Recent Blogs

• Israel Rolls Out Red Carpet for Hungarian Leader

  Israel is giving a fulsome welcome to visiting Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orban, who used an anti-Semitic poster campaign to win his last election and has made hatred of immigrants a centerpiece of his platform.

• The Two-Way Street: Some Thoughts for the Upcoming 9th of Av

  Despite what some government officials might claim, we are Israel’s truest friends, not the fawning evangelicals. We, the troublesome, critical, questioning relatives from across the sea, are the ones who love you best. Listen to what we have to say -- before it is too late.

• Israelis Warn of Threats to their Democracy

• Neo-Nazis Look for New Home in Trump’s Republican Party

  During his presidential campaign, Trump used clear anti-Semitic tropes and dog whistles. Both as a candidate and since 2017 as president, scarcely a week has gone by without him making some new bigoted statements against Africans, African Americans, Muslims and Hispanics.

Israel just dropped the pretense of equality for Palestinian citizens, Los Angeles Times

Yousef Jabareen writes, “The final reading of the nation-state bill took place just days after the Knesset rejected a bill that I, a Palestinian citizen of Israel and Knesset member, had introduced. My bill called for Israel to guarantee full equality for all of its citizens, regardless of religion or race. A similar bill introduced in June calling for Israel to be a country “for all its citizens” was banned from even being discussed. The fate of these three bills confirms what Palestinians have always known: In Israel, only Jews enjoy the full rights and privileges of citizenship.”

Netanyahu’s Israel will know no peace, Al-Monitor

Akiva Eldar writes, “I believe that we are doing the right things. It would be worthwhile to pay attention not only to what we are saying, but to what we are doing,” Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said on a July 17 visit to the IDF Gaza Division. So what are Israel’s leaders doing to ensure the welfare of the Israelis living along the Gaza border and to protect their fields against the flaming kites destroying their crops? The answer lies in the newspapers’ archives. They are doing exactly what they did the previous time warning sirens blared and sent the children in the border town of Sderot running to shelters. They will probably do the same again next time.”