Liberal

Growing contradictions at the heart of Israel’s liberal camp - opinion

Israeli liberal leaders push policies that clash with democratic principles, showing differing ways of how they treat different communities.

An illustrative image of a reporter for Army Radio (Galei Tzahal) taken in 2019.
Palestinian port authority holds passports of passengers to show the press that they are leaving Gaza legally.

Liberal Zionist groups criticize Trump’s travel ban on those with Palestinian Authority passports

THE KNESSET plenum meets this week. Israel’s rules of the game are not anchored in a constitution and can be changed by a simple Knesset majority, the writer notes.

Thin constitution needed to stabilize the government amid political crisis - opinion

A PALESTINIAN FLAG is attached to a traffic light as a rally takes place to challenge the UK government’s banning of Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws, in Parliament Square, last month. Europe finds itself entangled with radical Islam, says the writer.

Israel advances coexistence while Europe ignores the clash of civilizations - opinion


Israel haters have too much faith in humanity - opinion

In their worldview, it cannot be that human beings are capable of such atrocities on their own; it must be a reaction to even graver crimes committed by others.

 RADICAL HUMANISTS believe so deeply in man’s inherent goodness that they struggle to acknowledge the existence of evil. Pictured: A child.

Extreme left-wing billionaires George and Alex Soros endorse Kamala Harris

George and Alex Soros back Kamala Harris after Biden exits the 2024 race, calling for unity against Trump. Their endorsement sparks new debates on political influence.

Billionaire investor George Soros attends the Schumpeter Award in Vienna, Austria June 21, 2019.

Finding the balance: What Jewish law teaches us about avoiding political extremes? - opinion

The liberals are cursing the conservatives; the conservatives are cursing the liberals. Accusations from friends and congregants alike, seeing only the other at fault, blind to our own shortcomings.

 SCULPTURE OF medieval Jewish scholar and later chief rabbi of Egypt, Moshe ben-Maimon, displayed in the city of his birth, Cordoba, Spain. The writer explains that according to Maimonides, the path of the wise is the ‘middle path.’

For Western students, Israel is a code word for US imperialism - opinion

American and European institutions of higher learning harbor academics promoting the idea of the West as a sinful civilization, irremediably guilty of the most horrific crimes.

 A PROTESTER waves a Palestinian flag at a rally outside MIT’s Stata Center in May in Cambridge, Massachusetts. American and European institutes of higher learning harbor academics who promote the West as a sinful civilization, says the writer.

Supporting Hamas is regressive not progressive - opinion

These students are rioting on their university campuses not because they care deeply about Palestinians; most couldn’t even point Gaza out on a map

 STUDENTS CAMP out at the Diag at the University of Michigan, last month. These students are not only calling for divestment from Israel, but also from US ‘imperialism,’ the writer asserts.

In her new book, Batya Ungar-Sargon speaks on why Jews need to rethink their alliances

Her new book applies to Jews and Israel, especially post-October 7 when American Jews were stunned by their progressive peers.

 A rally in support of Israel that took place in November in Washington. Israel should inspire American Jews to focus less on what they have been doing - defense - and shift to what they have not been doing - attack, says the writer.

Israel no longer 'liberal democracy' for first time in 50 years, research institute says

Liberal democracies include the above, as well as "judicial and legislative constraints on the executive along with the protection of civil liberties and equality before the law."

 AT A demonstration in Tel Aviv, earlier this month, against the government’s plan for judicial change, signs read ‘The student protest’ and ‘Without democracy, there is no academia.’

Antisemitism must be criminalized before it's too late - opinion

Since the October 7 brutal and reprehensible massacre of Israeli and foreign civilians and the taking of hostages, the world is witnessing an unprecedented resurgence of pure antisemitism.

 A PROTEST organized by Palestinian solidarity groups and activists takes place in Copenhagen last month. The genocidal calls of ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ are accompanied by massively financed and marketed Palestinian paraphernalia, scarves, flags, and posters.

Left-wing Zionist groups Americans for Peace Now, Ameinu to merge

The groups declared that the merger made sense because the groups complemented one another.

 Rep. Andy Levin speaks at a press conference introducing his "Two-State Solution Act" on Capitol Hill, Sept. 23, 2021. He is flanked by Hadar Susskind, the president/CEO of Americans for Peace Now; Rep. Alan Lowenthal; Rep. Sara Jacobs; Rep. Peter Welch; and J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami.

Liberal Jews feel abandoned by the Left - opinion

It's been made clear that for a large coalition of leftists and Muslims in America, Jews have no right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland and deserve no safety anywhere.