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Anti-Israel demonstrators march in Durban, South Africa, on August 31, 2001, toward the World Conference Against Racism. (Photo by AFP)AFP PHOTO (Photo by AFP)

Tova Herzl

25 years after Durban: The questions Israel must face

The 2001 UN racism conference descended into antisemitism, amplifying charges of apartheid and ethnic cleansing. Can Israel still rebut them?

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Ben Lazarus

The blessings hidden in a terrible disease

PSP has brought suffering I would never wish on anyone. But approaching the High Holy Days, I find myself looking at both sides of life’s ledger

Bosnian Serb General Ratko Mladic, center, speaks with Bosnian Serb President Radovan Karadzic, right, in the Bosnian town of Banja Luka, in 1994. (AP Photo/Radivoje Pavicic)

Menachem Rosensaft

Ratko Mladic is dead. The meaning of genocide must live on

When the general ordered the slaughter of Bosniaks at Srebernica, he aimed to destroy a people. That’s why it was genocide — and why Israel’s Gaza war was not

The 'Coat of Many Colors' on display at Dolly Parton's Chasing Rainbows museum at Dollywood. The coat on display is a reproduction, made by Parton's mother, Avie Lee, of the original. (Wikipedia)

Rachel Sharansky Danziger

Dolly’s riches and my new-baby haze are improving Israel’s election season

When I can give all of my attention to Israeli politicking, I’m at risk of missing the important stuff, buried amid the barrages of ugly accusations.

People look at a damaged "Martyrs Monument" in the West Bank village of Madama after far-right Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot smashed it, August 25, 2026. (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed)

Don’t talk about the sledgehammer. Talk about the monument

The outrage over Zvi Sukkot’s stunt obscured the question Israel should be pushing the world to ask: Why are terrorists being publicly commemorated?

An Israeli settler attacks a left-wing activist at an Israeli outpost in the Palestinian village of Jannatah, just south of the city of Bethlehem on August 25, 2026. (ilia YEFIMOVICH/AFP)

Avidan Freedman

Don’t give Hamas this victory

At a protest against an illegal outpost near my home in Efrat, I saw how October 7 has warped Israelis’ moral compass. We must get back on track

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The conflict has changed. We’re still asking yesterday’s questions

Instead of asking where the border should run, shouldn’t we ask how two peoples can govern a space they already share?

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