America has deals, Israel needs a strategy
US President Donald Trump’s Middle East is an ever-changing collection of threats, bargains, allies and enemies. Israel cannot build its national security around someone else’s improvisation.
Moral Clarity: Truths in Politics and Culture
No punches pulled. Critical essays on politics and culture with a focus on Israel and the Middle East.
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Europe is still telling Jews where they may live
The EU’s threatened sanctions over the E1 settlement project in Judea and Samaria belong to a 2,000-year tradition of telling Jews where they may and may not live. Those days are over.
The Jew returns to American politics
The Jew has returned as America’s theory of everything: privileged to the Left, powerful to the Right and useful to anyone searching for someone else to blame.
You cannot take me anywhere
My family would like a quiet afternoon. Unfortunately, somebody has just said “settler colonialism.”
The strange death of the secular Palestinian
The Palestinian beloved by the Western Left is secular enough for Brooklyn, revolutionary enough for Berkeley and increasingly difficult to find in Palestine.
The case for war in Gaza
Sometimes peace saves lives. Other times it just gives the people trying to kill you time to reload. If Hamas does not disarm in Gaza, then the Israel Defense Forces must disarm them.
FAQs about Jewish self-defense
A helpful guide to the increasingly elaborate rules governing when, where and how Jews are permitted to survive.
The colonizers who forgot to have an empire
Israel is accused of settler colonialism despite the awkward absence of a mother country, no imperial capital, no empire, or anywhere for seven million Israeli Jews to which to “go back,”
How to lose a war and win a Western university
Hamas may have lost its commanders, tunnels and military infrastructure, but in the West, it learned a movement can lose the battlefield and still capture those who teach, write and govern.
Between the Lines: Giving the BBC a good kicking
Moral Clarity's renowned Between the Lines column takes podcast form this week. It has been a while since I took aim at the BBC but this story is so egregious I needed to rant.
Is the UK now the land of the living dead?
Britain’s antisemitism is becoming respectable. Its liberalism is becoming optional.
I refuse to die before I am dead
Antisemitism can threaten Jewish lives. Its greater victory would be persuading Jews to spend those lives hiding who they are. Do not let them.
The media's unofficial style guide to writing about Israel
How journalists learned to turn terrorists into militants, retaliation into escalation, extremists into moderates and editorial judgment into objective reporting.
The economics of being anti-Israel
Nobody needs to conspire when the incentives point in the same direction.