Martin Peretz
ARTICLES BY: Martin Peretz
The Ill-Advised Progressive Push to Get Stephen Breyer Off the Supreme Court
If you need to have someone to censure for the current makeup of the US Supreme Court, there is no one more to chide than...
Obama’s Failure, Biden’s New Team, and the Future of the Israeli-Palestinian Divide
Barack Obama’s fourth memoir incurs on Jewish history by giving it the title A Promised Land, promised as in plighted, stolen from Lord Balfour. During...
Memories and Expectations of Antony Blinken
An extended metaphor from Meir Blinkin, the immigrant Yiddish writer, born in 1879 in Pereyeslav, the Ukraine, dead at 37 in New York where mourning...
Litigating the Balfour Declaration: The Revealing Lies Behind the Latest Move of Palestinian Symbolism
November 3 is the hundred-and-third anniversary of Britain’s Balfour Declaration, the pronunciamiento by His Majesty’s Government of its support for the establishment of a "national...
As Israel Struggles With COVID-19, Belzer Rebbe Exacerbates Problem
“Israel remains among the top countries globally as well.” Top, mind you. Number 8, in fact, proportionate counting by population. Wow! Except this is not...
Warren, Sanders, Bloomberg and Buttigieg — Israel’s Standing in Today’s Democratic Party
Elizabeth Warren has run out of steam, danken gott (thank God), her professorial persona full of numbers that she equates with ethics failing to resonate with Iowa or...
American Institutions, Jewish Realities: Why the Divide?
I. On November 20 last year, a lecturer associated with George Soros’s Open Society Foundations, A. Kayem Ahmed, spoke at Fieldston, the Ethical Culture School which was...
Knesset Legislation Risks Bringing the Ghetto to Israel
The ghetto has played an enormous role in Jewish history, not all of it onerous. It bonded people together in learning and in faith. It...
Marty Peretz: The Democratic Party, on the Edge of the Abyss
Two of the most powerful members of the Democratic Party, former and current senators from New York, now hold the fate of the putative deal...
