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  Netanyahu’s allies spent years slandering the man now tasked with cleaning up their mess

  Netanyahu’s allies scapegoated the judge and human rights expert for years. Now, they need him at The Hague.

  By Alex Lederman

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  Jews must reject calls for ‘voluntary emigration’ of Palestinians

  Forced migration in war is a crime against humanity. Israeli ministers putting it on the table is a threat to the future of Israeli democracy no less than this government’s attempt to overhaul Israel’s judiciary.

  By Daniel Sokatch Jan 9, 2024 | 4 min read
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  As Desmond Tutu visited the Middle East in 1989, I thought peace was at hand — what went wrong?

  Can Christmas still bring hope to the Holy Land, even in times of war and strife?

  By Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi Jan 9, 2024 | 5 min read

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• Jay Michaelson Mamdani’s victory is an opportunity for Jews to relearn the art of disagreement

  

• Rob Eshman ‘Israel is seen as violent’ — and Israeli chefs, once global culinary icons, are feeling the heat

  

• Nora Berman Did Netanyahu coerce Trump into attacking Iran? No — but he tried with Obama

  

• Dan Perry For Trump and Netanyahu, statecraft is now synonymous with stagecraft

  

• Emily Tamkin Zohran Mamdani’s victory proves it: The ‘gotcha’ mode of fighting antisemitism has to go

  

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  The worst thing American Jews can do right now is hide

  A Los Angeles synagogue moving its service due to a nearby pro-Palestinian demonstration is an example of what not to do

  By Michael Berenbaum Jan 8, 2024 | 4 min read
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  Gazans are starving. Airdrops of aid could help change that

  Aerial food drops over Gaza could help prevent a famine while bypassing security and distribution challenges

  By Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib Jan 6, 2024 | 6 min read
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  Calls to depopulate Gaza are a dangerous pipe dream

  Population transfer is as morally and strategically indefensible as many of the Israeli right’s other fantasies.

  By Evan Gottesman Jan 5, 2024 | 5 min read
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  Opinion

  Claudine Gay’s resignation from Harvard was necessary but insufficient

  The bungling of campus antisemitism is not about one person’s failures, but broader moral rot at our nation's universities

  By Peter Fox Jan 2, 2024 | 3 min read
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  Opinion

  How culture warriors weaponized Jewish grief and forced Harvard’s president to resign

  Claudine Gay’s enemies are not our friends

  By Jay Michaelson Jan 2, 2024 | 4 min read
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  ‘Proving’ rape is hard. Denialism makes it impossible

  An obsessive focus on the particulars of how victims were violated on Oct. 7 misses the larger point

  By Lux Alptraum Dec 30, 2023 | 3 min read
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  Will anything make the world take Hamas’ sexual violence seriously?

  In a worldview reduced to victim and oppressor, there is simply no space for Israeli suffering

  By Laura E. Adkins Dec 29, 2023 | 4 min read
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  I didn’t understand Holocaust denial until Oct. 7

  My survivor grandmother feared that no one would believe her. Now I know why.

  By Eric Silberman Dec 28, 2023 | 5 min read