Everywhere Jews went in the world there was “unease,” New York Times columnist Roger Cohen tells a temple filled with 450 in California– and that is why we need a Jewish state.

The liberal Zionist group J Street is not serious about peace because it cannot call the settlements “illegal” let alone call for US sanctions against colonization.

The UN’s latest report on Gaza is a bleak portrait: 80% of young women are unemployed, and 300% of Gaza’s GDP has been lost in damage in Israel’s three wars. No wonder the UN says Gaza will be ‘uninhabitable’ in another 5 years

What is the alternate history where Al Gore is elected President in 2000? What is the alternate history where the United States does not launch two destructive 10 year wars in the Middle East in 2003? How much of the current refugee problem in the Middle East and North Africa is traceable to our actions in these wars?

In order to make out Iran Deal opponents like Chuck Schumer as reasonable—as opposed to treasonous—Jeffrey Goldberg compares Iran’s Ayatollah Khamenei to Hitler and frets whether Obama and Kerry understand the “eliminationist” nature of Khamenei’s anti-Semitism. With friends like these, this Iran deal does not need enemies.

The Republican leadership, and many Democrats, are ready to elevate the conflicting interest of two foreign countries (Israel and Saudi Arabia) over America’s interest in knee-jerk fashion, and that’s disturbing.

How would Hillary Clinton balance her unceasing commitment to neoconservatives with America’s policy interests in the region as president? In Syria as with Iraq, it’s clear Hillary’s instincts have been considerably more hawkish than Obama’s. Hawkish instincts proved a disaster in the wake of September 9, 2001.

Ginsberg’s poem America, written nearly 60 years ago in the year of his mother’s death, still has incredible power as a critique and guarded praise of the country he thrived in, Roland Nikles writes

During Israeli parliamentary debate of a law that discriminates against Palestinian, Deputy Interior Minister Yaron Mazuz called on Palestinian lawmakers to return Israeli identity cards. “We are doing you people a favor by even allowing you to be seated here – terrorists won’t be allowed to sit here.”

An American lawyer reviews the Adalah list of 50 discriminatory laws inside Israel and finds that they create an unequal, and sometimes separate, status for Palestinians and Jews