4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (453+ words) Every election, we are told, is too important for principle. It was an extraordinary formulation, but a familiar political temptation. El-Sayed has now apologized more fully for his response to the March terrorist attack on Temple Israel outside Detroit. After…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (471+ words) The Ra’am Party is not an obvious place to look for an experiment in Jewish-Arab political partnership. The United Arab List grew out of the southern branch of Israel’s Islamic Movement and historically represented conservative Muslim Arab voters. Its leader,…...

4+ day, 20+ hour ago   (485+ words) Something consequential is happening to Shas, the Sephardi ultra-Orthodox party that has been a pillar of Benjamin Netanyahu’s governing coalition and, for decades, one of Israel’s most durable political forces. Shas won 11 Knesset seats in 2022. Recent polls put it around…...

5+ day, 52+ min ago   (608+ words) In 1897, more than 200 Jewish delegates from 17 countries (including five Americans) gathered in Basel, Switzerland, for three days—from Aug. 29 to Aug. 31—for an audacious purpose: to transform the ancient Jewish longing for Zion into an organized political movement. Convened by…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (461+ words) Israel will not withdraw from Southern Lebanon until Hezbollah is disarmed throughout the country and the danger posed by attacks from the Land of the Cedars is neutralized, Defense Minister Israel Katz said on Friday. “Prime Minister Netanyahu and I…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (947+ words) Put it this way, and it sounds very close indeed: the election is next month. Its outcome will largely be decided this coming Tuesday, just as it was decided the last time when Balad chose to break up the Joint…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (598+ words) Settlers. Colonists. By now, there is hardly any need to add the adjective “violent.” In the imagination of much of the world, it is simply taken for granted. Anti-Israel propaganda has chosen above all to showcase young hooligans with long…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago   (360+ words) Joseph Strauss | JTA Vice President JD Vance acknowledged that he has “political disagreements” with Tucker Carlson, the former Fox News personality who has spread antisemitic conspiracy theories and sparked a rift within the Republican Party. But that won’t impact their…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago   (397+ words) Hasan Piker does not particularly interest us. America has never lacked people willing to say ugly things about Jews. What interests us — and increasingly alarms us — is why so many people who should know better keep inviting him into the…...