Liberal

Naftali Bennett unveils B’Yachad party plan to cut bureaucracy, boost support for olim

"Is our government building an Israel where Jews believe they and their families can be safe, earn a living and build their futures? Is our government making life easier here - or harder?"

|ByKESHET NEEV
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett on October 13, 2026.
New French Jewish immigrants arrive at Ben Gurion Airport in central Israel on August 3, 2026.

Altruistic Aliyah: A tool for world Jewry to transform Israeli policy from within - opinion

The moment a diaspora Jew becomes an Israeli citizen, they cease to be a passive bystander affected by Israel's policies - they become an active participant in shaping them.

|ByGILAD RAMOT
Many Evangelicals participate in the United for Israel March outside Columbia University in New York City in 2024.

Don’t ignore the similarities between the persecution of Israelis and US Christians - opinion

Netanyahu equates attacking Jews who support Israel to attacking Evangelicals for good reason; both faiths are founded on Zionism

|ByMIKE EVANS
Brad Lander, candidate for New York’s 10th Congressional District, Congressional candidate Claire Valdez and Congressional candidate Darializa Avila Chevalier attend the Get Out the Vote rally in Brooklyn, New York, U.S., June 18, 2026.

Moderate Dems. brace for internal war after Mamdani-backed candiates win NYC primaries

One moderate House Democrat told Axios that "there's going to be a war," and went so far as to call the rising number of leftist party members "bomb-throwers, not problem solvers."

|ByCORINNE BAUM

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.

Liberal Jews feel abandoned by the Left - opinion

It's been made clear that for a large coalition of leftists and Muslims in America, Jews have no right to self-determination in their ancestral homeland and deserve no safety anywhere. 

JANUARY 13, 2024ByADAM MILSTEIN

Israel must work to maintain progressive support - opinion

If Israel is able to strengthen its partnership with the progressive liberal elements, then it will be able to generate a positive progressive discourse and curb the spread of anti–Zionism.

DECEMBER 24, 2023ByNADAV TAMIR
THE STATE of Israel has been and will remain strong, and I am proud of my contribution to its strength as an army officer, a diplomat, and an adviser to one of Israel’s founding fathers, Shimon Peres,’ says the writer.