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Settlers torched a West Bank mosque — and the milquetoast Israeli mainstream response won’t suffice
A crisis is reaching its boiling point, and no one appears ready to take the major steps necessary to restore calm
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Opinion Trump has degraded American democracy. Now he’s aiming for Israel
The president's push for a pardon for Netanyahu risks disaster
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Opinion Why won’t pro-Palestinian protesters turn their attention to Darfur?
An American ally is funding mass slaughter in Sudan. American protesters are nowhere to be found.
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Opinion A single arrest has thrown the battle for Israel’s soul into sharp relief
Who committed the greater crime: The soldiers who abused a prisoner, or the official who leaked the video?
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Opinion When Zionism was maligned at the UN, he fought for truth — what would he say today?
Fifty years ago, one speech countered the onset of pernicious lies about Israel
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Opinion I spoke out against Mamdani. Then he won. Here’s how we walk forward together.
The Jewish community has become divided. We must learn to walk together again.
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Opinion Sure, be mad I voted for Mamdani — I’m still just as Jewish (and Israeli) as you are
My choice to support the mayor-elect brought on a wave of fury. Here's what I learned
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Opinion Why a concert hall should be the last place for a protest — particularly an antisemitic one like this
A witless and bewildering protest of the Israel Philharmonic in Paris brought out the worst of the left and right
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Opinion The fundamental miscalculation behind the GOP’s antisemitism crisis
The idea that coded antisemitism was fine so long as it came with strong support for Israel was always misguided
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Opinion The 3 profound Jewish lessons of Mamdani’s astonishing victory
Takeaways for the incoming mayor's opponents — and the mayor himself
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Opinion When Rabin was assassinated, Israel changed before my eyes
I was backpacking around the Middle East when Yitzhak Rabin was shot. I've never forgotten what I saw
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Culture Mamdani’s first statement on antisemitism as mayor-elect got some weird pushback
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