Israeli democracy
No swimwear problems in Tel Aviv.
They’re the product of media events, not any actual policies.
Most Israelis resent attempts to defame their military.
In praise of their “solidarity and clarity of purpose.”
A modest change might do much good.
The court has power without parallel in any other democracy.
A Jordanian political scientist thinks his country could benefit from actually understanding its neighbor.
As several great thinkers have observed, religion encourages a positive civic culture.
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. . .