Israel needs an end to lawfare, not a presidential pardon

There are some sound reasons for Israeli President Isaac Herzog to choose not to grant a pardon to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. But none of them have anything to do with justice, defending the Jewish state’s judicial system or even its democracy. Read more

Does it matter that they’re lying about Israel?

A curious thing happened in Israel last week. More than 100 military officers from 20 different countries attended an international conference hosted by the Israel Defence Forces. Read more

The siege of Park East Synagogue and cooperating with Mamdani

In the wake of Zohran Mamdani’s decisive victory in the New York City mayoral election, most Jewish leaders believed that they had no choice but to do their best to cooperate with him. Read more

What would a Mayor Mamdani mean for American Jews?

The most famous former resident of New York City summed up the state of the mayor’s race succinctly. In the words of President Donald Trump, it’s “not looking too good” for either man trying to stop Zohran Mamdani from being elected mayor on Nov. 4. Read more

Anti-Israel demonstrators want to erase Jewish existence, including its music

Israel-haters had been advocating for a ceasefire in Gaza ever since the Hamas-led mobs of Palestinians completed their orgy of mass murder, rape, torture, kidnapping and wanton destruction on Oct. 7, 2023. Read more

Mamdani’s anti-Israel obsession is key to his rise

With less than three weeks until Election Day in New York City, it’s clear that the hopes for preventing the election of Zohran Mamdani as the next mayor are dwindling. Read more

Hamas isn’t listening to your threats, Mr. President

Returning to Washington after his triumphant visit to Jerusalem to address the Knesset and to help welcome home the remaining hostages he helped free from Hamas in Gaza, President Donald Trump said something important. Read more

America’s unreliable Middle East ‘ally’ is Qatar, not Israel

The anger from the international community, as well as the Muslim and Arab world, about Israel’s airstrike on members of the Hamas leadership in Doha, Qatar, was matched only by the outrage coming from the American foreign-policy establishment. Read more

Trump and Rubio reject the Palestinian victimhood narrative

U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio invited the scorn of the world with his announcement last week that Washington was barring officials from the Palestinian Authority from entering the country in order to attend the meeting this month of the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Read more

Yes, the whole world is wrong about Israel

You can see it in online exchanges and hear it in casual conversations. The accumulated weight of nearly two years of media stories claiming that Israel is committing war crimes in Gaza, murdering journalists to cover up those misdeeds, deliberately starving its residents and thus responsible for “genocide” has had an impact on public opinion across the globe, as well as in the United States. Read more

Everybody wants a Palestinian state, except the Palestinians

It’s back in fashion. If Palestinian statehood were a stock, its price would be soaring. Read more

Why the Dreyfus case matters now more than ever

For as long as people have cared about the arts, the question about whether one’s personal foibles or even crimes are more important than their work has always bedevilled audiences and critics. Read more

Defending Hamas ‘journalism’ means spreading antisemitic lies, not press freedom

The death of Al Jazeera correspondent Anas al-Sharif and other Palestinians who also falsely claimed to be journalists is being portrayed in much of the international media as just the latest in a long list of atrocities committed by Israel. Read more

Is combating media bias Netanyahu’s mission impossible?

The contrast was glaring. A week after The New York Times put a horrifying yet completely misleading picture of a Palestinian Arab child in Gaza on its front page to illustrate a story that lent weight to the false claim that Israel was deliberately starving people in Gaza, it had an opportunity to put an equally awful photo in the same spot. Read more

Anti-Israel virtue-signalling on Gaza is immoral

The avalanche of anti-Israel propaganda as a result of a flurry of reports of alleged starvation in the Gaza Strip is starting to overwhelm even the most stalwart supporters of the Jewish state. Read more

Israel owes Trump, but that can’t mean Hamas’s survival

President Donald Trump’s decision to order a strike on Iranian nuclear targets was yet another example of how he has proven to be a reliable friend of the State of Israel. Read more

Mamdani apologists play the fake Islamophobia card

It didn’t take long for the Democratic Party’s media cheering section to demonstrate how far the Overton Window had moved among liberals with respect to antisemitism. Read more

Would anyone but Trump have done it?

Donald Trump appears to have fooled both his friends and foes. And he has done something none of his predecessors dared to do. Read more

The pope’s ‘divisions’ and the war against the Jews

In an era when religion seems to be in steep decline throughout Europe and North America, it might strike some people as curious that the election of a new pope would be treated as such an earth-shaking event. Read more

What creates a Palestinian terrorist and his foreign supporters?

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and President Donald Trump have a lot to discuss. Read more

On Purim, celebrate Jewish self-defence, not self-loathing

This is not the first time in history in which some Jews have internalized the hate that has been directed at them. Read more

With Trump’s backing, Hamas’s defeat is now possible

For the last year and a half, it has been a self-fulfilling prophecy. Read more

Why Trump-haters need to believe that Elon is a Nazi

Anyone aware of what is being said on left-wing social-media platforms knew this was coming. Read more

Jimmy Carter’s personal virtue didn’t ensure a virtuous or successful presidency

The stock of historical figures rises and falls with the changing times that follow them. Read more

A necessary though imperfect deal caps Netanyahu’s finest hour

There are many reasons to worry that the impending ceasefire with Hezbollah terrorists that Israel has chosen to accept is a bad bargain. Read more

Jewish liberals should follow ‘Morning Joe’ and drop the ‘resistance’

Maybe he isn’t Hitler after all. That’s the upshot of the announcement by political talk-show hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough after they journeyed to Mar-a-Lago this past weekend for a chat with President-elect Donald Trump. Read more

The Amsterdam pogrom is what happens when the world tolerates antisemitism

Much like the reaction to the Hamas massacre of 1,200 citizens in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, it didn’t take long for some in the media and on the anti-Israel left to try to flip the narrative about what took place in Amsterdam on the night of Nov. 7. Read more

Affirming the ‘genocide’ smear against Israel fuels antisemitism

It’s ironic. Vice President Kamala Harris’s efforts to ingratiate herself with her party’s Israel-hating left wing are being drowned out on social media by criticisms that she is too pro-Israel. Read more

What could Israel expect from a Harris administration?

The path to the Oval Office has seemingly been strewn with roses for Vice President Kamala Harris since she emerged as the chief beneficiary of the Democratic Party establishment’s coup d’état against President Joe Biden. Read more

Democracy suffers when the media can’t be trusted

Believe it or not, journalists are not at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to being trusted the least by the American public. Read more

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