The Magnes Zionist

In the Norwegian massacres we saw the latest salvo in the clash of civilizations– not between a “Judaeo-Christian” West, and an Islamism ben...

For the first time ever, Israeli Jews and Arabs marched together in Jerusalem to affirm support for Palestinian statehood. Well, that was th...

For some time I have had a dream about a community, a coalition, a big tent that includes within it all those constituencies who cry out to ...

When I was growing up in the 1960s, opponents of the Vietnam War would always ask each other, "What year did you come out against the w...

For some time I have been waiting for the Anti-boycott Bill to pass on its second and third parliamentary readings so I could be one of the ...

My day job has kept me very busy lately, but there are three short points I would like to make before Shabbat enters. 1. Israel’s hamas ...

Let me put my cards on the table. I think that Israel's blockade of Gaza blockade is illegal, has nothing to do with Israel's secur...

I recently participated in a conference that dealt with the question of Jewish peoplehood. One of the speakers noted that in the Bible there...

I have been in academia for over thirty years, and I never saw anything as fast as Yale’s damage control over its decision to axe the Yale I...

Update, June 10: Antony Lerman, a scholar of anti-Semitism, has written a very good post on the Yale decision, against the backdrop of the ...

Liberal Zionists in Israel and the diaspora have, for many years, put forth a vision of two states in historic Palestine, i.e., a Jewish st...

Some readers (and J Street folks) were puzzled by the tone and content of my previous post. After all, what's the difference, I was aske...

Last Saturday night there was a protest in Tel-Aviv, ostensibly in favor of Palestinian "statehood". For most Israelis, a two stat...

President Barack Obama's speech on Middle East perfectly illustrates the phenonemon known as 'PEP' – progressive, except for Pal...

Memo To: Barack H. Obama, President of the United States From: One of your many liberal Zionist advisors Mr. President: In your address on ...

Most Jews of my generation (and younger) were raised with certain myths about the founding of the State of Israel that we now know bear no r...