Opinion The Birthright vs. J Street Fight About Free Trips to Israel Is Completely Pointless

J Street has validated, rather than challenged, two controversial Birthright principles – that young Jews deserve freebies and that Israel should be at the center of their Jewish identity

Far-right Israeli Party Exhorts Principals to Get Students' Parents to Vote for It

Apparently defying law barring political activity by government-funded groups, Union of Right-Wing Parties urges principals from state religious schools to lobby for it

Opinion Hate: An Israeli Love Story

For anti-Semitism hunters, preserving paranoia and blurring the line between Judaism and Zionism is the best way to handle criticism of the country's abominations

Opinion Why Is Adelson-backed Zionist Organization of America Defending Israel's KKK Slime?

To be clear, I am not suggesting that Mort Klein immigrate to Israel. Nor Sheldon Adelson. But if they lose their Bibi, where is their Zionism of America going to put them?

Opinion I Shut My Orthodox Synagogue's Doors to Racist Rabbi Meir Kahane. But Others Let Him In

I told Kahane: You and Louis Farrakhan both raise money the same way - by attacking Jews. That was decades ago. Now, Kahanism's theology and politics of racist exclusion is consuming Israel's religious Zionist camp

Opinion Netanyahu Just Destroyed One of Israel’s Key National Security Assets

Netanyahu is backing Israel’s KKK for naked domestic political gain. And that's not all the damage his frenzied, odious political maneuver has caused

Opinion It's Leftism or Zionism - You Can't Have Both

The two-state solution is dead, and the Zionist left helped kill it

Is There Anything Left to Squeeze Out of Zionism's Former Symbol?

Shrinking citrus groves have reduced the economic importance of oranges, but farmers, artists and high-tech professionals are now looking to give the golden fruit new meaning

The Star of David: More Than Just a Symbol of the Jewish People or Nazi Persecution

The Star of David associated today with Jews, the Holocaust and Israel has other cultural and religious underpinnings.

Opinion Benny Morris, You're Wrong: Jews and Arabs Can Live Together. They Already Do

Benny Morris is convinced that what prevailed in the past will also exist in the future. As a historian, he should know this isn’t the case, not forever

Opinion I'm Shaving Off My Zionism, the Worst a Man Can Get

The Gillette commercial caused me to look again, more closely, at Netanyahu's Iwo Jima moment. That's when it struck me

Opinion How Jews Became 'Too White, Too Powerful' for U.S. Progressive Activism

The Women’s March anti-Semitism saga exposes the profound failure of identity politics and inclusion. We're told we must 'work through' the pain of overt anti-Semitism, that we boost white supremacy and that we're Zionist genocidaires

Opinion U.S. Jews Are to Blame for Crisis With Israel

The painful truth is that the rupture between Israel and progressive American Jewry is worsening because the thing they may want to change most of all, without succeeding, is us

U.K. Makes Around 17,000 anti-Semitic Searches Every Year, Study Reveals

Report says anti-Semitic Google searches spiked on Holocaust Remembrance Day, after Israel won Eurovision Contest, and after Jeremy Corbyn met with Jewish leaders

Christian Zionist Lobby Makes Its Case to Washington’s Liberal Jews

What persists among liberal pro-Israel groups, however, is wariness of CUFI’s alliances with the broader American right wing

Opinion Palestinian Narratives Are Always Right. Israeli Jewish Views Are Just Propaganda

That's the clear message from the anti-occupation activists of IfNotNow. Forget a more ‘balanced’ approach to the conflict: When they label views sympathetic to Israel as deceptive or malevolent – they’re trying to shut them down

A Secular, Democratic Haven for Jews? What Early Zionist Figures Would Think of Israel Today

Has Israel become what Zionist thinkers Chaim Weizmann, Haim Nahman Bialik and Lea Goldberg envisioned?

Opinion Zionism as a Form of Toxic Masculinity

Toxic masculinity, as in: I, as a self-decreed Alpha, can do whatever the Capital Eff I please, to whomever I please, for whatever personal benefit I can extract, with absolutely no fear of negative consequence

Opinion Anti-Semites for Zion, Then and Now

The link between Zionism, anti-Semitism didn’t begin with Netanyahu; it also grew out of Zionism’s old need to seek allies anywhere they could be found

New York Times Columnist Michelle Goldberg Defends anti-Zionism

Goldberg argues that opposing Israel and calling for a binational Israeli-Palestinian state is legitimate

New Sexual Harassment Claims Against Sex-offender Rabbi

Mordechai Elon did not deny the sexual misconduct accusations made by a young man he counseled, who turned to religious forum rather than police

Opinion Why David Duke, David Icke, Louis Farrakhan and the Assad Regime All Love Shlomo Sand

And Iran, George Galloway, Gilad Atzmon and the Daily Stormer. Why has such a diverse spectrum of anti-Semites converged on the work of this Israeli historian? Should he bear any blame for how they've weaponized his words?

Opinion The Twisted Logic of the Jewish ‘Historic Right’ to Israel

Our political culture insists on seeing the Jews as the direct descendants of the ancient Hebrews. But the Jews never existed as a ‘people’ – still less as a nation

Opinion British Jews Should Start Thinking About Migrating to Israel

I’m sorry for those enlightened, cosmopolitan Jews, but this must be said openly: Their mission to rehabilitate the haters and discover the light in their hearts has ended

The Israeli Historian Who Blames Rabin for His Own Murder and Praises Hitler Is Making a Comeback

Uri Milstein was a leading military historian until he lauded Rabin’s assassin and was shunned. Now he's making his way back into the mainstream

Opinion From Rabid Zionism to Egalitarian Zionism

The prevailing approach of Zionism makes the Palestinians hostages in the intra-Jewish debate over the country’s borders. It also makes Israel a criminal state. But there’s a way to justify the Jews’ settlement in Israel, based on political morality rather than history

Opinion Make Aliyah or Disappear

Western Jews are threatened by assimilation and only in Israel is it possible to live on any point of the Jewish spectrum, and especially on the secular end, without needing to assimilate

The First Zionist Fake News Marks 120th Anniversary, Starring Herzl and the Kaiser

When only the Zionist leader’s foot appeared in a photo with Wilhelm II, it was time for a 19th-century ‘Photoshop’ effort

Letters to the Editor: Colonialism, King Abdullah and B’Tselem