The Magnes Zionist

By “anti-Palestinianism” I understand prejudice against Palestinian Arabs based on perceived negative qualities of Palestinian cultural or n...

Since the election of Ehud Barak as prime minister in 1999, if not earlier, there has been no center left in Israel. Of course, there has be...

J. K . Rowling has signed a statement against the cultural boycott of Israel, and has called instead for cultural engagement.  Some of her P...

Update: Apparently, the Spanish festival has recently apologized and reinvited Matisyahu . The festival organizers' should not be confu...

These are sad days for Israel/Palestine, but today I got a kick out of a story that I thought at first was produced by the satirical mag, th...

A story reported last week by Inside Higher Education read like a McCarthyist nightmare:  A Brazilian university administrator urgently req...

Many people have different positions on the wisdom, and even the legitimacy, of tactics involving boycotts, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) ...

I was asked last summer by a friend what was my reaction to the Two States in  One Homeland initiative. My short answer was that it had som...

Several days ago, the Israeli NGO Breaking the Silence, which takes testimonies from IDF soldiers, published a booklet of over sixty testim...

Dr. Max Klau and Rabbi Sid Schwartz (a rabbi for whom I have enormous respect)  have written an article arguing that young progressive Jews ...

Liberal Zionists don’t like the global BDS movement, but they also think that the Obama administration should get tough with the Netanyahu ...

In 1992, Bnai Brith International Corporation registered with the US Patent and Trademark Office the name “Hillel” to designate “associati...

Update, March 18, morning, Jerusalem: Israel is a Right Wing Nation. What is “center” in Israel is right in the rest of the world. What is...

Israel is not a liberal democracy that supports the flourishing of its citizenry.  In fact, it is not a democracy, since democracy requires ...

It has been my custom to reproduce this “Selling Purim to Progressives” post occasionally on Purim, with some modifications.  The last time ...

If you are progressive/liberal, a supporter of democratic Israel, and, for good measure, a Zionist, there are two parties you can conscienti...

The Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, in some of whose programs I have participated,  runs one called the Muslim Leadership Initiative....