Every citizen should repudiate those who abuse free speech by harassing, threatening, intimidating, and trying to make Jews feel uncomfortable for being Jewish and pro-Israel.

The notion that people are motivated solely by the desire to satisfy their egoistic needs, to avoid pain, and to maximize pleasure is anything but a holistic truth in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

Is the NAACP excluding the kinds of Jewish activists that founded it when it expands its focus to include international issues?

In the absence of any possibility of a full constitution at the present time, we need a framework of rules that can be agreed upon and that are not heavily burdened by contrasting ideologies and can thus contribute to stability. This is the rationale behind the Jewish People Policy Institute’s “Thin Constitution” project.

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?

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

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.

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

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