Opinion Editor's Choice

The most important Haaretz op-eds of the week, as chosen by Opinion Editor Esther Solomon.   View in browser

Stop Calling Him 'Dr': The Academic Fraud of Sebastian Gorka, Trump’s Terrorism 'Expert' A PhD panel packed with personal friends featured an extreme right-wing Hungarian MEP who recently advocated putting pigs heads on a border fence to keep out Muslims. Andrew Reynolds   Why Are Jews Rehabilitating Jew-killing Fascists to Defend Sebastian Gorka? If Tablet's Liel Liebowitz wants to signal an accommodation between Republican Jews and Trump's ethno-nationalist advisers, why whitewash Hungary's WW2 leader to do it? Jacob Bacharach   Calling Barghouti a Terrorist Won’t Silence Him Israel should respond to the substance of Barghouti’s op-ed, not hide their violations of human rights, particularly of 6,500 Palestinian political prisoners, behind the accusation of terrorism. Qaddoura Fares   Challenging Public Figures' Holocaust Ignorance and Manipulation Yad Vashem's Libraries director: In our celebrity culture, helping people in the public eye speak more accurately and thoughtfully about the Holocaust is a major challenge. Robert Rozett   Remembering Auschwitz: Should Israel Bomb the Syrian Regime's Extermination Camps? Israel has avoided playing a role in Syria. But a near-genocide is happening on its border. How can we say 'Never Again' this year and do nothing? Eric Yoffie   Wounded but Alive: Not Yet Game Over for Turkey's Democracy - or Its Resistance The president's popularity has maxed out at 50 percent of the population, and the anti-Erdogan opposition won't be silenced. Louis Fishman   Counting Down the Hours Before France Could Become a Police State  France’s reverence for authoritarian politics never went away. Natasha Lehrer   Is There Room in Jerusalem for Both Jews and Muslims? Competing Jewish and Muslim traditions too often stake claims over the city that deny legitimacy to the other. Haroon Moghul   Why Orthodox Jews Tried and Failed to Block Israel’s First Woman Shariah Court Judge Hana Mansour-Khatib made history this week following decades of opposition to women as religious court judges which united conservatives in both Muslim and Jewish communities. Sarah Jacobs

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