"There was a time when I drew a distinction between Benjamin Netanyahus policies and this country I have loved so long. No more. Every single day we wake to yet another outrage."
Bradley Burston is an American-born Israeli journalist. Until April 2019, Burston was an English-language columnist for Haaretz and senior editor of the English-language website Haaretz.com, where he wrote a blog in English called "A Special Place in Hell". On 22 April 2019 he retired, returning with opinion pieces only on special occasions.
"My daughter is an unarmed . That should matter. It should matter, in particular, to who believe, and justly so, that the inalienable rights of human beings, children in particular, take clear precedence over the s of and the appetites of nationalism."
"Death to Israel" means death to Israelis. It means death to the members of my family. Like many in Israel, a family which has long worked hard and consistently and intensively for the rights of Palestinians, Muslims and Christians alike, to live in safety and sovereignty in a country of their own. What we want for ourselves is no less just. It is, in fact, the very same: freedom to live in safety and sovereignty."
"If progressives cannot see Israelis as people, if they - we - cannot summon up the same compassion and concern for unarmed combatants on both sides of a battle front, its time they checked their ideology for holes."
"It is a country (Israel) in which a clear majority of the population, battered by wars and terrorism and heartbreak and frustration, still wants to see negotiations leading to a Palestinian state alongside Israel, and an end to occupation."
"I used to be a person who wanted to believe that there were moral and democratic limits – or, failing that, pragmatic constraints - to how low the prime minister was willing to go, how far he was willing to bend to the proud proponents of apartheid, in order to bolster his power. Not any more. Not after ."
"The election marked the greatest victory and validation for anti-Semitism in America since 1941."