Bradley Burston

Increasingly, the rabid far-right 'pro-Israel' camp is carrying out repulsive, hate-filled attacks on Jews whose most cherished wish is to see a stronger, more democratic Israel. It is time to take a stand.

With Israel heading for its 65th anniversary, the U.S. president's March trip sends an important message: This is the time. This is the window. Later doesn’t exist.

The purpose of Rabbi Menachem Froman was to find a place where the Jews and the non-Jews who live here were safe at last, their lives – all of their lives – accorded respect and where a distinction is made between loving the land and claiming exclusive possession of it.

Maybe what Benjamin Netanyahu is betting is that nothing really changes in Israel. Not him, and not the public. Maybe he's betting that Israelis have yet to share one of the central messages sent by the American public to the Republican Party:

I believed, and still do, that to be on the left entails a certain universality of concern for the rights and safety and welfare of people, regardless of nationality, race, religion, culture or political outlook.

Should Obama win a second term, Netanyahu stands to lose as much as anyone.

This year, on Purim, I'm toasting the victory that comes when people have the courage to cross a room, armed only with open hearts, and turn mortal conflict into conversation.

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.

If Israel fails to heed warnings like those in Gorenberg's book, if the collective erosion of occupation, settlement, demographics, inequality and expansion of extremist rabbinic influence is not reversed, both the hard right and the hard left will be proven prophetic.

How are people who support Israel supposed to understand the Black Flag legislation which has expropriated the business of the Knesset?

They may think Israel is one huge, Arab-loathing, mass-murdering, land-robbing plague of an illegitimate entity. It is certainly easier on the political conscience to see us this way.

What is irony to a man who knows better than the Jews who Nazis are and how Jews figure in the greater plan of God and His Apostle Glenn?

Terrorism has changed America as no other force. Terrorism has changed the world as no other force. Terrorism has changed and befouled democracy itself. Terrorism has changed us, all of us. It is evil metastasized. It is the worst of us.

When the Messiah comes, the Right will crucify him. Im Tirzu will roll out ads and billboards showing him with a tail to go along with his horns.

Without asking its people, without a second thought, Israel, at the highest level, has taken an executive decision. Unable to beat the forces who want to see Israel as one of the world's primary pariah states, it has resolved to join them.

It's a new Israeli approach which borrows from the very worst of our aging instincts. It says: We're moral, our enemies are out to exterminate us along with our state, that's all you need to know. No modifications necessary. Stay the course. Concede nothing. Ease no siege. Give no ground. Ever.

It's become a fashion, here and abroad: Jews who are convinced that they love Israel more than the rest of us - and certainly better than the rest of us - have told anyone who will listen that one way to express love of the Jewish state is to revile Barack Obama.

Campaign for premiership finally begins in earnest - 3 hours after polls close.

One needn't be a jurist or an expert in Middle East conflict resolution to know that Muslims will have zero tolerance for the chosen site of this museum. One need only be a lover of Jerusalem, and of Israel, to have zero tolerance for it as well.

Imagine, impossible as it may be, that a Jewish state that is home to hundreds of thousands of Holocaust survivors, could decide not only to imprison African refugees for five years, but to make those fleeing genocide in Sudan subject to prison sentences of at least seven years.

The tribes that make up the latter-day State of Israel are, in fact, the remnants of revolution, of a surfeit of concurrent revolutions, in fact.