For the past few months, the Jewish state has seen mass protests, much heated rhetoric, and no shortage of media reports—both internal and external—making dire predictions of political collapse and even civil war. Haviv Rettig Gur argues forcefully against the current hysteria and pessimism. In conversation with Dan Senor, he explains why he thinks judicial reform is necessary, what he thinks the current government has gotten wrong, why reservists’ threats of boycotting military service are overblown, and why he believes Israel will emerge from the crisis stronger than ever. (Interview, 61 minutes.)

Stephen Daisley writes about the slaying of Yaron Lischinsky and Sarah Milgrim:

Yaron and Sarah were murdered in a climate of lies and vilification and hatred. . . . The more institutions participate in this collective madness, the more madness there will be. The more elected officials and NGOs misrepresent the predictable consequences of asymmetric warfare in densely populated territories, where much of the infrastructure of everyday life has a dual civilian/terrorist purpose, the more the citizenries of North America and Europe will come to regard Israelis and Jews as a people who lust unquenchably after blood.

The most intolerant anti-Zionism is becoming a mainstream view, indulged by liberal societies, more concerned with not conflating irrational hatred of Israel with irrational hatred of Jews—as though the distinction between the two is all that well defined anymore.

For years now, and especially after the October 7 massacre, the call has gone up from the pro-Palestinian movement to put Palestine at the heart of Western politics. To pursue the struggle against Zionism in every country, on every platform, and in every setting. To wage worldwide resistance to Israel, not only in Wadi al-Far’a but in Washington, DC. “Globalize the intifada,” they chanted. This is what it looks like.