Josh Feldman

Should the consulate – against Israeli advice – be reopened, it will merely add to the long list of feckless American policies in the Israeli-Palestinian arena.

Not only does the ice-cream maker’s decision ignore historical facts, but in siding with BDS, the world’s leading advocate for boycotting Israel, it is lying in bed with utterly reprehensible groups.

In a post-Netanyahu Israel, many of his critics on the Left will be confronted with an uncomfortable reality: It’s not really Bibi they dislike. It’s Israel.

No one narrative is fully correct, and the truth (whatever it may be) will often upset the partisans among us. So let’s try to set the record straight (or further complicate it) on a few issues.

While there are popular opposition leaders today, such as centrist Yair Lapid, he isn’t the savior who will enable the Israeli Left to seriously challenge the Right’s entrenched beliefs.

By identifying under the label of “pro-Israel,” we have legitimized, albeit subconsciously, the idea that calling for the dismantling of the world’s only Jewish state is perfectly fine. It’s not.