It’s a question met with disparate, contradictory and sometimes demagogic answers. Author Sally Rooney chose this week to abide by the BDS movement’s cultural boycott of Israel – and Etan Nechin explains why that’s a regretful decision.

For anti-occupation Israelis facing the IDF draft, the issue is intensely tangible. Iddo Shejchter explains why he deliberately chose to serve in the occupied territories.

As settler violence intensifies, so could their leverage over future settlement evacuations, Eric Yoffie warns.

In Islamabad this week, the "father" of Pakistan’s atomic arsenal, godfather of Iran’s nuclear program and history’s biggest private-sector proliferator passed away – peacefully, and not at the hands of the Mossad. Yossi Melman tells us why.

Why would Jews join the German far right? It’s an intriguing and troubling question, elucidated by Hannah Rose and Ruben Gerczikow.

In India, the government-fueled hostile atmosphere against the country’s Muslim minority is reaching the point at which analogies can be made to 1930s Germany, reports Debasish Roy Chowdhury.

And France is conducting its largest terror trial ever: the surviving ISIS cell members of the bloody 2015 attacks. With presidential elections approaching, Esti Judah writes, wall-to-wall coverage could play to the far right’s favorite themes: Islam, immigration and France’s "decline."