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Oct 11, 2026, 4:34 PM

The need to stop Jewish terrorists: A rant from a concerned American-Israeli

Too many Israelis, including many whose views I otherwise mostly agree with, are downplaying the actions by Jewish terrorists in Judea and Samaria. Yes, their actions are bad, but. With many buts. Very few Palestinians have been killed. There...

Jose Lev Alvarez Gomez

Oct 10, 2026, 1:38 AM

Zionism = Racism: The West’s Useful Idiots

Slogans of destruction do not generate their own light; they survive entirely on the patronage of tyrannical regimes. The United Nations General Assembly proved this axiom on November 10, 1975, when 72 states—mobilized by Soviet Cold War machinations and...

Oct 8, 2026, 10:15 PM

The US Has Opposed Settlements for Half a Century. This Bill Finally Means It.

For more than fifty years, American administrations of both parties have told Israel that settlement expansion is a problem. They have said it in press briefings, at the United Nations, and in private calls between presidents and prime ministers. And...

Oct 6, 2026, 7:00 PM

The party’s over

Steny Hoyer (D-MD), a congressman for the past 45 years, will retire in January. A stalwart supporter of Israel throughout his tenure in congress, Hoyer epitomizes the type of Democrat that is rapidly disappearing. Indeed, Hoyer represents another time -...

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 2, 2026, 7:43 PM

The Occupation and the Occupying Society

A basic assumption of Israel’s political, cultural, and legal discourse, one that is taken almost for granted, is that the occupation takes place "there", beyond an invisible border, while within sovereign Israel a stable liberal democracy exists. Even the...

Sep 27, 2026, 10:32 AM

On July 27, 1656, the Portuguese Jewish congregation of Amsterdam laid upon Baruch Spinoza a cherem, the ban that cuts a Jew off from the community, for the heresies the sentence accused him of practicing and teaching. Spinoza was...

Sep 23, 2026, 3:27 AM

Life Beneath the Sukkah

Despite a very uplifting and powerful Yom Kippur experience at MJE, I went into Yom Kippur with the news that a Jewish father of six had been murdered in Israel while preparing for the holiest day of the year,...

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...

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