Seth Mandel

A common criticism of progressive anti-Zionists is that their alignment with groups like Hamas, Hezbollah, and the Houthis—whose flags they wave and whose slogans and figures adorn their clothing, especially among the campus activists—exposes their hypocrisy on the very issues they claim to care about. These are misogynistic, homophobic, ethno-chauvinist regimes on the extreme end of all those categories.

American foreign policy is always something of a hostage to the domestic politics of the moment. While this might be the unavoidable byproduct of democracy, it can greatly distort our understanding of the world and the coherence of strategic planning.

When 84-year-old Ditza Heiman was released from Hamas captivity and ready to tell her story, she revealed that she was held in Gaza for 53 days under the watchful eye

Amos Hochstein has thought long and hard about it, and he’s come up with a solution. The Biden administration envoy tasked with handling the Lebanese front of Iran’s current war on Israel has reportedly replaced an earlier U.S. ceasefire draft with the following: Hezbollah should move north of the Litani River, Israeli troops should stay out of Lebanon, and the United Nations Interim Force in Lebanon should remain the only armed forces between the two.

There’s no obvious way to determine when something has gone from being a problem to being a crisis. But, like obscenity, you know it when you see it. And the

Sally Rooney is a clarifying figure in the literary world. She does not go for complexity or nuance, and she doesn’t like to leave herself open to interpretation. Rooney has

The just-passed holiday of Sukkot had something of a mournful edge this year because the Oct. 7 Hamas massacre had happened at the tail end of the holiday last year.

It turns out that Chuck Schumer really is a shomer. The first Jewish Senate majority leader and decades-long Democratic Party big shot from New York has always told the Jewish

On Sept. 13, 1993, President Bill Clinton put on a tie decorated with golden trumpets for the ceremony he was about to host, in which Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat would sign preliminary Israeli-Palestinian peace accords. The trumpets were intended, according to his advisers, to evoke the biblical shofars blown by the Israelites to bring down the walls of Jericho.

Back in September, as I was writing about an anti-Israel hoax spread by a medical professional in Gaza, a particular term she used caught my attention. The story arose from an interview that the journalists Ryan Grim and his co-host Emily Jashinsky conducted with a Canadian nurse in the war zone. In the recorded interview, the nurse, with Grim’s and Jashinsky’s encouragement, spread a debunked claim that Israel was planting exploding tuna cans so that hungry Gazan children would be maimed or killed while foraging for food.