The state of Israel faces a catastrophic situation that could soon lead to widespread bloodshed. It is time for the international community to act decisively. Substantive external pressure – political, economic and cultural – offers the only chance of emerging from this impossible situation before it is too late. [...]

Last Tuesday, Corey Lewandowski, Donald trump’s former campaign Manager, was challenged on television about a 10-year-old girl with down syndrome who was separated from her mother at the Mexican border and placed in a detention center. As a Democratic strategist cited the case, Lewandowski mocked the girl’s [...]

The cries of children taken from their mothers and fathers at our border, under our flag, haunt the country. Across political and religious divides, the nation – and the world – is aghast and Americans are refusing complicity in all the ways they can. Millions of people are crying, protesting and praying in our [...]

If there is one theme to the Trump administration’s immigration rules, largely crafted by Jeff Sessions and the White House policy adviser Stephen Miller, it is this: target the most [...]

The battle lines are now drawn for Europe’s final test: the may 2019 European Parliament elections. That’s when far-right and populist parties will attempt to complete their power grab in the EU. In the elections of 2014, they made gains. Next year, they’ll seek to dominate. The dramatic events we’ve [...]

If there was a dictator’s book, the Donald trump administration would now be in the Chapter “Instrumentalization of religion.” Last week, in what sounded like the launch of a US caliphate, the attorney general, Jeff Sessions, reached for a biblical verse to defend his department’s policy of [...]

Last week in London were about 15,000 supporters of Tommy Robinson, former leader of the English defense League. Some were aggressive, attacked the police and physically threatened anti-racists who were peacefully protesting against [...]

A useful way to test the deal Donald Trump has reached with Kim Jong-un is to imagine what Trump himself would have said had it been Barack Obama rather than him who shook hands with the North Korean dictator. Trump and his echo chamber on Fox News and elsewhere would have poured buckets of derision on Obama for the [...]

Next week will be tested one of the strong inventions of the current policy: the myth of Donald trump, the main negotiator. That the myth lives on was demonstrated afresh on Thursday with the leaking of after-dinner remarks by Boris Johnson urging his audience to “imagine Trump doing Brexit”. The foreign secretary [...]

I recently went to Anaheim, California, to the home of Disneyland. I wasn’t there to take my grandchildren to meet Donald duck or Mickey mouse or ride the rides. I was there to attend a rally with 2,000 Disney workers who are being ruthlessly exploited by Disney, an extremely powerful and wealthy multinational [...]