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Since the horrific Hamas attack on October 7, a veritable firestorm of debate has erupted around antisemitism. This whirlwind has highlighted yet also obscured the vital distinctions between legitimate criticism of Israel and Zionism, and…

In South Asia, political alignment is not a secret. One side is clearly closer to India’s strategic interests. Another side traditionally aligns with Pakistan. This reality has existed for decades. Both sides have supporters, and this is…

Has Islam been the one religion acceptable to God since the days of Prophet Muhammad? Does Islam claim to replace Christianity and Judaism, the way most of Christianity claimed (until recently) to have replaced Old Testament Judaism?

One does…

There’s a familiar lament echoing through Jewish conversations right now — on social media, at dinner tables, in comment sections:

How can they chant “Free Palestine” and say nothing while Iran slaughters its own people?
How can they…

When Orit Arfa read political theorist Yoram Hazony’s recent comments on antisemitism on the American right, she decided that her past admiration for him no longer justified staying silent about what she sees as a moral…

Recently, pashkvilim (religiously-themed posters) opposing Israel’s proposed death penalty bill appeared on public walls in Orthodox Jewish communities (most commonly within the Hareidi enclave), as well as the Kneseet, and other locations…

In recent weeks, as the Iranian regime crushed nationwide protests, shut down the internet, and killed thousands of demonstrators, U.S. college campuses were nearly silent. This after months of maximalist activism over Israel and Gaza. The…

The most common betrayal of the Holocaust is not denial. It is abstraction.

The Shoah is increasingly spoken of as a tragedy that befell “people,” as a warning about intolerance, or as an example of what happens when societies lose their…

When we look at what’s happening in Israel and around the world, or try to develop better explanatory frameworks, we often profit by stepping back to consider how historical perspectives evolved—and how biases (ours and others) skew the…

How tribalism silences complexity, and why it threatens Israel’s survival.

Recently, while discussing the war with long-time friends, I raised a question about the strategy in Gaza. The atmosphere quickly changed. Within seconds, the…