Column
The comedian is right that we need to stop trying to cancel and fire those who say offensive things. But his SNL monologue ignored the truth about a major source of hate.
Whereas the sole glue for Yair Lapid’s coalition was anti-Bibi animosity, Benjamin Netanyahu’s espouses a set of values and objectives shared by a higher percentage of the population.
The claim that Benjamin Netanyahu’s government will make life hard for Diaspora Jews ignores what motivates Zionism’s foes and other anti-Semites.
Dithering at a time when we should be focused on further defeats for the Russians in the Ukrainian theater only helps Vladimir Putin. Let us seize the moment and deal the Russian-Iranian alliance the blow it deserves.
Most Israeli Jews know which is which, most American Jews do not.
Democrats won the expectations game as a red wave didn’t materialize. But the results mean divided government and a worsening political tribal culture war.
Israel continues to help Kyiv, but Zelenskyy’s escalating campaign to scapegoat the Jewish state will only escalate as Netanyahu takes office.
Because of the brouhaha surrounding Bezalel Smotrich’s speech at the memorial for Israel’s slain prime minister, another address received a lot less attention than it deserved: the one delivered by Merav Michaeli.
This U.N. “inquiry” has only been in operation a year, but has already left a deep stain on the international body.
Hyperbolic predictions of the end of democracy if Republicans win the midterms encourage extremism and conspiracy theories that fuel anti-Semitism.
The Israeli public, which just chose to replace its ruling caretaker coalition with a right-wing one, is hoping for a congressional “red wave.” In such an event, the U.S. president’s belated felicitations to Netanyahu will contain a subtext that makes the White House wince.
Democratic Party talking points about a supposed threat to democracy from the right may be the cause of the surge in American-Jewish hysteria about Netanyahu’s partners.