April 21, 2025

Israel Thriving in the Philippines

  By David Haldane April 21, 2025     This was going to be a column about Middle Eastern politics. How suffering Gazans had finally risen […]
April 7, 2025

Deporting Radicals

By David Haldane April 7, 2025     I understand why students protest. As an undergraduate at UCLA in the late 1960s, I spent a fair […]
March 17, 2025

Israelis Misbehaving or Filipino Antisemitism?

  By David Haldane March 17, 2025     My first reaction was astonishment. Followed almost immediately by alarm. Not just the kind that gently wakes […]
February 2, 2025

The Jews of Siargao Island

  By David Haldane February 2, 2025     It started at an airport. Strolling through Mactan-Cebu International Airport last month, I noticed a bearded man […]
January 6, 2025

Filipino Cardinal Leaps Aboard a Sinking Ship

  By David Haldane Jan. 6, 2025     I thought I was done with this subject for a while. Two weeks ago, I wrote a […]
December 2, 2024

Confession: Hamas Made Me Vote for Trump

  By David Haldane Dec. 2, 2024     I’m ready to confess something that most regular readers of this column have probably already guessed. I […]
October 20, 2024

Ilan Fluss: Israel’s Embattled Ambassador

By David Haldane October 20, 2024     The security precautions were impressive. The invitations, issued in advance after thorough screenings, were non-transferable. Invitees were given […]
September 9, 2024

Zone of Interest

By David Haldane Sept. 9, 2024     I hated the speech. Accepting an Oscar for his movie, “The Zone of Interest,” earlier this year, English […]