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With growing urgency, more US Jews urge Israel to ensure ample food deliveries to Gaza

For most Jewish Americans, whatever their political persuasion, support for Israel has been a bedrock principle. Thus it’s ...

Canada will recognize a Palestinian state in September in latest push against Israel’s Gaza policies

It is the latest in a series of symbolic announcements that are part of a broader global shift against Israel’s policies in ...

Fed Up With Netanyahu and Handling of Gaza War, Democrats Rebuke Israel

Votes in the Senate made clear that the longtime bipartisan consensus in support of Israel is, at least for the moment, in ...

This rabbi protests Israel’s government

This week, I joined 10 rabbinic colleagues in an act of civil disobedience outside the Israeli Consulate in New York City.

This is not the Israel America has long supported

The suffering in Gaza, and the transformation of Israel's image from David to Goliath, from righteous to wrathful, is in turn ...

Opinion | Israel’s ruling government is its gravest existential threat

There’s no rational justification for starvation in Gaza or continuing the war. Israel’s supporters should be demanding that ...
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As an Israeli political scientist, I resisted thinking this war was a genocide. Here’s what changed my mind

The incitement for genocide in the Israeli public sphere is undeniable. So why are so many of us liberal Jews so reluctant?

German government takes tougher tone with Israel

Germany's foreign minister visited Jerusalem on Friday and insisted that more aid be let into Gaza. Despite the tough talk, ...

United Nations’ Relief Chief: If anyone can shift Israeli Government, ‘It’s of course, the Americans’

UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Tom Fletcher tells CNN’s Christiane Amanpour that if anyone can shift the Israeli government, ...