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Palestine
Ezra Klein Doesn’t Understand Israel
By ignoring the ideological reality of Hamas and Hezbollah, Klein treats Israelis and Palestinians as props in a Western morality play rather than…
Haviv Rettig Gur
Israel Has an Extremism Problem
Besides the moral failure, Israel’s institutional failure to crack down on violent settlers is damaging its ability to fight for its survival.
Haviv Rettig Gur
Michael Oren: Defending Israel in an Age of Madness
America’s national derangement poses almost insurmountable challenges to supporters of the Jewish state.
Michael Oren
How Israel Is Hunting Members of the Iranian Regime
As the Israeli Air Force operates freely in the skies over Tehran, the strikes on regime officials are becoming more daring and more important than…
Amit Segal
Why Grad Students at Columbia May Go on Strike
‘If you look at what the union is doing now, you can see there’s no sane people left,’ says one student about its political fixations.
Jonas Du
Columbia’s Modern Arab Studies Chair Contenders Have One Thing in Common: Hating Israel
The university says it is committed to ‘balanced’ curricula on the Middle East. Their top candidates tell a different story.
Maya Sulkin
The Bad History of ‘Palestine 36’
An Oscar short-listed film, funded by Qatar, Turkey, and the BBC, rewrites the past to serve a modern political fantasy.
Oren Kessler
Confessions of a Former Pro-Palestine Activist
‘It felt critical to voice your opinion early and as often as possible, in order to be a true ally. If you were silent on the matter, you were…
Maya Sulkin
45M
The ‘Peace Protesters’ Who Won’t Give Peace a Chance
The ‘pro-Palestine’ activists and organizations formerly insistent on an immediate ceasefire suddenly appear quite opposed to a plan to end the Gaza…
Ahmed Fouad Alkhatib
This Week in Canada: Hamas Says, ‘Thank You, Mark Carney’
A ‘yes’ to Palestinian statehood despite so many broken promises; Chrystia Freeland fades away; no ‘O Canada’; and much more. Brought to you by Rupa…
Rupa Subramanya
Inside the Mossad
Former Mossad director Yossi Cohen talks spycraft, the war in Gaza, Palestinian statehood, Iran, Qatar, Israel’s recent mind-boggling missions, and why…
Bari Weiss
1HR 28M
You Can Buy This Sweater. Unless You’re a ‘Proud Zionist.’
Lingua Franca built a brand selling luxury ‘resistance.’ But when a customer ordered a cashmere pro-Israel sweater, the company decided that some causes…
Maya Sulkin
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