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IDF soldiers operate in the northern Gaza Strip, March 31, 2025.

To Board of Deputies of British Jews: Your critique of Israel is not in my name

By Jacob Schimmel

US Senator Ron Wyden is seen at a demonstration outside the US Treasury.

'It Takes Chutzpah': Jewish senator's memoir hopes to raise next generation of activists

By RALPH AMELAN

Republican presidential nominee and former U.S. President Donald Trump looks on as he attends a "Fighting Anti-Semitism in America Event" with Dr. Miriam Adelson and Jewish leaders in Washington, US, September 19, 2024.

Trump's danger to US Jewry: Living under autocracy never ends well for Jews

By ROBERT HORENSTEIN

A vote takes by show of hands at the Knesset plenum in 1949.

How did Israel establish democracy in the Middle East? The answer is Jewish cultural tradition

By Samuel J. Hyde

Eliad Shraga, Founder of The Movement for Quality Government

If we don't take a stand, who will?

By TALIA LEVIN , In collaboration with the Movement for Quality Government

Ronen Bar, head of the Shin Bet security services, at a state ceremony marking the Hebrew calendar anniversary of the Hamas attack on October 7 of last year which sparked the ongoing war in Gaza, at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024.

'Loyalist’ Shin Bet head could dismantle democracy, says Israel Democracy Institute VP

By ELIAV BREUER

An illustrative image of, from left: US President Donald Trump, Senate minority leader Chuck Schumer, Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, set to a backdrop of cracked US and Israeli flags.

When the opposition becomes the enemy: How the US, Israel are failing at democracy

By SHERWIN POMERANTZ

An illustrative image of a shadowy puppet master pulling the strings of many people set to a backdrop of an Israeli flag in dark lighting.

Not deep state, but dark state: When bureaucrats overrule Israeli democracy

By YISRAEL MEDAD

Protesters hold a banner with an image of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu, in Istanbul’s Sarachane Square, March 2025.

‘They’ve crossed a threshold of fear’: Turkey’s youth rise up

By Giorgia Valente/The Media Line

A person carries a Turkish flag as people take part in a protest against the arrest of Istanbul Mayor Ekrem Imamoglu as part of a corruption investigation, in Istanbul, Turkey, March 24, 2025.

Trouble in Turkey: Erdogan’s arrest of Imamoglu is the first move in a power grab

By NEVILLE TELLER

RALLYING AGAINST the Israeli government and demanding the release of all hostages in Tel Aviv in March 2025.

Israel in turmoil: Your guide to the internal conflicts shaking up the Jewish state

By ALEX WINSTON

Benjamin Netanyahu in front of the ICC headquarters (illustrative).

Ex-deputy chief justice: ICC, UN clapping over gov’t tearing down judicial independence

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

An illustrative image of a shadowy puppet master pulling the strings of many people set to a backdrop of an Israeli flag in dark lighting.

Accusations of ‘Deep State’: What is this entity Netanyahu claims controls Israel?

By TOVA HERZL

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 27, 2023

Time to quit: Netanyahu, Bar, and all of Israel's leaders failed and must step down

US SENATE Minority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY) addresses the media following the Senate Democrats’ weekly policy lunch at the Capitol in January. Schumer’s refusal to bring the Antisemitism Awareness Act to the Senate floor is proof of his cowardice, the writer posits.

How the Democratic Party became a massive disgrace

By GREGORY LYAKHOV

Israelis protest against Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu outside Prime Minister Netanyahu's official residence in Jerusalem on August 01, 2020.

Barak's civil war prediction: A warning or exaggeration?

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at one of the sessions of his trial, 2025.

How Netanyahu deflects blame while manipulating Israel into trusting him

By TAMAR URIEL-BEERI

Illustrative image of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (L) and Shin Bet chief Ronen Bar superimposed on an image of Israelis protesting judicial reform.

Weakening public service, disintegrating democracy: How corruption is killing Israel

By TOVA HERZL