The New Normal Won’t Be Very Normal
The main question on everyone’s mind today is when will things return to the way that they were before the pandemic. When will things return to “normal”? Okay, not everybody is asking this question. ...
The true Rabin legacy could be the basis of a national consensus
Twenty-five years after Yitzhak Rabin’s murder and still, the debate about his legacy heats up every year as the date of his memorial ceremony approaches.
A few object to the statement that the Oslo process...
Pestilence and Rebirth: Affirming Life in a Time of “Plague”
“At the beginning of the pestilence and when it ends, there’s always a propensity for rhetoric….It is in the thick of a calamity that one gets hardened to the truth – in other words...
Normalization alone not a path for Mideast peace
The normalization of relations between Israel and Sudan is another step forward toward the establishment of a comprehensive Arab-Israeli peace. This development, following the normalization of relations between Israel and the UAE and Bahrain,...
Haters on the right and left this political season
I can’t blame either congresswoman for fearing for their lives.
“Posting a photo with an assault rifle next to the faces of three women of color is…incitement,” tweets U.S. Rep. Ilhan Omar. “There are already...
Why Britain’s Labour Party will struggle to erase its moral stain
The report of an 18-month inquiry into anti-Semitism in Britain’s Labour Party has now been published. Almost instantly, it produced a dramatic and unexpected result.
The Equalities and Human Rights Commission, which conducted the inquiry,...
When journalists become cheerleaders, it usually ends badly
According to The Times of Israel, I misrepresented Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s feelings about Israel. In a piece written by Simona Weinglas, the TOI claims that I was wrong to write that the New York congresswoman and media darling, who is best...
With bilateral agreements, Trump administration reverses Carter, Obama settlement policies
Less than one week before Americans will decide whether to entrust President Donald Trump with another four years in office, the current administration completed its reversal of a legacy U.S. policy prejudiced against Israeli...
An Ironic Juxtaposition – Global Security And Human Mortality
It is an unexplored and ironic combination. The commonality of death for human beings – an incontestable end often regarded as the prototype of all injustice – is also a latent source of human...
What ‘The Forward’ should acknowledge about Erekat
Editor-in-chief Jodi Rudoren’s recent article in The Forward about Saeb Erekat mentions “a single Israeli protester” and a few members of Knesset who objected to Erekat being treated for COVID-19 at Hadassah Hospital in Jerusalem.
Yet she...