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Alexandre Gilbert

Sep 4, 2026, 6:32 PM

US Senate Presses UBS for More Details on Nazi-Linked Credit Suisse Accounts

UBS Building, New York City (Wikipedia CY BB 4.0)

UBS is facing renewed pressure from the United States Senate over Credit Suisse’s historical handling of accounts linked to Nazi Germany (Bloomberg), after the Senate Judiciary Committee demanded answers to dozens of additional questions and accused the Swiss lender...

Sep 4, 2026, 3:38 PM

Palestine, That Is Israel

Palestine, that is Israel. One country, two names. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Why Israel Should Adopt “Palestine” as Its Official Exonym There is a word Israel has gradually allowed its opponents to monopolize: Palestine. In much of today’s political discourse, Israel and Palestine are presented as mutually exclusive concepts—Israel representing its citizens and...

Kelsey Maurine Brickl

Sep 3, 2026, 10:16 PM

The Logical Fallacies That Erase Inconvenient Holocaust Prisoners

There is a document in the Swedish archives dated June 28, 1945. It records an interrogation of my husband’s grandfather, Alois Simonič, conducted only weeks after his liberation from the Nazi concentration camp system. He was thirty-one years old. Alois...

Sep 3, 2026, 9:12 AM

One Jewish State. Why Is That Too Much?

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Why Is One Tiny Jewish State Too Much? There is a question that is rarely asked because asking it makes people uncomfortable. Why is the existence of one Jewish state considered such an unbearable problem by so much of the Arab...

Sep 3, 2026, 4:54 AM

The Heebie-Jeebies of a Driverless Tesla

As I sat in the driver's seat of my self-driving Tesla, I experienced a rare case of the heebie-jeebies. Yes, anxiety crept up every rung of my spine. I had put my life in the hands of artificial intelligence. Quite...

William Goloboy

Sep 2, 2026, 11:53 PM

Prophets not Diplomats: Ahad Ha’am and the Vision of Cultural Zionism

How would you define Zionism? If I polled the average Times of Israel reader on this question I’m sure I would get a huge variety of responses. Zionism is support for Israel. Zionism is the nationalist movement for Jewish...

Sep 1, 2026, 10:32 AM

The Palestine Project

The Great Palestinian Identity Theft: They can redefine a name. They cannot erase its history. Now comes the reclamation. Image © Ivan Bassov, 2026. Licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Reclaiming the Name. Reclaiming the Identity. I recently stumbled across something called The Palestine Project. It describes itself simply: “The Palestine Project promotes the Palestinian narrative.” Interesting. So do I. Then I found an article associated with the project titled: ‘Anti-Palestinianism’: Why we should start using...

Sep 1, 2026, 8:11 AM

You Can Run From Zionism. But You Can Never Escape Your Judaism

Brad Lander, a progressive Jewish politician in New York, attending Zohran Mamdani's primary election watch party in June 2025. (Heather Khalifa/AP)

Brad Lander has spent years of his political career trying to prove that being Jewish does not require being a supporter of Israel. Last weekend, he was shown that people don't care. Lander, the Democratic nominee for New York’s 10th...

Sep 1, 2026, 12:17 AM

Iran says Israel is the enemy. The graves tell another story

“Know your real enemy.” That was the message Iran’s supreme leader Mojtaba Khamenei recently delivered to the rulers of the Muslim world, particularly the Gulf states. He urged them to unite against Israel and the United States, blaming Muslim division...

Aug 31, 2026, 5:49 PM

When Ancient Inhabitants Return

Dinosaurs escaped Earth before the asteroid hit. Sixty-six million years later, they have returned home to find it occupied. This allegory, in the form of a television interview, helps frame the current problem between Jews and Palestinians: Smith: Hello everybody,...

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