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May 5, 2022, 9:52 PM

Mass Graves in Ukraine

I am not part of the “triggered” generation. To me, trigger was a gun part or the name of Roy Rogers’ horse. However, I experienced a trigger episode a few weeks ago upon seeing photos of the mass graves in...

Nov 10, 2021, 3:58 PM

Republican Jewish Coalition conference dispels antisemitic myths

Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks during the Republican Jewish Coalition's annual leadership meeting at The Venetian hotel-casino November 6, 2021, in Las Vegas. (Ellen Schmidt/Las Vegas Review-Journal via AP)

If only the Republican Jewish Coalition would study history, it would never align itself with the Trump wing of the formerly normal GOP

Jun 2, 2021, 8:17 PM

How Israeli Hasbara Shifted to the Palestinians

I am old enough to remember pre 1967 Israel. I spent two months there in 1964 after my Bar Mitzva. Then it was the land of Egged buses not private cars, donkey carts in cities and young people dancing...

Nov 17, 2020, 7:29 PM

As an American Jew I feel safer with Biden

In her recent Newsweek column, later disseminated on many other sites, far-right Israeli political commentator Caroline Glick does not waste any time imitating warning American Jews that we are now in danger from a Biden administration. In the second...

Jan 22, 2020, 4:53 PM

Weimar of the Mind

Free associate “Weimar Republic” and the historically literate will say: hyper-inflation, street fighting, social chaos, destruction of the middle class, extreme political polarization, conspiracy theories, and setting the stage for the rise of the Nazis. Is this the direction...

Aug 15, 2019, 7:55 PM

‘The Squad’ of Cowards

Three million people under siege. Constant bombardment by air and land since April. Hospitals, schools, markets, and even bread bakeries targeted. Civilian deaths, mostly women and children, in the tens of thousands. Numerous aid organizations are warning that a...

Dec 19, 2018, 6:38 PM

Habitat for Insanity

One of my favorite things to do is read the weekend section of the Financial Times. Their two feature sections, House & Home and Life & Arts, printed on their signature pink pages, usually provide a week’s worth of...

Dec 10, 2018, 5:37 PM

Jews in Conflict: Israel’s Right and America’s Left

I recently returned from my annual visit to Israel. Amidst the flourishing tech economy, beautiful weather, creative energy in the visual arts, music, food, and cinema, I found a deep strain of venom. I cannot remember anything like it...

Aug 21, 2018, 8:20 PM

Shalom, Shin Bet: I’m coming to Israel

I am not Peter Beinart, but I wish I were. I have read Peter’s writings for years and once got the chance to have dinner with him. As I told him then, he is my “intellectual hero.” I only...

May 30, 2018, 6:27 PM

Gaza: Jihad’s Latest Graveyard

Illustrative image of a Palestinian protester at a demonstration along the border between Israel and the Gaza Strip, east of Gaza City, on May 25, 2018. (AFP/Mohammed Abed)

Hamas's latest defeat is a victory in an epic Islamic battle between violent fundamentalism and social progress

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About Me

Jonathan Russo has been observing Israel and its policies since he first visited in 1966. He is a businessman in New York City.