Liberal

Moral, legal issues with Israel’s terrorist death penalty - opinion

Ben-Gvir’s law treats non-Jewish lives as unequal, risking Israel’s moral and global standing.

|ByYITZ GREENBERG
Israeli politician Itamar Ben-Gvir walks inside the Knesset, on the day US President Donald Trump delivers remarks, in Jerusalem, October 13, 2025.
An illustrative image of a reporter for Army Radio (Galei Tzahal) taken in 2019.

Growing contradictions at the heart of Israel’s liberal camp - opinion

Israeli liberal leaders push policies that clash with democratic principles, showing differing ways of how they treat different communities.

|ByYISRAEL MEDAD
Palestinian port authority holds passports of passengers to show the press that they are leaving Gaza legally.

Liberal Zionist groups criticize Trump’s travel ban on those with Palestinian Authority passports

The White House said the ban was needed because “several US-designated terrorist groups operate actively in the West Bank or Gaza Strip and have murdered American citizens.”

|ByGRACE GILSON/JTA
THE KNESSET plenum meets this week. Israel’s rules of the game are not anchored in a constitution and can be changed by a simple Knesset majority, the writer notes.

Thin constitution needed to stabilize the government amid political crisis - opinion

Israel’s political future depends on adopting a thin constitution that prioritizes stability, fairness, and compromise, ensuring democratic governance amid internal divisions.

|ByYEDIDIA STERN

Calling the attacks in the Dutch capital antisemitic is burying our heads in the sand - opinion

From Amsterdam to Sderot, the ideology is the same. It is a deep-rooted hatred for any expression of democratic and liberal values.

NOVEMBER 18, 2024ByALON DAVIDI
THE WRITER speaks at a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee in September. Hatred of Jews is a central component of radical Islam’s rhetoric, but it is merely part of a greater objective – destabilizing the free world order, he maintains.

Israel haters have too much faith in humanity - opinion

In their worldview, it cannot be that human beings are capable of such atrocities on their own; it must be a reaction to even graver crimes committed by others.

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024ByMOSHE TARAGIN
RADICAL HUMANISTS believe so deeply in man’s inherent goodness that they struggle to acknowledge the existence of evil. Pictured: A child.

Extreme left-wing billionaires George and Alex Soros endorse Kamala Harris

George and Alex Soros back Kamala Harris after Biden exits the 2024 race, calling for unity against Trump. Their endorsement sparks new debates on political influence.

JULY 22, 2024ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Billionaire investor George Soros attends the Schumpeter Award in Vienna, Austria June 21, 2019.

Finding the balance: What Jewish law teaches us about avoiding political extremes? - opinion

The liberals are cursing the conservatives; the conservatives are cursing the liberals. Accusations from friends and congregants alike, seeing only the other at fault, blind to our own shortcomings.

JULY 15, 2024ByHYIM SHAFNER
SCULPTURE OF medieval Jewish scholar and later chief rabbi of Egypt, Moshe ben-Maimon, displayed in the city of his birth, Cordoba, Spain. The writer explains that according to Maimonides, the path of the wise is the ‘middle path.’

For Western students, Israel is a code word for US imperialism - opinion

American and European institutions of higher learning harbor academics promoting the idea of the West as a sinful civilization, irremediably guilty of the most horrific crimes.

JULY 10, 2024ByMICHAEL PARTEM
A PROTESTER waves a Palestinian flag at a rally outside MIT’s Stata Center in May in Cambridge, Massachusetts. American and European institutes of higher learning harbor academics who promote the West as a sinful civilization, says the writer.

Supporting Hamas is regressive not progressive - opinion

These students are rioting on their university campuses not because they care deeply about Palestinians; most couldn’t even point Gaza out on a map

MAY 7, 2024ByDOMINIQUE HOFFMAN
STUDENTS CAMP out at the Diag at the University of Michigan, last month. These students are not only calling for divestment from Israel, but also from US ‘imperialism,’ the writer asserts.

In her new book, Batya Ungar-Sargon speaks on why Jews need to rethink their alliances

Her new book applies to Jews and Israel, especially post-October 7 when American Jews were stunned by their progressive peers.

APRIL 13, 2024ByAMY KLEIN
A rally in support of Israel that took place in November in Washington. Israel should inspire American Jews to focus less on what they have been doing - defense - and shift to what they have not been doing - attack, says the writer.

Israel no longer 'liberal democracy' for first time in 50 years, research institute says

Liberal democracies include the above, as well as "judicial and legislative constraints on the executive along with the protection of civil liberties and equality before the law."

MARCH 20, 2024ByELIAV BREUER
AT A demonstration in Tel Aviv, earlier this month, against the government’s plan for judicial change, signs read ‘The student protest’ and ‘Without democracy, there is no academia.’

Antisemitism must be criminalized before it's too late - opinion

Since the October 7 brutal and reprehensible massacre of Israeli and foreign civilians and the taking of hostages, the world is witnessing an unprecedented resurgence of pure antisemitism.

FEBRUARY 27, 2024ByALAN BAKER
A PROTEST organized by Palestinian solidarity groups and activists takes place in Copenhagen last month. The genocidal calls of ‘from the river to the sea, Palestine will be free’ are accompanied by massively financed and marketed Palestinian paraphernalia, scarves, flags, and posters.

Left-wing Zionist groups Americans for Peace Now, Ameinu to merge

The groups declared that the merger made sense because the groups complemented one another.

FEBRUARY 16, 2024ByRON KAMPEAS/JTA
Rep. Andy Levin speaks at a press conference introducing his "Two-State Solution Act" on Capitol Hill, Sept. 23, 2021. He is flanked by Hadar Susskind, the president/CEO of Americans for Peace Now; Rep. Alan Lowenthal; Rep. Sara Jacobs; Rep. Peter Welch; and J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami.