Yossi Klein Halevi, at The Blogs

Sep 5, 2024, 3:01 PM

Crush Hamas or free hostages? I choose the hostages

Protesters hold signs calling for the release of hostages held by terror groups in Gaza since October 7, outside the Kirya military base, Tel Aviv, April 18, 2024. (Ahmad Gharbli/AFP)

If they are abandoned, too many Israelis will believe they died for political reasons – with dire consequences for the country

May 5, 2024, 12:13 PM

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The war against the Jewish story

A student protester waves a Palestinian flag above Hamilton Hall on the campus of Columbia University, Tuesday, April 30, 2024, in New York. (Pool Photo/Mary Altaffer)

The ease with which anti-Zionists have managed to portray the Jewish state as genocidal marks a historic failure of Holocaust education

Nov 12, 2023, 2:55 PM

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The lonely people of history

Pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel protesters gather with placards and flags, including a banner urging "Resist! Return!, at a 'National March For Palestine' in central London on November 11, 2023 (HENRY NICHOLLS / AFP)

When even Israel’s allies begin to lose moral clarity about the justness of this war, Jews will stand and proclaim our truth

Oct 25, 2023, 3:41 PM

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Why is Israel being blamed for the Hamas massacre?

Screenshot of Hamas bodycam footage as terrorists approach an Israeli vehicle during the terror organization's October 7, 2023 attack in southern Israel, released by the IDF and GPO. (Screenshot)

Erasing the legitimacy of the Israeli narrative fundamentally revives a pernicious antisemitic trope that Jews deserve their fate

Oct 17, 2023, 3:48 PM

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What this war is about

A soldier based near the southern Israeli border with Gaza, October 16, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

On October 7, Israel became the most dangerous country in the world for Jews. The atrocity Hamas inflicted was literally unbearable

Sep 27, 2023, 11:17 AM

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The state of our brokenness

Activists protest against gender segregation in the public space during a public prayer event in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, September 25, 2023. (Itai Ron/ Flash90)

Something elemental has been desecrated in our shared Israeliness, and Yom Kippur has again forced us to face ourselves

Apr 24, 2023, 2:01 PM

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The song that made me an Israeli

Here was a vision of our future; an Israel in which I, an American Jew with Bob Dylan as my soundtrack, might also find a place

Jan 5, 2023, 2:41 PM

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The Jewish path back to Israeli democracy

Torn Israeli flag, Beersheba, Dec. 30, 2022 (The Times of Israel/mh)

I’ve been part of the Israeli story for too long to despair – sooner or later, this coalition of destruction will unravel

Oct 24, 2022, 4:47 PM

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The war on Israeli modernity

A coalition with Ben Gvir will unravel the social fabric and destroy Netanyahu's legacy as an economic reformer who secured the country's place among the nations

Jun 12, 2022, 4:37 PM

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The soon-to-end coalition that nurtured two visions of Israel

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett (L) talks with Mansour Abbas, head of the Islamic Ra'am party, during a special session to vote on the new government at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on June 13, 2021. (Emmanuel Dunand/AFP)

It has been a government of dual national reconciliation – between Jews and Arabs, between Jews and Jews. The alternative is the unraveling of Israeli cohesion.

About Me

Yossi Klein Halevi is a senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, where he is co-director, together Imam Abdullah Antepli of Duke University and Maital Friedman, of the Muslim Leadership Initiative (MLI), and a member of the Institute's iEngage Project. His latest book, Letters to My Palestinian Neighbor, is a New York Times bestseller. His previous book, Like Dreamers, was named the 2013 National Jewish Book Council Book of the Year.