Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield, founders of Ben & Jerry’s, published an op ed in yesterday’s NY Times, about the controversy over Unilever’s decision to abandon the Occupied Territories as a market for their ice cream. In it, they strongly affirmed their commitment to the partial boycott (though they didn’t use the term and couldn’t […]
Meron Disaster and the Dangers of Theocracy
Let’s begin at the beginning: Israel is a theocracy. Not a democracy. To be more precise, it is an ethno-theocracy, in which a single religion enjoys supremacy over others; and that religion controls dominant levers of social and political state power. This may seem somewhat afield from the post title, but bear with me. Every […]
Why is the Israeli Supreme Court Deciding Who is a Jew?
Imagine this: American Christian denominations are battling tooth and nail over defining who is a Christian, including whether conversion performed by one may be recognized by the other. Imagine a country in which Southern Baptists refuse to marry Roman Catholics, and Unitarians refuse to marry Episcopalians. All because they refuse to recognize the other denominations […]
Israeli Anti-Netanyahu Protests Heat Up, But Real Change is Unlikely
UPCOMING: I’ve organized a Zoom webinar on increasing tensions between Iran, Israel and the U.S. Paul Pillar, Gareth Porter, Muhammad Sahimi and I will discuss the trajectory of U.S.-Iran relations with looming U.S. presidential elections. The program will be this Thursday, August 6th 7pm UK time, 11am Pacific and 2pm Eastern. Visit the Facebook Event […]
