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May 22, 2024, 9:18 PM

Peter Beinart Is Wrong About Zionism and Dominance

Peter Beinart is wrong when he suggests that “Zionism… requires Jewish dominance.” What Zionism requires is that Jews stand firm against others who demand dominance. The vast majority of non-Jews in what by 1920 had become Mandatory Palestine, as well as...

Mar 3, 2024, 3:27 PM

Resenting Israel out of helplessness and trauma

Answering the Jewish question was of strategic importance to liberal humanism in the early to mid-20th century. Success would have meant creating separation from competing ideological foundations -- social humanism branded Jewish distinctiveness a threat to human progress and...

Oct 23, 2023, 9:12 PM

Ayman Odeh’s Tweaked Messaging Is Still Awful

Ayman Odeh, currently the head of Israel’s Hadash party, maintained for years that in terms of resistance against Israel, he could “not put red lines on the Arab Palestinian nation.” Fellow party members Ofer Cassif, Aida Touma-Sliman and others...

Feb 18, 2023, 4:35 PM

Israel’s Secular-Liberal Base Has Options, but It’s Too Angry to Use Them

There are plenty of reasons why Israel is becoming more religious and less liberal. Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu is not one of those reasons. The Center-Left bloc refuses to sit with him, purportedly because of a corruption trial. Just below...

Sep 8, 2019, 10:59 PM

Akedah: Morally Bound By a Useful Nightmare

When resources were fewer and farther between, sacrifice was a staple of life. When it didn’t work, we gave more, desperate for assurance that the universe could only be so cruel. Human desperation knows no bounds, and can become...

Mar 10, 2019, 11:49 PM

The powerful women of Jisr az-Zarqa

Jisr az-Zarqa is an Arab village on Israel’s northern coastal plain. I first encountered the warmth of its water, sun and people during a hiking trip last Spring. I let my sweaty bag fall off my back at Juha’s...

Sep 28, 2018, 12:03 PM

Demolishing Khan al-Ahmar is the wrong thing to do

Many Israeli policies beyond the Green Line are discomforting. Even those that are legally and morally justified seem odd and needlessly complicated to many outside observers. This is especially true for observers who are accustomed to democratic government-to-citizen interaction,...

Jun 16, 2018, 3:16 PM

Answer to my pen pal

Before Shabbat, a new friend of mine asked me to better explain "my deep connection to Israel if not for spiritual reasons." Renee - please find my answer below :) Based on our conversation, I can take for granted that...

Jul 30, 2017, 11:57 AM

The Tragic Denial of Turkish Anti-Semitism

In a recent war of words between foreign ministries, Turkish spokesman Hüseyin Müftüoglu lectured his Israeli counterpart on what Turkey saw as a history of benevolence towards the Jewish people: “ the Ottoman era, communities belonging to different religions...

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Josh Warhit runs Warhit Media Services. He made aliyah from the United States in 2012 and served in the Nahal Brigade (infantry) in the Israel Defense Forces.