For 73 Years, Israel Has Been Unable to Define ‘Who Is a Jew’
The debate began when Israel was established, and there was no legal framework for defining who was a citizen, Jewish or not
Zionism
Hadassah Under Fire for Enabling JNF Decision on Settlement Expansion
Hundreds of graduates of affiliated youth movement 'implore' Hadassah's Jewish National Fund representative to reconsider position on funds to purchase West Bank plots, after she abstained in a board of directors vote
With the Right in Control of Zionist Institutions, Settlement Expansion Becomes Policy
Four months after a right-wing wave in the Zionist Congress, a new Jewish National Fund proposal is only one of several policy shifts designed to serve the settlement enterprise
Freedom, Nature and Training for War: A Boy's Diaries Offer Poignant Glimpse Into 1940s Kibbutz Life
A rare window into the early life of the generation that fought Israel’s wars and built the country
Analysis A Lesson From History: Principals' Hearing Was Intended to Deter All Israeli Educators
Threatening disciplinary action against Haifa school that hosted B'Tselem's director, Gallant is the latest of several education ministers who betrayed their duty and sought to restrict thought through censorship and reprimands
Left-wing Jewish Alliance Calls on Biden to Reject Antisemitism Definition That Includes anti-Zionism
Progressive Israel Network says International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance enabled Trump administration’s politicization of fight against antisemitism
A Scion of Zionist Aristocracy Wants to Quit the Jewish People. Will Israel Let Him?
Why Avraham Burg, who has served as Knesset speaker, interim president and head of the Jewish Agency, is asking Israel to annul his registration as a Jew
Opinion Is 'Jewish' a Nationality or Religion? Inside Israel's Fierce, Bitter Debate About Identity
How one man’s quest, half a century ago, for the right to define his own family’s identity unwittingly set up a momentous clash between Israel’s secular and religious power centers, changed the Law of Return and still fuels conflict over who is a Jew
How Conservative Thinker Yoram Hazony Manipulates Herzl's Vision to Back a Nationalist Worldview
Hazony's take on the 'prophet of the Jewish state' sticks to myths and recycles arguments. His new book is an example of appropriating the past to suit today's political and ideological purposes
Opinion Is Former Israeli Spy Jonathan Pollard Good for the Jews?
No future civics teacher will reveal the destiny that Zionism has foisted on diaspora Jews – to serve as a protective vest for Israel
An Israeli Search for a South African Icon: A Son’s Biography of His Father
Journalist-author Roy Isacowitz lost his father, a prominent anti-apartheid activist, when he was 10. More than 50 years later he went back to South Africa to ‘discover’ him
The Zionist Activists Who Collaborated With Nazis, and Were Executed by Jewish Partisans
The Betar movement has ignored a melancholy chapter of its history that occurred in the Vilna ghetto during the Holocaust: the execution by Jews of other Jews who collaborated with the Nazis
A City of Salt, Peace and No Arabs: How a Jewish Merchant in the Russian Empire Envisioned Israel in 2040
A long-forgotten 19th-century book, by the man who gave his name to my street, described life in the Holy Land in 2040. A journey in Lewinsky's wake
Revealed: Syrian Prime Minister Was a Double Agent Who Gave Crucial Intel to Zionist Leaders
In 1945, David Ben-Gurion braced for the possibility of an attack by the Arab states should Israel declare independence. But game-changing information from a Syrian leader alerted him to another major threat
Opinion Defund the WZO, Defund the JNF, Defund UIA, Defund JAFI
Packed with cronyism, slush funds and political corruption: Meet Zionism's 'national institutions' to see why every Zionist with a conscience should be agitating to close them down
Battle Over Control of Key Zionist Fundraising Organization Pits Jewish Donors Against Netanyahu
Lawsuit filed by board members of Keren Hayesod, which raises about $200 million a year for Israel from around the world, is challenging an agreement to oust its world chairman, Sam Grundwerg
The Case for Nationalism, by the Israeli Credited With Shaping Trump's Foreign Policy
Viktor Orban has hosted him, one of his books is de rigueur in the Trump White House. How Jerusalem-based Yoram Hazony, an archconservative theoretician, became the house intellectual of the world’s nationalistic circles
PODCAST Haredi Hijack of ‘Jewish Parliament’ Foiled. Plus: Borat's Jewish Nobel?
How a new alliance of rightists and ultra-Orthodox attempted a 'hostile takeover' at the World Zionist Congress. PLUS: Will Borat win a Jewish Nobel for his creator?
Discovering Rothschild's Surprising Weakness Helped Zionists Get a Donation
A forgotten 10-page letter exposes the method with which Zionist pioneers persuaded Baron de Rothschild to give them money
Averting Crisis, Compromise Reached on Top Jobs at Zionist Institutions
Agreement over allocation of senior positions in World Zionist Organization and its affiliates prevented deepening wedge between Israel and Diaspora
Critical Vote on Right-wing Takeover of World Zionist Congress Delayed
Power shift at the World Zionist Congress may strip progressive and center-left parties of influence, unless a compromised is reached by Thursday