Michael Berkowitz – Medium

Michael Berkowitz

Michael Berkowitz

Campus Redux

Well, it seems like we’re seeing a return of last year’s pro-Hamas protests. Administrations seem to be scrambling — again — to figure out…

Sep 9

Campus Redux

Sep 9

Michael Berkowitz

Given that Israel is the most criticized country in the world, I'm puzzled by questions about "How…

Apr 2

Apr 2

Michael Berkowitz

I'm skeptical about trusting the Israeli courts to show more deference to contracts than the…

Mar 6

Mar 6

Michael Berkowitz

Things I Haven’t Heard About Israel — Part 4

Given the flurry of interest in Palestinian statehood, it makes sense to examine what exactly that would look like and what effects it…

Feb 23

Things I Haven’t Heard About Israel — Part 4

Feb 23

Michael Berkowitz

How to Lie with Statistics, Episode 5,469

Recently I’ve seen a few articles decrying the rise in “settler violence”. According to something I read in the name of B’Tselem, we’re now…

Oct 30, 2023

How to Lie with Statistics, Episode 5,469

Oct 30, 2023

Michael Berkowitz

And Now that We’re Here…

Now that we’re seeing our “sense-making institutions” fail so spectacularly to make sense of what should be obvious, now that we’re seeing…

Oct 20, 2023

And Now that We’re Here…

Oct 20, 2023

Michael Berkowitz

A Flare Goes Up

About 130 years ago, the Zionist thinker known as Ahad Ha’am (“one of the people”) wrote an essay in which he wryly observed that the Blood…

Oct 13, 2023

A Flare Goes Up

Oct 13, 2023

Michael Berkowitz

Some thoughts on confronting opposing opinions on campus

[I was prompted to write this for students at a gap-year yeshiva after a conversation I had with one of its faculty, but it occurred to me…

Jan 26, 2023

Jan 26, 2023

Michael Berkowitz

Things I haven’t heard about Israel — Part 3

In earlier posts I made clear my opinion that the Jews have a right to sovereignty in their homeland. I now turn to the matter of the Arabs…

Apr 19, 2022

Apr 19, 2022

Michael Berkowitz

Things I Haven’t Heard about Israel — Part 2

“Settlements are illegal.”

Apr 19, 2022

Apr 19, 2022

Michael Berkowitz

Michael Berkowitz

Michael blogs sporadically and practices philosophy in the ancient tradition of corrupting the minds of youth.

Following

Help
Status
About
Careers
Press
Blog
Privacy
Terms
Text to speech
Teams