The Magnes Zionist

Nir Hasson wrote a long article in Haaretz's Weekend Supplement on the young orthodox (and formerly orthodox) Jews involved in the Shei...

Liberal Zionists believe that Israel committed injustices against the Palestinian people in 1948 (and its aftermath) and in 1967 (and its af...

Bernard Avishai is one of few consistently interesting writers on Israel/Palestine On the left, yet a fervent capitalist, he is a strong adv...

Many philosophers like thought experiments; ethicists really like them. You know, the "say-you-are-on-a-desert-island-with-enough-wate...

American Jewry is only beginning to wake up to the idea that Israel has marched much farther to the right than it ever imagined possible. Pe...

In my last post I featured a picture of an Israeli commando being treated by a passenger of the Marmara (you know, the ship where the passe...

Ali Abunimah reproduced some of the Turkish pictures from the Mavi Marmara on his blog . (If you are a subscriber and don't see the pi...

At the end of the musical Fiddler on the Roof , the protagonist Tevye and his friends are banished by the Russian authorities from their vil...

Moshe Arens, former Defense Minister, and noted Israeli hawk, has endorsed a one-state solution for Israel/Palestine. It can be achieved in...

Where to start, where to start? Israeli government radio and the tabloids parrot the hasbara machine, interviewing the mother of a naval co...

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...