In Combating the Ideology of Terror, Washington’s Allies Must Cease Repressing Civil Society
The Trump administration should listen to its counterterrorism strategy.
October 8, 2018
Uri Avnery Was No Hero
The man who made Arafat into a “peace partner.”
Following the death in August of the Israeli journalist and politician Uri Avnery, many Israeli public figures—even those who had once been or would seem to be his ideological opponents—have praised him for his dedication to peace. President Reuven Rivlin, for instance, commended Avnery’s “ambition to build a free and strong society” in Israel. Yet, writes Raphael Bouchnik-Chen, we should not forget the destruction wrought by Avnery’s most significant achievement: his unofficial and unauthorized diplomacy with Yasir Arafat, which would eventually lead to the Oslo Accords:
October 8, 2018
Uri Avnery Was No Hero
The man who made Arafat into a “peace partner.”
Will Turkey Foil Plans to Turn Israel and Its Neighbors into Major Suppliers of Natural Gas to Europe?
Pipeline dreams.
Saul Bellow’s Literary Response to American Jewish Passivity during the Holocaust
Broadway Billy and the amnesia of a people once known for their memory.
Overdoing Stanley Kubrick’s Jewishness
A great filmmaker, but not a New York intellectual.