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Michael Zoosman

Sep 22, 2026, 11:57 PM

Standing Against Ben Gvir’s Yom Kippur Death Wish

Just hours before the start of Yom Kippur, the holiest day of the year in the Jewish calendar, Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir raised the possibility of applying the death penalty to a person whom the Jerusalem...

Maria Golovanevskaya

Sep 22, 2026, 3:27 AM

Denying settler violence does not make us better allies to Israel

Israelis supporting Palestinian farmers in Burin during olive harvest as part of Rabbis for Human Rights solidarity visit

In 2022 I visited Burin, a small village just south of Nablus and below a Jewish settlement called Yitzhar. I went as part of the weekly solidarity visits organized by Rabbis for Human Rights who accompany Palestinian farmers to...

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, 4:40 AM

‘Walk-and-Talk’ geopolitics and travel vloggers distorting complex conflicts

Picture courtesy JESHOOTS.com

Over the years, we have witnessed a subtle, yet in reality, dramatic, shift in how millions of viewers consume news about foreign conflicts. Alongside traditional news broadcasts and official statements, social media feeds are now populated by solo content...

Sep 16, 2026, 10:51 PM

UK government shoots itself in the foot

Ed Miliband is Britain’s Foreign Secretary, a leader in the Labour Party. His brother, David Miliband, was the Foreign Secretary more than a decade ago. Miliband’s parents, both Holocaust-survivors, fled Nazi Europe for Britain during WW2. They retained their...

Sep 15, 2026, 6:20 PM

Being Pro-Israel Means Knowing the Settlements Are Not Israel

Distinguishing sovereign Israel from the West Bank is legally correct and strategically necessary. Turning that distinction into a trade ban on settlement goods backfires: it punishes civilians, strengthens annexationists and makes separation politically harder. Britain, France and Canada have announced...

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...

Sheldon Kirshner

Sep 11, 2026, 7:29 PM

Britain’s Tough Approach To Israeli Settlements

The current Israeli government, led by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, labors under the grand illusion that its controversial settlement policy in the occupied West Bank will have no adverse effect on its bilateral relations with foreign countries. On September 7,...

Sep 11, 2026, 7:21 PM

Forgiveness Requires Tikun/Short Vidui 5787

Here are my Rosh HaShana thoughts for 5786 and this year’s short vidui (confession). We have already been reciting our penitential prayers in places such as the abandoned Palestinian neighborhood of Khalet a Sidra and in front of the...

Sep 11, 2026, 2:27 PM

Miliband’s Sanctions Put Britain’s Relationship with Israel at Risk

Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron, Judea and Samaria (Wikimedia commons)

This week, Britain’s new Foreign Secretary, Ed Miliband, decided to sanction Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria. Miliband does not believe that the Jewish people have a right to live in Judea and, rather than sanctioning terrorist organisations such...

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