Joshua Leifer

A ‘Moral, Strategic, and Diplomatic Abyss’

In the latest round of disputes within Israel’s ruling coalition, the eliminationist, messianic far right seems poised to triumph. 

Inhumane Times

Israel's current war seems to be as much a brutal insistence on the collective punishment of the Palestinian people as an offensive against Hamas.

Inhumane Times

Saturday’s devastating attacks have been met in Israel with rage at the government's failures and demands for disproportionate vengeance. 

Israel’s Origins and Revolutions: An Exchange

Whose Constitution, Whose Democracy?

Many opponents of Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul have called for Israel to finally draft a constitution, but any serious attempt will mean choosing between a democratic state and one that privileges Jewish citizens above all others.

In the House that Bibi Built

With Netanyahu back in power and right-wing religious nationalism at high tide, what remains of Israel’s left will either reinvent itself or vanish.

An Uneasy Alliance in Jerusalem

This November's parliamentary elections will in large part be a referendum on the participation of Palestinian-Arabs as equals to Jews in Israel’s political process.