The Magnes Zionist

Not surprisingly, the Israeli High Court rejected the petitions of the human rights groups Gisha and Adalah to compel the state to restore ...

My blogger friend Richard Silverstein once advised me to stick with a story. So since I wrote on Norman Finkelstein at the Oxford Union la...

I have no illusion that Barack Obama will be any better (i.e., worse) for Israel than Hillary or any of the Republican contenders for the n...

Bernard Avishai's name is familiar to anybody familiar with Zionism and Israel. He has been writing on the subject for years, and if I ...

Ok, so you are an intelligent, reasonable, human being. You have learned to be skeptical of the claims of dyed-in-the-wool ideologues, gove...

When Norm Finkelstein was disinvited from appearing at the Oxford Union last term, the then president, Luke Tyrell, said that he would be i...

I have been sitting on this way too long. Sol Salbe was kind enough to translate an article from Haaretz , untranslated on their website, t...

It has been fascinating to witness over the last few years Israel's loss of moral stature by going after international human rights gro...

May 2008 bring some relief to the peoples of the world under Occupation, and to their Occupiers. I hope my readers won't mind if I fea...

Sam Bahour sent around Brit Tzedek v'Shalom's booklet, curiously titled, " Rabbinic Guide to 40 Years of Occupation " (Wh...

Two Israeli Jews meet each other on the street: -Oy, Shimon, this business in Sderot is awful. How come we can't stop those Kassam roc...

Haaretz published today a long interview with Brigadier General (res.) Zvika Fogel, the chief of staff of the Southern Command of the IDF d...

A few days I wrote a very long post on the fiasco at the Forum for a Just Peace in Madrid. This was a much anticipated gathering of Palesti...

I quote in full the piece written by Ahmad Jaradat and Anahi Ayala Iacucci, of the Alternative Information Center (AIC) here "Be...