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  The dark reality masked by the garish Trump-Netanyahu lovefest

  Hostages are starving. So are Palestinian civilians. But at least the president has, theoretically, been nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize.

  By Dan Perry

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  Can Gaza’s humanitarian catastrophe be reversed? It’s up to Trump

  As Netanyahu visits D.C., it's time to address starvation and aid-related violence in Gaza

  By Larry Garber Jul 7, 2025 | 4 min read
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  Right-wing insurrectionists tried to topple the German government in 1920 — it’s happening again in Trump’s America

  Like the Jan. 6 Capitol rioters, the perpetrators of the Kapp Putsch escaped punishment and accountability

  By Terrence Petty Jul 5, 2025 | 4 min read

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• Alyssa Katz Class assignment: Get to know your murdered Jewish neighbors

  

• Rob Eshman The San Diego imam defended Oct. 7. His mosque still deserves our help

  

• Dan Perry Don’t dismiss Israel’s most rage-baiting minister as fringe

  

• Emily Tamkin Outrage over Nicholas Kristof’s op-ed on sexual assault of Palestinians is missing the point

  

• Jay Michaelson When it comes to Israel/Palestine, everyone is sure that everyone else is a bigot

  

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  Want to understand what’s wrong with the ‘pro-Palestine’ movement? This Palestinian can help.

  One Gazan took on 20 of his self-appointed saviors. The results will depress you.

  By Rob Eshman Jul 3, 2025 | 3 min read
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  The Mamdani-Lander alliance has a lesson to teach Israel. It’s not what you think

  Productive political partnership doesn't mean needing to agree on every last issue

  By Libby Lenkinski Jul 3, 2025 | 4 min read
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  A Trumpian farce to make the ghosts of Jefferson, Madison and Vichy France’s victims weep

  The resignation of the president of the University of Virginia is a national tragedy

  By Robert Zaretsky Jul 3, 2025 | 5 min read
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  Dr. Ruth taught me everything I know — because she was my mom

  As we approach her first yahrtzeit, I’m remembering all my mom had to educate me about — including the importance of family, the perils of loneliness, and relationships

  By Joel Westheimer Jul 1, 2025 | 5 min read
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  How my Jewish great-grandfather paved the way for Zohran Mamdani — and Donald Trump

  The language being used to attack Mamdani sounds a whole lot like what my great-grandfather experienced in the 1930s

  By Stefanie Iris Weiss Jul 1, 2025 | 4 min read
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  Trump wants to control the Israeli judiciary. Uh, good luck

  Here's what the president has wrong about the case against Netanyahu

  By Dan Perry Jun 29, 2025 | 3 min read
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  Can we say Donald Trump’s Middle East nuclear strategy is dangerous — if it isn’t even a strategy?

  Years of back channel negotiations and nuclear non-proliferation treaties have been upended by a president making it up as he goes along

  By Terrence Petty Jun 28, 2025 | 4 min read
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  ‘Israel is seen as violent’ — and Israeli chefs, once global culinary icons, are feeling the heat

  How Eyal Shani is navigating war — while his business partner speaks on behalf of a controversial aid effort

  By Rob Eshman Jun 27, 2025 | 4 min read