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...

Should Coronavirus Mean Israel Shuts the Door on Jews, Dead or Alive?

It sounds like a brainteaser. If 140 people (at the time of writing) have died of COVID-19 in Israel, how can it be that at least 250 people who have...

Coronavirus, the Greatest Challenge to ultra-Orthodox Jewish Life Since the Holocaust

One of the most frustrating things about reporting on the ultra-Orthodox community as a journalist is that very early on in your beat, you realize...

Jewish and Panicked by Coronavirus? Come With Your Guilty Conscience to Israel

Are you worried about contracting the coronavirus and not having the necessary health insurance or sufficient funds to deal with the pandemic? Are the...

Bibi Killed AIPAC Long Before Bernie Came Along

If the professional employees, donors and lay leaders of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee could vote in the Knesset election on Monday,...

Welcome to Israel, the Last 43 Victims of Netanyahu’s Callous, Cynical Reign

Early Tuesday an Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 will land at Ben-Gurion International Airport, to much fanfare. On it will be 43 Ethiopian citizens for...

If You Care for Israel, Don’t Waste Time on Zionist Dinosaurs

You may have heard that for the last week there’s been an election going for the World Zionist Congress. You could even have voted already – that...

How the Survivors Won and Holocaust Denial, and the Politicians, Lost

Benjamin Netanyahu is not one for expressing gratitude to fellow politicians, unless it’s to Donald Trump and other fellow strongmen. So his tweet...

Benjamin Netanyahu, Serial Abuser of Diaspora Jews

Millions of Jews throughout the world have felt an intangible sense of loneliness and abandonment over the past two weeks, and they don’t know why....

The Jewish Left's Tragic Problem With Solidarity for Jews

Wherever there's a large and flourishing Jewish community, it's never one community. It's hundreds of them. The freedom to live as Jews and citizens...

Where There’s Hatred of the European Union, There’s Hatred of the Jews

I renewed my British passport this week. As I ripped open the yellow envelope holding the new and old passports, I had a very brief moment of warm...