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Aug 19, 2026, 9:37 AM

ZOA’s Microscope on AIPAC

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Mort Klein, president of ZOA, recently issued a diatribe against AIPAC (American Israel Public Affairs Committee) that ended with a quote from British statesman Winston Churchill: “Those who appease the crocodile will simply be eaten last.” Despite Klein’s short...

Aug 18, 2026, 2:14 PM

The Contribution of Zionism to Global Security

Zionism emerged in the late 19th century as a nationalist movement based on the Jewish aspiration to establish a homeland in Palestine. With the founding of the State of Israel in 1948, this ideology transformed into a political reality...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Aug 17, 2026, 11:47 AM

The Democratic Party’s Jewish Reckoning Has Arrived

Abdul El-Sayed’s Michigan victory has forced Jewish Democrats to confront a question their party can no longer evade: How much are Jewish voters expected to tolerate in the name of defeating Donald Trump? There comes a point when political loyalty...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Aug 12, 2026, 10:00 AM

The West Bank Map That Was Never Supposed to Last

More than 30 years after Oslo, Israelis and Palestinians are still living inside a map that was supposed to disappear. Open almost any political map of the West Bank and three letters dominate the landscape: A, B and C. They...

Aug 9, 2026, 11:30 PM

The Great Satan Debates the Little Satan While the Real One Moves In

Globalize the Intifada, American-Style For nearly half a century, the radicals and jihadists of the Middle East have insisted that America is the Great Satan and Israel the Little Satan, a hierarchy first formalized by Ayatollah Khomeini after the seizure...

Aug 9, 2026, 2:46 PM

AIPAC Through Israeli Eyes

AIPAC: The Bridge Between Israel and America

Israelis Owe a Great Debt of Gratitude to America’s Pro-Israel Lobby

Aug 2, 2026, 4:53 AM

Which Truths Shape How Israel Is Viewed?

A few days ago, I was listening to the Commentary podcast when John Podhoretz quoted a remark Barack Obama made shortly after the October 7 massacre. I had almost forgotten the comment, but hearing it again brought back the...

Hande Gençünal

Jul 20, 2026, 11:17 PM

The Invisible Donation, Israel’s Diaspora Bond

In the early 1990s Benedict Anderson proposed a concept, long-distance nationalism. The politics of communities who stay attached to a territory they've never lived in, simply because they see it as their ancestral home. For Anderson this attachment wasn't...

Jul 16, 2026, 5:03 AM

They Stamped Every Neighborhood But Ours

There is a particular loneliness in being counted only when someone is counting victims, and forgotten every other day of the year. This summer, as the World Cup came to New York, the City handed out a “Neighborhood Passport,”...

Barry Mellinger

Jul 11, 2026, 12:32 AM

The Acceptable Jew

Rabbi Menachem Margolin, Chairman of the European Jewish Association and one of Europe’s most prominent Jewish leaders, was right to be outraged. When CNN’s Elex Michaelson said Jon Ossoff “may not read as Jewish” as Josh Shapiro, he wasn’t...

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