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Eran Kaplan

Eran Kaplan

Eran Kaplan is the Richard and Rhoda Goldman Professor in Israel Studies at San Francisco State University. His most recent book is “Projecting the Nation: History and Ideology on the Israeli Screen.”

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gives a press conference on Jan. 18, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/Israel Government Press Office)
Posted inLocal Voice

Netanyahu is still standing politically — but for how much longer? 

Eran Kaplan by Eran Kaplan January 24, 2025January 24, 2025

Steven Witkoff, Donald Trump’s Middle East envoy, called Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Jan. 10 from Qatar, where Witkoff was involved in the negotiations for the cease-fire deal between […]

David Ben-Gurion in his study in Sde Boker, Israel, 1968. (Photo/The Dan Hadani Collection, the Pritzker Family National Photography Collection at the National Library of Israel)
Posted inOpinion

Zionism is hotly debated today — same as it ever was

Eran Kaplan by Eran Kaplan April 29, 2024April 30, 2024
Prime Minister Golda Meir (right) and Defense Minister Moshe Dayan (center) in 1973. (Photo/Ron Frenkel-Government Press Office)
Posted inLocal Voice

50 years later, one thing is clear: Golda Meir was a bad prime minister

Eran Kaplan by Eran Kaplan October 5, 2023October 5, 2023
Israeli expats and allies protest the Netanyahu government's proposed judicial reforms outside of the Israeli consulate in San Francisco, July 13, 2023. (Photo/Courtesy UnXeptable)
Posted inOpinion

The fight over Israel’s democratic soul began decades ago

Eran Kaplan by Eran Kaplan July 27, 2023July 27, 2023

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