Deborah Lipstadt: ‘A perfect storm of anti-Semitism’ * The impending one-state reality * Israel’s Arabs as political punching bag * I was raised by slaves

[The Blogs]( [The Marketplace of Ideas]( Weekly Highlights Thursday, January 31, 2019 [Deborah Lipstadt]( [Jewish myopia in a perfect storm of anti-Semitism]( [When academics see a problem, many respond by writing a book. Some time ago, concerned by what I perceived as a rising tide of anti-Semitism, I did just that. I devoted the past three years to Antisemitism Here and Now. In September I submitted the manuscript to my publisher. The book went to press. I was done. Then came Pittsburgh. I momentarily considered asking my editor if it was possible to rewrite sections of the book. (I knew it was not, but I figured why not ask.) Then, I realized that...]( [Efraim Zuroff]( [Israel must stop pandering to Holocaust distorters]( [Eastern European countries are systematically rewriting the narrative of WWII and the slaughter of European Jewry]( [Yedidia Z. Stern]( [Vote for a bloc!]( [If Israelis consolidate into major parties, the extremists won’t be able to hold the government captive with their veto power]( [Shimon Sheves]( [The seed for renewed ties with Chad was sown in Oslo]( [Netanyahu may denounce the historic accord, but he owes his diplomatic gains to the new paradigms it established]( [Udi Dekel]( [A moment before we slide into a one-state reality]( [As part of the Annapolis process (2007-8), which called for negotiations toward a permanent status agreement between Israel and the Palestinians, some 300 meetings were held between the sides. As chief of the negotiations team, I sat for dozens of hours with my Palestinian counterparts. I told Saeb Erekat, who headed the Palestinian delegation, that he had what was perhaps a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to receive 97% of the demands he placed on the table, and thus to bring a dramatic and historic change to the status of the Palestinians....]( [David Sedley]( [Parshat Mishpatim: Let them eat cake]( [Appeasing a people’s growing upset before they rise up is a lot harder than spotting the revolution triggers in hindsight]( [Nasreen Hadad Haj-Yahya]( [Will Israel’s Arabs be a political punching bag — again?]( [Unprecedented state funding for the Arab community still hasn’t translated to equal rights for the Arab community]( [Varda Spiegel]( [I was raised by slaves]( [I know the lasting humiliation of the lash on one’s parents’ backs]( [Dancing La Cumparsita with Frida]( By [Sergey Kanovich]( [She sighed, looking somewhere far off in the distance: ’How long I have been waiting for you. How very long. All my life.’]( more Choice voices [Yehuda Kurtzer]( [Zionism’s race from the bottom]( [The depravity of using a convicted killer in an election campaign must spur articulation of a morally better Zionism]( [Alexander Goldberg]( [A rabbi in Lebanon: Finding common cause during my trip to Tripoli]( [Meeting Christian and Moslem leaders, I learned the importance of listening, empathising and simply showing respect]( [Jonathan A. Greenblatt]( [The new era of no-shame anti-Semitism]( [What are you doing to teach the world the dangers of unfettered nationalism this International Holocaust Day?]( [Lesley Sachs]( [3 years since the Kotel agreement: We won’t give up]( [Though the deal is frozen, Women of the Wall’s mission was and remains to enrich the landscape of Jewish life for all]( [Christina Wirth]( [My flatmate Hannah Bladon was more than a stabbing victim]( [When I heard that she’d offered her seat to a pregnant woman on the light rail not long before the attack, I wasn’t surprised at all]( [Naomi Chazan]( [Israel’s health care is a victim of the system]( [Overcrowding, understaffing, and poor decisions by the government are leading to catastrophe]( [Unsubscribe from this List]( © 2019 THE TIMES OF ISRAEL, All Rights Reserved