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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...

Richard H. Schwartz

Sep 14, 2026, 12:18 PM

Israel at a Dangerous Crossroads — and Its Best Possible Future

Israel is confronting a deeply troubling reality. Hatred of Israel has intensified in much of the world. Antisemitism has become frighteningly widespread. More Israelis are leaving the country, creating a troubling negative migration balance. And the once-promising prospect of...

Bernard P. Markowicz

Sep 9, 2026, 10:52 PM

Could Jews Live in a Palestinian State?

AI Composite Illustration (Bernard Markowicz)

Separating the right to live in the land from the right to rule it. The first post tested Omer Bartov’s argument against settler violence and unequal enforcement in the West Bank. This post moves from diagnosis to possibility: could...

Sep 9, 2026, 2:16 PM

Labour’s Israel policy is electoral pandering

There is something almost admirable about the efficiency with which Andy Burnham and Ed Miliband have converted a modest trade restriction into a diplomatic crisis with Israel. But then again, Labour has a peculiar knack for turning domestic token...

Sep 8, 2026, 8:21 PM

I worked at Britain’s embassy in Israel. The East Jerusalem consulate had to go

Photo of British Embassy Tel Aviv taken by Shlomo Kates.

Israel’s decision to shut the diplomatic post may look like retaliation, but it exposed a UK Mideast policy built on an untenable fiction

Sep 7, 2026, 4:47 AM

Righting The Unreal Spiel Of Rula Jabreal

Rula Jebreal called Hakeem Jeffries a monkey and insulted his very name, then excused herself for it by talking nonsense and claiming he's controlled by Israeli lobbyjng money as conspiracists do. Hakeem Jeffries is a Black man and any...

Sep 3, 2026, 7:51 PM

Who Are the Palestinians?

Three Questions Rolled into One The question sounds simple enough to answer with a sentence, but it is not, because it bundles three separate questions that popular argument routinely collapses into one: who are the biological and cultural ancestors of...

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