The Liberal Case for Israel
Feel free to criticize to Israel when it is wrong. But let's not fail to celebrate it when it is right. Because whenever liberal values flourish, they deserve our applause.
Feel free to criticize to Israel when it is wrong. But let's not fail to celebrate it when it is right. Because whenever liberal values flourish, they deserve our applause.
Sandy Tolan | Posted 11.22.2011
For the moment, whatever happens in the coming weeks at the U.N., and in the West Bank in the aftermath, isn't it time for the world's focus to shift to what is actually happening on the ground?
Sami Awad | Posted 09.25.2011
Even though we never look at it through a religious lens, the reality on the ground is that when it comes to nonviolence in Palestine, it is Muslims who are engaging in this tremendous work.
Bradley Burston | Posted 09.14.2011
This is the one. Don't let what we here like to call the relative calm, fool you. When the Knesset passed the boycott law Monday night, it changed the history of the state of Israel.
Lara Friedman | Posted 05.25.2011
Although the events that swept through Egypt in recent weeks had little to do with Israel, they still hold profound lessons.
Ayed Morrar | Posted 05.25.2011
Jonathan Pollak's upcoming imprisonment highlights the support of some Israeli activists for Palestinian-led unarmed protests, and the Israeli government's effort to crush our joint struggle.
Joseph Dana | Posted 05.25.2011
Since last week's fatal shooting of four settlers from the settlement of Beit Haggai, Palestinians in the area have been subjected to what the settlers call "price tag" reprisal attacks and repeated Israeli army incursions.
Jeremy Ben-Ami | Posted 05.25.2011
Alan, what did you mean when you said J Street had "gone over to the dark side"? That those who don't think ending the Israeli-Palestinian conflict is a U.S. national security interest are the forces of light?
GlobalPost | Theodore May | Posted 05.25.2011
MLITA, Lebanon -- A young boy ducks under a barricade to have his photo taken next to an Israeli tank. A father puts his baby daughter's hand on the t...
Fred Silberberg | Posted 05.25.2011
If the "Free Gaza' flotilla was that concerned about providing supplies to Gaza, why don't they simply allow the inspection of these supplies by Israel to insure that the cargo is what Free Gaza claims it to be?
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011
Under U.S. and international pressure to stop Jewish settlement activities in Arab East Jerusalem, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu argued that peace talks might be delayed another year.
Michael Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011
It is simply staggering that both the U.S. government and the U.S. media simply ignores provocative and incendiary statements such as those recently from Netanyahu.
MJ Rosenberg | Posted 05.25.2011
On Israel issues, Democrats are at least as lockstep behind the occupation as Republicans.
Daoud Kuttab | Posted 05.25.2011
Instead of pleading with the Israelis to accept the two-state solution, the US should simply ask the Israelis to end their military control of Arab lands occupied in June 1967.
Jonathan_Miller | Posted 01.28.2012