Menachem Rosensaft, at The Blogs

May 25, 2026, 11:57 PM

President Herzog foreshadows what Israel may yet be again

Countries, like individuals, have consciences. For those of us who reject the extremism, bigotry and intolerance of Benjamin Netanyahu's government, Israelis and liberal Zionists around the world alike, President Isaac Herzog personifies both Israel’s conscience and its soul. Herzog admirably...

May 21, 2026, 1:29 AM

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Why is Ben Gvir still in the government?

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir taunts detained flotilla activists at Ashdod Port on May 20, 2026. (Screen grab/Ben Gvir's X account)

The national security minister's acts of abuse and dehumanization are a desecration of everything that Zionism and the State of Israel represent

Apr 26, 2026, 2:09 AM

Sapiro v. Ford, or how to cut an antisemite down to size

Every once in a while, part of a film's or a book's importance lies in what it does not tell us explicitly. This is the case with Gaylen Ross's outstanding new documentary, Sapiro v. Ford: The Jew Who Sued...

Apr 5, 2026, 10:33 PM

Menachem Begin would be horrified by Israel’s death penalty law

The death penalty law adopted last week by a bare majority of 62 Knesset members is a discriminatory abomination that would subject West Bank Palestinians to capital punishment. Unless it is annulled by Israel’s Supreme Court, this statute’s very...

Apr 1, 2026, 4:56 AM

Ben-Gvir’s death penalty law is an abomination

Just days before Pesach – Passover – when Jews around the world recite avadim hayinu, that we were once slaves in Egypt, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir, and 60 other Israeli parliamentarians saw fit...

Mar 17, 2026, 11:18 PM

The US brief supporting Israel at the ICJ gets a failing grade

International Court of Justice - 60th anniversary press package, 28 March 2006

JTA – More than five months after a cease-fire brought the 2023-2025 Israel-Hamas war to an at least temporary end, a highly contentious legal proceeding arising out of that military conflict remains a veritable sword of Damocles hanging over...

Mar 10, 2026, 2:22 AM

The verbal diarrhea that is Tucker Carlson

Tucker Carlson attends a meeting with US President Donald Trump and oil executives in the East Room of the White House, in Washington, DC, January 9, 2026. (AP/Alex Brandon)

Here we go again, with a vengeance. As in the Peter Allen song from the 1979 movie, “All That Jazz,” it would seem that to the far-right provocateur Tucker Carlson, “everything old is new again.” The “new” in this case...

Mar 5, 2026, 1:56 PM

Anti-Zionism on steroids at the CUNY Graduate Center

A colloquium entitled “Palestinian history between past and present,” scheduled to take place on Friday, March 6, at the CUNY Graduate Center in Manhattan, should trigger all kinds of alarm bells. A legitimate academic event is supposed to advance a...

Feb 26, 2026, 11:23 PM

A Perpetrator of the Holocaust Does Not Belong on Broadway

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Frankreich in der Periode der Okkupation und des faschistischen Vichy-Regiemes (1940(44)
Hauptquartier der deutschen Faschisten in Paris am 1.5.1943. Der französische Minsiterpräsident Pierre Laval (links) im Gespräch mit dem obersten Chef der SS in Frankreich, SS-General und SS-Obergruppenführer Karl Oberg (Mitte).

Pierre Laval, the prime minister of the Nazi-collaborationist French government based in Vichy during most of World War II, was evil incarnate. He was not just a bad man or your run-of-the-mill war criminal, of whom there are many....

Feb 18, 2026, 3:19 AM

Far-right antisemitism: “a growing cancer”

An article by my friend Thane Rosenbaum should be read by and circulated to all those ostrich-like political conservatives who ignore, deny or trivialize present-day antisemitism in their midst. “The antisemitic fervor and hatred of Israel on the far right...

About Me

Menachem Z. Rosensaft is adjunct professor of law at Cornell Law School and lecturer-in-law at Columbia Law School. He is the author of Burning Psalms: Confronting Adonai after Auschwitz (Ben Yehuda Press, 2025).