Palestine
Joel Schalit / 28 Jun 2019
Notes From a Demonstration
Germany’s Moral Debt Crisis
No country, apart from the United States, is as riven with debate about its relationship with Israel as Germany.(...)
Natalie Sarkic-Todd / 24 May 2019
Tel Aviv, North Macedonia
Rehearsing Diversity at Eurovision
The hosting of this year’s Eurovision Song Contest against the backdrop of the Israel-Palestine conflict was always going to be controversial.(...)
Joel Schalit / 19 Apr 2019
In Need of a New Israel Strategy
The EU and Benjamin Netanyahu
Guy Verhofstadt. Massimo D’Alema. Sigmar Gabriel. David Miliband. Over thirty strong, the list of former European foreign ministers and prime ministers had been attached to a letter published in The Guardian, imploring the EU to stay committed to the two-state solution.(...)
The Battleground / 12 Apr 2019
Europe at War
The Battleground, in Conversation with Anna Ahronheim
Anna Ahronheim is the defence correspondent for The Jerusalem Post, Israel’s oldest English-language daily. Following the Brussels Conference on Supporting the Future of Syria, which raised over 8 billion euros in aid pledges, The Battleground spoke to Ahronheim about what didn’t get tabled at the event: European military involvement in the Middle East.(...)
Mitchell Plitnick / 08 Feb 2019
The Palestine Problem
A Progressive Jewish View of the EU
“Israel is outraged over the legislation against it in the Dail which is indicative of hypocrisy and anti-Semitism.” That was the statement from the office of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu after the lower house of the Irish parliament advanced a bill in late January that would make it illegal for anyone in Ireland to buy goods or services from Israel’s settlements in the West Bank.(...)
Joel Schalit / 01 Feb 2019
Remembering Fascism in Germany
Everyone Owns the Shoah
I hate commemorating the Holocaust. Born to WWII generation Israeli-American parents in 1967, the Shoah, as we call it in Hebrew, has always been the cornerstone around which we defined our Jewishness and our politics.(...)