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Oct 6, 2026, 1:12 AM

Since when did Jesus suddenly become a Palestinian?

I am not a religious man. Indeed, I am probably about as qualified to deliver a sermon as a sheep is to conduct an orchestra. But one doesn't have to be a theologian to recognise when history is being...

Oct 5, 2026, 12:01 PM

Time to Undo the UN?

It’s happened again. For the second time since moving the Philippines, I feel ashamed of this country I’ve come to love. The first disappointment occurred when the government deported former president Rodrigo Duterte to the Netherlands for trial on alleged...

Oct 5, 2026, 4:07 AM

When does Campus Ideology Cross a Dangerous Threshold?

From Columbus OH, 1999 (Credit: Paul Becker/Wikimedia Commons)

Every institution has a line it believes it would never cross, and the interesting question is how it crosses it anyway. Universities do not decide one morning to tolerate hatred. They get there through a thousand reasonable-sounding exceptions: a...

Marc J. Rosenstein

Oct 2, 2026, 8:35 AM

The Jewish Power Blog: Power and Imagination

Yom Kippur, 9/11, October 7: three traumatic, consequential surprise attacks that, it turns out, shouldn’t have been surprises at all. What connects the three is the fact that what now look like obvious warning signs were ignored or suppressed...

Theodore Sheskin

Oct 1, 2026, 5:51 PM

Negotiate Dual Citizenship for West Bank Settlers

On Sep. 24, 2026, Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivered a recorded video address to the UN General Assembly in which he stated, “We seek a democratic Palestinian state that respects the rule of law and human rights, a...

Sep 29, 2026, 11:38 AM

Two Out of Three

Herodotus relates that the Athenian lawgiver Solon passed through Sardis when Croesus ruled Lydia and had subdued nearly all his neighbors, and that the king had his treasuries thrown open for the visitor before asking him who was the...

Sep 22, 2026, 3:21 AM

When History Is Rewritten, Israel Pays the Price

Photo Credits: Sabine Sterk (AI)

There are moments when history is debated. And then there are moments when history itself appears to be rewritten. As someone who has spent much of my life connected to Israel, who has lived in the Middle East and studied...

Sep 21, 2026, 6:33 PM

Why BDS Is Effectively Dead in India

Visit of PM Narendra Modi to Israel. February 26, 2026. (Source: PMO India/X)

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) movement was designed for a particular kind of political environment: one where public opinion could be mobilized to treat a relationship with Israel as a moral liability. India no longer offers that environment,...

Sep 18, 2026, 5:18 AM

Israel must challenge rather than engage ‘pro-Palestine’ performance politics

The Macklemore battle presents a trap that pro-Israel activists have yet to escape Two options: Either stay silent as more and more celebrities accuse Israel of genocide in ever more prominent forums, and hope the tide will pass, or wield...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Sep 18, 2026, 5:16 AM

Israel Must Protect the Mecca Holy Sites

Fifth-century Yemen supplies the modern State of Israel with a vital historical precedent that Middle East analysts foolishly ignore. When the Himyarite Jewish king Abu Kariba As’ad marched to raze the Kaaba, two traveling rabbis halted the demolition by...

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