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Oct 14, 2026, 3:04 PM

Out of the Worst of Wars, a Better Way to Save a Life

Helicopter evacuation of wounded in Gaza. Photo ©️ Amit Agronov, 2026

When most people picture military medicine, they picture a tent. Perhaps they think of MASH*, the television series named for the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital, a model that made sense for Korea and Vietnam. The wounded were brought to...

Oct 14, 2026, 10:38 AM

Netanyahu Was Warned About Hamas – Years Ago

As Israel approaches another election, a succession of reports has revealed that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu received warnings from Egypt, the United Arab Emirates, and Israeli security officials about the growing danger of a Hamas attack. He was also...

Elkana Bar Eitan

Sep 28, 2026, 4:06 AM

The Mathematics of Freedom

There are very few passages that I know, from the moment I first read them, will remain with me forever. One is Natan Sharansky’s description of playing chess against himself in his mind during the long years he spent...

Sep 26, 2026, 12:29 PM

Greta Thunberg. From climate icon to career activist

Some of the word causes Greta Thunberg seems to purposefully ignore. AI image generated with the author's prompting

Has Greta Thunberg now outgrown her own core cause? Greta Thunberg built up her global following on one single claim of expertise. The environment. She claimed that the science of climate change was clear and all world leaders were not...

Richard D. Gitlin

Sep 23, 2026, 9:18 PM

NAZA and the Inversion of Evidence

A new Israeli documentary, NAZA, has arrived with an explosive accusation. Directed by Israeli filmmakers Yuval Abraham and Rachel Szor, two of the four co-directors of the Oscar-winning No Other Land, the film recently won the Special Jury Prize at...

Sep 17, 2026, 3:33 PM

NAZA Lies Through an IDF Soldier’s Eyes

Wounded IDF soldier being medivaced to safety. Photo ©️ A. Agronov , 2026

I have knelt in the sand of Gaza with a dying soldier's blood on my hands. I have served in Lebanon, in Judea and Samaria, and now, since October 7th, for hundreds of days on the front lines with...

Kathleen J. Rusnak

Sep 16, 2026, 10:11 PM

Re’im: Before the Stones Are Set

The Rev. Dr. Kathleen J. Rusnak at Kibbutz Kfar Aza

In February 2024, five months into the war, I stood in the ruins of Kibbutz Kfar Aza. (My trip had been sponsored by the American Friends of Sheba Medical Center, supporting the hospital in Ramat Gan, Israel.) At the kibbutz,...

Evan R. Bernstein

Sep 9, 2026, 11:55 AM

The Slavery Next Door, and the Apartheid Slur Aimed at Israel

A documented record of hereditary bondage, migrant auctions, kafala, and a Yazidi captive in Gaza—set against a Western vocabulary that reserves “apartheid” for Israel. Western capitals still treat “apartheid Israel” as settled moral language. Meanwhile, documented slavery and slave-like systems...

Todd L. Pittinsky

Aug 27, 2026, 9:24 AM

Teach the Holocaust. Lose the Label

The word "genocide" was supposed to make evil unmistakable. Today, it does the opposite. Raphael Lemkin coined the term in to name the unthinkable—the Nazi extermination of European Jewry. Holocaust educators adopted it almost immediately as its organizing category, using...

Karen Lieberman

Aug 25, 2026, 6:30 AM

GENOCIDE: The Historic Inversion of Our Time OR…The Never-Ending Lie

In mid-2023, the population of the Gaza Strip was approximately two million. It is currently two million. The IDF – supposedly committing genocide – is not very proficient – unlike the Nazis, who butchered the Jewish people during WWII....

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