Nationalist Fragility Took Over the Twitterstorm I Accidentally Unleashed Over My City

Israel Needs a Professional, Honest Police Force, but That's Very Unlikely Under Netanyahu

Annexation Will Officially Turn Israel Into an Apartheid State

Israeli Leftists, Apologizing for Your Beliefs Won't Spare You. Get Off the Defensive

No, the People Are Not With Netanyahu

Rebranding Apartheid

The Israeli Army Is Embarrassed by Its Military Dancers? They Are the Least of Its Problems

Major General Moti Almoz, the head of the Israeli army’s Manpower Directorate, awoke one day this week from a protracted coma and discovered that...

Whoever Thinks West Bank Annexation Will Pass Quietly, Better Think Again

“We were afraid of the Shin Bet security service,” MK Ahmad Tibi once said, “until we met its former heads as MKs.” It would be interesting to...

Even When Lives Are in the Balance, Israel Excludes Women and Arabs

The team assembled by the National Security Council for planning the “exit strategy” out of the coronavirus crisis includes 31 people; physicists,...

It’s Time to Let Litzman Go

I didn’t watch “Game of Thrones.” I tried. At a certain point, after enough murder and treachery, I stopped caring. Israeli politics has the...

Nothing, Not Even the Coronavirus Crisis, Can Change Netanyahu

I want to believe in my prime minister. Certainly at a time like this, when everything is too urgent and frightening for political cynicism. But I...

Threats of an Israeli Civil War Are a Form of Blackmail

The Arabs are a threat to this country. No, not the Arabs, it’s their party, that party of terror supporters. Benjamin Netanyahu knows them well,...

Israel’s Identity Can’t Be Left to the Politicians

“Nations respect morality up to a limit and respect power a lot more,” Benjamin Netanyahu said back in the innocent days of 2018. This was his...

Griping About Orli Levi, and Voting for Yoaz Hendel

The Knesset has its own tests. Last week, the test came with the vote on immunity for Likud MK Haim Katz. Many parties showed contempt for their...

Gantz Is Cooperating With Kahanists to Draw Right-wing Votes

The castigation of MK Heba Yazbak (Joint List) in the Central Elections Committee during the debate over whether she should be allowed to run in the...

A Victory for the Settlers, Not for Israel

The Yesha Council has decided to reject Donald Trump’s peace plan. One hears this headline, and it’s like hearing a report that “The mayor of...

Religious Zionists, Stop Pretending You're Any Better Than the Kahanists

The closing of the candidate slates for the Knesset has always been the finest hour for the “senior source,” and the “source close to …,”...

Israeli Left Must Seek Salvation in Unity

Describing a typical left-wing demonstration, the late columnist Aharon Bachar wrote of going to a protest with a friend who was new to such things....

Israel’s Attorney General and Other Cowards in the Face of Netanyahu

The exact depth of the absurdity has revealed itself in recent days. One minute the attorney general is ferociously arguing with the temporary justice...

The Story Was Buried, Too

It’s not hard to bury a story in Israel, especially if it’s about Palestinians. All you have to do is to ignore it. No one will demand answers, no...