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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...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Aug 16, 2026, 10:51 AM

The General’s Dangerous Question

Perhaps the General Has Begun Asking the Right Question Gadi Eisenkot has spent most of his adult life inside Israel’s security apparatus. He commanded the army, assessed threats, and worked within a system capable of translating almost every political problem...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Aug 15, 2026, 10:12 AM

Metastasizing Language

Who Gets to Be a Political Subject? Netanyahu reportedly called violent settler extremism a “metastasizing cancer.” It is an unusually brutal metaphor, but perhaps it identifies more than he intended. Political violence metastasizes not only through bodies, roads and villages....

Aug 13, 2026, 2:59 PM

What Is a ‘Zionist Government,’ Really?

On November 10, 1975, the United Nations General Assembly adopted a resolution declaring that "Zionism is a form of racism and racial discrimination". In Israel, that resolution was met with shock and outrage. Israel’s ambassador to the United Nations,...

Sam Lehman-Wilzig

Jul 31, 2026, 8:16 AM

Who’s (Not) a Zionist: RAAM or the Haredim?

Although the Israeli polls over the last two years have consistently shown that the Opposition is well ahead of the governing Coalition, the former are not at all guaranteed an absolute majority in the elections. The general trend: around...

Jul 30, 2026, 12:32 AM

How Benjamin Netanyahu eroded Israel’s bipartisan support in America

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks before a joint meeting of Congress on Capitol Hill in Washington, March 3, 2015. (AP Photo/ Andrew Harnik/ File)

It wasn't an accident, nor the result of changing US administrations; Bibi consciously courted a conservative alliance, and Israel is paying the price

Allen S. Maller

Jul 24, 2026, 7:55 PM

Do Jews Really Worship Ezra?

Long before Daesh (Islamic State) began murdering thousands of woman and children in order to establish God’s right order in the world, Pope Gregory VII (r. 1073-1085) got the massacre ball rolling. Upon assuming the papacy in 1073, Pope...

Yochanan Schimmelpfennig

Jul 22, 2026, 5:46 PM

If We Decide Smotrich’s Grammar of Absolute Victory Bezalel Smotrich has defined absolute victory. Not as a general promise to defeat Hamas or as a formula attached to a continuing war, but as a specific sequence of actions. Israel is to...

Allen S. Maller

Jul 22, 2026, 11:36 AM

Zechariah’s Seething Blood Was Just Vengeance

The accusation that in the past “The Jews Killed The Prophets” is designed by a religious establishment to explain why their own current religious situation, or someone else religious situation, is the result of their Jewish ancestor’s bad...

Jul 21, 2026, 3:55 PM

Nine Items for Blogging Last Week

9 Items and WTF (gemini.AI generated)

Radio talk show. Murderer sentenced. In May 2020, he strangled his 19-year-old girlfriend. Her father was interviewed. How did he feel, sitting in the courtroom during the confessed murderer's trial? "Unbearable," he said, "to think this guy's bare...

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