Challenging the BBC on Israel

For decades, the Western media has acted as a malevolent echo chamber for the demonisation of Israel. Read more

The Biden administration’s anti-antisemitism travesty

What’s the use of the definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance? Read more

Jew-hatred struts the stage in Berlin 

The unspeakable performance by Roger Waters in Berlin last week crossed a number of new red lines, even for him. Read more

The weaponisation of antisemitism against conservatives

A conference held in London this week was subjected to an extraordinary onslaught on social and mainstream media from people who weaponised antisemitism against it. Read more

The coronation of King Charles will be more than an amazing spectacle

On Saturday, Britain’s King Charles III will be crowned in London’s Westminster Abbey. Read more

The antisemitism that drives identity politics

A furore over a British Labour Party politician tells us a great deal about the tsunami of Jew-hatred rolling across Britain, America and the West. Read more

Israel’s post-democracy moment

The political crisis in Israel over the government’s judicial reforms has deepened. Read more

Israel’s two-faced allies

America and Britain claim to be allies of Israel. There is no gainsaying the deep links between them of military assistance, intelligence and trade. Israel is an invaluable strategic asset for America and Britain in the Middle East, a crucial bulwark in the defense of the West. Read more

The urgent need for Israeli electoral reform

Democracy is currently being undermined in many parts of the free world. Read more

The real threat to Israeli democracy

The huge demonstrations that continue in Israel and turned violent this week are fueled by the claim that the government’s judicial reform package spells the end of Israeli democracy. Read more

Biden’s less than ironclad commitment to Israel

Forget the bromides about America’s “unbreakable bond” with Israel and how the United States is Israel’s “greatest friend.” Over the past week, the Biden administration has crossed two ominous red lines. Read more

Can the whole world be wrong?

One of the mysteries of the war against Israel is the extent to which a monstrously twisted narrative about Israel and the Palestinian Arabs—casting the former as evil and the latter as sanctified victims—has been absorbed by so many people. Read more

How Britain has failed to prevent Islamist extremism and to protect Jews

While events in Israel continue to attract disproportionate and distorted global attention, Islamic extremism remains a threat inside Western society. Read more

The entrenchment of Western Jew-hatred

In Britain’s House of Commons this week, MP Kim Johnson launched an attack on the “fascist Israeli government” and its “apartheid” policies. Read more

Netanyahu at bay, but what about the facts?

So, how’s Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faring in his supposed program to smash democracy at the behest of the religious extremists in his government? Read more

The unhinged reaction to the new Israeli government

The unhinged reaction to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government represents a crisis for the Jewish people both in Israel and in the Diaspora. Read more

The Israeli canary in the West’s cultural coal mine

Those scratching their heads over the way Western liberals have lost all connection with reason over issues of race, gender and Western “colonialism” might usefully look at the reaction to Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount last week. Read more

The religious culture war comes to Israel

At the root of the convulsions over Israel’s new government lies the secular world’s hatred and terror of religion. Read more

The European Union’s subversion of Israel

Liberal Jews in both the Diaspora and Israel have been hyperventilating over the “extremist” ministers in the incoming government headed by Israeli Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more

How the White House attempt to counter Jew-hatred undermines itself

The Biden administration has announced the establishment of an interagency group that will coordinate U.S. government efforts “to counter antisemitism.” Read more

The Good Jew/Bad Jew demonization strategy

One of the favourite strategies deployed by Jew-baiters is to divide the community into Good Jews and Bad Jews. Read more

Diaspora Jews keep making the same mistake

A perverse feature of the Jewish people is that they make one particular mistake over and over again. They are persecuted. They frantically try to assimilate into their host community in the belief that this will avert future persecution. They are persecuted again. They frantically assimilate again. Read more

The humbug of the West over murdered Israelis

It’s been another epic week for Western hypocrisy. And it’s been another epic week for indifference or worse towards Israel. The two are, of course, intimately connected. Read more

Israel joins the West’s culture wars

With the result of its election this week, Israel has joined other Western countries in a notable current trend: A revolt by the public against the political establishment. Read more

The false distinction between anti-Semitism and Israel-bashing

Those trying to defend the Jewish people from the tsunami of Jew-hatred swamping the West often face an implacable refusal to acknowledge that anti-Israel or anti-Zionist attitudes are the modern iteration of anti-Semitism. Read more

Hysteria greets British PM Liz Truss’s embassy move proposal

In Britain, it’s diplomatic Groundhog Day all over again. Read more

Why social justice warriors can’t deal with anti-Semitism

Ruth Wisse, an emeritus professor of Yiddish literature at Harvard and an unfailingly impressive commentator on the Jewish world, has uttered a desperate cry about the moral and spiritual state of American Jews. Read more

The real reason for the war against Israel and the West

As soon as it emerged that Israel’s acting Prime Minister Yair Lapid would tell the United Nations General Assembly this week that he supports the establishment of a Palestinian state, he was engulfed by outrage, incredulity and dismay. Read more

The momentous task facing King Charles III

For the past week, normal life in Britain has effectively been put on hold as the country has undergone an astonishing catharsis. Read more

Tearing up the rules of engagement between Israel and America

A key strategy of Israel’s push-me-pull-you prime ministers, Naftali Bennett and Yair Lapid, has been to refrain from publicly criticising America’s policies in the Middle East. Read more

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