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Paul James Kearns

Sep 4, 2026, 3:44 PM

Netanyahu’s Tactical Victory, Strategic Defeat?

Election Choice

The opinion polls, which have remained relatively stable for months—at least on the choice between the pro-Bibi and the anti-Bibi Zionist bloc—have recently become wildly erratic, with sharp swings and idiosyncratic shifts in the past week or so. The anti-Bibi...

Sep 2, 2026, 11:50 PM

The Jewish-Arab Partnership We Missed

Yoav Segalovich's decision to join Ra'am, led by Mansour Abbas, could have been a defining moment in Israeli politics. Here was a former deputy minister of public security, long identified with Israel's security establishment, joining an Arab party and...

Mihran Kalaydjian

Sep 2, 2026, 9:14 PM

Some Crimes Forfeit the Right to Mercy: Israel’s Death Penalty Reckoning

There are crimes that test the limits of mercy. And then there is terrorism. On March 30, the Knesset approved legislation expanding capital punishment for terrorists convicted of intentional killing. Critics call it barbaric. But before condemning Israel, they should...

Aug 28, 2026, 10:35 AM

Part II: Israel Is Gone. Who Fills the Vacuum?

The second in a three-part series examining what actually comes after “Delete Israel.” In Part I, I asked what the slogan means for the Gazans its supporters claim to be fighting for. Now let’s grant the hypothetical completely. Israel...

Aug 25, 2026, 3:16 PM

The Star of David: Then and Now

Some symbols change their meaning without changing their form. The Star of David is a striking example. In less than 150 years, the six-pointed star has gone from a symbol with no widely recognized Jewish significance to an unmistakably...

Allen S. Maller

Aug 24, 2026, 4:57 PM

New Hate Politics Anti Religions

Most liberal religious people would agree that the ideology that threatens Jewish communities, and the one that threatens Muslim communities, are the same. For generations, white supremacist movements have targeted Jews with conspiracy theories about power and control while...

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,...

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