apartheid State. What’s Next?

Wherever I go these days, and on every phone call, it’s the same question. “Is it going to happen?” “I don’t know,” I always answer....

Sabras, Cemeteries and Sovereignty: 73 Years of the Country With Two Histories

Recently I succumbed to a mid-life crisis and purchased the Israeli equivalent of a middle-aged man’s sportscar: a jeep. There’s nowhere to...

Sabras, Cemeteries and Sovereignty: 73 Years of the Country With Two Histories

Recently I succumbed to a mid-life crisis and purchased the Israeli equivalent of a middle-aged man’s sportscar: a jeep. There’s nowhere to...

They're Israel's Far Right, anti-Arab Nationalists. But Don't Call Them 'Nazis' They're Israel's Far Right, Pro-ethnic Cleansing Nationalists. But Don't Call Them 'Nazis'

The only time, in the heat of a political argument, I actually called someone a "Nazi," I immediately apologized. He forgave me. He’s my brother,...

They're Israel's Far Right, anti-Arab Nationalists. But Don't Call Them 'Nazis' They're Israel's Far Right, Pro-ethnic Cleansing Nationalists. But Don't Call Them 'Nazis'

The only time, in the heat of a political argument, I actually called someone a "Nazi," I immediately apologized. He forgave me. He’s my brother,...

Young Haredim Swept Vile Kahanists Into the Knesset: It's Great News for the Jews Young Haredim Swept Vile Kahanists Into the Knesset. It's Great News for the Jews

Modern Hebrew has two adjectives for voting. There’s livchor, which in other non-political contexts means to choose, and le’hatzbia, which is...

Young Haredim Swept Vile Kahanists Into the Knesset: It's Great News for the Jews Young Haredim Swept Vile Kahanists Into the Knesset. It's Great News for the Jews

Modern Hebrew has two adjectives for voting. There’s livchor, which in other non-political contexts means to choose, and le’hatzbia, which is...

Benjamin Netanyahu, Godfather of Israel's Rising Jewish Fundamentalism

The results of next week’s Knesset election will tell us little, if anything, that we do not yet know about Israel. The underlying statistics are...

Stop Feeding the Antisemitism Outrage Merchants

Why I’ve started to tune out most cases of alleged antisemitism

A Dirty but Effective Way to Start Ending the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Trump’s deal is dead, Biden is busy, the far right dreams of annexation and the far left of BDS, the peace process industry is engrossed in its...

A Dirty but Effective Way to Start Ending the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict

Trump’s deal is dead, Biden is busy, the far right dreams of annexation and the far left of BDS, the peace process industry is engrossed in its...

Why Netanyahu Chose Racist Jewish Supremacists Over His Oldest Political Allies

There was a time when Netanyahu was entirely unwilling to cooperate with the Kahanists. Now, in his desperation, he’s rescuing them from political...

How the Haredi Street Turned Racist and Ultra-nationalist

Why did young ultra-Orthodox men attack Arab bus drivers in Bnei Brak last month? Why might they vote for the new racist-Kahanist party list? Here's...

How the Haredi Street Turned Racist and Ultra-nationalist

Why did young ultra-Orthodox men attack Arab bus drivers in Bnei Brak last month? Why might they vote for the new racist-Kahanist party list? Here's...

In Whose Hands Is the Holocaust?

Do Jews 1941=Uighurs 2021? Who decides, and according to what criteria, which atrocities and crimes against humanity ‘deserve’ a Never Again...

COVID Sacrifice: 'New Jewish Martyrs' Dying to Defend Haredi Autonomy

COVID-19 is surging again in Israel's ultra-Orthodox communities. But no matter how many die, the ultra-Orthodox yeshivas and shuls won’t close,...

The COVID Sacrifice: The ‘New Jewish Martyrs’ Dying to Defend Israel’s Haredi Autonomy

COVID-19 is surging again in Israel's ultra-Orthodox communities. But no matter how many die, the ultra-Orthodox yeshivas and shuls won’t close,...

America's 'Debate' About the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Is Full of Abstract Posturing

Much of the discourse on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict today is happening thousands of miles away and increasingly dealing with abstract concepts

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...