A government-controlled academia would make it repressive and backward. Instead of supporting Israeli academia in the face of international boycotts, the education minister prefers to inflict severe damage on it, threatening budget cuts and encouraging brain drain
As Shin Bet's Ronen Bar warns of "heaviest suspicions" of security harm, the Mossad chief waves off concerns – exposing a widening rift over Qatar ties, Hamas policy and who bears responsibility for the failures leading to October 7
Zionism, at its base, is the belief in Jewish supremacy between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea, and just like any other ideology that subscribes to racial, national or religious supremacy, it is illegitimate