Opinion | A Quick Guide to Zionism in Hard Times
Or, why in spite of everything I am a humanist Zionist.
Moment Debate | Do Diversity, Equity and Inclusion (DEI) Initiatives Harm Jews?
Interviews by Amy E. Schwartz
DEBATERS
David L. Bernstein is the author of Woke Antisemitism: How a Progressive Ideology Harms Jews.
Naomi Greenspan directs the Improving the Campus...
Opinion| Get Off Twitter Already
In the days following the Hamas massacres in southern Israel, the group’s propaganda videos—including graphic, unedited streams of terrorists firing automatic weapons and the mutilated bodies of victims—proliferated unhindered on the social media platform X, formerly known as Twitter.
Opinion | Poland’s Democratic Comeback
Poland has a long tradition of bucking political trends.
Opinion | When Government Leaves a Void
On the sixteenth day of the war, I found hope in an underground parking garage.
Opinion Interview with Dina Porat | Do Israelis Want Revenge?
As chief historian at Yad Vashem from 2011 to 2021, and now the institution’s senior academic advisor, Dina Porat has the chops—the moral authority, if you will—to poke into dark and troubling corners of the Israeli national psyche.
Opinion | Three (Not So) Little Words
If you’re in a room full of mainstream Jews who hew to the uncritical AIPAC line about Israel, you undoubtedly know that “apartheid,” “racist” and “fascist” are three words you can’t say about the Jewish state without risking denunciation, cancellation or total excommunication from the tribe.
Opinion | When Not All U.S. Passports Are Created Equal
If Israel wants to discriminate against Palestinian Americans, that is its prerogative. But the United States can’t allow special rules for some U.S. citizens and not others.
Moment Debate | Would Israel Be Better Off Without U.S. Military Aid?
Cutting off aid would benefit us by saving us from ourselves.
Opinion | How I Got Israel Wrong
"I was blinded by my own style and habit and thus late to see that this government is different, this coalition is different, this opposition is different, and this crisis is very different."
Opinion | All My Children
The protests. The raised fists and raised voices.
Opinion | Fear and Loathing in the Library
Book bans are about both control and terror.