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Hamas says Bibas family members will return to Israel — as corpses. The only appropriate response is rage.

by Rob Eshman February 19, 2025February 19, 2025

Donald Trump speaking with attendees at a "Chase the Vote" rally at Dream City Church in Phoenix, Arizona, June 6, 2024. (Gage Skidmore via Flickr CC BY-SA 2.0)

Trump’s Gaza plan is terrible. So why don’t the Democrats have anything better?

by Rob Eshman February 18, 2025February 18, 2025

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My pre-Thanksgiving challenge: hugging a turkey

by Rob Eshman November 27, 2024November 27, 2024

A seawall on the beach in Bolinas, California, reads “Save (covered by 'Move to') Palestine,” Sept. 23, 2024. (Aaron Levy-Wolins/J. Staff)

Trump’s first picks are die-hard Israel supporters, mocking the pro-Palestinian protest vote

by Rob Eshman November 14, 2024November 14, 2024

several people sit looking up toward a TV with Harris/Walz signs hung on the window behind them

Almost all voting groups shifted toward Trump, except American Jews. Why?

by Rob Eshman November 6, 2024November 6, 2024

Miller speaks as lectern labeled "TRUMP"

‘America is for Americans and Americans only’: How Trump 2.0 evokes the Nazis

by Rob Eshman October 28, 2024October 28, 2024

Arab Israeli journalist Yanal Jabarin at Cafe Sira in Jerusalem, where he befriended Hersh Goldberg-Polin. (Rob Eshman/Forward)

He’s a Muslim Israeli who was close with Hersh Goldberg-Polin. Now he’s mourning his friend — and seeking change

by Rob Eshman September 27, 2024September 27, 2024

Kamala Harris addresses the 2020 Democratic National Convention. (Lawrence Jackson/Biden for President CC BY-NC-SA 2.0)

Kamala Harris did the impossible, and said exactly the right thing about Israel and Gaza

by Rob Eshman August 23, 2024August 23, 2024

Then-President Donald J. Trump with Elon Musk at the Kennedy Space Center Launch Control Center in Cape Canaveral, May 30, 2020, (Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead)

The Elon Musk-Donald Trump love fest was short on facts — and long on attacks on Jews

by Rob Eshman August 13, 2024August 13, 2024

Hamas political leader Ismail Haniyeh meets with Iranian Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei in 2012. (khamenei.ir via Wikimedia CC BY-SA 4.0)

Two big questions after the assassination of Ismail Haniyeh

by Rob Eshman July 31, 2024July 31, 2024