Calls for the National Guard to stop campus protests are not about safety.
What happens when genuine sympathy for civilian suffering mixes with a fervor that borders on the oppressive?
Why has it proved so hard for so many on the left to acknowledge what happened on October 7?
The question of Israel and Palestine must be reframed and recalibrated.
There are lessons for other nations in the events of the past few days.
Iran’s attack on Israel is just one campaign in a much larger conflict.
Iran has handed him an opportunity. Will he find a way to blow it?
Protesters believe they cannot change Hamas, but they might be able to change their own government.
I’m worried about the suffering of civilians right now—and the lack of a plan for a better future.
“Very simply, the Israeli military has a sort of lower threshold for what it’s willing to tolerate and the risk that it’s willing to put civilians in.”
The disagreements aren’t just over tactics. They’ve become fundamental.
Israel faces international condemnation after its forces targeted vehicles from the aid group World Central Kitchen.
A good pretext for war is not enough to make a war just.
One man’s ambition has undermined Israel’s security and consumed its politics.
I didn’t know that college would be a factory of unreason.
“If you flash back to the rupture during the Obama administration, Joe Biden was always the person who stepped in and tried to find a way to make it better.”
More than five months in, Israel has neither a military strategy for eliminating Hamas nor a political strategy for living with Gaza.
Palestinians living in Gaza are struggling with extreme shortages of food, clean water, and medicine.
Since staking claim to the Palestinian cause, the Yemeni militants have come to seem unstoppable.
Anti-Semitism on the right and the left threatens to bring to a close an unprecedented period of safety and prosperity for Jewish Americans—and demolish the liberal order they helped establish.