The Magnes Zionist

Update at 1 pm. The Israeli Foreign Minister and the IDF Spokesperson's Office have come out swinging, making all sorts of claims withou...

As the Free Gaza flotilla approaches the shores of besieged Gaza (or, in the felicitous phrase of the Goldstone Report, "effectively o...

UPDATE: An anonymous commenter has said that (at least some of) the men here are students at a well-known yeshiva for Americans in Beit Sh...

(Note to subscribers: if you don't see the picture here, you won't understand the post. Check it out here .) Memo To: The Presid...

At the end of my critique of the " For the Sake of Zion " statement, I invited the authors to show me where I had misread its int...

Peter Beinart has written an interesting essay in the New York Review of Book s, accusing the American Jewish Establishment of being stuck i...

Israeli philosopher Avishai Margalit has written a very interesting book called "Compromises and Rotten Compromises," which I ho...

I argued in some of my previous posts that the State of Israel's discrimination of Arabs is dug deep into his historical and legal found...

Well, I will make this quick. I used to observe Jerusalem Day. I said to myself, "Whatever you think about the politics, at least you ...

There are few people who labor so intensively, day in and day out, to delegitimize the State of Israel as does Prof. Alan Dershowitz. With e...

On my previous post there was a long anonymous comment that made two erroneous claims: first, that I attribute Israeli Jewish discrimination...

Haaretz ran here a news item about the low percentage of Arabs in the governmental and public sector (around 6%) despite the government d...

Every once in a while an article comes down the pike that bursts the bubble of all the cautious optimists. You know, the folks who say, ...

Tonight is Lag Ba-Omer , which, according to Jewish tradition, commemorates the cessation of a divine plague that afflicted the students of ...

Haaretz reported this yesterday, but I wanted to bring the full text of the Sheikh Jarrah activists's response to the Elie Wiesel lette...

J-Street, the organizational voice for liberal Zionists in the US, has gone to the barricades against the Berkeley student government dives...