Netanyahu’s new government – even more predatory and defiant than before – must usher in a fundamental shift in American Jews’ activism against Israel’s extremists…
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Forget lobbying to cut non-existent U.S. ‘economic aid,’ getting arrested outside Birthright, sending angry tweets. If you actually want change, this is what to do …
The real debate that Shapiro wanted to stir up with his tweet about the Notre Dame cathedral fire isn’t about medieval France. It’s about 21st…
It’s no coincidence that Trump’s key boosters serially rehabilitate Hitler’s nationalism, or that Candace Owens loves the idea that the Nazi dictator just wanted to…
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…
It’s no coincidence that Trump’s key boosters serially rehabilitate Hitler’s nationalism, or that Candace Owens loves the idea that the Nazi dictator just wanted to…
Netanyahu’s re-election is a black day for solidly liberal American Jews, whose relations with a pro-Trump Israel were already in crisis. But we can’t give…
With Trump’s blessing, Netanyahu is pushing Israel towards becoming a non-democratic Jewish apartheid state. It just takes one act of hubris that he trial-ballooned during…
Despite what Trump may think, U.S. Jews can’t vote in Israel’s elections. But if they could, the political chasm between them and most Israelis –…
Neither Hamas nor a black day, but a glimmer of hope on Capitol Hill Source: https://www.haaretz.com
If Meir Kahane hadn’t come to Israel, his toxic Brooklyn-born racism would have withered away. But his ideology found fertile ground, shed its accent, and…
We U.S. Jews said during the Women’s March controversy we’d never tolerate a Farrakhan or his fans in our community: there would be an immediate,…
Netanyahu is backing Israel’s KKK for naked domestic political gain. And that’s not all the damage his frenzied, odious political maneuver has caused Source: https://www.haaretz.com
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…
Omar thinks cold cash, or hypnosis, keeps Congress toeing the Zionist line. Does she lack the political imagination, the information, or a filter on conspiratorial…
When white Jews ‘impersonate’ Black Americans to draw attention to the very real threat of anti-Semitism in America today, and its heightened effect on Orthodox…
Despite abundant predictions of doom and of Democratic drift, Israel – with all its imperfections and transgressions – remains the only country in a violent,…
The growing legitimacy for anti-Semitism shouldn’t surprise anyone, because two generations of social-science and humanities students have been raised on the indoctrination à la Edward…
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…
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…