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Andy Blumenthal

Jun 28, 2026, 12:55 AM

Don’t Fall for the DSA Branding Machine

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American Jews — and anyone who still believes politics should be judged by truth rather than branding — should pay close attention to what happened in New York. What we are watching is not a normal progressive shift and not...

Jun 23, 2026, 8:25 AM

A loyalty test for a latte

US Rep. Dan Goldman at a rally for Israeli hostages in Gaza in Central Park, New York City, June 8, 2025. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

A Brooklyn coffee shop's public shaming of a Jewish congressman exposes a society sliding into bigotry – one 'we don't serve your kind' at a time

Avraham Russell Shalev

Jun 21, 2026, 11:12 PM

The Flawed Narrative of ‘Settler Violence’

Canada, in coordination with the UK, France, and Australia, has just imposed sanctions on seven Israeli individuals and entities, reportedly suspected of involvement in violence against Palestinian civilians and property. In truth, Canada has targeted Israeli civil society organizations,...

Jun 14, 2026, 2:58 PM

A reckoning for the Reform movement

Campaigners for and against a BDS referendum at the Park Slope Food Coop in Brooklyn, New York City, May 26, 2026. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)

The balance of universalism with the particularism of religious thought and Zionism is Judaism's distinctive genius. Stripping away those Jewish parts spells disaster

Jun 12, 2026, 6:06 PM

The Clock is Ticking Part III

Do you ever drive past a car accident and slow down to take a look? You stretch your neck to get a better view and it feels like everything is moving in slow motion? That is my life here...

Jun 11, 2026, 8:11 AM

What Do People Mean by “One-State”?

A recent poll conducted by the Jewish Voter Resource Center found that nearly half of American Jews under the age of 35 support replacing Israel with a binational state as a solution to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Whether this finding...

Gordon Louis Aronoff

Jun 9, 2026, 6:42 PM

When Antisemitism Becomes ‘Political Discomfort’

Avi Lewis at the podium after securing the leadership of the NDP on March 29, 2026. Image retrieved with permission from https://x.com/BenNephrology/status/2038286722086375731/photo/1

In May 2025, the Canadian Jewish News published an op-ed I wrote in response to a letter signed by forty academics who invoked their Jewish identity to demand the resignation of then-Quebec Higher Education Minister Pascale Déry. The Quebec...

Jun 9, 2026, 1:19 PM

“I Want Them All”

It has been an eventful twelve hours here in Israel, but probably not the way you might think. If you have been listening to the news, following weeks of constant bombardment of the northern part of Israel by Hezbollah,...

Jun 8, 2026, 5:23 AM

BDS Was Never About Groceries

Two weeks ago, members of the Park Slope Food Coop — a roughly 17,000-member cooperative grocery store in Brooklyn better known for kombucha than geopolitics — voted to advance a referendum on whether the co-op should join the Boycott,...

Andy Blumenthal

Jun 7, 2026, 5:59 AM

Eyes That Do Not See: The Moral Vanity of Anti-Zionism

There is an old, unsettling story about a blind woman who promises to marry her lover only if she regains her sight. When surgery finally restores her vision, she looks at him for the first time and immediately rejects...

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