Paul Gross considers an ostensibly implausible but tantalising possibility. Hearing some of the wildly enthusiastic responses to Donald Trump’s election victory by the most messianic, annexationist ...
In Cape Town, protesters march against increased Israeli “security” measures at the Al-Aqsa Mosque in Jerusalem in 2017. Photo by Ashraf Hendricks, GroundUp.
The late writings of Robert Fine, who died in 2018, can help us understand the manifold connections between the Enlightenment roots and the contemporary forms of left antisemitism. He understood that ...
From the cover of Chaim Gans's book 'A Political Theory for the Jewish People' (Oxford University Press, 2016).
General Edmund Allenby entering Jerusalem on foot out of respect for the Holy City after the British's victory in Palestine, 11 December 1917. Wikipedia.
Academic Judith Butler’s evolving responses to 7 October are critically examined by Cary Nelson. When Judith Butler expressed something approximating grudging horror–if one may characterise her ...
Palestinians enjoy the sea in Gaza City, on a hot summer day, on 8 September 2023. Photo by Atia Mohammed/Flash90 ...
Yisrael Medad spent many hours with the poet and Revisionist Zionist Uri Tzvi Greenberg (1896-1981) at Greenberg’s Ramat Gan home in the decade prior to his death. ‘He prayed wrapped in tallit and ...
The summer I was eighteen, I came back to Israel to volunteer on a Kibbutz. When the programme ended, I went to Jerusalem for a few days before my flight back to LA. I had been to the Old City many ...
A group of over 230 Jewish scholars has signed an open letter expressing concern ‘about the current ideological environment in the US and elsewhere and the increasingly censorious culture in many ...
Michael Yudkin is an emeritus Professor of Biochemistry at the University of Oxford. The American Association of University Professors (AAUP) was founded in 1915, and one of its first acts was to ...
Andrés Spokoiny is the President and CEO of the Jewish Funders Network. There was a time, not long ago, when societies built their stories around heroes. Now, the victim has dislodged the hero as the ...