Maxwell Adelstein, at The Blogs

Mar 22, 2023, 8:44 PM

Israel Now: A Modern Incongruous Political Miasma

On February 24th, 1803, the Seminole Supreme Court Case was decided establishing the well-known precedent of “Judicial Review.” According Cornell’s oft cited legal dictionary, Judicial Review means: ….the idea, fundamental to the US system of government, that the actions of...

Mar 7, 2017, 10:14 PM

Anti-Semitism in the US: Time to Re-frame the Political Conversation

Anti-Semitism in the United States is back, and back in full force! (This is not to say that hatred of the Jewish people ever was truly or meaningfully stamped out) The Jewish people were lucky to have experienced a...

Jul 21, 2016, 8:13 PM

On BLM and BDS: How did we get here?

Last night, I found myself incredibly dismayed. A good friend of mine shared an article stating that a branch of the Black Lives Matter Movement in Atlanta, has adopted The horribly anti-Semitic "Boycott Divestment Sanctions" movement (BDS) as one of their...

Jul 18, 2016, 12:44 AM

The Collective Victim Complex of The Israeli Palestinian Conflict

Let us start this narrative in an Uber ride home last night. I get picked up by a very nice gentleman who told me he was from Uganda originally, and had recently moved to United States. He says he...

About Me

Maxwell Adelstein is the Grants Administrator for Jewish Community Services of South Florida. A political and policy wonk both when it comes to the US political landscape and Israel's. Max muses on politics, political structures, scant legal analysis, and the occasional advocates rant here and there. Max is the prototypical ardent Zionist who wants to see Israel flourish past 80 years of Jewish sovereignty for the first time in recorded history!