Israel Made A Huge Mistake. Trump Is Terrible For The Jews
Op-ed by Lara Friedman, originally published in The Forward on June 18, 2018. _ A recent poll found that three out of four Israelis approve of…
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I Was Detained At Ben Gurion Airport Because Of My Beliefs
Op-ed by Peter Beinart, published in The Forward on August 13, 2018 Like many Jewish parents, I try to create memorable Jewish experiences for my…
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Israel Has Detained An American Student For A Week. But No One Cares, Because She’s Not Jewish.
Op-ed by Peter Beinart, published in The Forward on October 9, 2018 When I was detained at Ben Gurion airport in August, Benjamin Netanyahu apologized.…
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No, BDS Is Not Anti-Semitic, And Neither Is Ilhan Omar.
Op-ed by Peter Beinart, published in The Forward on November 19, 2018. It turns out that Ilhan Omar, who this month became the first Somali…
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Birthright Will Fail If It Doesn’t Evolve With Young Jews
Op-ed by Peter Beinart, published on The Forward on January 3, 2019. _ On New Year’s Day, a young woman rushed the stage at the…
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The Surprising New Battleground In the War Against Palestinian Rights: Your Local Courthouse
Op-ed by Lara Friedman, published in The Forward on January 7, 2019. On November 26, 2018, a New York-based lawyer named David Abrams announcedthat he…
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BDS Is A Trap For Democrats
Op-ed by Lara Friedman, published in The Forward on January 28, 2019. — Some are predicting that Israel-Palestine will be the big foreign policy issue…
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The Sick Double Standard In The Ilhan Omar Controversy
Op-ed by Peter Beinart, published in The Forward on February 12, 2019. The following two things are true. First, Representative Ilhan Omar was wrong to…
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Debunking The Myth That Anti-Zionism Is Anti-Semitic
Op-ed by Peter Beinart, published in The Forward on January 27, 2019. It’s a bewildering and alarming time to be a Jew, both because anti-Semitism…
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Erasing Occupation: Part 1 (Trump administration) & Part 2 (Congress)
On March 15 and 18, 2019, LobeLog published two op-eds by Lara Friedman on how U.S. policy is erasing Israel’s occupation of Palestinian lands. Part…