Lisa Goldman
By Lisa Goldman
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Opinion At Jew-Centric J Street, Arabs Ask the Best Questions
Courtesy of J Street For the Jews who attended this year’s J Street Conference, the event was an expression of community, idealism and ideology. In a way, it was about how Israel was all about us, the Jews. It was about our values and our identity, which have been so inextricably intertwined with the state…
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Opinion Ayman Oudeh Has Already Won Israel’s Election
Ayman Oudeh with his family / Facebook According to an Arab friend who lives in the Middle East, the most exciting Arab leader is an Israeli. His name is Ayman Oudeh. He is a 40-year-old Muslim attorney from Haifa with a wife and three kids. The newly-formed political party he heads — the Joint List…
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Opinion The Real Existential Threat Is Not Iran. It’s Bibi.
Getty Images / Lior Zaltzman On the eve of his departure to Washington this week, Benjamin Netanyahu told the Israeli press assembled on the airport tarmac that he had a “sacred duty” to do everything in his power to protect Israel and the Jewish people from existential threats. As Netanyahu has said nearly every time…
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Opinion How Bibi Tried To Make Paris All About Him
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at kosher grocery store in Paris / Getty Images Israelis are having a hilarious time mocking their prime minister’s visit to Paris, with ironic tweets and Hebrew Facebook statuses galore. For those who haven’t been following the story, Netanyahu crashed the national solidarity event despite President Hollande’s explicit request…
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Opinion The Raw Honesty of Klinghoffer
“You’re enabling terrorism!” a woman said as I made my way through a maze of police barricades and a crowd of angry protestors chanting in front of Lincoln Center. A man standing next to her ostentatiously photographed ticket holders, as though documenting them in the act of committing a crime. Neither of them understood a…
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Opinion Feel-Good Stories Obscure Ugly Mideast Truths
The Israeli government invests considerable effort in promoting its image in the foreign media. It’s called “hasbara,” which comes from the Hebrew root “to explain.” Israelis tend to be patriotic, with many believing their country is unfairly vilified in the foreign media. And so they embrace hasbara as a legitimate corrective measure. But for critics…
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Opinion Don’t Worry About Egyptian Bigotry
The Arab Spring presents a conundrum for many liberal Jews. As liberals they feel compelled to advocate self-determination over tyranny and democracy over dictatorship. But as Jews they worry that the Arab dictators, particularly Egypt’s Hosni Mubarak, held down the lid on a seething Pandora’s Box of popular anti-Semitism. On the contrary, though, I would…
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News Now It Is Told: An Israeli Story Of Secrecy and Censorship
The story on page one of Israel’s largest daily formed a graphic that was a conversation stopper: columns of print that looked like a series of vertical piano keyboards with thick, irregularly spaced black keys, and a large headline that read, “Israel’s Censorship Scandal.” The article sought to tell the story of Anat Kamm, 23,…
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