"Judaism is to do justice and to have mercy and to walk humbly with God; and all the rest is commentary and of secondary importance." So wrote Rabbi Elmer Berger, a leading Jewish thinker of the 50’s and 60’s, who opposed what he called Israeli-style "Jewish nationalism." Another renowned Jewish thinker, Arthur Koestler, warned that Israel was becoming "a nasty little Sparta." This past week, much of the rest of the world, sickened by the mass slaughter and destruction in Gaza wrought by...

Israel’s top human rights group B’Tselem has finally declared that Israel is committing genocide, as has the Israel-based Physicians for Human Rights. The Israeli organizations join Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, UN human rights experts, and the overwhelming majority of leading authorities on the subject of genocide in their conclusion.  The debate is over. The Israel apologists lost. And we are seeing this reflected in mainstream...