A shorter version of this article appeared in the Forward. A Jewish man walks through Jerusalem’s Old City. (Chris McGrath/Getty Images) “Outside the rain begins and it may never end.” So opens the Boz Scaggs hit of 1976, later recorded by Rita Coolidge and Frankie Valli. It concluded with the mournful refrain, “We’re all alone, we’re all alone.” I…
Hamas Has Reminded Us That We are a Nation, a Family – a Mishpacha I saw the confusion, I saw the fear, but also the unity and determination. Communities formerly at odds over ritual differences, have come together to advocate and demonstrate for Israel. MICHAEL OREN MAR 15, 2024 This article originally appeared in the…
“I think it’s fair to say that I am not a Zionist.” So proclaimed the renowned professor of Modern Arab History before a class of Princeton University undergraduates. The remark was accompanied by an ironic smirk signaling understatement. He was, in fact, rabidly anti-Zionist and made no attempt to hide it. At the department’s weekly…
With less than a year to go until the U.S. presidential election and the Middle East deep in crisis, the Biden administration has, almost coincidentally, decided to come up with a Middle East policy. JAY MENS FEB 29, 2024 36 11 5 Share With less than a year to go until the U.S. presidential…
This article originally appeared in Jewish Journal. (Abid Katib/Getty Images) Israelis may have been shocked by the recent IDF military intelligence report that Hamas will survive the war in Gaza. Leaked to the press in an apparent attempt to shame Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and other senior officials, the internal report belies their repeated pledges to…
This article originally appeared in The Times of Israel. Every civilian death is a tragedy. Another country, struck by the type and immensity of the atrocities committed against Israel, would likely have responded with vastly greater force and inflicted far greater numbers of civilian casualties. But Israel is the Jewish State, not only in the way…
The Core Conflict and the Jews Linkage—the belief that the Israeli-Palestine conflict is the root of all Middle East instability—is not only factually wrong and deleterious to peace, it is fundamentally antisemitic. Shortly after entering office, in 2009, President Barack Obama’s National Security Advisor, Lt. General Jim Jones made a startling pronouncement. “If God had…
“I have only one passion, that of light, in the name of humanity which has suffered so much and which has the right to happiness.” So concluded J’Accuse, Emile Zola’s 1898 attack on the French judicial, military, and political establishment. His purpose was to expose the serial perjuries and forgeries that led to the conviction, of…
“When will you ever learn?” asked the refrain in Pete Seeger’s classic anti-war song, Where Have All the Flowers Gone. “When will you ever learn?” Still taken from CBS News Subscribed The question is especially pressing today as the White House decides how and where to respond to the drone attack, by an Iranian-backed militia, on a U.S.…
In light of the outrageous ICJ ruling on genocide, here is an article I recently published on Horizon Weekly about a real genocide. The phone call from a representative of a mainstream and generally non-political American Jewish organization was sure to be enthusiastic. The year was 2006, shortly after the publication of Power, Faith, and Fantasy, my account…
