Ido Levy

Ido Levy is a 21-year-old Jewish Israeli American from New York City, currently studying for a BA in Israel at IDC Herzliya. He can be reached through email at idolevy@live.com.

Hate Stops Here - WZO holds international day of protests against antisemitism

Antisemitism promotion week

Activists from the BDS movement against Israel [File]

Three of the many problems with BDS

A MAN holds two flags as demonstrators at a 2014 pro-Palestinian rally march across the Brooklyn Bridge in New York City

Liberals have to stop abetting ‘the jackals’


Khan al-Ahmar and the urgency of a two-state solution

If the current trend in the West Bank continues, Zionism will soon fall to the exclusionary, militant, closed-minded side of nationalism.

ISRAELI POLICEMEN scuffle with Palestinians in Khan al-Ahmar yesterday.

Why Cynthia Nixon should get the Jewish vote

NY gubernatorial candidate is a progressive honorary Jew and a friend of Israel

Actress Cynthia Nixon arrives at the 71st Tony Awards New York City, U.S., June 11, 2017

Toward partnership with the haredim

Today, it is simply a fallacy that haredim only study Torah all day and contribute nothing to society.

thousands of haredim at yosef memorial 370

My fellow Americans, let’s not be so quick to condemn Israel

As committed humanitarians, we often prefer to ignore the clash between our values and the need for security.

A DEMONSTRATOR stands next to an improvised memorial with the names of Palestinians killed during clashes with Israeli troops on the Gaza-Israel border, during a protest in New York last week.

The real nuclear threat

Nuclear proliferation may soon become a thing of the past

Officials from the P5+1 and the European Union gather at the Beau Rivage Palace Hotel in Lausanne, Switzerland, in 2015 to discuss the Iran nuclear deal

The real ‘Shabbat crisis’

We now have a chance to rethink what Shabbat means for Israel.

Haredi members of the Knesset are upset over railway maintenance work being performed on Shabbat

Israeli identity and the anti-‘freier’

If an American Jew strives to be a mensch, then an Israeli Jew seeks to be an “anti-freier.”

AN ANTI-FREIER is likewise a hard person who pursues his goals aggressively.

The rise of the contrarian opposition

Is the Israeli opposition becoming a group of anti-rightists lacking unique policies of their own?

Israeli soldier casts his vote

Trump and his increasingly vacant throne

I would compare Trump’s behavior to that of a 16th century Chinese emperor named Zhu Yijun.

President Donald Trump, joined by (left to right) Chief of Staff Reince Priebus, Vice President Mike Pence, senior adviser Steve Bannon, Communications Director Sean Spicer and National Security Advisor Michael Flynn

How Bernie Sanders embodies the rising Jewish statesman

From Ed Miliband’s failure to Bernie’s bid for the presidency

Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) campaigns in Cleveland