Allan T. Marks

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Sep 25, 2020, 9:34 AM

Normalizations Less Normal: Israel, Kosovo, UAE

The “Abraham Accords” among Israel, the UAE and Bahrain came hot on the heels of mutual diplomatic recognition between Israel and Kosovo earlier this month. These events share a common refrain: a US-led shift in diplomacy away from multilateralism...

Mar 18, 2019, 10:35 AM

Make Israel Great Again: What’s at Stake in 2019

A couple of weeks ago, my friend – an intelligent, sophisticated, witty professional and single mother living near Tel Aviv – shared with me some of her concerns about life in Israel today. Listening to her, I was struck...

Jul 18, 2018, 10:52 PM

Nation-State Law Warps the Zionist Vision

This week, the Knesset stands on the brink of enacting a new “Nation-State” Basic Law that will erode civil liberties and democracy in Israel and that will weaken the relationship between Israel and Jews in the Diaspora. It is...

Jun 30, 2018, 12:51 AM

Empathy must conquer fear

No battles are as fierce as the ones fought between brothers. I speak not of the ongoing conflict between Israelis and Palestinians, but of the rifts between right and left in Israel, and between Israeli and Diaspora Jews. Outsiders seldom...

Jul 25, 2017, 9:53 PM

Between a Rock and a hard place

Imagine for a moment that we are wrong. Or at least that we have no monopoly on the truth. The challenge on the Temple Mount is not really a religious battle. Nor purely political. Nor even just a security...

Jul 16, 2017, 5:25 PM

Kotel to conversion — crises that cannot be consigned to the past

Much ink has been spilled about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, acceding on June 25, 2017 to ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) demands that the Israeli government act on two controversial measures: advancing the Conversion Bill and halting the Kotel arrangements. The...

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About Me

Allan Marks is a publishing adjunct at the MirYam Institute (www.MirYamInstitute.Org) and one of the world’s leading project finance lawyers. He also teaches at the University of California, Berkeley law and business schools. He earned a BA in International Studies from Johns Hopkins University and a JD from the University of California, Berkeley School of Law. Views expressed are his alone.