The Magnes Zionist

There are two important stories about My Promised Land, Israeli journalist Ari Shavit’s  memoir cum interviews cum meditation on Israel: ...

Today I woke up to the news that Shulamit Aloni had passed away. Aloni was of a generation that was brought up with the notion that to be a...

An article that appeared in Tablet , defending International Hillel’s decision to bar events and groups that do not toe the Zionist line, us...

In his shrill response to Max Blumenthal’s letter to the Nation, Eric Alterman continues to question Blumenthal’s claim that the Israeli t...

Update: My original claim of Alterman's ignorance when it comes to Israel was uncharitable, and I have changed it below.  I simply was a...

Readers:  This piece, with a few  changes, appears on Open Zion here . Defenders of the US backed  peace process  confuse  the thesis artic...

For years a husband abused his wife. Whenever his neighbors threatened to go to the police he would say, “Why are you concerned with me? In ...

To the reader: At a time when the United States is pondering a strike against Syria, ostensibly to warn President Assad against further use ...

Rather than write up my take on the Kerry announcement (I’m basically with Harvard’s Steve Walt and Jewish Voice for Peace’s Sydney Levy )...

These days all eyes are focused on Egypt. Over the last few months all eyes have been focused on Syria. Wherever the next Arab crisis will b...

It’s open season on Prof. Shlomo Sand of Tel Aviv University in the pages of Haaretz , following the publication of his latest book, How and...

On Friday it was revealed that Rabbi Dr. Michael Broyde -- according to Haaretz , “arguably the single most prominent young Orthodox rabbi i...

Readers, this piece appeared today on Open Zion here . When I appealed to liberal Zionists to support the global BDS movement , I assumed...

Readers, this post appeared last week in Open Zion here  and was answered by Peter Beinart here. I plan to respond to his response later.  ...