| Within a week, we’ve witnessed two controversies relating to identifying and calling out antisemitism. Most recently, U.S. Jewish groups accused ‘Saturday Night Live’ of bloodcurdling antisemitism: using tropes that have incited the mass murder of Jews. Joshua Shanes rejects the label of antisemitism and asks whether there is still space to satirize Israel’s occupation, and its racism problem. The earlier saga starred Bari Weiss and Ben Shapiro, who mounted what Noah Berlatsky calls a strange defense of the same antisemitism they condemn so fiercely when it comes from what they call the ‘woke’ left. President Biden was left a full file of normalization agreements between Israel and Muslim-majority states. Critics charge that many of them were contaminated by incongruous quid pro quos. Ali El Aallaoui explores the particularly blatant example of the ‘renormalization’ of ties between Israel and Morocco – and how the Trump administration turned the people of Western Sahara into a kickback for Rabat. Harun Karcic takes on the establishment of ties between Israel and Kosovo, noting the strangeness of ‘peace’ with Israel being jacknifed into an intra-Balkan accord, and asks why Israel took so long to commit to Kosovo. The International Criminal Court decision that it can investigate alleged war crimes committed during Israel’s occupation and several Gaza-Israel wars is a vindication of a long, haphazard Palestinian legal strategy, writes Victor Kattan, unless it backfires: Hamas as well as Israel will now be on trial. And Anshel Pfeffer urges praxis: Trump’s deal is dead, Biden is busy, the far right dreams of annexation and the far left of BDS, the peace process industry is engrossed in its fantasies. But, he says, there’s a practical, if unglamorous, way to actually make life better for two million Israelis and Palestinians. And, finally tune in each week as Anshel and Dahlia Scheindlin break down all the latest election news in our new podcast dedicated to covering Israel's unprecedented 4th election in two years. | 
