Martin Sherman, Author at J-Wire

INTO THE FRAY: An ominous cloud of antisemitic vitriol and un-American invective

Martin Sherman — Thu, 19 Mar 2026 05:49:32 +0000

“A lot of Americans are embarrassed by the fact that our leadership rarely represents our best interest and seems to prioritize the best interests of Israel in every instance”—Ana Kasparian. A dark cloud is spreading across America, casting an ominous shadow of malice and mendacity, and threatening to split open perilous fault lines in the […]

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INTO THE FRAY: The deradicalization of Gaza and other myths

Martin Sherman — Thu, 26 Feb 2026 06:48:37 +0000

The recipe for deradicalisation for Gaza is likely to prove a dangerous and unrealistic pipe dream. One of the most persistent—and pernicious—myths being bandied about in the debate over how to achieve some peaceable resolution to the violence induced by radical Islam in Gaza is the proposed “panacea” of “de-radicalization” of extremist Islamist elements. The […]

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INTO THE FRAY: Much to worry about

Martin Sherman — Thu, 15 Jan 2026 07:11:43 +0000

Looking back over the last several decades, citizens of Israel will find much reason for grave concern over the aptitude of the country’s leadership. Indeed, almost all of those who held- and some who still hold—senior positions of national responsibility have raised ideas, which have either precipitated trauma and tragedy or, by mere good fortune, […]

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INTO THE FRAY: Strange Bedfellows in Hate: From Carlson to the Caucasus

Martin Sherman — Sun, 14 Dec 2025 06:50:05 +0000

“Why are my tax dollars being used to murder Christians in Nagorno-Karabakh – to murder Armenian Christians?” – Tucker Carlson, November 8, 2025. One of the issues causing grave concern for the future of the GOP is the troubling rise of antisemitism within certain sectors of its constituency. Antisemitism is often referred to as the […]

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INTO THE FRAY: From lords to lemmings – Israel’s legal “elites on the brink

Martin Sherman — Thu, 20 Nov 2025 01:45:56 +0000

The dramatic events currently unfolding in Israel, shaking the very foundations of its society, underscore the myopic naivety of the Israeli “Right” and its utter inability to fathom the all-consuming, incandescent animosity that its political rivals on the “Left” harbour for it. No room for rational debate Indeed, in a recent Opinion piece, I warned […]

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INTO THE FRAY: The “emirates” plan – A political train wreck in the making

Martin Sherman — Sun, 07 Sep 2025 06:05:40 +0000

Despite the glaring and perilous flaws in the two-state paradigm, not everything that is not a two-state proposal is a better policy option. The “emirates” plan is a prime example of this. Without a shadow of doubt, the two-state solution is a truly atrocious idea. Decades of endeavour to implement it have wrought trauma and […]

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INTO THE FRAY: Malevolent Macron has no claim to the moral high ground

Martin Sherman — Mon, 01 Sep 2025 22:31:40 +0000

Given France’s gruesome post-WW II colonial history—from North Africa through East Asia to Oceania—it has a feeble claim to any moral superiority and is hardly in a position to pontificate to Israel over Gaza. Through torture, executions, and incarceration, the French also committed democide during the Indochina War – Prof R.J. Rummel, Statistics of Democide. […]

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INTO THE FRAY: Europe veers Right—towards Israel and Trump?

Martin Sherman — Tue, 15 Jul 2025 08:48:02 +0000

There are accumulating—albeit belated—signs of a new political assertiveness in Europe, together with a growing appreciation of Israeli resolve and Trumpian toughness …this concept [of multi-culturalism] has failed, and failed utterly—Former German Chancellor Angela Merkel, 2010 Winds of change are finally beginning to blow in Europe. With them, they carry potential implications not only for […]

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Iran: State disintegration, not regime change

Martin Sherman — Fri, 04 Jul 2025 07:24:34 +0000

Israel cannot rely on regime change to ensure its security. It must aim at dismantling Iran into separate ethnic entities to ensure that, in the future, it will not become the grave menace that it was in the past. Despite the uneasy and artificial “peace” agreement, imposed recently (and arguably prematurely) by Donald Trump, the […]

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INTO THE FRAY: Emmanuel the Egregious

Martin Sherman — Fri, 20 Jun 2025 07:16:42 +0000

With the war raging between Iran and Israel, few news items beyond reports from the battlefront itself make it into international headlines. The recent G7 Summit in Canada was one event that did manage to breach that barrier, mostly relating to provocative statements and/or actions by Donald Trump. Such, for example, was his decision to […]

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