The affinity between Trump and Netanyahu is more than personal. It's rooted in a shared fantasy of a perfectly homogeneous society.
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The flurry of favors the president did for Bibi could constrain U.S. policy — and hurt people in the region — for years to come.
White South Africans are 8 percent of the country's population and hold 70 percent of its arable land. Apparently that's not enough for a global chorus of white supremacists.
Israel's violence toward Gaza's "Return Marchers" would make a Southern sheriff proud.
A famously anti-Semitic movement has come to admire modern Israel's "ethnonationalism." That speaks volumes about the ascent of the far right in the country.
The goal is to frighten people from engaging in the completely legal act of living out their values.
Has society let go of the belief that disparate communities can be brought together for a common goal without one absorbing the other or both tearing each other apart?
The U.S.-Cuba deal proved the value of discreet, informal diplomacy. No shortage of other peace processes could begin the same way.
The chain of events set into motion by the U.S. invasions of Afghanistan and Iraq is reaching its logical conclusion — the disintegration of multi-ethnic states and a great expulsion of innocents.
Our own progress against racism in the United States remains too recent, too fragile, and too incomplete to go on abetting apartheid in Israel.