January 5, 2023
Israeli Forces Have Killed Four Young Palestinians in Five Days
We’re barely into the new year.
January 5, 2023
The Speaker Fight Makes Congress Look Like Parliament, and That’s Not a Pretty Sight
American liberals’ enthusiasm for parliamentary governance was dwindling already. This should finish it off.
November 3, 2022
Netanyahu Is Back, but the Real Winner in Israel Makes Bibi
Look Timid
The showing by Itamar Ben-Gvir’s racist, nationalist party portends a hard-right turn. And meanwhile, on the left …
November 2, 2022
Report: “Death to Arabs” Was the Chant at the HQ of the “Star” of the Israeli Elections
The Israeli elections aren't just about Netanyahu. It gets worse.
August 9, 2022
Focus on the Israel Lobby Gets U.S. Foreign Policy Wrong
Walter Russell Mead’s new book shows the United States’ relationship with Israel has always been self-involved and opportunistic.
July 27, 2022
AIPAC’s Aggressive Spending Is Bad for the Democratic Party—and Democracy Itself
This election cycle will go down as the one in which the right-wing Israel lobby did something it always swore it would never do: make Israel a partisan political football.
June 23, 2022
Inflation. Covid. Congress. And Now the Middle East.
The president has had a lot thrown at him. The Middle East, oddly, has been comparatively quiet. That may be about to change.
February 28, 2022
The World—and Republicans—Has to Choose Sides on Ukraine This Week
Olaf Scholz, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, and Joe Biden have chosen: They stand against thuggish authoritarianism. Will the world and the GOP join them?
September 17, 2021
Vaccinating the Unvaccinated Is Better Than Giving People Covid Booster Shots
Until we have solid data on who needs them and how often, booster shots are going to be tough to distinguish from vaccine hoarding.
July 21, 2021
The Corporate Surveillance Industry Has Become a Global Monster
Companies like Israel’s NSO Group have revolutionized how governments spy on their citizens. Can they be tamed?
July 20, 2021
Why Did Israel’s Judiciary Become an Enemy of the People?
Because of a right-wing campaign grounded in fear of expansion of rights—a story familiar to American readers
June 24, 2021
An Origin Story for the Netanyahus
Joshua Cohen’s inventive new novel imagines Benjamin Netanyahu’s childhood, and digs deep into his father Benzion’s vision of Jewish history.
June 17, 2021
Why the Unrest in Gaza Might Get Worse
This week, Israel bombed the Palestinian territory. Next month, the Israeli Supreme Court will adjudicate the threatened evictions in East Jerusalem that sparked May’s violence.
May 24, 2021
Have Democrats Reached a Turning Point on Israel?
Recent violence and shifts in public opinion have created an opportunity for advocates to push President Biden on a policy that’s been fixed in amber.
May 21, 2021
The Associated Press Gives in to Right-Wing Trolls
A bad-faith smear campaign over college activism cost a news associate her job.
May 17, 2021
Will Israel’s Bombing of the AP Expose the Fake Neutrality of the U.S. Media’s Coverage?
By hitting foreign media bureaus in Gaza, Israel has revealed something about its view of a free press—even if objectivity-obsessed reporters won’t believe it.
May 10, 2021
Joe Biden Can’t Duck the Jerusalem Crisis
Israel’s latest Palestinian crackdown cries out to be condemned by this administration. Will he break from the deadly status quo?
April 27, 2021
“John Kerry Is a Traitor” Is the Republicans’ New Dumb Meme
The latest bad-faith attacks on Biden’s climate envoy show that the GOP is determined to find the next #Benghazi.
