House Democrats play a double game on Hamas
Is the United States callously ignoring the needs of a suffering population of refugees? That’s the conceit of a letter signed by 70 Democratic members of the House of Representatives last week that condemned the Trump...
Without Peace Education, One Cannot Discuss Peace
Concerning US efforts to facilitate a new peace process between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, the Trump Administration has focused on political and security details, along with economics and strategic communications, as reported by The...
Nation State Law is a step toward apartheid
If you’d like a comprehensive analysis of Israel’s new Nation State Law, I suggest you contact Professor Howard Adelman about his blog (howarda72@gmail.com). If you’re prepared to settle for only a few impressions, please...
![By Israel Defense Forces (Bil'in, Jan 2011) [CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0)], via Wikimedia Commons](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Flickr_-_Israel_Defense_Forces_-_Bilin_Riot_Jan_2011_6-324x235.jpg "Yes, Israeli police should ask questions")
Yes, Israeli police should ask questions
In recent weeks, a handful of American Jews have loudly complained about being questioned by the Israeli police over their contacts with Palestinians. They would have us believe that the Israeli authorities are a...
Jews in self-destruct mode
Increasingly, I perceive Diaspora Jewish communities inexorably moving into a self-destruct mode on several fronts.
David Rothkopf, a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies, has published
this government of Israel and...
A message to the Trump Peace team: Without Peace Education, there can be no...
August 5, 2018
Without peace education, one cannot begin to discuss peace
In order to advance peace, President Trump must lift the veil of secrecy, which is spread over the Palestinian education system.
Concerning US efforts to facilitate...
“The Crowd Is Untruth”: Why American Political Life Is Increasingly Deformed
“The crowd is untruth”
Soren Kierkegaard, Point of View, “That Individual”
To understand the broadly dysfunctional nature of current American politics, we must first learn to look more capably behind the news. There, suitably distant from any adrenalized jumble...
How Robots Can Help Us To Not Be Ourselves
Given the fact that robots are taking over so many of our human work activities, I was trying the other day to gain some perspective on some of the reasons that we have decided...
![By George Chernilevsky [Public domain], from Wikimedia Commons](https://jewishwebsite.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/800px-Port_of_Odessa_UA_2017_G3-324x235.jpg "Why does Qatar Need Ukraine’s Sea Ports?")
Why does Qatar Need Ukraine’s Sea Ports?
In a recent move, that went largely unnoticed by the international media, Qatar signed a memorandum of cooperation with Ukraine's Sea Ports Authority. The agreement establishes cooperation between the two countries in a variety...
It’s not ‘anti-Arab’ to criticize an Arab supporter of terrorism
Eight Jewish organizations this week signed a public statement accusing Israel of being, in effect, a racist state. Seven of them were left-of-center groups whose harsh criticism of Israel is old news. But one...