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Former PM's Son: 'Israel Was Born in Sin. I’m Collaborating With a Criminal Country' 'Israel Was Born in Sin. I’m Collaborating With a Criminal Country,' Says Former PM’s Son

Israel Must Codify Equality

Messianism Is Israel’s Most Powerful Force, Embraced by Atheists Too

Our Problem With the Garin Torani? We're Jealous of Them

The Garin Torani Threat: Missionary Ultranationalism

A torched synagogue in Lod during the violence in May.

What Does Zionism Mean in This Day and Age?

The Jerusalem hills after a wildfire, last week.

Opinion Opinion |

'Palestinian' Terrace Farming's Jewish Origins

The Jerusalem Hills area after a wildfire burnt through it, last week.

An Israeli Forest to Erase the Ruins of Palestinian Agricultural Terraces

Yosef Weitz on the job as director of the land department at the JNF, a scene included in the documentary 'Blue Box.'

Opinion Opinion |

In Israel, a Picture Is Really Worth a Thousand Words

Yosef Weitz, center, surveying land scheduled for purchase by the JNF. Maybe the photographer wanted to say that the soil of Palestine was not exactly empty.

What Yosef Weitz Didn't See While Visiting the Palestinian Villages He Would Destroy What Yosef Weitz Didn't See While Surveying the Palestinian Villages He Would Destroy

The destruction after the 1946 bombing of Jerusalem's King David Hotel.

This Day in Jewish History: Irgun Blows Up British HQ at King David Hotel This Day in Jewish History: Irgun Blows Up British HQ at Jerusalem's King David Hotel

Celebrations for Israel's 73rd Independence Day in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square this year

What on Earth Is the Problem With a Jewish Majority in Israel?

A JNF donations box.

The Jewish National Fund Bought Land in the Land of Israel, Heaven Forbid

Israeli security forces deploy during the demolition of Palestinian shops in Israeli-annexed east Jerusalem's predominantly Arab neighborhood of Silwan last month

Why Slamming Israel as a 'Settler Colonial State' Is Such a Useless Insult

Flypast seen from the beach in Tel Aviv on Israel's Independence Day

Is Israel Really a Settler Colonial State?

United Arab List leader Mansour Abbas in Tel Aviv.

Opinion Opinion |

A Pleasant Illusion by an Impressive Israeli Arab Politician

Yosef Weitz on the job as director of the land department at the JNF, a scene included in the documentary 'Blue Box.'

Zionist Icon or Arab Oppressor? Israeli Director Takes on Great-grandfather's Legacy Zionist Icon or Arab Oppressor? A Filmmaker Explores the Mixed Legacy of Her Great-grandfather

A woman carries an Israeli national flag as she walks in an alley in Jerusalem's Old City, June 2021.

Israeli Apartheid? Look No Further Than This Racist Law

Naftali Bennett at the new government's photo session after taking power on June 13.

Is Naftali Bennett Undergoing an Ideological Shift?

Ari Shavit. What kind of people surround him, allowing him to exist in his bubble without pricking it?

Where Does Ari Shavit Get the Chutzpah to Write Such a Book on Israel?

Naftali Bennett, Yamina party chairman, at the Knesset in Jerusalem, this week.

Opinion Opinion |

Bennett’s Religious Zionist Regime Is Coming

A post from American supermodel Bella Hadid's Instagram.

Israeli Instagram Influencers Took on Bella and Gigi Hadid. Guess Who Won Israeli Instagram Influencers Took on Bella and Gigi Hadid Following Their Gaza Posts. Guess Who Won

Water buffalo cooling off in Lake Hula, in the 1920s.

What the Land of Israel Looked Like Before Zionism

The author's parents, Latifa-Adina and Kemal-Avraham Basul.

As Pogroms Targeted Aleppo's Jews, My Family Made a Dangerous Choice: To Flee

As Israel marks Jerusalem Day, Jewish men wave Israeli flags at the Western Wall, the holiest site where Jews are allowed to pray, in the old city of Jerusalem

How Israel Invented Its Exclusive Claim Over Jerusalem

Tomatoes on the vine. Whatever the product, the people who are opposed to competition via imports are the same ones angry at Pfizer for the large profit it makes from its coronavirus vaccine.

The Price of Tomatoes and the Destruction of Zionism

The surrender of Ramle in 1948.

Jewish Israelis Should Stop Being Afraid of the Nakba

A soccer game at Kibbutz Na'an, in 1935.

The Jewish War on Soccer in British Mandatory Palestine

The Kochav Hashahar settlement in the West Bank, last winter.

U.S. Jewish Groups Ready to Fight JNF's 'Rogue' Settlement Agenda

An Israeli policeman scuffles with Israeli MP Ofer Cassif (C), a Jewish member of the predominantly Arab Joint List electoral alliance, during a demonstration against Israeli occupation and settlement activity in the Palestinian Territories and east Jerusalem, April 9, 2021

Ofer Cassif, A Very Important Person

Demonstrators protest the extension of Jerusalem’s light rail line into the Gilo neighborhood, over the Green Line, this past December. Ohad Zwigenberg

Opinion Opinion |

Between Antisemitism and anti-Zionism: The Intellectual's Dilemma

Illustration of a man and a woman, with a torn map in the background. Yael Bogen.

The Jewish Women Who Posed an 'Existential Threat' to Israel by Marrying Arab Men

People wait in line at a coronavirus testing compound in Tel Aviv, this month.

Israel Independence Day |

Israel 2031: What Will Life Look Like in 'The Most Crowded Country in the West'?

Pregnant women, brides-to-be and other immigrants protest in front of the Knesset last week so their family members will be able to enter Israel.

Want to Visit Relatives in Israel? Prepare for 'Dysfunctional' Bureaucracy

Nathan Straus, left, Louis Brandeis and Rabbi Stephen Samuel Wise aboard a ship sailing for Palestine in 1920.

How These U.S. Jews Changed America's View of Zionism

Aharon Amir, Yonatan Ratosh, Amos Kenan and Benjamin Tammuz. Figures in the Canaanite movement.

The Canaanite Files: How Israel's Security Service Spied on Political Activists

Pioneers working in the fields of the village of Kinneret, 1912.

Dozens of Zionist Pioneers Committed Suicide After Dreams Shattered in Palestine Dozens of Zionist Pioneers Committed Suicide When Their Dreams Shattered in Palestine. This Is One of Them

Jewish Mexican immigrants arriving at Ben-Gurion International Airport, last year.

Letters to the Editor: Israel Is an Ethnic, Not Liberal, Democracy

Zoom meeting to launch Labour Against the Witch-Hunt's 'Free Speech' campaign featuring David Miller

David Miller: Textbook Case of anti-Zionism Becoming Vicious Antisemitism The David Miller Case: A Textbook Example of anti-Zionism Becoming Vicious Antisemitism

Israeli kids play next to an Israeli flag next to the Israeli-Syrian border on the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, Israel. July 23, 2018

For 73 Years, Israel Has Been Unable to Define ‘Who Is a Jew’

A view of the Israeli West Bank settlement of Kedumim, in August.

Hadassah Under Fire for Enabling JNF Decision on Settlement Expansion

The West Bank settlement of Kedumim, last year.

With the Right in Control of Zionist Institutions, Settlement Expansion Is Policy With the Right in Control of Zionist Institutions, Settlement Expansion Becomes Policy

West Bank Jewish settlement of Ma'ale Efrayim in the Jordan Valley.

Jewish National Fund, It's Time to Redeem the Land of Israel

Maale Adumim, Israel's largest settlement in the West Bank.

Jewish National Fund for Apartheid

Education Minister Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv, August 31, 2020.

Israel's Education System's Shameful Censorship

Demonstrators during a protest against President Donald Trump's decision to move the U.S. embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, in Paris, France, Dec. 9, 2017.

It’s Alright to Be an anti-Zionist

A tourist photographs a sign painted on a wall in the West Bank of Bethlehem on June 5, 2015.

The Normalization of Antisemitism

Rami Valter

Freedom, Nature and Army Training: Boy's Diaries Offer Look Into '40s Kibbutz Life Freedom, Nature and Training for War: A Boy's Diaries Offer Poignant Glimpse Into 1940s Kibbutz Life

Education Minister Yoav Gallant in Tel Aviv, August 31, 2020.

A Lesson From History: Principals' Hearing Was Intended to Deter All Educators A Lesson From History: Principals' Hearing Was Intended to Deter All Israeli Educators

Permanent Representative of Israel to the United Nations Gilad Erdan and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, at the prime minister's official residence in Jerusalem, December 24, 2020.

Opinion Opinion |

How Israel Is Harming the War on Antisemitism

Joe Biden speaks as he announces members of economics and jobs team at his transition headquarters in Wilmington, Delaware, January 8, 2021.

Left-wing Jewish Alliance Calls on Biden to Reject IHRA Antisemitism Definition Left-wing Jewish Alliance Calls on Biden to Reject Antisemitism Definition That Includes anti-Zionism

Avraham "Avrum" Burg.

A Scion of Zionist Aristocracy Wants to Quit the Jewish People. Will Israel Let Him?

A young Israeli wears a national flag as fellow Israelis protest against a recent cease fire with the Hamas movement, in the coastal city of Tel Aviv on November 15, 2018.

Is 'Jewish' a Nationality or Religion? Israel's Fierce, Bitter Debate About Identity Is 'Jewish' a Nationality or Religion? Inside Israel's Fierce, Bitter Debate About Identity

The figure of Theodor Herzl, dominating the landscape of the Israeli coastal city named for him.

How Yoram Hazony Manipulates Herzl's Vision to Back a Nationalist Worldview How Conservative Thinker Yoram Hazony Manipulates Herzl's Vision to Back a Nationalist Worldview

Jonathan Pollard exits U.S. District court after a hearing with his wife Esther Pollard, New York, December 14, 2015.

Is Former Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard Good for the Jews?