Lauder promoting Abbas as respectable moderate fraught with danger

Last week, World Jewish Congress President Ronald Lauder released a series of statements confirming that he had encouraged U.S. President Donald Trump to recognise that peace between Israelis and Palestinians was now attainable. He also stressed that he considers PA President Mahmoud Abbas to be a moderate committed to peace…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Nine challenges confronting Israel…writes Isi Leibler

Not since the creation of the state has Israel found itself in such an advantageous position. Read more

The unacceptable behaviour of the German Foreign Minister

German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel displayed unprecedented chutzpa and insensitivity during his official visit to Israel to participate in ceremonies on Holocaust Memorial Day when he scheduled meetings with organisations who accuse us of engaging in war crimes…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Passover: We have reason to rejoice…writes Isi Leibler

Tomorrow, most Israelis, secular as well as observant, will celebrate Passover, the festival of freedom in which we recount our life of slavery and exodus from Egypt and how we became a nation. Read more

Trump seeks to resolve Israel-Palestinian conflict…writes Isi Leibler

Throughout his election campaign and thereafter, even while fulsomely praising Israel and vowing to treat us as a true ally, U.S. President Donald Trump has repeatedly stated that his former deal making experience would enable him to resolve the intractable Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Read more

On religious extremism…writes Isi Leibler

It is ironic that with Jewish observance and spiritual values at unprecedentedly high levels in Israeli society, the established religious leadership has sunk to its lowest nadir. Read more

American liberal Jewish leaders fuel antisemitism

We try to rationalise that the anti-Zionist behaviour of individual Jews does not justify antisemitic bigotry. Read more

Anti-Semitism and Aliyah

Political correctness still seems to impel us to continue chanting the mantra that we are prohibited from relating to antisemitism as a cause for settling in Israel and insisting that the only motivation for aliyah today is to enable a committed Jew to lead a truly Jewish life in his homeland…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Are Trump and Israel on the same page?…asks Isi Leibler

The first two weeks of U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration have been the most active of any in recent memory. The unprecedented executive orders, not to mention the initial exchanges with other heads of state, have generated headlines that under normal circumstances could have filled the daily news cycle for several months. Read more

Pseudo-liberal Jews are causing unspeakable damage…writes Isi Leibler

Chaos is the order of the day throughout the entire democratic world. Read more

Netanyahu messed up but it is time to move forward

Enough is enough. Since the beginning of his public life, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been subject to the most ferocious ongoing campaign of vilification endured by any politician in the democratic world…writes Isi Leibler.

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Israel and the Trump administration…writes Isi Leibler

In just two weeks, a new U.S. administration will enter the White House.

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Responding to Obama’s malicious betrayal of Israel…writes Isi Leibler

As predicted, on the eve of his retirement President Barack Obama betrayed Israel. The former long-standing congregant of the paranoid antisemitic pastor Rev. Jeremy Wright who has a penchant for supporting to the Moslem Brotherhood, broke with forty years of U.S. bipartisan policy of protecting the Jewish state from the wolves at the United Nations. Read more

European meltdown threatens Jews…writes Isi Leibler

Today, Diaspora Jewish communities are suffering severe trauma as they experience erosion of the acceptance and security they enjoyed over the past half century. Read more

American Jewish liberals have lost the plot

Throughout the two thousand years of Jews living in the Diaspora, there has been no precedent comparable to the behaviour of major liberal mainstream sectors of the American Jewish community…writes Isi Leibler.
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The Trump revolution, Israel and American Jews

The victory of Donald Trump in the U.S. presidential elections will have long-term global repercussions at many levels…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Sharing a deeply personal experience…writes Isi Leibler

I am an octogenarian and one of the few who has both witnessed the tragedies and become engaged directly in the triumphs of the Jewish people in our time. Read more

Will betraying Israel be Obama’s farewell gesture?…asks Isi Leibler

Throughout his entire presidential term of nearly eight years, U.S. President Barak Obama has insisted that he “has Israel’s back.” Read more

Strength and unity will overcome our adversaries…writes Isi Leibler

The abysmal failure of most governments to display even a pretense of morality when formulating resolutions relating to international affairs was again highlighted by the latest outrageous resolution relating to Jerusalem endorsed by UNESCO. Read more

Rosh Hashana 5777: Gratitude and Optimism…writes Isi Leibler

 

We are confronted by a multitude of security threats and diplomatic challenges but the prophets of doom and gloom are selective and masochistic. Read more

Haredim — an impending Kulturkampf…writes Isi Leibler

As Rosh Hashanah approaches, one senses an impending explosion between Israeli mainstream society and the ultra-Orthodox. Read more

Shame on the ADL…writes Isi Leibler

Irrespective of one’s personal opinion of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s videotaped remarks on Palestinian “ethnic cleansing” of Jews from any future Palestinian state, Anti-Defamation League CEO Jonathan Greenblatt’s scornful public condemnation is simply beyond the pale. Read more

Ronald Lauder: A unique global Jewish leader…writes Isi Leibler

The Executive  Committee of the World Jewish Congress meeting in Jerusalem this week will highlight the extraordinary turnabout of this organization since the election of Ronald Lauder as president. Read more

Am I a ‘Disgusting Racist’ for Calling Palestinians Evil When They Sanctify Death and Jew Hatred?

 

Isi Leibler has responded to an article in Haaretz.com in which he claims he is “revolting racist”. Read more

The accelerating erosion of the post-Zionist Hebrew media…writes Isi Leibler

Haaretz, Israel’s oldest Hebrew daily newspaper, was established in 1918 by a group of left-leaning businessmen. In 1937, Salman Schocken bought the newspaper and it was edited by his son Gershom until his death in 1990. Read more

Exposing the criminal society and the culture of death…writes Isi Leibler

We are losing the battle in the war of ideas for the simple reason that we are continuously on the defensive while those seeking our destruction actively and relentlessly demonise us. Read more

Has the Anti-Defamation League lost the plot?…asks Isi Leibler

I rubbed my eyes with incredulity when I read bizarre statements emanating from Jonathan Greenblatt the CEO of the Anti-Defamation League (ADL), one of the most powerful American Jewish organisations whose principal mandate is to combat antisemitism. Read more

Government to expel BDS activists. Bravo!…writes Isi Leibler

The decision by the Interior and Public Security ministers to form a special task force to expel foreigners engaged in Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions (BDS) activities is a long overdue but urgent call for remedial action against anti-Semites and renegade Jews who demonise and delegitimise us. Read more

American Jewish leaders are on the edge of the abyss…writes Isi Leibler

The American presidential elections have created an unprecedented climate of political chaos. Both candidates are reviled by the bulk of the electorate, many of whom intimate that they intend to abstain from voting. Read more

Global chaos — a byproduct of the failure to confront evil…writes Isi Leibler

A generation ago, the term evil had meaning. There were no bleeding hearts — certainly no Jews — who minimised the malevolency of the Nazis. Evil was evil. Read more

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