Israeli politicians across the spectrum condemned the ICC prosecutor’s recent announcement, but they otherwise have little love for Benjamin Netanyahu. Last week, Defense Minister Yoav Gallant publicly criticized the prime minister for the absence of a clearly articulated plan for how Gaza will be ruled after Hamas’s defeat. This prompted Benny Gantz—who is the third member of the war cabinet along with Netanyahu and Gallant—to echo these criticisms in a speech of his own. Haviv Rettig Gur, in conversation with Dan Senor, explains what the controversy is all about, and its electoral implications. He also touches on the death of Ebrahim Raisi and the situation along the Israel-Lebanon border.

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.