Congratulations to Mahmoud Abbas on the eleventh year of his four-year term!
His election-day remarks may have been ill-advised, but they didn’t change anything.
Can Israel continue to be both Jewish and democratic? According to Evelyn Gordon, that depends on your definition of democracy. The answer is emphatically yes,. . .
A recent survey by the Israel Democracy Institute (IDI) finds a precipitous drop in the proportion of Israeli Jews who assign equal value to the. . .
A recent survey of Israel’s Arab minority suggests that the majority have positive attitudes toward the Jewish state and its institutions. Evelyn Gordon writes:
Proposed legislation in Israel to give legal status to its identity as the Jewish state has been roundly condemned as racist, undemocratic, and reactionary. Such. . .
A bill currently before the Knesset declaring Israel the nation-state of the Jewish people is threatening to topple the ruling coalition. Although its critics have. . .
For decades, Christians have suffered from persecution at the hands of Palestinian Muslims. It’s Israel that grants them safe harbor.
In an effort to expand its voter base, Israel’s leading religious-Zionist party will now welcome non-religious members and support their candidacy for national office.
Remembering their heroes, Israeli children are taught both that the survival of their collective is crucial—and that each of their individual lives is precious.
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