Sure hope Netanyahu is feeling good about alienating half of the American political spectrum, knowing the one party he has openly endorsed will never turn on him. No way that could ever go badly in the end.
I think we can have both, and assuming we have to choose between them is a false dichotomy forced upon us by austerity.
Brad Lander understands more than just about any other politician right now the challenges of being a Jew torn between an illiberal, violent state that claims to be acting in our name on the one side, and genuine rising antisemitism on the other.
"The Nazis who survived the war were all executed at Nuremberg" is Cold War-era historical revisionism that the US needs to tell itself, to avoid confronting how many high-ranking ex-Nazis were simply rehabilitated and allowed back into West German and US politics in the name of anti-Communism.
Rhetorically, the statement "Ben-Gvir is worse than Goebbels and the Nazis" is not intended to do the work of delegitimizing Israeli politicians - you don't need this comparison for that - but rather detoxifying Nazis, to make far-right politics seem more acceptable.
We are living in an age when a basic statement like this from the Pope is going to be perceived by many as a subtweet.
Ben-Gvir is a monstrous war criminal who belongs in the Hague, but this is rank Holocaust revisionism designed to use anti-Zionism as an entree into questioning all of Jewish history.
"Vladimir Lenin created anti-Zionism" is such an absurdly ahistorical statement that it beggars belief. Has this writer ever heard of Nathan Birnbaum? Karl Kraus? Hermann Cohen?
“These are unprecedented and harsh accusations against an Israeli government and the defense establishment, especially from a former prime minister. But after years of restraint, I have no choice but to make them.” www.haaretz.com/opinion/2026...
"To truly enact the ideals of the civic-education movement, you would need more than a new college: you would need to reimagine the entirety of our education system and the society into which students graduate; you would need a whole new ideal of the person." harpers.org/archive/2026...
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These Are Unprecedented and Harsh Accusations Against an Israeli Government and the Defense Establishment, Especially From a Former Prime Minister. But After Years of Restraint, I Have No Choice but t...
Ben-Gvir is a monstrous war criminal who belongs in the Hague, but this is rank Holocaust revisionism designed to use anti-Zionism as an entree into questioning all of Jewish history.
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Ben-Gvir is a monstrous war criminal who belongs in the Hague, but this is rank Holocaust revisionism designed to use anti-Zionism as an entree into questioning all of Jewish history.
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If the left wants to maintain an authentic commitment to human rights, “it must oppose the movement that seeks the elimination of Israel and the purging from civil society of those marked as Zionists,” Adam Louis-Klein argues.
Vance ends by turning on Israel: "What bothers me is you've seen people in Bibi's cabinet who have come out & attacked the deal & very personally attacked the president. My message to them is Donald J Trump is the only head in the state in the entire world who is sympathetic to the nation of Israel"
That’s what it will take to restore the classroom to its democratic purpose.
