Carlo Strenger

On the left, we have persisted in pushing our agenda even in the face of continued failure and disappointment. Could it be that we were wrong all along?

Israel has indeed brought forth a rich and vibrant secular culture, but for most people this isn't enough to sustain their need for meaning.

The state should refrain from meddling in „big meaning“ except for Zionism’s original goal of Jewish political self-determination

Bezalel Smotrich, a rising star of the national-religious party Habayit Hayehudi, is seen as a bizarre, racist, homophobic extremist, who is of no interest except for his weirdness. But disregarding him is dangerously wrong.

No, Israel is no longer “ours” if it ever was. We are a minority and if Israeli Arabs or Religious Jews are allowed a separate education according to their values, we must demand the same.

If Israel's most important ally needn’t heed rational thought and minority rights, why should Benjamin Netanyahu?

Jewish American Professors Hasia Diner and Marjorie N. Feld use the meaningless term “Zionism” to reduce Israel to a racist, colonialist enterprise.

The dream of a unified Europe was born from a bloody history that culminated in the horrors of two World Wars. But today's Europeans are still mired in nationalism. A view from Israel

Why should non-Orthodox Jews care about the pronunciations of leaders of a religion that declares gays to be an inferior species and excludes women from the public sphere?

Ultra-Orthodox Jews claim to be part of a rich Jewish culture, but they ignore Jewish contribution to Western culture, leaving the various strands of Judaism in Israel locked in a bitter political fight.

The year 2015 was very difficult for Israeli liberals. The country is becoming an illiberal ethnocracy, and we have to accept that we are a minority incapable of imposing our values on the majority

Hannah Arendt makes clear the real issue: the hatred of pluralism and an open society – the drive to have a homogeneous society without dissent.

Yeshayahu Leibowitz got it right even before 1967 when he warned that Israel was heading down a dangerous moral slope.

...and both sides killed it. Irish conflict researcher Padraig O’Malley says that neither side has the will to reach the two-state solution, and I am inclined to agree.

Culture Minister Regev highlights how desperately Israel needs leaders who understand that a liberal democracy is not just majority rule but also the defense of minority rights and the freedom of thought and speech.

It is currently the bon ton among Israel’s left to argue that Zionist Union leaders Isaac Herzog and Tzipi Livni should stay true to liberal values and not join the coalition of Netanyahu.

It is part of the democratic ethos that you are not only allowed to criticize Israel’s elected leaders, but are obliged to do so if you have good reason to believe they are wrong.

The Israeli prime minister is about to win another term thanks to the rise of Islamic terror — and the paralysis of the center-left.

Our prime minister can no longer distinguish between his personal interests and Israel’s. He is exhibiting the megalomania of a Chavez and the paranoia of a Nixon.

The Holocaust must be remembered for its own sake, and for the sake of humanity: We need to remember what humans are capable of.

Netanyahu, Lieberman, Bennett and friends are not serving Israel's interests, but their own electoral agendas.