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A file photo of Alan Dershowitz. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Why Israel is so worried about Qatari outreach to American Jews

Qatar has been focusing on prominent American Jewish leaders as the isolated Gulf state seeks to repair its image. Why American Jews? It’s about Saudi Arabia. By Mitchell Plitnick On January 31, the Israeli embassy in the United States stated that Israel did not approve of several right wing, pro-Israel American Jewish leaders meeting with…

By +972 Magazine February 16, 2018

J Street U students take part in an anti-BDS summit at the United Nations, March 29, 2017. (Gili Getz)

Can J Street coherently fight both boycott and occupation?

After J Street U students were attacked at an anti-BDS conference this week, the lobby might want to reconsider the effectiveness of seeking common ground with extremists. Things got ugly at an anti-BDS conference at the United Nations this week when participants turned on a group of liberal university students in attendance. The conference, organized by…

By Noa Yachot April 1, 2017

ZOA presidential hopeful Steve Goldberg (Screenshot)

More Zionist than the Jewish state itself

The man who wants to take over the Zionist Organization of America is further to the right and more of a warmonger than the most right-wing government Israel has ever had. The Zionist Organization of America was one of the first major Jewish-American umbrella organizations to support the nascent State of Israel. From Louis Brandeis…

By Michael Schaeffer Omer-Man February 9, 2014

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“Air Flotilla” successful in exposing Israeli blockade of West Bank

Israeli authorities deployed hundreds of police officers to arrest and deport pro-Palestinian visitors. The Minister of Tourism announced that “good tourists” will be greeted with flowers Panic. There is no other way to describe the Israeli reaction to a plan organized by a few activists—no more than a thousand, according to the most generous estimates—to…

By Noam Sheizaf July 7, 2011

Zionist, Yes; Progressive, maybe

When push comes to shove, many progressive Zionists will let their Zionism trump their progressiveness by Jerry Haber I have never accepted the view that “progressive Zionist” is an oxymoron (well, there goes half of my readership). For one thing, “progressive” or “liberal” (synonymous, for the purpose of this post) Zionists are generally progressive on…

By +972 Magazine December 2, 2010