Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian American to be elected to the U.S. Congress, introduced a unique and controversial resolution in the House of Representatives on May 16. Its chance of passage is extremely slim, but its very appearance is unsettling and surely a sign of the times. Tlaib’s resolution broadly calls on the United States […]
Payton Gendron’s murderous rampage in Buffalo, New York, is yet another jolting and disturbing reminder of the deadly dangers of white supremacy in contemporary America. Gendron, an 18-year-old from a small town in central New York state, drove 300 kilometres to kill 10 shoppers at a Tops Friendly Market store on May 14. Eight of […]
Billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk, having purchased the giant social media company Twitter for a cool $44 billion, has said he would be receptive to welcoming back former U.S. president Donald Trump to the platform. I can live with Trump’s reappearance on Twitter, his blatant and dangerous lies and half-truths about the last U.S. presidential election […]
With no end in sight to the nearly three-month-old war in Ukraine, the United States has doubled down on its commitment to help the Ukrainian armed forces beat back or defeat Russia. This has been an incremental process. Soon after Russian President Vladimir Putin ordered the invasion of Ukraine on February 24, he issued a […]
Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov bit off more than he could chew recently when he lamely tried to justify Russia’s unjustified invasion of Ukraine on the grounds of fighting Nazism in that former Soviet province. Moscow’s wildly unsubstantiated claim that its naked aggression was aimed at “de-Nazifying” Ukraine was, to put it mildly, a huge […]
Israel was dealt a stunning indirect blow on April 29 when the Harvard Crimson, the student newspaper at Harvard University, endorsed the Boycott, Divestment, Sanctions (BDS) movement. Responding to pressure from the university’s Palestine Solidarity Committee, free speech rights groups and a campus visit from anti-Zionist activist Noam Chomsky, the editorial board of the oldest […]
Russia has committed war crimes in Ukraine since its invasion on February 24. This is an ugly truth that the Russian government cannot wish away. In the past few days, the battered and bloodied bodies of more than 400 Ukrainian civilians have been found in suburbs near Kyiv recaptured from Russian forces. In particular, the […]
Russian President Vladimir Putin expected a cakewalk when he launched his misbegotten invasion of Ukraine on February 24. He assumed that his modernized armed forces would sweep across the country in a blitzkrieg, seize Kyiv, the capital, and other major cities, and declare victory. Putin was dead wrong. He and his closest associates miscalculated, thinking […]
In what is probably the greatest population upheaval since World War II, more than three million Ukrainians have fled Ukraine since Russia’s invasion on February 24. The vast majority of the refugees have gone to Poland, Romania, Hungary and neighboring countries. As of March 18, 12,600 displaced Ukrainians had arrived in Israel. Of these, 3,650 […]
The Sierra Club, a non-profit environmental protection organization headquartered in California, has wisely reinstated its trips to Israel after having cancelled them under pressure from anti-Zionist groups. Palestinian and progressive activists, having accused the club of “greenwashing” Israel’s conflict with the Palestinians, pressured it to boycott Israel in what can only be described as a […]