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

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

Opinion If Zionism Were Colonial It Would Have Ended Long Ago

The Palestinians’ refusal to accept that they are confronting a rival national movement has been disastrous for them

Opinion Repulsed by Aggressive Jewish Nationalism? Reviving the Bund Is No Answer

Is the secular Jewish socialism of a pre-war mass movement opposed to Zionism really coming back from oblivion? A small kernel of young, idealistic Jews think it’s the answer to today’s Jewish identity crisis. This is why they’re wrong

How an Israeli Arab Director Became a Target for BDS

'Holy Air,' Shady Srour’s first feature, is innovative in its treatment of Palestinian society in Israel

'You Help Brothers Before Cousins': Party Running for Haifa Municipal Elections to Create Jews-only Merchant List

As part of city council campaign, chairman of right-wing Habayit Hayehudi party vows to boost business of Jewish merchants in Talpiot produce market

Opinion How Israel’s Religious Ultra-nationalists Fought a Civil War, Retreated to the Ghetto and Lost Their Influence

As the ultra-Orthodox world is slowly, painfully opening up, religious nationalist institutions insist on an ever more closed world. They’ve lost all connection with the ‘real’ Israel - and with their communities

Opinion Stop Selling Us the Messiah

For 51 years we've been sending our sons to control another people, to die and to kill, so the religious Zionists could adorn themselves with grains of the Whole Land of Israel. It's time to change course

Opinion On Israel-Palestine, Jeremy Corbyn Is No 'Peacemaker'

Corbyn's far Left anti-Zionist vision of the conflict places him not in the Palestinian peace camp, but in its rejectionist wing. For his allies, the Labour anti-Semitism saga that could derail this vision must be smears - or a deep state conspiracy

Itay Tiran, Israel’s No. 1 Theater Actor-director: BDS Is a Legitimate Form of Resistance

Tiran stressed that the political situation isn’t the main reason for his leaving the country, and that he doesn’t see himself as a 'political exile.' He says: 'If we want to preach for a certain kind of political discussion that isn’t violent, we must strengthen these voices, even if it’s difficult'