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US President Donald Trump smiles as he signs executive orders in the Oval Office of the White House, in Washington, January 23, 2025. (AP Photo/Ben Curtis)
January 29, 2025, 5:53 am
Could Donald Trump become liberal Zionists’ next hero?
Mixed signals as new US president helps clinch Gaza agreement, appears intent on Israeli-Saudi deal requiring path to Palestinian state, while making moves favorable to pro-settler right
By Ben Sales
Members of the Arab community holding hundreds of fake coffins as they protest against the violence in their community, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv on August 6, 2023 (Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 29, 2023, 1:42 pm
Daily Briefing Aug. 29: Why Arab officials are under threat; women talk in Bnei Brak
Diaspora correspondent Canaan Lidor looks at Ukraine antisemitism and a women’s rights protest, as Arab affairs reporter Gianluca Pacchiani discusses violence and a new politician
By ToI Staff
Anti-Israel, pro-Palestinian activists burn an Israeli flag in New York City, May 15, 2021. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel/File)
December 28, 2022, 1:47 am
Did US Jews wake up on the wrong side of ‘woke’ progressive politics?
In new book, Jewish community leader David Bernstein argues far-left outlook fuels antisemitism, links Israel to racism and stifles debate, even as many Jewish organizations buy in
By Luke Tress
Israel's Consul General in New York Asaf Zamir speaks at a JNF-USA event on October 28, 2021. (Shahar Azran/File)
January 14, 2022, 6:37 pm
Israel’s new man in NY: Bring on the broad — but legitimate — criticism of Israel
Consul General Asaf Zamir says providing US youth with tools to sell both progressive and Zionist identities requires explaining conflict’s complexity more honestly than in past
By Jacob Magid
Pro-Israel LGBTQ activists with the Jewish group Zioness protest a ban of Star of David flags at the Dyke March in Washington, DC, on June 7, 2019. (NICHOLAS KAMM / AFP)
May 31, 2021, 3:24 pm
As antisemitic violence sweeps US, progressive Zionists jostle for space on left
Jewish social justice activists show up for other causes unconditionally – but many find themselves alienated after Israel-Hamas conflict
By Danielle Ziri
Illustrative: Author Peter Beinart waits to speak at an event November 14, 2012, in Atlanta. (AP Photo/ David Goldman/File)
January 30, 2020, 10:23 pm
Left-wing Jewish Currents snags writer Peter Beinart in new round of hires
High profile newcomers mark another milestone in the growth of the magazine started in 1946 and relaunched in 2018; since reopening, subscribers have grown from 2,000 to 6,000
By Josefin Dolsten
Amy Siskind. (Courtesy of Amy Siskind/via JTA)
August 18, 2018, 6:00 am
Liberal critics claim anti-Trump poster child Amy Siskind is an impostor
A history of bipartisan activism for women’s causes and a vote for McCain become fodder for Twitter attacks on The Weekly List creator, coming from notables such as Kathy Griffin
By Ben Sales
Daniel Brooks
May 8, 2018, 2:50 pm
Daniel Brooks
The real crisis of liberal Zionism
Charges of hypocrisy against pro-Israel left-wingers are based on ignorant and dishonest arguments
Joshua Berman
April 4, 2018, 1:18 pm
Joshua Berman
A two-state solution for the United States
Divide the country to bring peace to the US: blue on the coasts and red in the middle (Chicago’s got to go)
Yehuda Kurtzer
March 8, 2018, 2:49 pm
Yehuda Kurtzer
Walks like an anti-Semite, talks like an anti-Semite…
It’s not too much to expect progressive leadership to make wiser choices than embracing Louis Farrakhan in public
Andrew Silow-Carroll
February 28, 2018, 12:44 pm
Andrew Silow-Carroll
LaPierre’s speech smelled a lot like anti-Semitism
I can’t speak to the intent of the NRA leader, but he used just a few too many anti-Semitic tropes at CPAC
Former deputy assistant to US President Donald Trump Sebastian Gorka (YouTube screenshot)
August 30, 2017, 6:39 pm
Gorka: ‘Liberal elements’ of US Jewry ‘basically anti-Israeli’
Ousted Trump adviser also complains of a smear campaign over his ties to a Hungarian nationalist group linked to the Nazis
By JTA
Jewish Funders Network President Andres Spokoiny speaking at the group’s international conference, March 20, 2017. (JFN/via JTA)
March 24, 2017, 4:20 pm
Trump era prompts Jewish donors to step up giving to liberal causes
While courting young Jews, philanthropies begin to divert funds towards political advocacy
By Ben Sales
Ori Hanan Weisberg
March 21, 2017, 2:12 pm
Ori Hanan Weisberg
High treason!
A call for fundamental, non-violent change that will fulfill Israel’s founding principles does not a traitor make
Daniel Schwartz
March 6, 2017, 1:53 pm
Daniel Schwartz
The apartheid state of Tinder
You don’t have to marry him, but do keep talking long enough to have an actual disagreement before you reject him
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