In the middle of a boisterous rally in West Virginia, a gathering organized in part to oppose the state’s Democratic incumbent U.S. Senator and also to distract...
I’m not old, but I am old enough to remember when criminal justice reform was not a popular cause in the United States. Democratic politicians, frightened at th...
This week, the Israeli intellectual Yuval Noah Harari turned down an invitation to appear at an event sponsored by Israel's consulate in Los Angeles. Harari, th...
Did Israel's Knesset on Thursday officially enact apartheid and officially jettison democracy in passing the so-called Nation State Basic Law, as MK Ahmad Tibi ...
If the Trump Administration is even remotely serious about its efforts to reach any substantive agreement between Israel and the Palestinian Authority, let alon...
It doesn’t take a great deal of cynicism to dismiss the latest Great Hope of the Israeli center-left: former IDF Chief of Staff Benny Gantz, who will be eligibl...
It’s still too early for it to have registered in polls, but last week’s cancellation of a soccer match between Argentina and Israel in Jerusalem has the potent...
The phrase “two Jews, three opinions,” in addition to being a stale cliché, aptly describes a phenomenon thoroughly uninteresting: distinctive communities, even...
As of this writing, 60 Palestinian demonstrators who either approached or charged the fence separating Gaza and Israel on Monday were killed by the IDF. Acc...
One overlooked aspect of Benjamin Netanyahu's last minute victory leap in the 2015 election is that it could’ve been an even more decisive victory for the right...
Abe Silberstein is a Contributing Writer for IPF's Matzav. His work on Israeli politics and U.S.-Israel relations has appeared in Ha'aretz, The Forward, The Jerusalem Post, and +972 Magazine. He lives in New York City.
