Eric Alterman

The great German philosopher both robustly defended the public sphere—and for seven decades never stopped participating in it.

The big legacy groups remain mostly silent. But nearly everyone else now agrees: Netanyahu’s Gaza war is one of the great catastrophes in Jewish history.

The Baptist minister from Texas became this New York Jew’s rabbi. How lucky was I?

Trump is the most pliable. But Netanyahu plays them all like cheap violins, despite being wrong about every important matter of the last 25 years.

They were victims of brutal antisemitic violence as they sought peace. But some have invoked their tragedy toward the opposite end.

Trump is offering American Jews a kind of devil’s bargain: throw in with us against the antisemitic universities and campus rabble-rousers, but pay no attention as we dismantle the traditions and institutions that Jews value.

If Jews vote on their traditional concerns, yes, she can. But Israel has become a conservative cause. And this will matter in—gulp—Pennsylvania.

Some take the view that anti-Zionism is never antisemitic. Others say it always is. Both are wrong—and both obstruct honest dialogue.

Some groups are trying to draw attention to the carnage in Gaza. But after October 7, most Israelis don’t want to be bothered.

How the media has failed, and what the Democrats need to do

Joe Biden is being tugged in two directions, but his choice should be clear: Save Israel from itself, and save himself, his party, and American democracy in the process.

Jews in the United States and elsewhere are at war over these labels. But the distinctions are clearer on paper than they are in real life.

Maybe, but a more interesting question is why so many Jewish leaders want to give the guy a pass for his horrific treatment of Israel.

Neither administrators nor donors ought to have anything to say about what is taught in the classroom or said aloud in a peaceful protest.

Joe Biden will likely be damaged, Israel will pay a huge price—and, as usual, the Palestinian people will suffer the most.

The far right is the source of the vast majority of antisemitism in the U.S. today—and of direct threats to the republic. The Anti-Defamation League should be saying so more insistently.

In magisterial books and sharp essays—many of them for The New Republic—Steel, who died recently at 92, became one of the most vital foreign policy voices of his age.

Netanyahu accuses the paper of record of anti-Israel bias. But for decades now, the opposite has been true.

The historic Camp David Accords were supposed to be just the start. But American Jewish leaders—and Menachem Begin—helped see to it that they were the end.