Opinion Articles
Antisemitism in China is not accidental, or marginal
Israel must be firm in its rejection of China’s official denials that it has become a breeding ground of antisemitism.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics
Why the War in Sudan is Erased
There are wars that apparently pierce the conscience of the world and then there are those that vanish from it entirely. To understand why, we must first understand the nature of the Sudan ese catastrophe—and the ideological fault lines it threatens to expose.
Haredim
Haredim
The ultra-Orthodox are firing blanks in their war on the draft
Haredi threats over draft evasion expose a sector that contributes little to Israel’s economy, security, or core institutions.
Swords of Iron
Swords of Iron
Indicting Israel unfairly: Defining genocide broadly
We cannot be so hard-hearted to deny Palestinian suffering, exacerbated by Israeli operational failures, but we cannot let Hamas destroy us.
Swords of Iron
Swords of Iron
A Palestinian State? Yes — But only if it ends the war on Israel’s existence
Only when Palestinians are prepared to see a future state as their home — rather than a launching point for renewed struggle — will peace be possible.
Democracy
Democracy
20 years later: Israel’s lessons learned from Gush Katif and Tisha B’Av
No one could have known for certain back in 2005 what would happen next, how just two years later, Hamas would violently seize control of Gaza and that it would lead to the October 7 massacre.
Jewish Communities Worldwide
Jewish Communities Worldwide
Macron’s statement is a blow to peace, danger to Jews
Recognizing Palestine today, in the midst of a war that Hamas started on October 7 nearly two years ago, and while it still refuses to acknowledge Israel’s right to exist, is not a contribution to peace.
Geopolitics
Geopolitics
However it distributes aid, or doesn’t, Israel still has no plan for its war in Gaza
Nearly two years after Oct. 7, the government still cannot articulate how this war will be brought to a close.