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The use of these two words associated with Holocaust remembrance by a teen gun-control advocate rankles some, but also raises questions about the meaning of memory.
Educator Sam Schindler’s notions about Israel and the Palestinians seem to have been frozen in his adolescence. He’s so angry about having been “deprived” by his own teachers that he hasn’t noticed how much the Middle East has changed.
The group’s opposition to Mike Pompeo was a function of partisanship, not principle.
Jews have been among the first to “virtue signal” their compassion for refugees from the Syrian civil war.
Many young Jewish Americans are being taught that special affection and concern for their own people is wrong. And if so, then special affection and concern for Israel—the one country on earth belonging to their own people—is doubly wrong.
The actress’s snub isn’t a victory for BDS or the Israeli prime minister’s political foes, but it does show how Netanyahu’s image problem has undermined one of his strengths.
If you finally were to decide to end your war against us in Israel, finally decide that you love your children more than you hate us, finally decide that instead of trying to destroy Israel you want it to help you accommodate to modernity, you will find our hands extended in friendship.
Israel’s leaders understood pretty clearly by the early 1950s that the Soviet embrace could easily turn into a noose.
The focus on Israel’s problems often obscures the astonishing nature of a historic turnabout for the Jewish people.
The issue isn’t whether they’re “anti-Israel,” but how their backing for the Palestinian Authority and even Hamas makes them irrelevant to even a theoretical peace process.
No major American Jewish or Zionist organization has criticized the proposal to provide Qatar with $300 million in U.S. rocket technology. Why is that?
As the 75th anniversary of the uprising approaches, there will be a great deal of solemn commemoration of its heroes and victims. Yet the passage of time should encourage us to think a little less mournfully.