Can pro-BDS anti-Semites redefine anti-Semitism?
At first glance, it sounds reasonable. There is nothing wrong with seeking to differentiate criticism of Israel from anti-Semitism. After all, Israelis criticize Israel’s democratically elected government every day. Like any other nation, its...
Ghettoizing Israel, re-ghettoizing the Jews
The drive to ghettoize Israel merges with the campaign to re-ghettoize the Jews.
The goal is to return Jews as a people to marginalized statelessness. So, quarrels over whether anti-Zionism amounts to anti-Semitism waste time....
France’s reputation is at stake again over the murder of Sarah Halimi
For the second time in 20 years, France basked in the accomplishment of winning the World Cup with a team whose diverse backgrounds were as much a symbol of national unity as the creative...
The ‘occupation’ and the old-new romance of socialism
At only 28 years old and with nothing but an upset primary win in a New York City congressional district on her résumé, being anointed as the “future of the Democratic Party” was quite...
US Toughens Up on Iran, Yet Keeps Losing
Despite withdrawing from JCPOA, getting a number of major European companies to withdraw from Iranian markets, causing Iran's former partners in Asia to switch over to Saudi and other oil, and going after a...
Welcoming Orbán doesn’t betray Israeli democracy
For those who like neat political theories with straight lines connecting the people they don’t like, the upcoming visit of Hungarian President Viktor Orbán to Israel provides some potent ammunition. Orbán was elected for a third...
Declining language, politics
Perhaps I am becoming my own grandfather, a gentle architect born in the 19th century who prided himself on being a proper and decorous man. Recently, I wrote a column decrying the bitter partisanship that...
After Helsinki: US Abandons Legal Obligations in Syria
Among several noteworthy and interrelated Helsinki summit policy derelictions – most obviously, Vladimir Putin’s still unpunished aggressions in Crimea – US President Donald Trump chose to ignore America’s binding legal obligations regarding Russian war crimes in Syria....
Why does UNRWA plead poverty?
In a feature interview that ran in YNET(1) , Israel’s largest news agency, Adnan Abu Hasna (2), UNRWA Media Adviser declared that UNRWA lacks basic food products and that the people of Gaza “have...
Why Israel wants Trump to get along with Putin
As far as much of the American public is concerned, the timing for U.S. President Donald Trump’s meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin couldn’t be worse. The indictments of 12 Russian military intelligence officers...