Batya Ungar-Sargon is the former Opinion Editor at the Forward.
Batya Ungar-Sargon
By Batya Ungar-Sargon
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Opinion Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Has A Big Israel Problem – On The Left And The Right
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s surprise win over 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley in a congressional primary in New York provoked a predictable response from the right. It wasn’t just her avowedly socialist views. Since the day of her victory, the Republican Jewish Coalition has been trying to smear the candidate as bad for the Jews, thanks to a…
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Opinion What Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Really Thinks About Israel
On Friday night, PBS aired an interview with the upstart socialist candidate for New York’s 14th congressional district Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez. The interview was half an hour long, and touched on many of the candidate’s policy issues like free college and free healthcare. But to Monday morning Twitter, it was Ocasio-Cortez’s comments on Israel that were…
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Opinion Can BDS Target The Occupation Without Being Anti-Israel? The Case Of Ireland
Last Wednesday, Ireland’s Senate approved a bill that will make it illegal to purchase products and services from Israeli settlements if it’s signed into law by President Michael Higgins. The vote was immediately declared a huge success for the boycott, divestment and sanctions movement by the left, and an anti-Semitic travesty by the right. This…
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Opinion No, Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez Is Not Bad For The Jews. But 9 GOP Candidates Are
Ever since Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s surprise win over 10-term Rep. Joe Crowley in a congressional primary in New York, there’s been a steady drumbeat of protest from the Republican Jewish Coalition. Unlike many other Republicans, who oppose Ocasio-Cortez’s avowedly socialist views, the RJC has since the day she won tried to smear her as bad for…
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Opinion The Liberal Case For Nationalism
On the morning of June 22, the television show “Fox and Friends” discussed President Trump’s executive decision to stop his own administration’s policy of separating children from their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. “Like it or not, these aren’t our kids,” Fox News host Brian Kilmeade said of the 2,000 children who had been taken…
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Opinion Intersectionality Has Abandoned Jews. Should We Abandon Intersectionality?
We have a race problem here in the U.S. Almost daily, we hear of cops being called on African Americans for taking a nap, waiting in a store, grilling in the park, buying shampoo, or playing golf too slowly. But the problem goes much deeper than unchecked racial bias. We tolerate a system that robs…
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Opinion Can We Talk About Rape In The Holocaust Yet?
They used to tell young Orthodox Jewish girls a story – they may still – about 93 Bais Yaakov girls who were selected by the Nazis to be their sex slaves and put in an apartment full of beds. And when the Nazis arrived to claim their plunder, they found 93 corpses. 93 Bais Yaakov…
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Opinion Israel At 70: A Plethora Of Voices
As Israel turns 70, we wanted to bring you a plethora of voices from leaders we felt had something important to contribute. These voices reflect the diversity of points of view that we at the Forward try to bring you on every topic, but especially about Israel. In these pieces, you will find a former…
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