Column
In New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s mind, Philippe Pétain is the avatar of a brutal, ultra-conservative, privileged white-male army general—the sort of person to whom anti-Semitism comes “naturally.”
Israel names its first gay cabinet minister just as American LGBTQ organizers ban Jewish symbols at a march. And Jewish kids worry that being pro-Israel is illiberal?
It will be easy for members to unite against white supremacists. It remains to be seen whether this new group will be of any use against the growing threat of left-wing anti-Semitism.
Netanyahu’s opponents are counting on the conflict with the Palestinians being superseded in the public’s mind by the one with the ultra-Orthodox. Are they right?
Too many legislators and voters have seen policies they cared about nixed merely because unelected justices or an unelected attorney general decided to substitute their own policy judgments for those of the elected government.
It has become apparent that Israel is actually engaged in one prolonged, episodic war with Gaza, one which has its own goals and modus operandi.
The lack of urgency about a huge increase in attacks in 2019 may be due to the victims being Orthodox and the fact that the perpetrators can’t be linked to Trump.
On the very day that U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo was convening in New York with Jewish leaders, P.A. leader Mahmoud Abbas was at a ceremony in Ramallah denouncing the Trump administration’s “deal of disgrace,” which he said “will go to hell.”
New York City’s “Celebrate Israel” is an apolitical gesture of love for the Jewish state. Yet some leading left-wing Jewish groups now refuse to participate.
There are plenty of problems with the Jewish state’s electoral system, but what critics are really angry about is that Netanyahu might win again.
For all the sensitivity to race and gender in the last 50 years, we still don’t bat an eyelid when Arab or Muslim leaders come out with same anti-Semitic garbage that has dominated casual discourse about Israel and Jews for at least a century.
Avigdor Lieberman’s thwarting the formation of a new government after a decisive election only makes sense if you believe that stopping the prime minister justifies any tactic, no matter how cynical.