The Magnes Zionist

A few weeks I wrote a post in which I claimed that using terms like “Israel-Firster” or “Israeli Apartheid” does not make you anti-Semitic....

Adam Kirsch has written a fantastic piece arguing  that Stephen Walt and John Mearsheimer’s The Israel Lobby, though universally rejected, h...

The current issue of Moment Magazine features a symposium on the subject, “What does it mean to be pro Israel today?”  To its credit, the J...

Yesterday, the State of Israel became the first western state whose High Court ruled that some citizens have fewer fundamental rights than o...

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The op-ed in last Friday’s Haaretz by historian Alexander Yakobson offers a wonderful insight into the mind of the secular Israeli who cons...

Is calling somebody an “Israel Firster” anti-Semitic? Is accusing somebody of “dual loyalty” anti-Semitic? Does it smack of anti-Semitism.to...

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...