The Magnes Zionist

Some of the initial comments on the post below, in which I envisioned a two-state solution compatible with the three calls of the global BDS...

What is the genius of the three calls of the global BDS movement, endorsed in 2005 by over 170 Palestinian organizations? Very simple: the...

It started with a bang and ended with a whimper. Or as the Turks used to say (and Israelis still say), “The mountain gave birth to a mouse.”...

In May 1948, a minority of Palestinian residents, mostly recent settlers from Europe, declared an independent state against the wishes of t...

Yesterday I wrote that living in Israel for Jews (especially Jews who have a steady income) is like flying business class, or like being in ...

1. Binationalism in the eyes of Israelis. Ask most Israel supporters what they they think of binationalism, and they will say, “Look at Leba...

Subscribers: Please check out my blog here because this post will be virtually incomprehensible if you can’t see the maps. I criticized th...

Some readers wondered why I devoted a whole post to showing that the NY Times “corrected” a story about Atarot  by repeating a rightwing me...

Tomorrow and Thursday there will be committee hearings on the proposed Maryland legislation forbidding the use of state money for institutio...

Phil Weiss reported last week about how the rightwing media “watchdog” CAMERA got the New York Times to change its reporting on the Soda St...

In my pantheon of commentators on Israel/Palestine, I rate MJ Rosenberg near the top. In fact, I agree with him on virtually everything, and...

I don’t usually comment on this blog about religious controversies among my fellow modern orthodox Jews. As in other religions, and in socie...

It is understandable that two bloggers, Shmuel Rosner and Liel Leibovitz , couldn’t understand my views since they never took the time to r...

Marc Oppenheimer wrote a nice piece in his Beliefs column in the New York Times for which I was interviewed. The piece features Stefan Kri...

First the New York State Senate passed a bill prohibiting American Studies departments in public universities from using state funds to be i...

There are two important stories about My Promised Land, Israeli journalist Ari Shavit’s  memoir cum interviews cum meditation on Israel: ...

Today I woke up to the news that Shulamit Aloni had passed away. Aloni was of a generation that was brought up with the notion that to be a...

An article that appeared in Tablet , defending International Hillel’s decision to bar events and groups that do not toe the Zionist line, us...

In his shrill response to Max Blumenthal’s letter to the Nation, Eric Alterman continues to question Blumenthal’s claim that the Israeli t...