Liberal

Growing contradictions at the heart of Israel’s liberal camp - opinion

Israeli liberal leaders push policies that clash with democratic principles, showing differing ways of how they treat different communities.

An illustrative image of a reporter for Army Radio (Galei Tzahal) taken in 2019.
Palestinian port authority holds passports of passengers to show the press that they are leaving Gaza legally.

Liberal Zionist groups criticize Trump’s travel ban on those with Palestinian Authority passports

THE KNESSET plenum meets this week. Israel’s rules of the game are not anchored in a constitution and can be changed by a simple Knesset majority, the writer notes.

Thin constitution needed to stabilize the government amid political crisis - opinion

A PALESTINIAN FLAG is attached to a traffic light as a rally takes place to challenge the UK government’s banning of Palestine Action under anti-terrorism laws, in Parliament Square, last month. Europe finds itself entangled with radical Islam, says the writer.

Israel advances coexistence while Europe ignores the clash of civilizations - opinion


Why the Left struggles on the Israel question - opinion

The core root of these perceptions, I suggest, centers on three all-encompassing themes.

FOUNDING PRIME MINISTER David Ben-Gurion in conversation with US president John F. Kennedy, 1961

‘Soros’ documentary gets negative reviews

Soros, 90, the Jewish Holocaust survivor and billionaire hedge fund manager, is known for his prolific giving to human rights groups and liberal causes around the world.

Business magnate George Soros arrives to speak at the Open Russia Club in London, Britain June 20, 2016

Rabbis in UK allow interfaith couples to get married under a chuppah

In adopting the new policy, Liberal Judaism became the first Jewish movement in the United Kingdom to permit the chuppah to be used at an interfaith ceremony.

A bride and groom kiss under the chuppah at their wedding

Liberal Jewish groups back ADL after progressive coalition attack

Liberal Jewish organizations that have worked with the ADL are publicly defending its record as a Jewish civil rights organization with a long track record of standing up for marginalized communities

Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt speaks at the group's 2018 National Leadership Summit in Washington, D.C.

Ruth Gavison's commitment to liberal nationalism is lasting legacy

“We must find ways to live together, not necessarily to decide in favor of one or another direction.”

Hebrew University of Jerusalem law professor Ruth Gavison speaks in the Knesset in 2017.

Despite pressure, no major changes to Democratic platform on Israel

There were nods to calls for the platform to more equitably treat the Palestinians than it has in the past.

US President Joe Biden gestures after disembarking from a plane upon landing at Ben Gurion International Airport in Lod, near Tel Aviv, Israel March 8, 2016

Peter Beinhart's betrayal of Liberal Zionism and Israel

The progressive pope seeks to denude the Jewish state of its rightful place.

PETER BEINART: The notion of a state for Palestinians separated from a state for Jews, has failed.

Liberal democracy is not a Jewish value, nor should it be - opinion

Israel should be a law-abiding democracy but preferably not a liberal one.

Jeremy Corbyn with Rabbi Pinter, former Labour Labour councillor

Jewish public defender elected San Francisco district attorney

The son of jailed anti-war radicals, Chesa Boudin stood on a progressive platform

Voting booths are seen during the New York primary elections at a polling station in the Brooklyn borough of New York City, US, April 19, 2016

Right From Wrong: What Trump doesn’t understand about Jews

U.S. President Donald Trump