Author: David Leibermann

Michal Cotler-Wunsh was tapped as Israel’s special envoy to combat antisemitism just weeks before Oct. 7, 2023 — and she’s spent the past 17 months relentlessly globetrotting to all manner of meetings about the worldwide surge in anti-Jewish bigotry.  But in a recent interview, she also talked about one meeting closer to home that didn’t […]

Hamas fired three rockets from the Gaza Strip at the Tel Aviv area, the first time Israel has had missile fire in months and another sign that the Israel-Hamas war has resumed. No one was injured by the rockets, which set off warning sirens in several suburbs adjacent to Tel Aviv. One was shot down […]

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu wrote that a “leftist Deep State” was working to “thwart the people’s will” in Israel and the United States, adopting President Donald Trump’s worldview and rhetoric about the institutions in his country’s government. “In America and in Israel, when a strong right wing leader wins an election, the leftist Deep […]

When Sen. John Fetterman said he loved the Israeli operation that sent exploding pagers to members of Hezbollah, he probably never expected that Israel would give him a beeper, too. But that’s what happened this week, when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu welcomed Fetterman, an outspokenly pro-Israeli Democratic lawmaker, to his office in Jerusalem. The […]

Former hostages, including some released in recent weeks, were among the tens of thousands of Israelis who took to the streets on Tuesday to protest Israel’s resumption of fighting in Gaza. “Israel’s decision to return to fighting brings me back to Gaza, to the moments where I heard the sounds of explosions around me and […]

As participants in an antisemitism conference organized by the Israeli government backed out over the course of several days, citing the presence of far-right politicians, an unexplained change unfolded on the event’s website. The CEO of the Anti-Defamation League, Jonathan Greenblatt, disappeared from both the page showcasing participants and from the agenda for the conference, […]

Israeli warplanes bombed Gaza overnight, bringing an end to the Israel-Hamas ceasefire after two months. Israeli leaders announced in the early hours of Tuesday morning, local time, that they ordered the strikes after Hamas would not agree to frameworks for a hostage deal proposed by Israel and the United States. “Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and […]

Miami Beach Mayor Steven Meiner is pushing to evict an independent theater from its city-owned space and cut its funding after it screened “No Other Land,” an Oscar-winning documentary about Palestinian displacement in the West Bank. Meiner, who is Jewish, is introducing legislation to revoke O Cinema’s lease and withdraw more than $40,000 in city […]

The leader of a far-right French political party founded by a Holocaust denier and a former Nazi officer is headed to Israel. So are politicians from far-right parties in Spain, Sweden and the Netherlands — all tapped to speak at this month’s International Conference on Combating Antisemitism. It is the most prominent manifestation, so far, […]