Jeffery Goldberg

French nationals hold up signs reading "I am Charlie" during a vigil at the French Embassy in Tel Aviv, January 8, 2015. (photo: Oren Ziv/Activestills.org)

Putting the Charlie Hebdo attack in context

The news from Paris hit like a punch to the stomach and to the heart. Ten employees of the satirical French magazine, Charlie Hebdo, were shot in cold blood for practicing freedom of expression. Two policemen were killed for trying to protect them. Eleven more were wounded. The killers screamed out Allahu Akbar. The thought…

By Mairav Zonszein January 8, 2015

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem. (Photo by Haim Zach / GPO)

Netanyahu’s status quo strategy: Thwarting a Palestinian state

The Americans got it wrong. By seemingly doing nothing but trying to preserve his seat in power, the Israeli prime minister is in fact advancing a process that makes a Palestinian state an impossibility. By David Zonsheine In his Atlantic article on the growing crisis between Jerusalem and Washington, Jeffrey Goldberg quoted American officials slamming…

By +972 Magazine October 30, 2014

Coordinated American-Israeli effort working to smear critical voices

Last Friday evening, B’Tselem employees were busy sending out press releases and compiling media kits detailing the use of tear gas by the Israeli military in the West Bank. For the past ten years, B’Tselem has been one of the only Israeli organizations documenting routine violations of military and civilian law by Israeli soldiers. On…

By Joseph Dana December 13, 2011

Latest

Israeli liberals are not the right audience for anti-occupation activists

Bernard Avishai thinks that BDS (Boycott, Divestment and Sanction) is mostly ineffective, and so do I. But our reasoning is not only different – it actually relies on completely opposite premises about the role of liberal and cosmopolitan elites in Israeli society. This is the first in a series of posts about those elites. Bernard…

By Roi Maor March 16, 2011

Has Israel ceased being a democracy?

The Atlantic’s Jeffery Goldberg is worried that Israel might cease being a democracy. When will that be? The threshold he suggests has already been crossed, and is meaningless anyway. His analysis of anti-democratic forces in Israel is equally superficial and prejudiced Jeffery Goldberg, in The Atlantic, is concerned about the possibility that Israel might cease…

By Roi Maor December 30, 2010