Category: Blog

Israel and Jews in Crosshairs of NYC Mayoral Race

A charismatic young socialist, who is also a Muslim immigrant with a highly critical track record on Israel, has a significant chance to become the next Mayor of New York. Still, Jewish New Yorkers need not panic.

Some Good News for a Change

On May 9th, the “It’s Time” Peace Summit, backed by 60 Israeli and Palestinian peace organizations, was held in an all-day conference at Jerusalem’s International Convention Center, with 5,000 activists packing the building, and tens of thousands connected via social media.

Two-State Solution’s Dead? What’s the Alternative?

… there are roughly seven million Israeli Jews and seven million Palestinian Arabs living in the borders of the British Mandate. … The most workable way to share is to divide the land … also the only way to achieve, for both sides, the minimum of national rights that both have legitimately pursued.

Protests in and about Gaza

Analyzing two pieces in The Forward: a review of a documentary film about the anti-Israel protests at Columbia, and an article about the anti-Hamas protests in Gaza.

Israeli Right-wing Gov’s Grotesque Agenda

The protesters’ banner reads: “It’s time for a government of Recovery.” This analysis is by the national chair of Canadian Friends of Peace Now, who joins us as a contributing writer.

Israel has had enough of Netanyahu

Netanyahu knows [that if] elections were to be held tomorrow, he’d be thrown out of office. … and he’d likely wind up spending time in jail, like his predecessor, the former prime minister Ehud Olmert.

When reality truly overwhelms your worst imaginings

This is a Cri de Coeur from Israel for the government to end this nightmare by completing the deal it originally signed to release the remaining hostages, currently abandoned and left to their torturous fate.

Oscar-winning Doc is All Too True

Its narrative focus is upon the evolving partnership and friendship of two filmmakers — one a villager and the other an Arabic-speaking Israeli journalist, who is readily accepted for who he is, a “Yahud” (Jew) who has come in solidarity.