Tel Aviv, March 2, 2026. Early morning. Two days ago, a siren woke us up around 8am. It was Saturday, so we expected to sleep late, but of course, we were ready for this unfortunate turn of ...

In a talk at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute on February 22, 2026, Israeli academic Alexander Yakobson discusses the question of national and civic identity in Israel as a Jewish and democratic ...

Strand Building, King's College London. Photo by Shadowssettle via Wikimedia. Licence accessible at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/deed.en.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu holds a joint press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Mr. Viktor Orbán, at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on July 19, 2018. Photo by Marc Israel ...

Reflecting on a sense of resignation among some Israelis and Diaspora Jews, Kibbutz Nir Am resident Sam Shube argues that democracy is neither a bedrock certainty nor a lost paradise, but a prize to ...

Peter Gabriel at the 2007 BBC Radio 2 Folk Awards at The Brewery, London, 2007. Photo by Brian Ledgard, Wikimedia.

On 26 January 2015 the former AP reporter Matti Friedman delivered the keynote speech at BICOM’s annual dinner in London. Expanding on a widely-noted argument first set out in Tablet and The Atlantic, ...

Islamism is one of the least understood forms of anti-Semitism. Leave to one side those who foolishly romanticise Islamist groups as fighting a heroic anti-colonial struggle against Israel and the ...

For many decades, virulently antisemitic forms of ‘anti-Zionism’ were central to the cold war propaganda of the Communist states. In this powerful essay Izabella Tabarovsky not only lays bare the ...

James Joyce bust, Kielce, Poland. Photo: Staszek Szybki Jest / Wikimedia Commons / cropped from original.

Yisrael Medad is deputy editor of the forthcoming critical English-language edition of the writings of the revisionist Zionist Ze’ev Jabotinsky, and is Research Fellow at the Menachem Begin Heritage ...

Senior Lecturer in the School of Public Policy and the Department of Communications at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dr. Gadi Taub is an Israeli historian, novelist, screenwriter, political ...