In Israel, Nobody Opposes the War

There’s no issue that all (Jewish) Israelis agree on more than the launching of a war. Almost a week has passed and no one is opposing this horrific...

Those Who Thirst for Blood

Every “round” brings with it its own bloodthirsty ones, during every round they exit their holes like mice, remove their politically-correct...

A Totally Right-wing Government

If the Bennett-Lapid government is formed, it will be one of the more right-wing governments in Israel’s history. It’s been called a left-wing...

Netanyahu Won’t Be a Footnote in Israeli History

The time has come for an assessment – an interim, not a final one: Benjamin Netanyahu won’t be remembered as a footnote in Israeli history....

In Israel ‘It’ll Be Just Fine,’ Until It Isn’t

Mount Meron as a fable: It’ll be just fine, the ultra-Orthodox said. It’ll be just fine, the police said. It’ll be just fine, the politicians...

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Are Its Latest Neofascist Thugs

The most frightening and depressing thing that happened in Jerusalem recently isn’t the pogroms against the Palestinians. These of course are...

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Are Its Latest Neofascist Thugs

Israel Debates Its Treatment of IDF Veterans but Continues to Terrorize Palestinians Israel Debates Its Treatment of IDF Veterans but Continues to Terrorize Palestinians Daily

The case of Itzik Saidian, the soldier who suffers from post-traumatic stress disorder and who set fire to himself last week, is harsh and shocking...

A Very Important Person

It’s doubtful whether the policeman who beat up lawmaker Ofer Cassif knew who he was hitting. Maybe he knew he was striking a Knesset member, maybe...

Yoav Gallant Does Not Deserve to Be Israel’s Education Minister

The Mexican general Castañetas was a very important man, very great. The Israeli general Yoav Gallant is also a very important man, very great. He...

Arabs in Israel Are Not Allowed to Be Happy. Or Sad

Arabs in Israel are not allowed to be happy. They’re also not allowed to mourn. On Thursday of this week, for example, Holocaust Remembrance Day,...

Israel’s New Freedom Fighters Are a Little Short on Freedom

There’s a new kind of hatred of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu: enthusiastic support for right-wing candidates, elevating them to the status of...

A President in Handcuffs: Why Palestinians Should Vote for Barghouti

If I were Palestinian, I’d vote for Marwan Barghouti as president of the Palestinian Authority. If I were an Israeli Zionist who insists on...

A President in Handcuffs: Why Palestinians Should Vote for Barghouti

If I were Palestinian, I’d vote for Marwan Barghouti as president of the Palestinian Authority. If I were an Israeli Zionist who insists on...

Is It Kahanist Ben-Gvir That Bothers You?

A list that in Europe would have been classified straight away as neo-Nazi has just made it into the Knesset. There is no other way to describe the...

Israel Election Results: Mansour Abbas, Don’t Believe Netanyahu

When it became known that United Arab List had crossed the electoral threshold and could win as many as five seats, party leader MK Mansour Abbas...

No One Is More Deserving of Israel's Highest Honor Than Its Settler Leaders No One Is More Deserving of Israel's Highest Honor Than Its Colonialist Settler Leaders

This year’s Israel Prize for lifetime achievement for a special contribution to society has been orphaned: Yehuda Meshi-Zahav is not getting the...

Israel's High Court; the Champion of Human Rights

Israel’s beacon of justice shone again: the High Court justices opened Israel’s skies, and the people of Israel went from slavery to freedom on...

All Together Now: The Israeli Army Committed No War Crimes

The Ultra-Orthodox and Netanyahu Backers Deserve More Sympathy

Picture Israeli Labor Party Leader Michaeli in Prison

A 'Pure' Jewish State, as Dictated by This Ultra-orthodox Lawmaker

If There Were an Israeli Left

Israel Is Heading to Its Most Dangerous Election Ever

The Israeli Left's Test: Standing Up for Arab Labor Candidate

The Jewish National Fund, the Cherry on Top of Zionism

Israeli Children Have Been Forsaken in the COVID Crisis? Tell It to the Palestinians

The Only Alternative Is the Joint List. The Rest Are Pale Imitations of Bibi

The Hague Ruling Is Cause for Hope

The Israeli Left's Faustian Pact to Defeat Netanyahu

It’s Alright to Be an anti-Zionist

‘Put Netanyahu on Trial’ Is Not the Answer to Every Problem

The Military Radio Station Is Too Political? What About the Army Itself

The Duty to End Israeli Apartheid

Not ‘Apartheid in the West Bank.’ Apartheid

The Truth and Nothing But

Coronavirus Lockdowns Are Killing Culture. Israelis Don't Care

From the Chosen to the Pampered People

Whitewashing by the Israeli Army Isn't Only Callous, It's Criminal

Tel Aviv Mayor Should Lay Off the Nationalist Discourse

A Good Word for Netanyahu, for a Change

Israel's COVID-19 Vaccine Drive Was Something Good, for a Change

The Existential Question of No Importance: Bibi or Gidi

Israel Has No Sane Right Wing

Trump Made More Israel-Arab Peace Than Nobel Peace Prize Laureate Obama

All of Israel’s enemies have rotten regimes. Israel is far from being clean. But because of this, would you not sign an agreement with Iran? Was...

The Bright Side of Normalization

For 'Hope,' We're Down to Extreme Right-winger Gideon Sa'ar

Israel’s War on Palestinian Children

Only an Arab Can Lead Israel’s Left

The Pride of Israel: Assassinations