Bradley Burston

The UN needs to send a direct message to Bashar Assad: A regime which resorts to war crimes will have to answer for them.

After all, when the war with Iran is over, and the only things left here are cockroaches and Migron, this government will still have the only thing it's ever really needed: Someone else to blame.

American Jews, in general, should go to see this film about wrongheaded comfort zones, in order to break out of one of their own: the mistaken sense of kinship with the Jewish state and the Jews who live there.

For American Jews, those in Israel as well, Dr. King, our most profoundly influential sage in the last century, remains alive in what's left of our better selves. Dr. King saw better than the rest of us. May we, here, in this sick and troubled place, come to see more like he did.

If you could see Israel naked, you would see behind the payot and the prayerful posturing and disproportionate power of extremists who ... poison the name of Judaism and Jewish values.

Day by day this Israel teaches the horse to starve when it demands more and more of its young people giving them less and less in return for less education, higher tuition fees; in return for more inequitable army duty and taxation.

Mr. Speaker, if, for the sake of Jesus and the Resurrection, you want the territories to remain occupied forever, you and your Christian Zionist allies will have to do some homework before Inauguration Day.

Places like Berkeley matter. It was in Berkeley and other like-minded towns that a surprisingly large number of young people forged a lifelong commitment to work for the ideal of an Israel true to values of democracy and prophetic justice.