Column
Most Americans don’t like the Jewish state’s new government. But it still deserves their support against those who work to undermine and destroy it.
The ideas and institutions that anchored us in the past are falling away, yet the shape of our new era remains unclear.
While the left-wing opposition laments what it falsely calls “the end of democracy,” the overwhelming majority of Israelis disagree. The incoming government is not anti-democratic, it is anti-progressive.
The new government is prepared to stand up to the Biden administration when necessary.
Benjamin Netanyahu and King Charles turn out to have something in common.
The president has correctly identified the need to confront Jew-hatred, but now his administration needs to deliver strong regulations.
A false narrative about the new government’s extremism, spread by both Lapid and left-wing rabbis, will aid the cause of anti-Zionists, not just Netanyahu’s critics.
The outrage over a proposed Religious Zionist Party amendment wasn’t spontaneous. It’s been cultivated over time to combust on command.
As long as the EU believes there is even the faintest hope of a breakthrough with the mullahs, the U.S. is unlikely to place an official stamp upon its commander-in-chief’s off the cuff comments.
Antisemitism of all sorts, Bibi, Ben-Gvir, Zelenskyy and, of course, Trump, owned the headlines in a year full of surprising twists and some names that just don’t go away.
Israel’s controversial Maccabean Three may be channeling Jewish history all over again.
The JCPA used to pretend to work for communal interests while promoting partisan political causes. Now it’s steering the Jews down a woke path of self-destruction.