President Joe Biden met with the Israeli president at the White House last Tuesday in an effort to bolster relations between the two longtime and vital allies. […]
Tag: Palestine
Joint Memorial Day ceremony for Israelis and Palestinians overcame hate
by Trudy Rubin TEL AVIV, Israel — Memorial Day used to be Israel’s most sacred secular holiday because it honored those who died in wars or terrorist […]
Violence casts shadow over Holy Land
by Storer H. Rowley Holy days in the Holy Land should be sacred refuges from escalating tensions and violence, but ironically, they are often just the opposite, […]
Why Israel is losing my support
by Nicholas Goldberg For many years I believed the Israeli-Palestinian conflict was fixable, that a final resolution could — and ultimately would — be found in the […]
Israeli-Palestinian conflict won’t fade away
by Nicholas Goldberg Five Israelis shot dead in Bnai Brak and two more in Tel Aviv. Clashes at the Al Aqsa Mosque, where more than 150 Palestinians […]
Anti-boycott laws violate our rights
The documentary “Boycott” will make its big screen debut later this month. The film follows several plaintiffs from different backgrounds pushing back against anti-boycott bills passed in […]
Ben & Jerry’s boycott is not a rejection of Israel
by Trudy Rubin The most stunning thing about the Great Ice Cream War between Ben & Jerry’s and Israel is the explosive Israeli reaction. The ice cream […]
A centrist take on Israel-Palestine
by Dave Anderson There is a familiar pattern of responses to the Israeli-Palestinian problem that mirrors most political problems. There are two positions that are diametrically opposed […]
Democracy depends on the separation of church and state
Early last week, Rabbi Shmuley Boteach, the head of the World Values Network, took out a full-page ad in The New York Times calling pop singer Dua […]
Guest essay: W.Va. GOP bill stifles free speech
by Robert E. Smith Montani Semper Liberi (Mountaineers are Always Free), at least that’s what we’re told. West Virginia Republicans led the crusade to pass HB 2933, […]
