Column
The attempt to impeach the Knesset member was an assertion of the duty of a democracy to protect itself from internecine foes who use its freedoms as a weapon.
The bizarre case and suicide of a sex trafficker seemed designed to foment over-the-top speculation. And that has inevitably led to it becoming a focus of Jew-hatred.
Fahad Ansari, an Islamist, and Franck Magennis, a Communist, have launched “Riverway to the Sea,” an organization that transforms their London-based law firm into a legal effort to eliminate Israel.
The NEA’s decision to cut ties with the ADL illustrates how progressives who think Jews and the Jewish state are “white” oppressors have captured the education establishment.
The Israeli pilots who joined protests against judicial reform before the Oct. 7 massacre owe their own technicians a debt of gratitude. So do the rest of us.
The current frenzy over Israel can be seen as the last remaining front of the Second World War.
Its entanglement with Qatar, where it has a campus in Doha, is deep, longstanding and influential. And that’s a problem.
Israel’s foes seem surprised that the Jewish state’s people prefer the defeat of existential threats over applause from antisemites and an indifferent world.
Let’s not base our identity on the opinions of others. If we do, we may be bitterly disappointed.
The Democratic mayoral candidate claimed to be an African-American when applying to college. The danger of the Marxist racialization of society goes beyond that minor scam.
It doesn’t easily fit with the concept of being a fully acculturated American; in fact, it evokes separatism and attachment to a foreign land.
The Israeli president’s official role is to represent the face of the country abroad and foster national unity at home. But his partisanship is getting in the way.