Anatomy of an antisemite
March 29, 2024 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Francesca Albanese is at it again, cloaking her Jew-hatred in legalese and justifying it through denial. Read more
Antisemitism’s point of no return
March 13, 2024 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
We have reached the point of no return, of zero tolerance. There can be no further conciliation with antisemitism, not even in our personal lives. Read more
Can an earthquake bring Middle Eastern enemies together?
February 10, 2023 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
There is nothing that makes the human condition more visibly fragile than the kind of massive natural disaster that Turkey and Syria are now facing in the wake of a massive earthquake. Read more
The Russia-Iran axis may prompt the West to see Israel with new eyes
February 1, 2023 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Media claims that last weekend’s terror attacks in Jerusalem were an act of revenge for the deaths of nine members of Islamic Jihad during an IDF raid in Jenin are false. The attacks were a product of hateful ideology and antisemitic incitement. Read more
Is the world waking up to the atrocities of the ayatollahs?
December 6, 2022 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
It is about time the media and the international community woke up to the fact that the Iranian regime is an oppressive, violent tyranny that loathes women, dissidents and anyone who does not conform to its theocratic ideology. Read more
Giorgia Meloni and other female conservatives are today’s feminists
September 29, 2022 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
There is no doubt that, in historical terms, one of the left’s most important and beloved causes has been women’s emancipation, and rightly so. Read more
Double-edged antisemitism
December 13, 2021 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
The Oct. 9, 1982 Palestinian terrorist attack on the Great Synagogue of Rome, in which two-year-old Stefano Gaj Tachè was killed, and the blood of 37 others who were wounded flowed on the stones of the building that should have been the safest refuge for Jews in the Italian capital, was a double slap in the face—not only by the murderers but by those who didn’t lift a finger to defend their victims. Read more
A referendum on Netanyahu
March 23, 2021 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Israel is trembling with uncertainty ahead of today’s election, whose outcome nobody can predict. But, unlike previous Knesset elections, this one—the fourth in two years—is not seeing the arrival in droves of foreign journalists. Read more
Israel’s miraculous vaccination campaign
March 18, 2021 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Throughout history, vaccines have proven miraculous, virtually eliminating smallpox, diphtheria, polio and other diseases. Today, they are on the verge of liberating us from COVID-19. Read more
The third wave of antisemitism is upon us
July 7, 2020 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Imagine that a prestigious international research institute concludes that the new wave of antisemitism is fuelled and perpetuated chiefly by the physical characteristics of the Jews–their noses, for example–or by their insularity in relation to the general society. Read more
Looting American culture
June 5, 2020 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
If George Floyd, the African-American strangled to death by the knee of Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin, had been white, his death would have elicited the same horrified reaction on my part. Read more
How COVID-19 has sparked antisemitic conspiracy theories
April 23, 2020 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
It’s easy to see how the coronavirus pandemic has sparked antisemitic conspiracy theories. Read more
Alone together: The fight against coronavirus
March 17, 2020 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
When my father was detained in communist Poland after World War II, our family’s only channel of communication with him for well over four years was a telephone on a coffee table in Florence. Read more
‘Never again’ means standing up for Israel
March 4, 2020 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Standing up to contemporary antisemitism is no easy thing, as it means taking up arms in the war being fought over Israel’s legitimacy. This is a fight to the death against the mortal enemy of the Jewish people—one in which the casualties are all too real. It cannot be fought with pleasantries. Beautiful speeches notwithstanding, world leaders only truly join in this fight when they stand against the delegitimization of Israel. Read more
Anti-Semitism can be fought only with policy action, not lip service
February 21, 2020 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Anti-Semitism turns truly dangerous when it becomes the organizing principle of a society. This occurred during the past century under Nazism and communism, and it is occurring again today. Read more
Never again? Only if the Jews never stop fighting
January 31, 2020 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
How does a Jewish girl born after the war experience the Shoah and remember it? The answer is with strain, disgust and disbelief—yes, quite naively. Read more
To combat antisemitism, one must first define it
January 22, 2020 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
An unprecedented conference will begin on Jan. 23 (an official dinner will take place the night before) in Jerusalem—one in which world leaders, including Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Russian President Vladimir Putin, Italian President Sergio Mattarella and French President Emmanuel Macron, will confer on how to defeat the scourge of antisemitism. Read more
When the dust settles in Syria …
October 20, 2019 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
To speak about Kurds has suddenly become a cry in favour of human rights and self-determination by the Western press, and rightly so: The assault they are suffering is lethal and may become genocidal. Read more
Making news, rather than dealing with real problems in Israel
March 3, 2019 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Israel is shaken and wounded. On Thursday, the country’s top prosecutor, Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit, with 57 pages of allegations, announced his intention to indict Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu with bribery, fraud and breach of trust, thereby not only undermining a great leader—a key political figure both at home and abroad—but also clearly trying of influencing heavily the outcome of the upcoming general elections to be held on April 9. Read more
Holocaust denial, purposeful dementia and Israel
January 29, 2019 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Memory loss can be a terrible disease. In the best case, it affects our recall of the minor details of an event, but in the worst case, such as with Alzheimer’s disease, it can lead to complete distortion of the past. Read more
Hamas rolls the dice … again
November 14, 2018 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
From the possibility of an agreement to that of war, complete with dead and wounded, Hamas has returned together with other terrorist militias to hold all citizens in southern Israel hostage. Read more
Pittsburgh, politics and the president
November 11, 2018 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Anti-Semitism hovered like a ghost, especially after the Pittsburgh massacre, on the U.S. midterm elections, and it has unexpectedly become a keyword for all of November…writes Fiamma Nirenstein/JNS. Read more
Jordan challenges Israel on land-lease agreement
October 24, 2018 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Under a blistering sun back in 1994, Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and King Hussein of Jordan, along with U.S. President Bill Clinton’s support and watchful eye, signed the Israel-Jordan peace treaty in the Arava valley of Israel, north of Eilat and near the Jordanian border…writes Fiamma Nirenstein/JNS. Read more
Corbyn unmasked: He brought flowers to terrorists
August 17, 2018 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Even a reaction to an accusation of antisemitism can be antisemitic…writes Fiamma Nirenstein/JNS. Read more
Trump opens door for talks with Iran to isolate the ayatollahs
August 3, 2018 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
U.S. President Donald Trump’s manner, in which he initially puts forth his most ferocious face and then an extended hand, creates a situation that the interlocutor doesn’t expect…writes Fiamma Nirenstein/JNS. Read more
Syrians flee towards hospitals of the ‘enemy’
July 10, 2018 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
The strong winds in the Golan Heights blow pain and come from tent cities in which displaced Syrians are clustered together a few meters from the steel-and-barbed-wire fence with Israel…writes Fiamma Nirenstein. Read more
Who’s right? Not the left in Europe!
July 6, 2018 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
If someone showed British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn or Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan footage of the waving of Israeli flags during a speech in front of a mass of people made by Matteo Salvini, Deputy Prime Minister of Italy and Interior Minister, at the his party’s (the League) annual gathering a few days ago in Pontida, Italy, both would undoubtedly interpret this in their own way…writes Fiamma Nirenstein. Read more
All these years later, Netanyahu is finally vindicated
May 16, 2018 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
Jerusalem buzzes with joy in these hours, and so, too, does Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. An amazing spectacle of fireworks above the City of David is being prepared, the streets are decorated with flowers, and the U.S. consulate has finally become an embassy…writes Fiamma Nirenstein/JNS. Read more
Iran’s and Abbas’s ‘truths,’ revealed
May 7, 2018 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
The Middle East, like the top of Mount Everest, continually finds itself engulfed by a sea of clouds…writes Fiamma Nirenstein/JNS. Read more
New tactic by Hamas: Using human matchsticks to fuel the fire
April 4, 2018 by Fiamma Nirenstein - JNS.org
The risk of the “March of Return,” organised by Hamas last Friday, is that of a new kind of mass terrorism, a new kind of war…writes Fiamma Nirenstein/JNS. Read more