by LZ Granderson Abe Baker-Butler, a junior at Yale University, was working on an essay in the library on Oct. 7 when his phone began buzzing and wouldn’t stop. Israel was under attack. As president of the American Jewish Committee’s Campus Global Board, Baker-Butler was ...
by Itamar Karbi Tel Aviv — Last Saturday, I woke up at 7:30 a.m. to the sound of sirens. My wife and I quickly went down the staircase of our building and waited to hear distant explosions, which would mean that Israel’s defense system was functioning. When we went back to our ...
by Phyllis Bennis The violence in Gaza and Israel is bringing horrifying new levels of human suffering to Israelis and Palestinians. Both sides have committed heinous violations of international law, and all attacks on civilians must be condemned. But if we’re serious about ...
On Sept. 22, 2005, Israel completed its unilateral withdrawal from the Gaza Strip. It did not take someone with the power of an Old Testament prophet to predict what would come next. Hamas almost immediately filled the vacuum and began planning a series of terrorist attacks on civilian ...
Saturday’s Hamas terror onslaught from its stronghold in Gaza into Israel, murdering hundreds, was a sneak attack, just like the sneak attacks by Egypt and Syria on Israel on Yom Kippur 50 years ago, 9/11 and Pearl Harbor and Hitler’s surprise invasion of the Soviet Union in 1941. The ...
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. But the White House must do more to tamp down the anti-Israeli sentiment that frequently bubbles up in the party’s far-left ...