Tolstoy famously wrote that ‘All happy families resemble one another, but each unhappy family is unhappy in its own way.’ The Abu Fraiha family – the subject of a beautiful and moving documentary In ...

Michael Feuer argues that the eruption of protests against Israel after 7 October sounded the alarm of resurgent antisemitism ...

Strasbourg, January 2011. Members of the European Parliament condemn violence against Christians in the Middle East. PE-EP / Pietro Naj-Oleari.

There is a paradox at the heart of human rights discourse – its failure to recognise the right of the individual to live in a democracy. Many media outlets refer to the slaughter in Syria as “the ...

Academic Judith Butler’s evolving responses to 7 October are critically examined by Cary Nelson. When Judith Butler expressed something approximating grudging horror–if one may characterise her ...

Pnina Pfeuffer (right) speaking at an Israel-Palestine: Creative Regional Initiatives (IPCRI) event titled 'Violence, Revenge and Redemption : A close look at Jewish radical violence', 27 February ...

Paul Gross considers an ostensibly implausible but tantalising possibility. Hearing some of the wildly enthusiastic responses to Donald Trump’s election victory by the most messianic, annexationist ...

Israel’s military operation to stop rocket fire at Israeli cities and to destroy Hamas tunnels under the Gaza-Israel border has drawn increasing criticism due to civilian casualties. To discuss the ...

Sam Faddis’s recent account of his time as a CIA operations officer in Iraq in the run-up to the 2003 Iraq War is a highly readable one replete with new details and lots of interesting tidbits about ...

Mitchell Cohen is co-editor emeritus of Dissent in New York and professor emeritus of political science at Bernard Baruch College of the City University of New York. His books include Zion and State: ...

Rabbi Binyamin (left) and Martin Buber, two members of Brit Shalom. The David B. Keidan Collection of Digital Images/Wikimedia Commons.