The Magnes Zionist

My day job has kept me very busy lately, but there are three short points I would like to make before Shabbat enters. 1. Israel’s hamas ...

Let me put my cards on the table. I think that Israel's blockade of Gaza blockade is illegal, has nothing to do with Israel's secur...

I recently participated in a conference that dealt with the question of Jewish peoplehood. One of the speakers noted that in the Bible there...

I have been in academia for over thirty years, and I never saw anything as fast as Yale’s damage control over its decision to axe the Yale I...

Update, June 10: Antony Lerman, a scholar of anti-Semitism, has written a very good post on the Yale decision, against the backdrop of the ...

Liberal Zionists in Israel and the diaspora have, for many years, put forth a vision of two states in historic Palestine, i.e., a Jewish st...

Some readers (and J Street folks) were puzzled by the tone and content of my previous post. After all, what's the difference, I was aske...

Last Saturday night there was a protest in Tel-Aviv, ostensibly in favor of Palestinian "statehood". For most Israelis, a two stat...

President Barack Obama's speech on Middle East perfectly illustrates the phenonemon known as 'PEP' – progressive, except for Pal...

Memo To: Barack H. Obama, President of the United States From: One of your many liberal Zionist advisors Mr. President: In your address on ...

Most Jews of my generation (and younger) were raised with certain myths about the founding of the State of Israel that we now know bear no r...

Today, hundreds of Palestinian refugees, following appeals on Facebook and Twitter, marched towards the Lebanese and Syrian borders, through...

Today, millions of people around the world observed Nakbah Day, which commemorates the loss of much of Arab Palestine to the Zionists in 194...

Peter Beinart has written a post worth reading, and worth heeding , on the Kushner-CUNY affair (which has now been settled in favor of Ku...

Tony Kushner believes that Israel engaged in ethnic cleansing at the founding of the state. He is an advisory board member of Jewish Voice...