The Magnes Zionist

This has got to be one of the funniest stories of the dog days of August. Never Gordon, a leftwing professor at Ben-Gurion University, publi...

My favorite pair of analysts, Hussein Agha and Rob Malley, have published an important Op-Ed in the New York Times entitled, "The Two-...

Literary critic Adam Kirsch has made a career of taking potshots at cultural Zionists like Hannah Arendt and Albert Einstein. Like the Mapai...

Joseph Dana and Mairav Zonszein have made a must-see video about the expulsion of the Palestinian families from their homes (see below) in ...

The World Congress of Jewish Studies, currently held in Jerusalem, had a session cosponsored by the rightwing think-tank, the Jewish Center ...

On the Voice of Israel this morning there was a news item about the eviction of the al-Ghawi and al-Hanoun families from their homes in Shei...

The Israel foreign ministry has released a hundred and fifty page defense of the IDF's "Operation Cast Lead". You can read abo...

  Gaza scene, January 2009   My eyes shall flow without cease Without respite Until the Lord looks down And beholds from heaven … ...

Question: What are the words for "Foreign Ministry spin" in Hebrew? Answer: "Barak Ravid"   http://www.haaretz.com/hase...

Avigdor Lieberman's Foreign Ministry is trying to silence the IDF veterans group, "Breaking the Silence." For five years the ...

Here is another testimony about rules of engagement, or lack thereof, in the Gaza campaign. The BtS booklet can be downloaded here . Testimo...

Today's Haaretz featured a front-page petition, signed by well-known Israeli writers, artists, entertainers, and intellectuals on the ...

Akiva Eldar writes in today's Haaretz that the government is considering creating a sewage treatment system near Ofra that would serve ...

Tonight is the First Day of Av, which initiates a nine-day semi-mourning period that culminates in the Ninth of Av. During that period, merr...

After the initial IDF campaign to delegitimize the IDF soldier Gaza testimonies , some of the Israeli human rights groups are speaking out ...

Breaking the Silence has posted the booklet of soldier testimonies in English here Here is also the link http://www.shovrimshtika.org/o...

I promised a testimony a day until Tisha B'Av. Today is about vandalism, not looting. There has been ample testimony of vandalism. I blo...

Cooler heads have prevailed, and the Haredi mother who allegedly starved her youngest child, has been released from police detention and sen...

When the message of Israeli war crimes in Gaza was delivered yesterday in the form of a 110-page booklet of IDF soldiers' testimonies, t...

The illegal use of white phosophorus weapons by the IDF in Operation Cast Lead has now been confirmed in one of the soliders' testimonie...

On a day when the Loonies of the Right (David Bernstein, Mark Regev, AIPAC) went after Human Rights Watch (for good rebuttals, see here and...