Day 3 of Slate’s ‘The Unmaking of Israel’ Excerpts Gershom Gorenberg Slate has published a third excerpt from my new book The Unmaking of Israel. You can also read Monday’s excerpt, with groundbreaking new evidence showing that Israel did not plan the expulsion of its Arab population in 1948, and yesterday’s, on how the secular [...]

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Day 2 of Slate’s ‘The Unmaking of Israel’ Excerpts Gershom Gorenberg Slate has just posted another excerpt my new book The Unmaking of Israel – this one on how the secular state of Israel created ultra-Orthodoxy as we know it. You can also read yesterday’s excerpt, with groundbreaking new evidence showing that Israel did not [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg Robert Wright and I discuss the “apartheid” label, the need to separate religion and state in Israel, and The Unmaking of Israel in a new bloggingheads conversation.

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Gershom Gorenberg An excerpt from my new book, The Unmaking of Israel, now up at Slate, brings new evidence that recasts the story of 1948. Additional excerpts will be appearing tomorrow and Wednesday. The most basic question about Israeli democracy has existed from before its birth: What would be the status of Arabs in a [...]

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And News From the Road Gershom Gorenberg Greetings from New York. I’ll be speaking tonight at Mechon Hadar on the Upper West Side and on Saturday night at the Hebrew Institute of Riverdale. If you’re in the neighborhood, or who have friends who are, I’d love to see you and them. My new book, The [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg Better late than never: To coincide with the publication of The Unmaking of Israel, my previous book – The Accidental Empire – is finally available in Kindle and Nook format.

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Gershom Gorenberg My new column is up at The American Prospect. Yoram Kaniuk has won: The prominent Israeli novelist is now very officially a Jew of no religion. Hundreds of other Israelis, inspired by his legal victory, want to follow his example and change their religious status to “none” in the country’s Population Registry, while [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg At bloggingheads, Dimi Reider of +972 Magazine and I debate whether the direction forward for Israelis and Palestinians is a two-state arrangement or a single state. In the segment below, I argue that most of the diplomatic obstacles to two-state agreement would pose even greater problems for a single shared state. Dimi, naturally, [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg My preview of Netanyahu’s speech to the U.N. General Assembly is now up at The American Prospect: … Returning to the U.N., Netanyahu is going back to an easier time in his life, when he did not have to worry about an unsteady coalition in parliament, constant resignations from his feuding staff, or [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg My new column is up at The Daily Beast: On the eve of the Palestinian request for U.N membership as an independent state, Israel’s government is still fighting an apparently doomed diplomatic battle against the move. The official argument is that Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas has turned to the United Nations because he [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg My new article is up at The American Prospect: Dear Mr. Obama, A clever person succeeds in climbing out of the hole that a wise one avoids falling into. So says a Hebrew adage often applied to national leaders. To my great sorrow, you have already missed the chance to respond wisely to [...]

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Gershom Gorenberg Earlier this month, the Israeli Supreme Court woke up from a deep slumber and issued an order to the government to evacuate the illegal outpost of Migron on the bypass road between Jerusalem and the Israeli settlements north of Ramallah. Migron, according to founder Itay Harel, was originally established on the hilltop in [...]

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