NOTE: I’ve just published a new piece, Israel’s “AI Kill” against Iran has no long-term strategic benefit, but profound moral and legal ramifications at The New Arab. It comments on Israel’s “achievement” as the first country in the world to assassinate someone using artificial intelligence. It critiques the NY TImes article extolling the virtues of […]
Tzipi Hotovely: Campus Hillels are “Liberal Dictatorship,” and U.S. Jews Don’t Understand Israel Because Their Kids Don’t Fight in Afghanistan
In an Israeli TV interview, the hosts posed some tough questions to Tzipi Hotovely, Israel’s deputy foreign minister. The background to the interview was that she’d been invited to speak at Princeton University Hillel last month. After Jewish students on campus protested her appearance as part of a Brand Israel propaganda campaign, the Hillel determined that […]
Reform Jews Ape Settler Rhetoric in Kotel Protest
In spite of my muted sympathy for Women of the Wall and the non-Orthodox religious movements in Israel who seek to bring egalitarian prayer to the Kotel, their current campaign to generate sympathy among Israelis is wildly inappropriate. They’ve begun a promotional blitz to raise awareness of the issue via a billboard along a major […]
Western Wall: Nexus for Gender and Religious-Nationalist Conflict
This week, Israel’s far-right government acceded to its ultra-Orthodox coalition partners and torpedoed a compromise years in the making, which had been intended to offer Israeli women a means of worshipping at the Western Wall in an egalitarian manner. Women of the Wall have long protested the segregation and second-class status of women who choose […]
