The US diplomatic strategy on Israel and Gaza is not working Daniel Levy | The Guardian | August 27th 2024

The Biden administration remains in an intense phase of Middle East diplomatic activity working to avoid a regional war while optimistically spinning the prospects for a Gaza breakthrough deal. Following the latest round of provocative Israeli extrajudicial killings in Tehran and Beirut and the intensified exchange of fire between Israel and Hezbollah over the weekend, the region appeared to lurch further in the direction of all-out war. Preventing that is a worthy cause in itself.

To bandy about the serious accusation of anti-Semitism in unserious ways is dangerous Daniel Levy | Irish Times | May 16th 2024

Rarely these days is there a big event in which Israel participates without tension crackling just below (and frequently above) the surface given the horrors Israel is imposing on the Palestinian civilian population of Gaza. Despite the European Broadcasting Union going to extraordinary and authoritarian lengths, Eurovision was not normal, and this summer’s Paris Olympics are unlikely to pass quietly.