For decades, prominent Jewish voices have wrestled privately with an uncomfortable question. Does aggressive Israeli government conduct expose diaspora Jewish communities to backlash they did not invite? In early March, Ezra Klein brought that question back into public view. Speaking with former Obama senior adviser Ben Rhodes on a podcast episode titled “The Great Lie […]

The narrative of an unshakeable Israeli-Western alliance built on shared values and unified strategic interests has fractured in ways that would have been unthinkable a decade ago. Since October 7, 2023, Spain, Canada, Italy, Belgium, and the Netherlands have suspended or ceased arms sales to Israel, joined by UN human rights experts who formally called […]

Few alliances in American history seemed more unshakable than that between Jews and Blacks during the civil rights era. Yet, by the late 1960s, the same moral conviction that had once united them began driving them apart. The 1967 Arab-Israeli War awakened a deep sense of solidarity among Black Power activists in the United States, […]