Shany Mor

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May 12, 2020, 1:09 AM

Don’t Call It a Comeback: Parliaments Regain their Relevance in the Coronavirus Era

The coronavirus crisis is—perhaps—being marked by a turnaround in the consistent and ongoing decline of parliaments in the world’s mature democracies. At first glance, this might seem strange. The outbreak of the pandemic required rapid and drastic action by...

Jun 19, 2015, 6:51 PM

Questions on Abortion and Israel

Dear Ms Zonszein, I don't doubt that you have been through an emotionally taxing experience, and I appreciate very much your willingness to share from it in order to shed light on an important issue. That cannot have been easy. My...

Jul 13, 2014, 11:31 PM

Tyson, Toddlers, and Balance

There is much to learn from Owen Jones’ much retweeted Guardian post last week about the alleged “imbalance” in Israel’s favor at the BBC and, by implication, the rest of Western media and politics, but not necessarily what Jones...

Jul 23, 2013, 5:18 PM

Mehdi Hasan Shouldn’t Rush to Bury Two States

Mehdi Hasan has declared the two-state solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict dead. He reaches this conclusion largely by talking only to people on both sides who are opposed to two states, and by stringing together out-of-context quotes by Israeli former-establishment figures that supposedly unveil Israel’s malicious intent. Hasan’s case boils down to two arguments. First,...

Jan 27, 2013, 6:44 AM

Israel’s election and the agenda-setting illusion

While the next government sets out to tackle internal Israeli matters, its fate will be determined in Ramallah and Washington

Apr 14, 2012, 11:37 PM

On Banality and the Toulouse Rampage

I spent a week trying to make sense of William Pfaff’s ill-considered NYRB blogpost on the murders in Toulouse, and now, having read his latest contribution, can definitively conclude that what he has to say on this topic isn’t...

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About Me

Dr. Shany Mor is a researcher at the Israel Democracy Institute and a research fellow at Haifa University’s Chaikin Center.