Lisa Goldman

Montreal

Writer and Editor at Freelance

Editor, @newlinesmag Past: @972mag (cofounder) & various defunct digital publications. Email: [email protected] Also: https://t.co/dzjCPM4HFu

Articles

Good for the Jews or Bad for the Jews? Israel’s Media on Bashar al-Assad’s Departure

Dec 10, 2024 | newlinesmag.com | Lisa Goldman

On Sunday, the Israeli media, stunned by Syrian rebel forces’ sudden overthrow of the Bashar al-Assad regime, offered some tentative takes on the implications of their victory. On the one hand, the Butcher of Damascus was gone and good riddance; but on the other hand, if jihadists filled the power vacuum, would they threaten Israel’s security on its northern border? For some of the more worldly correspondents, this framing was too provincial.
The Role of Thanksgiving in America’s Movies

Nov 28, 2024 | newlinesmag.com | Lisa Goldman

As a young adolescent in early 1980s Canada, I often felt as though my country had its collective nose pressed up against a window display of American culture. We watched and sometimes sniggered, in the superior but self-loathing manner of the cool posers who secretly worried that the exuberant people at the party were having much more fun, as our neighbors south of the border celebrated themselves, very loudly.
“Unjustified and Antisemitic”: Israel’s Media Reacts to the ICC’s Arrest Warrants

Nov 22, 2024 | newlinesmag.com | Lisa Goldman

“It was the scenario Jerusalem feared,” said Yonit Levy, anchor of Israel’s Channel 12 main evening news broadcast, on Thursday night. Levy was referring to the announcement from Karim Khan, prosecutor for the International Criminal Court (ICC) that he had secured arrest warrants for Yoav Gallant, the former defense minister, and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu — as well as for Mohammed Deif, head of Hamas’ armed wing.
Protesters Shut Down Tel Aviv - Again

Nov 8, 2024 | newlinesmag.com | Lisa Goldman

In a move that electrified Israelis, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu fired Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Nov. 5, the day of the U.S. presidential election.
The Mainstream Israeli Media’s Coverage of Sinwar’s Death

Oct 18, 2024 | newlinesmag.com | Lisa Goldman

Veteran journalists long associated with the center-left used overtly racist, triumphalist language to describe the killing of the Hamas leader Israeli television news presenters were openly jubilant on Oct. 17 as they reported that the army had killed Yahya Sinwar, the Hamas leader who masterminded the attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023.
Searching for Hope in the Wake of October 7

Oct 6, 2024 | newlinesmag.com | Lisa Goldman

The war in Gaza was approaching its sixth month as thousands of Israelis gathered on a balmy Saturday night in front of the Tel Aviv Museum of Art for yet another anti-government protest. Their demand, which the liberal opposition had been making with increasing desperation since the military assault on Gaza began on Oct. 8 last year, was for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to agree to a cease-fire and negotiate a deal for the release of the hostages.
When the Music Stopped and the Grief Began

Jul 1, 2024 | newlinesmag.com | Lisa Goldman

The first room of the exhibition called “October 7th | 06:29am — The Moment Music Stood Still: The Nova Music Festival Exhibition,” at 35 Wall Street in New York’s financial district, smelled strongly of Sai Baba incense. It’s a distinctive scent that evokes yoga classes and meditation events at places like the Osho ashram in Pune, India.
Israel Does Not Know How To End the War in Gaza

May 20, 2024 | newlinesmag.com | Lisa Goldman

Israel is in a “plonter.” The Hebrew word, which translates as a knot that defies untangling, is often used to describe an intractable situation. It’s a word one hears frequently from Israeli political commentators these days, as the army grinds through its seventh month of war in Gaza without having achieved the two goals stated at the outset of the campaign — the destruction of Hamas’ military capacity and the release of the captives.
Israel Does Not Know How To End the Gaza War

May 20, 2024 | newlinesmag.com | Lisa Goldman

Israel is in a “plonter.” The Hebrew word, which translates as a knot that defies untangling, is often used to describe an intractable situation. It’s a word one hears frequently from Israeli political commentators these days, as the army grinds through its seventh month of war in Gaza without having achieved the two goals stated at the outset of the campaign — the destruction of Hamas’ military capacity and the release of the captives.
The Biden Netanyahu Rift

Mar 26, 2024 | portside.org | Danny Postel |Lisa Goldman

The Biden Netanyahu Rift Published March 26, 2024 This week’s diplomatic contretemps between the Israeli and American governments is being described as the worst rupture in the “special relationship” in decades. In 1962 President John F. Kennedy remarked to Golda Meir (then Israel’s foreign minister) that America’s bond with the Jewish state was comparable only to the one the U.S. shared with Britain.