David Rothkopf is a senior fellow at the Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies and a visiting scholar at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace. His most recent book is Great Questions of Tomorrow (Simon & Schuster/ TED, 2017). Twitter: @djrothkopf
Netanyahu's zealous dissolution of democratic norms is a critical moral and political mistake. It's leading U.S. Jews to question even attenuated support for the Jewish state, while framing Israel as an unreliable, undesirable ally for America
Last week, Israel made a profoundly perverse choice: A nation founded by the victims of ethnic identity politics adopted that same institutionalized hatred as its constitution, proving its leader's affinity to the world's leading illiberal nationalists
Long-standing alliances? Disposable. The entire international security order? Expendable. The lesson for Netanyahu and U.S. allies in the Gulf is that the only Trump foreign policy doctrine is: 'What’s in it for me?'
Trump got his name in big letters on the U.S. Embassy in Jerusalem. The violence triggered by his unbalanced and intemperate foreign policy towards Israel and the Palestinians may one day carry his brand as well
The campaign against the Iran nuclear deal is a fraud led by two men who feel they must lie to lead. But they're playing with millions of lives
We’ll always have Jerusalem? North Korea would remain, even under any deal, a far greater imminent threat than Iran to the U.S. That's bad news for Netanyahu, and for U.S. - Israel relations
From Moscow, Ankara and Warsaw to D.C. and New Delhi, leaders wrap their nationalism in racism and intolerance, pitting their base against their neighbors. But for the Jewish state to scapegoat minorities is beyond ironic
It's not just the BDS blacklist. In Israel, the basic rights and values underlying democracy itself are being repealed