The Magnes Zionist

The Washington Jewish Week, a center-right community newspaper that I receive gratis , for some reason, published an article this week abo...

Why do I insist on Israel's resettlement of, say, around three hundred thousand Palestinian refugees, if the Palestinians can have a ...

I am currently in Berlin at a conference commemorating the centenary of the death of the greatest Jewish scholar of the nineteenth century,...

One of things that Israelis love to say is, "Rak ten li le-daber" -- 'Just let me do the talking.' Well, Israeli males ce...

This evening a comment was left on my post, Three Cheers for Adalah and the Israeli Supreme Court by an Israeli woman, who wants to be kno...

The Occupation Magazine is still the best source of ongoing news of the Occupation. From Walla Editorial translation by Daphna Levit Mon...

It's the easy cases that the tribe can agree on. We can all agree that the Kahanists, or the settlers harrassing Palestinian children, ...

I never thought that when I relocated to DC for the semester, I would have enough material from my shul visits for this blog. Last shabbat ...

Michael Mukasey's nomination for Attorney General was approved last night, over objections that he had not condemned waterboarding as a...

Having corresponded with some of the people involved -- but not with the Oxford Union president, Luke Tryl -- and having read some of the a...

The NY Times reported yesterday on the efforts of a group, "Justice for Jews from Arab Countries," to get recognition for what t...

The only place where Israeli Palestinians have a chance of having a fair hearing is in court. Even there it has been difficult for them, es...

Last Friday my daughter and son-in-law alerted me to an opinion piece written by their former rabbi in Los Angeles, Yosef Kanefsky. Rabbi K...

I know I am flogging a dead horse. But Norman Finkelstein's invitation to speak at the Oxford Union in favor of the two-state solution ...

Here was my parting shot at the Brit blog, Harry's Place, where virtually everything I wrote was misunderstood by my ideological oppone...

So what's the big deal? Alan Dershowitz did not threaten to sue the Oxford Union, or its president, Luke Tryl, if Norman Finkelstein wa...

Last week I posted a statement about the academic boycott in which I said that I am not ready to support it. Well, I am still not ready, bu...

Phil Weiss wrote some amusing posts about the CAMERA conference ("Israel's Jewish Defamers"!) in New York City, which he actu...

In recent weeks, as Jewish and non-Jewish human-rights groups have increased efforts to publicize Israel's human rights violation on th...

B'Tselem and ACRI have a published a short document on settler violence in the a-Ras neighborhood, where the new settlement established...

If you look to your right, you will see that I have expanded the "Top Posts" section. These are posts that seem to have attracted...

The Magnes Zionist has never written a post on the attempts of individuals in the United Kingdom to organize boycotts of Israeli universiti...

I don't believe anything will come out of the Fall peace summit. I hope it won't, because any agreement would be at the expense of ...

Consider the following scenario: an ultra-orthodox Jew, walking to shul in a bad neighborhood, is inadvertantly (let's hope) shot in th...

The reviews of Walt and Mearsheimer’s book-length version of the “Israel Lobby” in the mainstream media have run from the mixed to the negat...