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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...

Sep 17, 2026, 2:06 PM

Britain’s Israeli Policy Is a Miscalculation

Britain’s foreign secretary has presented sanctions against Israel as a route to Middle East stability. The argument rests on an assumption that history, geography and the record of failed peace initiatives do little to support. The House of Commons has...

Avraham Russell Shalev

Sep 17, 2026, 1:12 PM

Betrayal from Within: Rav Kook, Montagu, Miliband

When British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband stood up in Parliament to announce sweeping sanctions on Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria, he made sure to announce that he did so "as a proud British Jew". According to Tim Shipman, writing...

Bernard P. Markowicz

Sep 13, 2026, 4:59 AM

Why Mike Huckabee Drew a Line in the West Bank

His campaign against violent settlers may reveal how American politics is beginning to constrain unconditional support for Israeli policy. The first post used settler violence to test Omer Bartov’s diagnosis of unequal power. The second asked whether Jews could live...

Sep 12, 2026, 10:52 AM

The Jew, the Jew, shalt thou pursue?

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In a statement to the House of Commons on 8 September 2026, UK Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced that His Majesty’s Government would introduce a ban on imports into Britain of goods produced in Israeli settlements in the West...

Sep 11, 2026, 6:34 PM

Jewish News – We must be better than BBC!

Dear Richard, I am writing about the Jewish News article headlined: Former Israeli PM and ex-IDF chief of staff back UK sanctions on West Bank settlers involved in 'Jewish terror' (Linked here.) Journalism. Good journalism. Truth. How can we expect other outlets to...

Yoseph Janowski

Sep 10, 2026, 10:06 PM

A Jewish atheist boycotts Jewish settlements

He doesn’t believe in G-d. He married a non-Jew. And he is sanctioning Jewish settlements in Israel. At the beginning of his speech, Ed Miliband spoke about the Holocaust, how he lost 60 members of his family who were killed...

Sep 10, 2026, 5:06 PM

Confessing our communal sins for the New Year

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As much as we need to hold ourselves accountable individually for our shortcomings, we also belong to groups that should, likewise, take a frank look at the values and actions they support. These groups — of which we are...

Sep 10, 2026, 4:51 AM

Throwing Stones from a Glass House: The West’s Double Standard on Israel

This week, British Foreign Secretary Ed Miliband announced that Britain would ban imports from Israeli settlements in the West Bank, joining France and Canada in taking action. The governments cited international law and settlement expansion, but also what they...

Bernard P. Markowicz

Sep 9, 2026, 10:52 PM

Could Jews Live in a Palestinian State?

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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...

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