Bernard Avishai lives in Jerusalem and New Hampshire. He is a visiting professor of government at Dartmouth and an adjunct professor of business at Hebrew University. His most recent book is Promiscuous: "Portnoy’s Complaint" and Our Doomed Pursuit of Happiness. He is also the author of The Tragedy of Zionism and The Hebrew Republic.
About that file in your cake…; Zion Agonistes; a poem for Malala…
In this second round, Eric Alterman and Lizzy Ratner respond to arguments for and against BDS.
Obama and America’s hundred-year struggle over healthcare reform.
Punishing Israel’s most progressive elements will not help to end the occupation.