Abe Silberstein is the Associate Director, North America, of The Abraham Initiatives, an Israel-based NGO working to achieve equality between Jewish and Palestinian citizens of Israel. He tweets @abesilbe. His views and opinions do not reflect those of his employer.
Abe Silberstein
By Abe Silberstein
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Opinion Linda Sarsour And Bibi Netanyahu Are In A Cat Fight About Jesus. Don’t Engage.
Not all fights are worth having. Some things don’t matter. Others are puerile and ought to be beneath rational adult discourse. If a fellow adult approaches you on the street, looks you straight in the eye and tells you that his daddy is richer, stronger, more attractive than, or otherwise superior to your daddy, the…
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Opinion The Left’s Fight For The Democratic Party Is Not Yet Won
On Wednesday, hours before the first Democratic presidential primary debate aired, the Bloomberg columnist Jonathan Bernstein predicted that Democrats would evince a major party image never before seen in American politics. He was mainly speaking of the unprecedented racial and gender diversity among the Democratic hopefuls, but he could have just as easily been referencing…
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Opinion Trump’s ‘Peace’ Team Shows Its Hand In Off-The-Record Meeting
Jason Greenblatt, the Trump administration’s envoy for the Middle East peace process, could have picked from a number of Jewish communities and organizations at which to speak during his stop in New York this week. That he chose the Young Israel of Kew Gardens Hills, and under the sponsorship of Jexodus and the hard-right Coalition…
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Opinion A Muslim Congresswoman Misspoke And The Backlash Was Brutal. Again.
In an interview published on Saturday, Michigan congresswoman Rashida Tlaib, the first Palestinian woman to be elected to Congress, offered a bizarre reading of history. “There’s always kind of a calming feeling when I think of the tragedy of the Holocaust, that it was my ancestors — Palestinians — who lost their land and some…
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Opinion Letter | Your ‘Pro-Israel’ Response Just Proved My Point
In his reply to my article, Aaron Kalman first takes issue with my characterization of the “Independent Arab” state described in the 1947 UN Partition Plan as a “Palestinian state.” I do not regard this as an error. The independent Arab state would have served Arab Palestinians, thus calling such an entity a Palestinian or…
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Opinion It’s Time For American Jews To Recognize The Nakba
In a beautifully written column last week, the Israeli journalist Anshel Pfeffer explicated the contradiction at the heart of hasbara: by aggressively advocating for Israel’s right to exist, it implicitly grants that Israel’s legitimacy is actually a matter of debate. After all, he writes, “real countries don’t have to argue they are legitimate.” As we…
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Opinion Democrats Hate Bibi But Not Israel – Just Like Their 2020 Candidates, Study Finds
On Tuesday, the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) and the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC) scolded Senator Bernie Sanders for expressing his low regard for Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government. Sanders had called Netanyahu’s government racist. The U.S.-Israel alliance serves America’s interests. We benefit from the close bonds between the governments and peoples. Name-calling…
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Opinion Politician’s Hateful Tweet Shows How Far Democrats Have Moved On Israel
On Wednesday, Kalman Yeger, a member of the New York City Council who represents a heavily Orthodox Jewish district in Brooklyn, was roundly condemned by city officials — including Mayor Bill de Blasio — for tweeting “Palestine doesn’t exist.” Palestine does not exist. There, I said it again. Also, Congresswoman Omar is an antisemite. Said…
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