Analysis & Opinion

Analysis: Trump’s overwhelmingly pro-Israel speech twisted by media

Most outlets either focused on what the president did not say, or on the less polished, unscripted remarks that make the Trump presidency unlike any other before it.

December 11, 2019

Analysis: WhatsApp crisis reveals cracks in Iran’s soft power strategy

The 'WhatsApp crisis' in Lebanon revealed a crack in Iran’s grand diplomatic strategy of using its proxies to push ideological soft power concurrently with hard power.

December 9, 2019

Hate for Israel blinds gays to their own executioners

Groups such as 'Queers for Palestine' and 'Queers Undermining Israeli Terrorism' have long been inciting against Israel, even as Palestinian gays are fleeing persecution.

December 9, 2019

Opinion: Israel should use its leverage against Jordan as Hashemites grow unfriendly

Jordan’s recent actions reinforce what has been clear for some time: In its rush to protect the peace with its neighbor to the east, Israel has forgotten that the peace depends on deterrence.

December 8, 2019

Bernie Sanders, Linda Sarsour, Cornel West

Opinion: Don’t let Bernie Sanders get away with redefining ‘pro-Israel’

We can only tremble for the future of a Jewish community in which Sanders’s comfort level with anti-Semites becomes normative behavior for American Jews.

December 8, 2019

Opinion: Thanking Trump on Thanksgiving

I’m an American Jew, and last year I started keeping a running tab in my notebook as I was pleasantly surprised time after time by the White House’s strong pushback against anti-Semitic double standards.

December 8, 2019

Analysis: Israel’s legal establishment – merited mistrust?

'There is something sick in the State Prosecutor’s Office; Shai Nitzan is not fit to be the State Prosecutor' - Judge Hila Gerstel, former Commissioner for Prosecutorial Oversight

December 1, 2019

Opinion: Who can speak for American Jews against anti-Semitism? Not the ADL

Under Greenblatt — a former Clinton and Obama administration staffer — it has become just one more liberal Jewish group with a partisan agenda.

November 28, 2019

Dershowitz: Trump and Netanyahu – both being investigated for made-up crimes

Both are being investigated for actions that their legislatures have not explicitly made criminal.

November 28, 2019

Supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

Opinion: False charges that Netanyahu supporters will turn violent threatens fabric of Israeli society

Gantz is now projecting his distrust of Netanyahu onto the millions of Israelis who have continually voted for his Likud Party and the parties that continue to pledge their support Netanyahu.

November 27, 2019

Analysis: Sa’ar’s gambit to replace Netanyahu quickly falls flat

The decision to hold the primaries after the Knesset disperses and before another general election makes Netanyahu the heavy favorite again.

November 25, 2019

Opinion: New York Times tries explaining away British Labour’s anti-Semitism

What other hatreds are there where the Times makes such effort to make excuses for the haters, to find the most charitable possible way of explaining away the hate?

November 25, 2019

Caroline Glick: Israeli democracy at stake as corrupt prosecutors target Netanyahu for crimes invented to destroy him

Ever since Mandelblit gave his 'recommendations,' he and his comrades have been the only political actors in Israel with any power to speak of.

November 24, 2019

Opinion: A 660 lbs. war crime – Islamic Jihad’s new rocket is a game changer

All that remained of what once was a modern greenhouse was a gaping crater, over 6 feet deep and over 50 feet wide — the result of a single rocket that had landed there at 2:00 a.m. that same day. By Dr. Mar...

November 24, 2019

Analysis: Israel in Judea and Samaria advances America’s interest

In the words of the late General Alexander Haig, Israel has become the largest U.S. aircraft carrier with no U.S. boots on board.

November 21, 2019

Opinion: Why do American Jews oppose an Israeli consensus on settlements?

Reaction to Trump’s latest decision once again proves that liberal Jewish groups see Israel in the context of American politics, not Middle Eastern reality.

November 20, 2019

Mideast expert Caroline Glick praises ‘most significant change to Middle East policy in a decade’

Political analyst and author Caroline Glick lauds US decision that Judean and Samarian communities are legal.

November 19, 2019

Analysis: Jeremy Corbyn poses a potent threat to Western security

How will the West deal with the possibilty that Corbyn becomes prime minister?

November 17, 2019

Dershowitz: A Jewish Democratic congressman called me a Nazi collaborator

'Cohen himself was prepared to call me — a patriotic American and a liberal Democrat — a quisling.'

November 13, 2019

Germany: ‘We expect imams from abroad to speak German’

Muslim clergy in Germany must learn the language. However, observers say the move isn't enough to prevent radicalization.

November 11, 2019

Third Israeli elections growing more likely as time running out for Gantz

Gantz has only nine days to put together a coalition before he must return the mandate.

November 11, 2019

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Analysis: Is Iran gaining the upper hand against Israel?

An analysis in the Israel Hayom daily says that a new Iranian brazenness is restricting Israeli military reactions against Tehran's aggression.

November 7, 2019

Opinion: Holocaust survivor hands Israel’s enemies a victory on a silver platter

One would think that Kasimow, a renowned scholar, would have immediately challenged Ali’s heinous lie.

November 4, 2019

Analysis: Trump does know what he’s doing in Syria

Trump has a very good idea of what he’s doing in Syria, not only regarding ISIS, but regarding the diverse competing actors on the ground, Glick argues.

November 4, 2019

Opinion: What J Street really is

J Street thinks it knows what’s best for Israel, spending its time and money besmirching the Jewish State.

November 3, 2019

Opinion: Sanders and Warren offer ‘The Squad’ squalid Mideast peace plans

The plans which Sanders and Warren set forth to achieve Mideast peace seem to disregard the safety and future of the Jewish people.

October 31, 2019

Opinion: Why are Jews honoring journalist who says they ‘control White House’?

Giving an honor to somebody like Thomas Friedman, who slanders Israel and the American Jewish community, sends a message to all potential slanderers that Jews are fair game.

October 16, 2019

Opinion: Why do anti-Semites hate Jews? Don’t overthink it

The emphasis post-Halle mustn’t be more of the same skewed analysis that looks to attribute all evil to political opponents. What is needed is a concerted effort to root out anti-Semitism in its many guises.

October 11, 2019

Opinion: Kissinger’s record on Israel renders him unfit to speak at Jewish conference

‘If it were not for the accident of my birth, I would be anti-Semitic,’ Kissinger once quipped.

October 11, 2019

Analysis: The dark side of ‘America First’ should worry Israel

Trump’s betrayal of the Kurds to the Turks doesn’t mean that he will also abandon the region to Iran. But Netanyahu and the Arab states have to be alarmed.

October 10, 2019

Opinion: Zionism is national movement of repentance without precedent in history

The Zionism of the founders, and of believing Jews throughout history, was a Zionism of yearning for a biblical return, a national movement of repentance without precedent in the history of humanity.

October 8, 2019

Stealing the Holocaust away from its Jewish victims

Britain’s academic Left expunges Jews from the Holocaust.

October 7, 2019

Opinion: American Jewry must jettison progressivism to fight anti-Semitism

'The more strongly liberal Jews embrace progressivism, the less capable they become of defending their Judaism,' Caroline Glick writes.

October 7, 2019

Anti-Israel ‘Human Rights Watch’ links to BDS are overwhelming

Amicus briefs filed by Israeli watchdog groups (including NGO Monitor), includes overwhelming evidence of Shakir’s BDS activity.

September 28, 2019

Nadav Elhadad, a writer at the Mount Sinai Institute writes a Sefer Torah (Torah Scroll) in the Northern Israeli city of Tzfat, June 13, 2019.

Opinion: Why do Jews drift away from Judaism?

Jews have long had a tendency to fall in love with people who do not love them.

September 26, 2019

Anti-Semite Billoo lashes out after being dumped by Women’s March

Zahra Billoo, ejected from board of the Women's March, said she was the victim of 'an Islamophobic smear campaign.'

September 22, 2019

Analysis: What does Netanyahu’s annexation plan mean for the two-state solution?

What does a potential annexation of Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria mean for the internationally advocated two-state solution?

September 16, 2019

Islamist-inspired terrorism returns to Yemen

So long as terror groups are able to act with impunity in Yemen, the more remote are the prospects of ending this dreadful conflict anytime soon.

September 16, 2019

Opinion: Who on earth wants to break up the Netanyahu-Trump team?

In Trump, Israel never had such a friend, and Netanyahu never had such a partner. (Reposted with permission of Arutz7.)

September 15, 2019

Swedish Minister Of Foreign Affairs Margot Wallstrom

Analysis: What does FM Wallstrom’s departure mean for Swedish-Israeli relations?

It appears that Sweden may simply be replacing one anti-Israel foreign minister with another.

September 15, 2019

Analysis: What does Bolton’s exit mean for U.S. policy on Israel and Iran?

With Bolton ousted as national security advisor, what are the ramifications for the Trump administration's approach to Israel.

September 12, 2019

Opinion: Omar, Tlaib, and Israel’s non-existent anti-propaganda agency

Had an Israeli anti-propaganda agency existed, it would have started to prepare as soon as Omar and Tlaib announced their plans to visit.

September 10, 2019

Opinion: Millennial Jews can’t handle plain facts about Israeli-Arab conflict

Jews can assimilate, and they can disappear, and they can establish forms of religious practice as they wish. What they cannot do is claim that their Judaism is more appropriate and more correct.

September 9, 2019

Analysis: Christians massacred, media look the other way

'The persecution of Christians throughout the world is one of the great evils of our time,,' Fr. Benedict Kiely, the founder of Nasarean.org, recently wrote.

September 8, 2019

Opinion: The curious case of Israel’s invisible election

Israelis, once the most politically engaged citizens of any democracy on the planet, have settled into a low grade stupor just days before a national election.

September 5, 2019

Analysis: State of the Jewish world 1939 v. 2019

On the 80th anniversary of World War II, what is the position of the Jewish nation in 2019 compared to 1939?

September 4, 2019

Opinion: Israel must remain vigilant in its relations with Poland

Israel must remain vigilant regarding its relations with Poland in order to avoid any distortion of history.

September 2, 2019

Opinion: Do Western analysts ignore Iran’s apocalyptic vision?

The Islamist Shia doctrine embraced by the leadership of the Islamic Republic of Iran heralds the arrival of a messianic figure whose apocalyptic appearance will be preceded by violence, chaos and warfare.

September 1, 2019

Opinion: Rashida Tlaib Condemns Terror Attack — but Not Really

Congresswoman Tlaib can tell Palestinian Arabs that murdering Jews is immoral and that there can be no excuses for it. But she didn’t.

August 28, 2019

Opinion: The real scandal is Democrats’ refusal to call out anti-Jewish bigots

The real scandal is the Democratic Party’s refusal to take any action against Omar and Tlaib, despite their support for BDS and their anti-Jewish remarks.

August 22, 2019

Analysis: Democrats refuse to confront hate when it’s on their side

Liberals appear to operate according to a double standard when hate emanates from their side of the aisle.

August 19, 2019

Opinion: Tlaib and Omar’s motives were always false

"It was always intended to be a media event… a media circus." Reposted with permission of Arutz7.

August 18, 2019

Opinion: Why Israel is a headache for the New York Times

Thankfully Israel continues to be a terrible headache for The New York Times, and this is one headache that won’t go away. Amen.

August 13, 2019

Analysis: Middle Eastern terror coming to the US through its Mexican border

The only question left is: How much more evidence and how many more attacks are needed before this problem is addressed?

August 5, 2019

Analysis: Will Iran take up America’s offer to negotiate?

Amid economic and military standoff, will Iran take up America’s offer to negotiate?

August 3, 2019

Opinion: Schadenfreude and the UNRWA scandal

Pierre Krähenbühl collected money for business-class trips with his mistress, whom he fast-tracked into a role he invented for her so that she could accompany him around the world in style.

August 1, 2019

Opinion: The tour that Israel should arrange for Tlaib and Omar

The visit of two anti-Israel members of Congress is an opportunity for them to see the real Israel, and perhaps learn a thing or two.

August 1, 2019

Hypocrisy? BDS champ Omar powers her website with Israeli company

People like Omar just keep expecting the West to bail them out while telling the hoi polloi that the West is so bad it must be rejected.

July 29, 2019

Opinion: The Squad – a new culture in town

These women represent a good portion of the new generation of Americans brought up with adistorted history of America, misguided values and lefitst indoctrination.

July 28, 2019

Radicalization of kids: a global threat

A program by human rights activists, concerned about the future of the next generation, is creating awareness about the way children are being abused and radicalized.

July 25, 2019

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