Hypocrisy and double standards over the massacre of the Druze

The hypocrisy, double standards and malevolence are off the scale. Read more

Nazi chic and soft-soaping the Jew-baiters

Let’s conduct a thought experiment. Let’s imagine that Nazism had broken out of its wartime German-dominated confines and had become the creed of millions throughout the West. Read more

The need to acknowledge Muslim antisemitism

For much of this week, Britain has been consumed by the appalling spectacle at the Glastonbury festival when the rap duo Bob Vylan led chants by thousands of festival-goers of “Death, death to the IDF,” as well as making vicious remarks about Jews and Zionists. Read more

The return of the neocon canard

Earlier this week, an out-and-out antisemite was revealed to be holding a senior position in the Pentagon. Read more

The West turns against Israel

Ukraine’s stunning attack on Russia last Sunday, in which 117 drones burst out of vehicles parked near Russian airbases to wipe out one-third of the country’s strategic cruise missile carriers, has caused widespread amazement and admiration. Read more

Diaspora Jews under siege

Travelling in America over the past three weeks to speak about my new book, I found a Jewish community in shock, bewilderment, and, after the murderous attack last week on a young couple outside the Capital Jewish Museum in Washington, D.C., gripped by rising fear. Read more

The gold-plated peacenik in the White House

When Donald Trump won the U.S. presidential election last year, many in Israel thought they’d dodged a bullet. Read more

The indestructible myth of famine in Gaza

Yet again, the myth has been revived that there is a famine in the Gaza Strip. Read more

The real lesson of the attack on Josh Shapiro

The attack on the home of Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro carries a number of lessons, none sharper and more urgent than the wake-up call for those who are least likely to want to acknowledge it. Read more

The Gazan revolt

It is striking, if unsurprising, that the demonstrations against Hamas being mounted by thousands of Gazans have gone almost totally unremarked by the media and supposedly pro-Palestinian supporters in Britain and America. Read more

The real cause of the antisemitism tsunami

This week’s Jerusalem conference on antisemitism was boycotted by a number of international participants who withdrew on account of the presence of “populists” from European parties they termed “far right.” Read more

The West is facing an Islamic holy war

A documentary film released this weekend in more than 100 movie theatres across America explores the processes by which antisemitism exploded across university campuses, in street demonstrations and on social media following the Hamas-led atrocities in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023. Read more

A vile equivalence

Noa Argamani, the Israeli hostage who was rescued from Gaza by the Israel Defence Forces last June, addressed the U.N. Security Council this week. Read more

Civilization weeps

After the heartbreak comes a profound anger. Read more

The art of the deal or the rout of the real?

Steve Witkoff, President Donald Trump’s special envoy to the Middle East, has called the Israel-Hamas ceasefire deal an “inflection point” for peace in the Middle East. Read more

The real message of Chanukah

In Israel, tails are up. Despite the acute national trauma over the plight of the hostages, the continuing (if sporadic) missile attacks and the losses of soldiers’ lives that are still being sustained, there’s a general optimism that the Jewish state is winning this war and that genocidal Iran is staring at defeat. Read more

The diplomatic crisis between Israel and Ireland

Among Western countries that have expressed hostility to Israel, Ireland has long stood out as the most vicious. Read more

Dismantle the United Nations

After the International Criminal Court (ICC) issued warrants for the arrest of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his former Israeli defence minister, Yoav Galant—on the basis of malevolent falsehoods and serial abuses of its own processes—people said in outrage that it was high time the ICC was defunded and dismantled. Read more

The pope’s embrace of evil discourse

With just a few words, Pope Francis has plunged relations between Jews and Catholics into their worst crisis for decades and undone years of delicate rapprochement. Read more

Israel dodges bullet

A nightmare has been averted, both for Israel and the West. Read more

The killing of Yahya Sinwar

Some people here in Israel reportedly cried tears of joy over the killing by the Israel Defence Forces of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Rafah area of Gaza on Wednesday. Others were jubilant. Read more

The Jewish moment

Earlier this week, there was a sound that has become all too rare. It was a Western political leader expressing unequivocal moral clarity. Read more

Eye-witness to atrocity at Supernova

An important, extraordinary and shattering film started screening this week. Surviving October 7th: We Will Dance Againis about the massacre at the Supernova music festival during the Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel. Read more

An explosive moment of clarification

The Iranian war of extermination against Israel continues to be a clarifying moment for the supposedly civilized world. Read more

The media war against Israel

The apparent bias of the US-based ABC TV moderators in failing to call out the falsehoods reportedly spoken by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party presidential candidate, in the debate with former President Donald Trump this week has attracted much critical comment. Read more

The anti-Jewish candidate

Lauren Holtzblatt, a rabbi in Washington, D.C., caused outrage at her synagogue earlier this month when she declared that American Jews need to elect Kamala Harris as president of the United States to comply with “sacred texts.” Read more

Israel’s treacherous frenemies

At time of writing, Israelis are bracing for a possible direct and multi-front attack by Iran. Read more

Netanyahu’s hour

For the better part of an hour on Wednesday, it was possible to believe that the Western world had not lost its mind. Read more

The war against the Jews

We have to face without flinching what is now undeniable: There is a war across the globe raging against the Jewish people. It’s a war not just to destroy their national homeland but to drive them out of people’s heads, their conscience and their world. Read more

Can Israel afford to stand up to America?

There’s no denying the severe tensions between the Biden administration and the Israeli government over the war being waged against Israel by Iran and its proxies. Read more

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