The unlearned ‘nakba’ lesson about compromise

Palestinian Arabs continue to learn the wrong history lesson. Read more

Should an Islamist on Facebook’s new oversight board scare users?

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg thinks he’s found a way to avoid further skewering at the hands of those looking for a whipping boy for the failings of the Internet. Read more

Does media bias against Israel still matter?

For many years, supporters of Israel have feared the impact of media bias. Read more

The leftist thought police are wrong: Taylor Swift isn’t an anti-Semite

In today’s woke and hyperpartisan world, nobody escapes the watchful eye of the thought police. Not even a pop superstar like Taylor Swift. Read more

What would the world be like with no State of Israel?

What scholars like to call counterfactual history is science fiction for those who prefer to ponder the implications of things turning out differently in the past rather than speculating on the future. Read more

Is it wrong to let Israel make decisions for itself?

In principle, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo’s answer to a question about Israel’s new coalition government seems unexceptionable. Read more

A pandemic antisemitism ceasefire? Not a chance

Two weeks ago, something highly unusual happened. The United Nations praised Israel. Read more

The balance between personal liberty and the obligation to save lives

What do Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and New York State Gov. Andrew Cuomo have in common these days? Read more

This is not a Passover for despair

For most of us, this is the saddest Passover we can recall. Read more

Israel’s democracy was never in danger

Israel’s yearlong coalition standoff appears to have finally ended, and not a day too soon. Read more

An unexpected crisis debunks the Trump-Netanyahu analogy

Leaders of democracies serve a multitude of purposes. Most people say they crave moral leadership. But what most voters really want is someone who will stand up for their views and their values, and to implement policies they support. And if they have to choose between morals and partisanship, they invariably choose the latter, whether on the left or the right. Read more

Pandemic panic a breeding ground for the virus of Jew-hatred

Burned into the historical memory of the Jewish people is what happened in the period when the bubonic plague swept through Europe from 1347 to 1351. Read more

A fine line between sensible caution and outright hysteria

It’s time to take the threat from the coronavirus seriously. Read more

Why Israel’s electoral stalemate isn’t a disaster

Think Israelis are excited by the prospect of going to the polls for the third time in a year to elect a new Knesset? Think again. Read more

Kirk Douglas’s quintessential American Jewish life

Actor Kirk Douglas may have been the last surviving star from the golden age of Hollywood. Read more

Trump’s critics shouldn’t encourage Palestinians to make another mistake

As far as those Americans who despise President Donald Trump, as well as many of those Jews and Israelis who feel the same way about Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the ceremony unveiling a new U.S. peace plan for the Middle East was a sham. Read more

Why the bombing Auschwitz argument still matters

In his 1989 book From Beirut to Jerusalem, columnist Thomas Friedman of The New York Times, wrote, “Israel is becoming Yad Vashem with an Air Force.” Read more

Holocaust politics is bad for the Jews

At a time of rising antisemitism around the globe and threats from terrorism and nuclear blackmail aimed at the State of Israel, there are more important things to worry about than the question of who gets to speak at the ceremony commemorating the 75th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz at the Yad Vashem World Holocaust Remembrance Centre in Jerusalem. Read more

What’s the alternative to Trump on Iran?

After months of focusing on domestic policy and their animus for President Donald Trump, this week the Democratic Party presidential candidates turned their attention towards foreign policy. Read more

Why Trump’s Middle East peace plan isn’t irrelevant

Three years in the making and long after most of the world had given up on it being rolled out, President Donald Trump’s Middle East peace plan may soon see the light of day. Read more

Enough with the Trump and Netanyahu analogies

In the coming weeks, a U.S. Senate trial of President Donald Trump on impeachment charges is looming. Read more

Oppose Iran sanctions, but support BDS against Israel?

The rising tide of Jew-hatred that is sweeping around the globe is no laughing matter. So the idea of having a vote to determine who is the “Antisemite of the Year” may strike some as more of a publicity stunt than a sober attempt to deal with the problem. Read more

It was time for an administration to break foreign-policy ‘rules’

For 20 years, he had sowed terror and confusion throughout the Middle East with impunity. Read more

Will Bernie Sanders become the first U.S. Jewish president?

We’re still more than a month away from the first actual votes being cast in the Democratic presidential race. Read more

Just another way for the Palestinians to avoid peace

The announcement by Fatou Bensouda, the chief prosecutor at the International Criminal Court in The Hague, that she is prepared to begin an investigation into Israeli “war crimes” was a significant victory for those who have sought to use the court to help delegitimize the Jewish state. Read more

Time to shut down the Palestinian Chanukah and Christmas scams

It used to be confined to an annual piece of theatre staged by the Palestinian Authority every Christmas. Read more

The real implications of impeachment for American Jews

Whether you support or oppose the effort to impeach and remove President Donald Trump from office, there’s little doubt that this historic battle is now dominating the American political landscape in a way so as to sideline every other issue or to turn them into impeachment sidebars. Read more

Jews shouldn’t ignore the real lesson of Corbyn’s defeat

British Jewry heaved a collective sigh of relief when Jeremy Corbyn’s Labour Party suffered a crushing defeat at the hands of Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservatives in last week’s parliamentary elections in the United Kingdom. Read more

After the Jersey City shooting, focus on Jewish fear, not politics

A quickly deleted tweet summed up everything that is wrong about the discussion of antisemitism in 2019 America. Read more

While Iran shoots protesters, Europe schemes to enrich the murderers

The news out of Iran should shock the conscience of the world. As The New York Times reported in a front-page article published on Monday, when Iranians tried to protest their government’s arbitrary decision to drastically raise gasoline prices, the regime responded with unprecedented force. Read more

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