Herbert Rothschild: It’s historically fitting that Israel has succeeded apartheid South Africa as an international pariah, because from the 1960s through the 1980s Israel sold South Africa aircraft, radar and other advanced weapons systems, and it assisted South Africa’s RSA missile program. Most egregiously, it helped South Africa develop nuclear weapons.

Herbert Rothschild: Rapid response is a three-step process — reporting a suspected ICE action, verifying the report and getting a legal observer team to the site of a verified action. Everyone can help with the first. If you think you see ICE agents, you can phone in a report to 888-622-1510, a statewide hotline maintained by Portland Immigrant Rights Coalition. … But please don’t post any unverified reports on social media

Herbert Rothschild: Like a mob boss, Trump has a highly developed sense of what he thinks people owe him, and he’s willing to rough them up when they don’t pay up. Regarding NATO, he was clear from the start that he believed its European members were getting much more than they were paying for.

Herbert Rothschild: The gender gap in LGBTQ self-identification has exploded since 2015, when 10% of females and 6% of males ages 18-29 identified that way. In 2024, it was 31% of females compared to 12% of males.

Herbert Rothschild: Faced with a crisis in funding transportation, Oregon lawmakers should abandon the gas tax and levy a per-miles-traveled fee on passenger vehicles and trucks as well as heavy commercial trucks. That is, the OReGO program, now voluntary, should be made mandatory.

Herbert Rothschild: To give so much leverage over us to a country we regard as the chief threat to our national security makes little sense. But so does treating China as if it is identical to Stalin’s U.S.S.R.

Herbert Rothschild: Here in the U.S., Zionists are intensifying their efforts to silence opposition to Israel’s cruelties. Their easiest targets have been pro-Palestinian advocates who are in this country legally but aren’t citizens.

Herbert Rothschild: There’s little chance that our conduct will change. We must stage periodic displays of our might to justify our huge annual expenditures on the military and to give the young men in their pickup trucks some reason to be proud of a country where their chances of thriving diminish year by year.

Herbert Rothschild: Birth rates have fallen throughout the industrialized world. In addition to the general concern the declines have caused, they are of special concern to nativists everywhere because immigration is the obvious fix for the problem.