Column
Why the Knesset’s efforts to define the Jewish state should be influenced by Diaspora objections.
Partisans will disagree about Brett Kavanaugh, but those panicking about the end of democracy need to step back from the brink.
The Palestinian Authority’s refusal to halt subsidies for terror explains why the peace process fails, though Israel’s critics won’t acknowledge that.
The joint Polish-Israeli statement was inaccurate, but it was also part of a necessary effort to end an unnecessary quarrel.
For much of this decade, Jewish residents in the country have endured anti-Semitic attacks and abuse wildly out of proportion to their numbers. Most of that hostility comes from the Muslim community.
Settlement construction during most of Netanyahu’s last nine years in office was lower than under any of his predecessors, including leftists like Ehud Barak and Ehud Olmert.
Alan Dershowitz’s complaints of life on Martha’s Vineyard merit derision. Still, a country where you can’t socialize with political opponents isn’t good for democracy.
Everybody who says that a Palestinian state should be set up next to Israel needs to answer these questions: Do you really want to establish another dictatorship where women will be savagely mistreated? And how likely is it that such a barbaric regime will live in peace with its neighbors?
The Jews are always very attentive to any signs of right-wing anti-Semitism, but they aren’t so vigilant when it comes to the daily, deafening, anti-Semitic attacks that—disguised as criticism of Israel—come these days from the left.
The hero of the struggle for Soviet Jewry’s efforts to foster unity were snubbed by Israel’s government while he was head of the Jewish Agency, but Israelis and American Jews should still be listening to him.
Both the U.S. and Israeli laws to offset funds paid out to terrorists represent the first major steps in holding the P.A. accountable for nearly three decades of incitement and terror financing. The passage of both laws is a testament to the relentless pursuit of activists Sander Gerber and Stuart Force.
The link between boycotts of Israel and anti-Semitism is, at least for now, seen more clearly in Germany. Why is it so hard for so many others?