The Magnes Zionist

In May 1948, a minority of Palestinian residents, mostly recent settlers from Europe, declared an independent state against the wishes of t...

Yesterday I wrote that living in Israel for Jews (especially Jews who have a steady income) is like flying business class, or like being in ...

1. Binationalism in the eyes of Israelis. Ask most Israel supporters what they they think of binationalism, and they will say, “Look at Leba...

Subscribers: Please check out my blog here because this post will be virtually incomprehensible if you can’t see the maps. I criticized th...

Some readers wondered why I devoted a whole post to showing that the NY Times “corrected” a story about Atarot  by repeating a rightwing me...

Tomorrow and Thursday there will be committee hearings on the proposed Maryland legislation forbidding the use of state money for institutio...

Phil Weiss reported last week about how the rightwing media “watchdog” CAMERA got the New York Times to change its reporting on the Soda St...

In my pantheon of commentators on Israel/Palestine, I rate MJ Rosenberg near the top. In fact, I agree with him on virtually everything, and...

I don’t usually comment on this blog about religious controversies among my fellow modern orthodox Jews. As in other religions, and in socie...

It is understandable that two bloggers, Shmuel Rosner and Liel Leibovitz , couldn’t understand my views since they never took the time to r...

Marc Oppenheimer wrote a nice piece in his Beliefs column in the New York Times for which I was interviewed. The piece features Stefan Kri...

First the New York State Senate passed a bill prohibiting American Studies departments in public universities from using state funds to be i...

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 ...