The Magnes Zionist

Three years ago, the Israel Defense Forces launched a massive attack on the Gaza Strip that reportedly left over 1400 hundred dead, thousand...

Well, the semester is over; things are worse in Israel (and will be getting a lot worse). My day job took a lot of my time, and I didn'...

Can one be a liberal (or: progressive) and a Zionist? The debate has been going on for some time now, and recent entries in the debate o...

The New York Times Op-Ed page has always been a comfortable place for liberal Zionists, those who genuinely bemoan the 1967 Occupation, the...

Some of my loyal readers have noticed that I have not blogged for a long time, almost a month. I should explain. I am now the Director of ...

I write this from Jerusalem on the eve of Feast of Sukkot/Tabernacles -- and for the first time in years, I am hearing  good news -- that th...

Last year, Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, said that the three major threats to Israel were: Iran, rockets sent against Israeli ci...

With the notable exception of a few Israelis and Michael Lerner here , I have yet to see liberal Zionists give unqualified support to the Pa...

Professor Zachary Braiterman has picked up a theme that I wrote about last year , but at much greater length and in much greater detail. He...

Why has anti-Islamic hatred flourished in America? Well, of course, the root cause of all prejudice, as my father, of blessed memory would s...

PCHR reported that the IDF was paying the Abu Hajja family approx. $147,000, in an out-of-court settlment, as reparations for for the ki...

Update: 8/15. I'm removing this post, and I will replace it in the next few days with another, hopefully, better one. In the meantime, ...

“The work of the righteous is done by others,” or so goes the Jewish saying. Well, I am certainly not righteous (though I have been accused ...

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 ...