Israel and Palestine

Reactions in the United States post-Oct. 7 mimicked the mid-1960s’ political moment more than it innovated anything new.

The takeover of Israel by its extreme messianic right wing is now irrefutably complete.

Kaplan was convinced that the Zionist movement had made a serious error in not first negotiating directly with the Arabs.

We do well to remain vigilant about the ways in which our overarching narratives become self-serving and one-sided.

We’re living through the disintegration of American Jewish civil religion as we have known it.

The presence of Israeli troops stationed outside the school seemed designed to provoke the students so that they could then arrest as many of them as possible.

Martin Buber’s vision of a Zionism that centers ethical values seems particularly urgent right now.

We need to hold both: our Israeli and Jewish family, and our extended family — the Palestinians in Gaza living beneath the bombs and those under assault on the West Bank.

The Houthis preach a particular, religiously informed hatred of Jews, a specific kind of antisemitism that has its foundation in an extremist strand of modern Islamic teaching.