Only in Israel could someone take a beautiful natural specimen, the butterfly, and turn it into a...
Richard Silverstein
Silverstein is an independent journalist and has published Tikun Olam since 2003. It exposes the secrets of the Israeli national security state. He publishes regularly at the New Arab, and Jacobin Magazine. His work has also appeared in Al Jazeera English, The Nation, Truthout and other outlets.
Today, George Mitchell resigned as Obama administration special envoy for Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations. It’s not exactly a...
Ehud Barak, like the Titanic in 1913, gave this second act in his political career a magnificent...
Spencer Tunick has set his sights on organizing another one of his mass nude photo shoots, this...
The Bible asks rhetorically whether a leopard can change its spots. Maybe not. But people and political...
I wrote here that Larry Derfner, a columnist for the Jerusalem Post and I were launching a...
Cong. Jim McDermott, who represents me in the U.S. Congress and is one of the few truly...
Woody Guthrie memorably wrote that “some rob you with a six-gun and some with a fountain pen.”...
Larry Derfner and I are about to embark on a new blog (not replacing Tikun Olam in...
The Yom Kippur liturgy talks about the two goats which marked the Yom Kippur holiday in ancient...
This is a talk I delivered at the Confronting Islamophobia: I am My Brother’s Keeper conference on...
OK, Meirke. We get the message. Former Mossad director, Meir Dagan, who was unceremoniously booted from his...
