The Magnes Zionist

I plan to write a fuller post on the paper by James G. Lindsay, former General Counsel of UNRWA, which was published by the pro-Israeli th...

"We Shall Not Be a Party to Their Counsel!" As human beings, we are shocked and appalled at the mass destruction unleashed by...

Before the 1992 elections for the Israeli Knesset I attended a "hug bayit" (parlour meeting) of religious Jews with Naomi Chazan,...

In the middle of the Gaza campaign, one of my children, whose political views don't entirely mesh with mine, asked me the following ques...

In the Fall of 2007 I was thrown on the Obama bandwagon by a shul buddy of mine. I didn't know squat about Obama then. I had heard of ...

Now that the artillery has ceased firing, we are seeing a few Israelis speak out against the horrors of this so-called war, a war whose main...

Less than a month ago, I wrote a post called, "To War! To War! Fredonia's Going to War!" Here is an excerpt of what I wrote t...

It shouldn't surprise me to learn how the Israel Defence Force bombs children deliberately (see under "double effect" or ...

In a few minutes I leave behind my Jerusalem home, and I board a plane for my DC home. The Jerusalem I leave behind is sullen and grey, defe...

Richard Silverstein and I, along with Verso Books , the publishers of A Time to Speak Out , have prepared the following statement from Amer...

After weeks of intense fighting in which over 1000 Palestinians have been killed, Israel and the US are close to an agreement that Hamas sho...

Recently, I read in a prominent newspaper an op-ed that concluded as follows: The only small chance for peace today is the same chance that ...

How apt that, when the State of Israel is waging a war of "national honor," "restoring deterrence," and "destroying...

OK, so you are the commander of the IDF (or its spokesperson), and you learn that an IDF missile has rammed into a UNRWA school building kil...

"If you are in your apartment and some emotionally disturbed person is banging on the door, screaming, 'I'm going to come throu...

Berny Avishai and Sam Bahour are clear thinkers and great human beings. Would that they were running the show here, and not the small leade...

When I posted on how Israel devalues the lives of the Gazan civilians, and I claimed that at least part of that could be explained by Israel...

Recently, I read a particularly awful piece of the "Zionism-Is-Racism" variety on Zne t by Jason Kunin. It was awful mostly not be...

During the Second Lebanese War, my friend Georges Rey, a professor of philosophy at the University of Maryland, asked me a simple question: ...