The silence became the story: There is little space for public conversations about the wars and their lingering traumas among Palestinian citizens of Israel and other minorities. The most painful questions remain unspoken

According to senior party officials, Likud primaries could be scrapped and the current Knesset slate retained if both proposed frameworks for selecting candidates face opposition. In that scenario, they said, Netanyahu could place his own candidates in reserved slots

What we call antisemitism is not a single phenomenon. The functional Jew is a figure the mind reaches for when it needs an object on which to test its own capacity to think. The question is why the mind so often needs a figure outside itself to bear what is unthinkable