Abe Silberstein is the Associate Director, North America, of The Abraham Initiatives, an Israel-based NGO working to achieve equality between Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel. He tweets @abesilbe. His views and opinions do not reflect those of his employer.
Abe Silberstein
By Abe Silberstein
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Opinion Israel is failing to protect its Arab citizens
The rate of violent crime in Arab communities has soared since Netanyahu's far-right government took power
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Opinion Antisemitism is not the reason Ilhan Omar lost her committee seat
If House Republicans were truly concerned about antisemitism, they would be dealing with their own members' remarks
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Opinion Why the Israeli government failed but isn’t a failure
Bennett and Lapid's coalition government will leave a legacy on Arab-Jewish political partnership that should inform future progressive strategies
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Opinion What was lost in the Ben & Jerry’s Israel meltdown
Ben & Jerry’s decision to stop distributing its products in West Bank settlements has unleashed a head-swirling discourse about BDS, ice cream and antisemitism that is quite disproportionate to the effect the Vermont-based company will actually have. But all this Chunky Monkey is hiding a more a concerning story: Despite the anger of some pro-Israel…
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Opinion It’s time to end the ‘special’ relationship between Israel and the U.S.
The departure of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday was met with an audible sigh of relief from pro-Israel Democrats. The man they deemed primarily responsible for the turning of Israel into a so-called “partisan issue” was gone — at least for a while. Some advocates of the U.S.-Israel relationship now see an opportunity to…
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Opinion So long Ruvi Rivlin, the last liberal Likudnik
Over the weekend, as it became clear that Naftali Bennett would move to establish a unity government, ending Benjamin Netanyahu’s 12 year reign, a disturbing image popped up in a WhatsApp group of Likud activists: a black-and-white photo of Bennett in a keffiyeh— a traditionally Arab headscarf— with the words “The Liar” and “Elections Now”…
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Opinion Israel’s proposed coalition agreement offers a rare chance for optimism
Barring any unusual surprises, of which we have already had a great many, Israel will soon have a new government that few could have imagined a few weeks ago. The proposed coalition between Yair Lapid, a centrist, and Naftali Bennett, a man of the hard right, who will share the premiership through a rotation agreement,…
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Opinion The Israel-Hamas ceasefire should have come sooner — and could have if Biden had acted
As of this writing, Israel and Hamas appear headed for a ceasefire. For the White House, should the ceasefire take effect as expected at 7 p.m. Eastern time and hold, it may seem like a victory for its favored quiet and “arm around Israel” approach. In fact, though, this episode demonstrated the inadequacy of a…
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