David Harris-Gershon: Senator Feinstein on “arrogant” Netanyahu’s claim to...
Senator Dianne Feinstein today blasted Israeli Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, for claiming that he will be speaking on behalf of "the entire Jewish people" before Congress on March 3, calling...
View ArticleRabbi Michael Lerner: Benjamin Netanyahu’s Fantasy World
Netanyahu's speech to Congress was brilliantly deceitful because it played to the fantasies that Israeli propaganda and right wing militarists in the US have been popularizing for the past thirty...
View ArticleWarren Blumenfeld: Netanyahu’s Speeches a Travesty
While Netanyahu positioned the Iranian Ayatollah as the modern-day evil Persian vizier Haman under King Ahasuerus on the eve of the Jewish holiday, Purim, I would tell Mr. Netanyahu that he certainly...
View ArticleDavid Harris-Gershon: Massive anti-Netanyahu rally draws over 50,000 to the...
Days after Israel's Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, claimed to speak for "the entire Jewish people" in his speech before Congress, tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets, rejecting such...
View ArticleNatasha Hakimi: Truthdig chooses Rabbi Lerner as “Truthdigger” of the Week
Every week the Truthdig editorial staff selects a Truthdigger of the Week, a group or person worthy of recognition for speaking truth to power, breaking the story or blowing the whistle. Read why this...
View ArticleRabbi Michael Lerner: The Militarists and Haters Win in Israeli Elections
The biggest losers will be all those on the planet who yearn for a world based on social and economic justice, environmental sanity, peace and non-violence, and genuine caring for the peoples of the...
View ArticleRabbi Michael Lerner: The Militarists and Haters Win in Israel
Being a militarist and racist state will not help win Israel any friends around the world, and in the not-too-long-run it will weaken Israel's support in the United States both among Americans in...
View ArticleWarren Blumenfeld: Time Has Come to Fix U.S.-Iran Policy
Benjamin Netanyahu and all the others gave no real alternatives to Obama’s negotiated settlement – even in advance of all the terms coming out – other than war. I believe that Obama and his team have...
View ArticleTheodore P. Seto: The Iran Problem
If we were to attack Iran, Iran would almost certainly fight back. Unlike Iraq and Syria, which had no obvious retaliatory recourse, Iran has an easy response: close the Strait of Hormuz, through which...
View ArticleRabbi Michael Lerner: Media Alert: Jews Congratulate Pope Francis
Jewish liberals and progressives reacted with enthusiasm to the announcement today that the Vatican will recognize the Palestinian State. Rabbi Michael Lernner, editor of Tikkun Magazine, released the...
View ArticleRabbi Michael Lerner: Obama and Netanyahu: A bad deal for peace, for Israel,...
Though I published this in the Huffington Post before the meeting, the outcome was exactly as predicted. Netanyahu affirmed his "commitment" to a two state solution, which he has said for years as he...
View ArticleJoel Beinin: Can a Two-State Solution Survive?
French Foreign Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault hosted the foreign ministers of some 70 countries on January 15 at a Paris conference to discuss the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and “re-launch” the peace...
View ArticleShaiya Rothberg: From Trump to Umm Al-Hiran
As President-elect Trump consummates the victory of his racist and demagogic campaign, Israel's discriminatory demolition of homes in Umm Al-Hiran yesterday signified another step away from democracy...
View ArticleDavid Harris-Gershon: Massive anti-Netanyahu rally draws over 50,000 to the...
Days after Israel's Prime Minister, Binyamin Netanyahu, claimed to speak for "the entire Jewish people" in his speech before Congress, tens of thousands of Israelis took to the streets, rejecting such...
View ArticleNatasha Hakimi: Truthdig chooses Rabbi Lerner as “Truthdigger” of the Week
Every week the Truthdig editorial staff selects a Truthdigger of the Week, a group or person worthy of recognition for speaking truth to power, breaking the story or blowing the whistle. Read why this...
View ArticleRabbi Michael Lerner: The Militarists and Haters Win in Israeli Elections
The biggest losers will be all those on the planet who yearn for a world based on social and economic justice, environmental sanity, peace and non-violence, and genuine caring for the peoples of the...
View ArticleRabbi Michael Lerner: The Militarists and Haters Win in Israel
Being a militarist and racist state will not help win Israel any friends around the world, and in the not-too-long-run it will weaken Israel's support in the United States both among Americans in...
View ArticleWarren Blumenfeld: Time Has Come to Fix U.S.-Iran Policy
Benjamin Netanyahu and all the others gave no real alternatives to Obama’s negotiated settlement – even in advance of all the terms coming out – other than war. I believe that Obama and his team have...
View ArticleTheodore P. Seto: The Iran Problem
If we were to attack Iran, Iran would almost certainly fight back. Unlike Iraq and Syria, which had no obvious retaliatory recourse, Iran has an easy response: close the Strait of Hormuz, through which...
View ArticleRabbi Michael Lerner: Media Alert: Jews Congratulate Pope Francis
Jewish liberals and progressives reacted with enthusiasm to the announcement today that the Vatican will recognize the Palestinian State. Rabbi Michael Lernner, editor of Tikkun Magazine, released the...
View Article
