It was a surreal event cooked up by some of the most extreme elements in Israeli politics. At a moment when Israeli forces are battling Hamas gunmen in the Gaza Strip and negotiations are under way to free the hostages still in Hamas’ captivity, twelve government ministers and fifteen members of the Knesset had nothing […]
In the face of damning evidence that Hamas committed mass murder in southern Israel on October 7, Hamas’ military wing, the Al-Qassam Brigades, recently released a 16-page report denying that it deliberately targeted and killed civilians on that darkest of days. Our Narrative, Operation Al Aqsa Flood, released a few days ago in Arabic and […]
During a ten-month period from December 1938 until September 1939, Britain admitted more than 10,000 refugees up to the age of 18 from Germany, Austria, Czechoslovakia and Poland under a special immigration program known as the kindertransport. Introduced a month after the Kristallnacht pogrom in Germany, it was a hastily assembled visa waiver scheme financed […]
Israel’s right to self-defence in the face of Hamas’ massacre on October 7 was implicitly recognized by the International Court of Justice in its interim ruling on January 26. Significantly enough, the court’s president, Joan Donoghue, did not call for an immediate ceasefire, which South Africa and its ally, Hamas, had demanded. This is no […]
One of the most successful European politicians of the 20th century, Bruno Kreisky, was an Austrian Jew who was successively foreign minister of Austria, leader of Austria’s Socialist Party, and, from 1970 to 1983, Austria’s longest serving and only Jewish chancellor. Kreisky is the subject of Daniel Ascheim’s biography, Kreisky, Israel, and Jewish Identity, published […]
As Israel’s ambassador to Canada said recently, the Canadian government should finally clarify its position on South Africa’s baseless allegation that Israel committed genocide during its air and ground offensive in the Gaza Strip. Since October 8, the day after Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 civilians and soldiers in a murderous rampage in southern Israel, the […]
The Middle East has been convulsed by unprecedented spasms of violence in the past few weeks, and to no one’s surprise, Iran and its proxies have been at the center of this ongoing turbulence. Amid the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and a low-intensity war pitting Israel against Hezbollah in and around Lebanon, clashes […]
One survey after another confirms that most married Jews in the United States are in mixed marriages partnered with non-Jews. This trend emerged in the 1960s and has become an unstoppable force as America grows more diverse and complex in terms of its multiracial composition. It goes without saying that a mixed marriage is at […]
Israel and the United States are increasingly at odds over the direction of the current war in the Gaza Strip and what comes after it. These divisions emerged with a vengeance during U.S. Secretary of State Atony Blinken’s visit to Israel earlier this month, his fourth in a little more than three months. But they […]
As the war in the Gaza Strip drags on and approaches its fourth month, Israel faces an unsettling dilemma with major implications for its security. Should skilled and unskilled Palestinian workers from the West Bank and Gaza be allowed to resume their jobs in Israel following the mass murder of 1,200 Israelis and foreigners by […]