The Magnes Zionist

For the last week or so, some defenders of the Israeli status quo have argued in the TMZ Comments Section that there is no more discriminati...

President Barack Obama received a lot of flack from the Israeli right (and from nobody else in the world), when he said that the Jews' c...

About a hundred activists gathered today behind the Jerusalem District Court for Ezra Nawi's sentencing. Although one of the activists...

The key, as is well-known, is a powerful symbol of the Palestinian resistance, and of the Palestinians' claim that they have a right to ...

Some folks thought that I should have posted about the third year anniversary of IDF soldier's Gilad Shalit's capture/kidnapping by ...

Months ago I tried to explain why Israelis don't get Barack Obama. Read about it here . In the meantime, it has gone from bad to worse....

A little-known (yet), but very important special report was published recently under the imprimatur of the United States Institute of Peace....

Ibn Ezra (a.k.a. Joseph Dana) has an excellent post comparing his activism in the Occupied Territories with that of the Iranian activists in...

Little of Haaretz 's "Culture and Literature" section is translated into English. That is a pity because an article appeared i...

The eyes of the entire world are trained on Iran, as well they should be. One can only watch with envy at the courage of the Iranian men and...

"Feeling the hate in Jerusalem," the video by Max Blumenthal and Joseph Dana, that has been seen almost a half a million times in...

Washington Post columnist Charles Krauthammer wrote last week in the Washington Post concerning the US demand to stop the "natural gr...

When the Palestinian Authority, during the Oslo final status talks, agreed to a demilitarized state, I shook my head in sadness. It was clea...

Rather than listen to Bibi's speech about his vision for an emasculated Palestinian quasi-"state" (maybe), I thought that I wo...

When President Obama said in Buchenwald that the American G.I.s who liberated the concentration camp could not have known "how the nati...

Of all the reactions to the Max Blumenthal-Joseph Dana "Feeling the Hate in Jerusalem" video (see below), the one I understand the...

Obama ended his Cairo speech with "Blessed Are the Peacemakers." How can you not say, "Amen" to that line, originally c...

Well, I am going to go out on a limb. If there is one book that has come out recently on the history of Israel and Zionism that you should r...

Here are a number of very good books that came out last year and that you won't see reviewed in the mainstream press, because they are n...

(This post is brought to you by my yetzer-hara. That's the little devilish Donald-Duck that sits on your left shoulder, whispering advic...

Jewish Studies, and now also Israel Studies, did not arise on college campuses because the American academy recognized the importance of the...

Two very important news items have come my way. The first is the story of the first illegal outpost built by Jewish and Palestinian activist...

God bless Jewish Voice for Peace. I was driving out to work today on a rainy and dreary Monday morning, when I saw one of those billboard ...

Iran president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is not my cup of tea, to say the least. I look at him and see an Iranian version of one of our Shas polit...

Round two of the Walzer/Margalit vs. Kasher/Yadlin fight contained a surprise. It may be that the real target of Margalit and Walzer, whose ...