I am a lifelong supporter of Palestinian rights. I am also a realist. Reducing tensions between Israelis and Palestinians will end 70 years of misery…
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Our message to those attending the Manama meeting: Don’t join the Trump administration’s efforts to undermine our rights – we will never accept economic bribes…
Israel’s youngest voters were four times more likely to go for Netanyahu. But there’s hope – in the most unexpected place Source: https://www.haaretz.com
Trump helped Netanyahu get re-elected. Now it’s Netanyahu’s turn to help Trump’s 2020 re-election campaign – by playing along with the Kushner ‘peace plan’ and…
Fresh off the president’s help securing re-election, Trump and Netanyahu appear more closely aligned than ever. But both that alliance, and relations with their Arab…
America’s no longer pretending to be an honest broker. The Arab world’s no longer pretending to care about the Palestinians. That leaves France’s Macron holding…
For non-Orthodox U.S. Jews, Netanyahu’s victory is unfortunate, even tragic. He’s shown us only contempt, and his commitment to endless occupation destroys our efforts to…
When Gazans declare: ‘We Want To Live,’ Hamas smears them as traitors, junkies and fools – then beats them up. No wonder Gazans find it…
Rep. Ilhan Omar has apologized for her inexcusably insensitive tweet. But the core issue behind her comment – whether the U.S. should continue to reflexively…
Israel just expelled the only international monitors protecting Hebron’s Palestinians from 800 heavily guarded far-right settlers, one of whom committed the 1994 massacre that triggered…
Palestinian citizens of Israel are constantly reminded of the fragility and conditionality of our (second-class) Israeli citizenship, and the illegitimacy of our Palestinian identity –…
Middle East states have leverage on Jared Kushner, Trump’s most incompetent, greedy princeling and key ‘architect’ of his Mideast strategy. How badly compromised is he?…
Too often, the most polarizing voices on the left and the right police and dictate how we in the U.S. Jewish talk about and engage…
First up, assure your hosts you aren’t spying for an anti-occupation human rights group. Second tip: Don’t take off your coat. Part one of a…
That’s the clear message from the anti-occupation activists of IfNotNow. Forget a more ‘balanced’ approach to the conflict: When they label views sympathetic to Israel…
Iran is the most sophisticated, dangerous adversary Israel has ever faced. It has adopted a decades-long strategy of attrition until destruction. But Israel, frenetically focused…
The boycott movement hasn’t managed to hurt Israel from the outside: the country’s never been stronger economically, diplomatically and militarily. But it’s beginning to hurt…