Alan Kaufman

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Mar 2, 2022, 5:05 PM

I am ashamed. Ashamed of America. Ashamed of her allies. Last night, President Biden, whom I like and voted for, stood before assembled Democrats and Republicans bedecked in the blue and gold of the Ukrainian flag, and before Ukraine’s...

Mar 1, 2022, 5:31 AM

The Ukraine Show

Lead by its charismatic and heroic president, Volodymyr Zelensky, Ukraine’s stand against Vladimir Putin’s Russian invasion is far more than the mere epic stuff of a Hollywood blockbuster but an actual demonstration of the human spirit in its finest...

Feb 27, 2022, 5:19 AM

Chamberlain or Churchill: Russia’s Invasion of Ukraine

There is a popular Israeli story – perhaps apocryphal-- that in 1973, when Egypt and Syria launched a surprise attack on Israel during the high holy holiday of Yom Kippur, Prime Minister Golda Meir, demanded to know the whereabouts...

May 20, 2021, 5:39 AM

Privately guarded, Ocasio-Cortez’s ‘Squad’ denies Israel’s right to protection

Evidently, For “The Squad”, a group of U.S. Congressional House Reps led by Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, personal protection is an unassailable right except for those luckless enough to reside in their constituent districts and, of course, for Israel’s Jews. While Ocasio-Cortez...

May 14, 2021, 5:27 AM

The Gazan Zero Sum Game

I served in Gaza as an IDF soldier. I remember it well. Rafah. Khan Yunus. Gaza City. I know these cities in my bones. Gaza was, then, small, ragged, dirty: someone called it the anus of the Middle East....

May 12, 2021, 6:54 AM

Israel forgot herself

Defense Minister Benny Gantz and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a consultation amid Hamas rocket fire at Israel and IDF counterstrikes, May 11, 2021 (Amos Ben Gersom / GPO)

PM Netanyahu and his government were blindsided, having left the country vulnerable to a shabby, terrorist militia of fundamentalist fanatics

Aug 4, 2020, 9:28 PM

We were just soldiers

During my service as an American immigrant in the Israeli army, soldiers fell into two categories. “Jobniks” were soldiers deemed unfit for combat duty, who worked behind the lines. The other category-- soldiers who quietly performed combat-level duties-- had...

Oct 14, 2019, 10:18 PM

American Shame: Selling Out The Kurds

One, an Angelica Jolie look-alike who believed herself an ally of America, died fighting ISIS. Another, a young couple, both living, could be young boho artists from Soho. Another pair of ladies, grinning slyly, look like BFFs out for...

Oct 14, 2019, 6:24 AM

Israel: God and survival

When I, or any Jew, adamently insists upon the right of Israel to exist, this is what lies behind our words and actions. These corpses were my mother's generation. When the fascists arrested my 12 year old mother, to...

Aug 16, 2019, 12:05 AM

Israel’s Order of Restraint Against Tlaib and Omar

Would you admit into your home persons sworn to your ruin and that of everyone and everything that you love? Persons committed to your downfall? No, instead you would protect yourself sensibly: you would take out a restraining order. In...

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About Me

Alan Kaufman is an American-Israeli novelist and memoirist. His latest novel, The Berlin Woman, has just been published by Mandel Vilar Press. His other books include the novels Matches (Little Brown) the memoirs Jew Boy (Cornell University Press) and Drunken Angel (Viva Editions).