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Newsletter 2.6.24

Opening: As Israel wages war, while also contending with a geopolitical affront and an international legal onslaught, it is grappling with a difficult domestic issue: recruitment of the ultra-Orthodox into the IDF. Notably, the internal division presents the most formidable threat to the coalition. About 75% of Israel’s Jews demand ultra-Orthodox conscription, but the government will fall if their petition is granted. JPPI’s experts have dealt with this seemingly intractable issue,…
Religion and State

Drafting Haredim – Coercion Is Not the Answer

What do we do when an ultra-Orthodox public devout about its faith faces off against another public – one that’s devout about the security of the state?
Religion and State
Antisemitism

Campus protests must be branded ‘Academic Intifada’

Worldwide, small cells of well-organized, well-funded haters demean academia, reducing a complex conflict to hate-filled slogans.
Antisemitism
Middle East

How Israel Can Find Its Way Out of Isolation

Articulating a plan for Gaza can help Israel stave off some of the criticism and potentially keep together some of the support that it still has around the world.
Middle East
Antisemitism

Surprised by progressives celebrating Oct. 7? Look at how they have treated Iran

Even today, opposition members from Islamic countries who dare to uphold the universal validity of human rights and condemn religious fundamentalism face vehement backlash from certain left-wing intellectuals in the West. Rather than embracing their commitment to human rights, these individuals are slandered as imperialist collaborators, perpetuating Islamophobia
Antisemitism
Geopolitics

ICC prosecutor’s filing may affect Israel’s character as liberal state

The ICC prosecutor’s decision is painful, among other reasons, because it expresses a complete lack of confidence in the Israeli justice system.
Geopolitics
Religion and State

Drafting Haredim Is Now an Existential Issue

Before October 7, we thought the IDF could be a ‘small and smart army,’ but reality has cruelly slapped us in the face.
Religion and State
Geopolitics

Israel is outraged at ‘absurd’ ICC, but for the rest of the world, it’s totally logical

While the Israeli media presents a picture of the war that is focused on Israel – hostages, war casualties, and the IDF operation – the world sees mostly one image: the destruction of Gaza.
Geopolitics

Editors’ Introduction

A key feature of Israeli life today is the lack of a broad social, political, intellectual, and experiential consensus on the proper vision for the state. Life amid controversy, though it has its positive side, can also be a dangerously destabilizing force.