Vilify Netanyahu as Much as He Deserves, but Who Are You Proposing Instead?

Instead of Standing With the ICC, Israel’s Defenders of the Law Are Silent

America Is Smashing Statues and Falsehoods. Will Israel Someday Also Confront Its Past?

Black Lives Matter in Israel? Sounds Like Science Fiction

Across Israeli Media There's No Microphone for Left Wingers

The Explosive Natural Increase of Israeli Settlers

The New York Times Published a Fascist-adjacent Op-ed, and That's Good

Op-eds Are Not Meant to Preach to Choir

Haaretz’s Editor Wants Annexation

For the Settlers in the West Bank, It Will Never Be Enough

'Being Black in America Shouldn't Be a Death Sentence.' What About Being Palestinian?

Netanyahu Isn't Satan nor Sacrificial Lamb, but a Wounded Animal

Benjamin Netanyahu’s Victory

Give Gantz a Chance

Europe’s Disappointing Response to Israeli Annexation

The all-clear has sounded for those who were worried: Israel can annex the West Bank as much as it wants – Europe will not stand it its way. Anyone...

An Israeli Soldier Just Died in the West Bank for No Reason

The video is hard to watch: armed soldiers leaping and shouting in near-religious ecstasy, forming a circle around their comrade, swaying as in some...

Let Israel Annex the West Bank. It's the Least Worst Option for Palestinians

What is the center-left camp in Israel afraid of when it comes to annexation? Why are the European Union and other countries feigning such a clamor...

Where Was the High Court Till Now?

The High Court of Justice is one of Israel’s cleverest ploys. Nothing beats the High Court at embodying Israel as it wishes to be seen: enlightened,...

A Tribute to a South African Jewish Hero and Freedom Fighter

A Jewish hero died on Independence Day, with his death unmarked here. Denis Goldberg died in Cape Town, the city he was born in, at the age of 87. He...

Let the People of Israel Remember the Soldier Who Shot a Palestinian in the Back

Not a muscle in his face twitched as he mechanically read the text before him. Yizkor Am Yisrael – let the people of Israel remember. A spotless...

Why Didn't You Tell Us About the Palestinian Village of Tantura?

Every year, on the eve of Memorial Day, we’d go visit the Bachrachs in their ground floor apartment on Spinoza Street. In later years, when the wife...

The anti-Bibi Camp Was Neutered by Lapid

Yair Lapid gave a good speech on Tuesday. He apologized to everyone he had convinced to vote for Benny Gantz. But Lapid is guilty of something much...

The Pigs of Kibbutz Lahav - Look at Them and See Israel

The pigs of Kibbutz Lahav scream in pain. “The high-pitched, thin, hysterical screams emerge from newborn piglets. In a room that looks like a...

Israel Trading in Ventilators for Helpless Gazans Is Inhumane

If Israel had even a hint of human feeling toward the inhabitants of the Gaza Strip, at least during the coronavirus pandemic, it would immediately...

Tsk-tsk, Rivlin and Netanyahu

Israeli populism always finds totally marginal issues to pounce on, with a holy and incandescent fury, totally out of any proportion. This happened...

Israel's Anti-annexation Warriors Should Simply Surrender

Kahol Lavan’s Benny Gantz faction will not give up their last stronghold. Its leaders will fight it until the last drop of blood (except, of course,...

Ventilators by Cloak-and-dagger

The Mossad is the new Red Cross. Tuesday’s episode of the investigative journalism series “Uvda,” on Mossad operations to bring medical...

Today It's an Empty Park, but What Comes 'After' the Coronavirus?

The sound could be heard every morning when the sun came up: the notes of a saxophone wafting through the tangle of oleander and blooming yellow...

Netanyahu Is the Best There Is for Now. Gantz Must Join Him to Minimize Damage

Benny Gantz joining a government headed by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is not a disaster. In fact, it is the only possibility that is left,...

Palestinians Would Die for the Israeli Kind of Lockdown

The heavens have darkened and everything is closing in around us. Only fate, God or the shaper of history are laughing at us from up high, a bitter,...

Bibi and Tibi

There is one step that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can take now that could still change the way he will go down in history. There’s probably...

Yoaz Hendel: The Beautiful Israeli

Yoaz Hendel is the embodiment of the beautiful Israeli. The most beautiful. If it were possible to print a 3-D version of the model of the beautiful...

The Israeli Army Doesn't Have Snipers on the Gaza Border. It Has Hunters

In Israel, Zionism Is a Religion, and It Is Mandatory

The Joint List’s impressive, welcome achievement comes tempered with disappointment: The glass ceiling of Jewish voters was not broken. On the eve...

Election Results: The Tribe Has Spoken. We Must Respect Its Say – and Start a New One

UPDATE: Israel election results: Netanyahu two seats away from majority with 90 percent of votes counted You can be disgusted, you can be fearful,...

Neither Fateful, nor Important: Israel's Third Election Will Decide Little, if Anything

Give the bombastic pathos and drama a rest: The election tomorrow is not fateful, and probably not even important. Like its two predecessors, it too...

This Week's Palestinian Sacrifice, Delivered by an Israeli Bulldozer

What did people on the right wing feel upon seeing the images of an Israeli army bulldozer burrowing into the ground in Gaza and snatching the body of...

The IDF Spirit: These Aren’t Human Beings. They’re Palestinians

We ought to thank the driver of the military tractor who went crazy on the streets of Kfar Qaddum the other day, even give him a citation: He drew an...

Tel Aviv Billboards Exemplify Israeli Fascism

I like reading opinion pieces by Nave Dromi. She’s straight-shooting, genuine, extreme, secular and doesn’t evade or equivocate: pure, distilled...

A Different Germany? Not With Its Israel Policy

On Friday, Germany proved that it’s on a downward trend toward its past. Its decision to be a friend of the Israeli occupation at the International...

Arabs of Israel: Enough Begging

Dear Arabs of Israel: The politicians don’t want you. The time has come for you to understand this and draw the obvious conclusion. Your...

Arabs of Israel: Enough Begging

Dear Arabs of Israel: The politicians don’t want you. The time has come for you to understand this and draw the obvious conclusion. Your...

The IDF Spokesman Announces: Continue to Shoot Palestinian Children

Israeli soldiers shoot children. Sometimes they wound them and sometimes they kill them. Sometimes the children wind up brain dead, sometimes...

Europe Kowtows to Israeli Apartheid

Europe got itself into a bit of a mess – and the new EU foreign policy chief got tossed under the bus. Josep Borrell only dared to warn Israel...

Benny Gantz, His New Adviser and the Blood on Their Hands

The flight to Washington with the connection in Zurich surprised people. Kahol Lavan leader Benny Gantz as a regular guy. The fact that his new...

Trump Declared the Third Nakba

In a flimsy hospital gown, injured, barefoot and confused, without food or water, with a catheter attached and wearing a diaper, Gaza resident Omar...

The Third Nakba

In a flimsy hospital gown, injured, barefoot and confused, without food or water, with a catheter attached and wearing a diaper, Gaza resident Omar...

One Person, One Vote for Israel-Palestine

The Trump administration’s Middle East peace plan brings with it good news and bad news. It will put the final nail in the coffin of that walking...

Go to Gaza and Cry ‘Never Again’

It’s very important to remember the past; no less important is to be cognizant of the present without shutting one’s eyes. The dozens of statesmen...

Religious Zionism? The Secular Zionist Left Is the Mother of the Occupation

My Haaretz colleague Uri Misgav corrected the novelist Haim Be’er, who called religious Zionism a “cancerous growth.” Misgav said it wasn’t...