by Rabbi Christine Matthews III New York, October 7 – Countless people I meet make the same error: assuming that just because the Hebrew Bible came from within the Jewish cultural tradition dating back thousands of years, it somehow represents ...
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by MK Ayman Odeh, Joint List Haifa, September 23 – Our alliance of Arab parties has finally reached its fateful conclusion in the ongoing drama of the recent parliamentary elections: we have told President Rivlin that we back Benny Gantz ...
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By Susan Lefkowitz-Li, J Street donor New York, September 12 – My status as wealthy Jewish-American grants me numerous privileges, which I acknowledge, but I savor none of them as much as I enjoy pontificating about the excessive measures the ...
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by Subhi Sh’hada Hebron, September 3 – I need not inform the reader that my hometown bears the distinction of one of the most radicalized locations in the region, if not the world. A hardcore group of several hundred Jews, ...
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By Rebecca Goldsmith, If Not Now activist I always counsel my pro-Palestine allies to keep the focus of rhetoric on Islamophobic manifestations and anti-Muslim violence, especially from Israel, but it can be hard to maintain that focus when others bring up ...
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by Veli Alley, conspiracy theorist I do wish the do-gooders would stop accusing me of hating Jews when every single thing I say about them indicates all the positive traits Jews possess, such as the immense intelligence they must have ...
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by Mahmoud Abbas, President, Palestinian Authority Ramallah, August 5 – This office put out an official message of condolence to the people of the United States as soon as we heard of the mass shootings in Texas and Ohio over ...
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By Kenneth Roth, Director, Human Rights Watch Our researchers should be free to conduct their observations and analysis in a country that purports to call itself democratic, but Israel’s behavior in this regard raises some disturbing questions: what does it ...
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by Javad Zarif, Minister of Foreign Affairs, Islamic Republic of Iran Tehran, July 16 – During my current visit to the Big Apple, I will need to keep in mind that I cannot react to challenging questions from journalists by ...
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by Linda Sarsour It’s difficult for me to choose one episode or incident in Scripture that appeals to me more than any other, but if forced, I’d have to say when Moses, after four hundred years of wandering through the ...
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