The Magnes Zionist

Jewish law (and common sense morality) allows one to act in self-defense. It allows preemptive measures to be taken in the case of an immine...

The indispensable MJ Rosenberg has written a nice piece railing against those politicians who are progressive except for Palestine.He then ...

Students at the University of Pennsylvania are hosting this weekend the BDS (Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions) Movement’s National Convent...

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 ...