Analysis: US Ambassador’s pilgrimage didn’t ‘Judaize’ Jerusalem
The real problem is the Palestinian denial of Jewish history, not the presence of America’s ambassador at the unveiling of a biblical archeological site.
July 2, 2019Analysis & Opinion
Tolerance museums: A failing franchise?
The goal of the Museum of Tolerance Jerusalem, to 'promote unity and respect among Jews and people of all faiths,' is noble. But how effective will it be in fighting anti-Semitism?
June 28, 2019
Opinion: Palestinians show disinterest in peace, rejecting ‘opportunity of the century’
Palestinians vilify the Bahrain economic summit, the first step in the Trump administration’s efforts to bring peace between the Israelis and Palestinians.
June 27, 2019
Analysis: How has Israel fared under Netanyahu’s leadership?
As Netanyahu reaches a new milestone, it's worth looking back over his leadership to ask how he's done.
June 26, 2019
Analysis: Israel could strike Iran first as tensions with Islamic Republic flare
If history is any guide, Israel may strike Iran while the world quietly watches.
June 21, 2019
Opinion: The appalling political exploitation of a 7-year-old’s rape
With three months to go before the 'do-over' Knesset elections, no issue is off-limits in the fray.
June 19, 2019
Opinion: Academic group stoops to new low by demanding US welcome Palestinian terror apologist
How low would the Middle East Studies Association go in advocating academic freedom for anti-Israel ideologues?
June 17, 2019
Analysis: Liberman’s campaign strategy may tear Israel’s social fabric
Liberman sees exploiting the religious-secular divide as a winning campaign strategy, but fanning the flames of the most divisive issue in Israeli society poses a risk.
June 6, 2019
Analysis: Can Israel be both Jewish and democratic?
While the Jewish nation’s history is unique, Israel is far from unique for being a nation-state that combines a democratic and specific religious nature.
June 4, 2019
Opinion: Sweden’s self-inflicted mess as women fear walking the streets
A recent survey from Region Uppsala shows that only 19% of girls in high school feel safe in the inner city.
June 3, 2019
Opinion: How Israeli Arab leaders distort the meaning of democracy
Arab-Israeli leaders use the cover of 'democracy' and 'equality" to pursue their goal of Israel's elimination.
June 2, 2019
Opinion: West exposes its weakness when it covers up its nudes
A British art gallery is the latest to cover up art in order not to offend Muslims.
June 1, 2019
Analysis: The problem in Germany is about more than a ‘kippa’
Those fighting anti-Semitism are refusing to confront the truth about Muslim hatred of Jews and Israel.
May 30, 2019
Opinion: Why it’s not surprising to see Jew-hatred increase in Western Europe
The hard left has a history of anti-Semitism as deep and enduring as the hard right.
May 28, 2019
Analysis: Erdogan Describes Armenian Genocide as ‘Reasonable Relocation’
"What Erdogan refers to as 'relocation' was actually the genocidal deportation of civilian populations to concentration and extermination camps."
May 28, 2019
Analysis: Trump V. Obama – the carrot and the stick – which is working on Iran?
Obama and Trump took opposite approaches to Iran's nuclear ambitions. Is one working?
May 28, 2019
Opinion: Healing the enemy is bad policy
There was a time when Israel would jail terrorists for life and expel them, but today Israel heals them.
May 22, 2019
Analysis: The true history of the Arab-Israeli conflict and the ‘Nakba’
Contrary to Congresswoman Rashida Tlaib's fake narrative, the 'Nakba' is a catastrophe of the Arabs' own making.
May 19, 2019
Analysis: Iranian regime’s 40 years of hatred towards America
Hatred and deep antagonism towards the US, Israel and the Jews are indispensable pillars of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
May 16, 2019
Opinion: Barring of Eurovision from Jerusalem is a win for BDS
Europe’s refusal to allow the contest to be held in Jerusalem, in contravention of Eurovision’s own rules, constitutes a victory for BDS.
May 15, 2019
Analysis: Israel reintroduces targeted killings, but are they effective?
Netanyahu announced a return to targeted killings in the Gaza Strip. Does the tactic work?
May 14, 2019
Opinion: ‘New York Times has no place in our home’
Time’s up for The New York Times "in any respectable home," says the rabbi who converted Ivanka Trump to Judaism.
May 14, 2019
Opinion: Bolton will bring Iran’s terror regime to an end
The Iranian mullahs have already miscalculated regarding John Bolton—but they still don’t realize just how determined he is.
May 13, 2019
Opinion: Can Jews be anti-Semites? A cartoonist proves the point
Eli Valley, whose anti-Israel and anti-Trump cartoons resemble Nazi propaganda, spreads hatred. He should be denounced, not banned.
May 12, 2019
Opinion: Rediscovering American anti-Semitism
The debate now is not over whether anti-Semitism is a clear and present danger in the 21st century, but whether 'the right' or 'the left' is primarily responsible for it.
May 9, 2019
Opinion: How long will Brandeis tolerate anti-Israel hate at its historically Jewish school?
Israel-haters twice attacked a pro-Israel art exhibit on the Brandeis campus called “Art Over Hate,” created by the group “Artists 4 Israel.”
May 9, 2019
Opinion: Jordan’s King Abdullah seeks prestige and standing … at Israel’s expense
Jordan is wary of the Mideast peace plan expected to be presented by the White House in June, after the Muslim month of Ramadan.
May 8, 2019
Opinion: Omar’s ignorance and bigotry exposed in her reaction to Gaza rocket attacks
To use the 'occupation' - there is no occupation - as a justification for why 'rockets must be fired' is to show both ignorance and bigotry.
May 8, 2019
Analysis: Will Amazon hurt or help Israel’s economy?
Questions are being raised over the impact that Amazon's full entry into Israel will have on the local retail market.
May 7, 2019
Opinion: American liberal Jewry clashes with Israeli nationalism
US and Israeli Jews share DNA, familiarity, goodwill, a love of the Torah and a love of the homeland, but live very different lives and developed very different mindsets.
May 6, 2019
Analysis: Abbas criticizes Arab leaders as cheapskates and immediately regrets it
When Abbas became aware that his remarks were being broadcast live on Palestine TV, he stopped speaking about the failure of the Arab states to fulfill their promises to the Palestinians.
May 6, 2019
Opinion: Let the Palestinian Authority collapse
Israel has no obligation to sustain the socio-economic edifice of its enemy dedicated to its destruction. Indeed, if anything, its moral duty is to bring about its collapse.
May 4, 2019
Opinion: What Israel still needs to learn from the Shoah
In Israel, the lessons of the Holocaust have still not been fully internalized.
May 2, 2019
Opinion: Will the Holocaust on Instagram teach remembrance?
An Israeli tech executive and his daughter sought to depict the life of Eva Heyman to teach Instagram users about the Holocaust.
May 2, 2019
Opinion: ADL distorts the annexation debate
Netanyahu never called for the 'annexation of the West Bank.' What he said was that he might propose extending Israeli law to Jewish communities in Judea and Samaria.
April 22, 2019
Analysis: ‘Americanization’ of Israeli politics contributed to Netanyahu’s election victory
Mass media expert Dr. Gabriel Weimann believes Trump and Netanyahu used similar tactics in their 2016 and 2019 campaigns, respectively.
April 21, 2019
Analysis: Hamas’s honesty vs. Trump’s ‘deal of the century’
This week, marking the 18th anniversary of the first Hamas rocket fired at Israel, Yahya Sinwar vowed to continue hitting Israeli 'settlements' such as Tel Aviv.
April 18, 2019
Opinion: Why is Alan Dershowitz Pressuring Israel for a Palestinian State?
The most ironic voice amid the chorus of vitriol was that of legal scholar and Democratic Israel advocate Alan Dershowitz, who congratulated Netanyahu before instructing him in matters of policy.
April 15, 2019
Opinion: Democrats’ war on Netanyahu incompatible with pro-Israel stance
By seeking to override or ignore the will of Israeli democracy, they are accelerating the breakdown of the rapidly eroding bipartisan consensus in favor of the Jewish state.
April 14, 2019
Analysis: Will New Right’s failure spell end to Bennett’s political career?
The New Right party may become the exclamation point on a short political career for Naftali Bennett, once a rising star.
April 14, 2019
Opinion: Israelis need better understanding of American Jews
Israel does not exist in a vacuum. A deeper understanding is required of what Jews face outside of Israel.
April 11, 2019
Analysis: Farrakhan, the Women’s March and a new fiction – ‘white Jews’
Women's March deputy head of communications, Sophie Ellman-Golan, insisted that "white Jews, like all white people, uphold white supremacy."
April 10, 2019
Opinion: What’s not at stake in Israel’s election – democracy
Israeli Democracy is not endangered by another Netanyahu win, columnist Jonathan Tobin says.
April 9, 2019
Analysis: When will Iran’s despotic regime finally cave in?
World Bank figures put Iran's youth unemployment at about 30 percent for 2018.
April 8, 2019
Analysis: Arabs waging anti-peace campaign to torpedo ‘deal of the century’
The latest campaign is designed to terrorize Arabs and Muslims who may wish to accept the U.S. administration's peace plan.
April 7, 2019
Opinion: Treading the line between humor and anti-Semitism
Learning to tell the difference between a joke and a slur is a matter of intent. Mocking our foibles and pretensions is funny. Delegitimizing Jews is not.
April 6, 2019
Opinion: Handing Gaza to Abbas will solve nothing
The solution to the Gaza problem does not lie in Ramallah but rather in the Strip’s historic hinterland – the Sinai Peninsula. By Maj. Gen. (res.) Gershon Hacohen, BESA Center When a single rocket launche...
April 4, 2019
Opinion: Voting Against Israel Doesn’t Stop AIPAC From Supporting Cory Booker
Increasingly, Cory Booker has used his knowledge of Hebrew and Judaism to evade questions about Israel and the problematic positions he has taken.
April 2, 2019
Opinion: AIPAC’s moment to step back from two-state solution
AIPAC conference registered a first. It invited to speak an official representative from across the Green Line. Will it signal a more open position by the pro-Israel lobbying giant toward the Arab-Israel conflict?
April 2, 2019
Analysis: Syrian gambit – wrenching Assad from Iran’s embrace
Pressuring Assad to evict Iran from his territory is now Israel's strategy.
April 1, 2019
Dershowitz: Jews must never be afraid to use their well-earned power
'When Jewish power and influence are used in the cause of peace and justice -- as it is today -- there is nothing to be ashamed of. It should be a source of pride.'
March 27, 2019
Opinion: Trump rises above all US presidents in Support of Israel
Pompeo thinks Trump may have been chosen to help save the Jews. But even if you leave religion out of it, there’s no denying that this is the most pro-Israel administration yet.
March 27, 2019
Opinion: ISIS hopefully breathed its last but leaves behind brutal legacy
Whether or not ISIS will ever strike again, its brutal legacy will live on for generations in the shattered lives and recurring nightmares of their victims.
March 25, 2019
Opinion: The anti-Semitism crisis in the Democratic party
The Democratic Party has been overtaken by an anti-Semitism crisis, a process of 'Corbynization' akin to that of the British Labour Party.
March 25, 2019
Analysis: Will Saudi Arabia Leave the Seventh Century?
Saudi Arabia does not, unfortunately, seem to be working hard at all on mending
March 21, 2019
Analysis: Gazans finally riot for the right reasons
"We want to live" has become the watchword of demonstrations against the cost of living in the Gaza Strip.
March 21, 2019
Opinion: Hamas, not Israel, commits war crimes in Gaza
It is the leaders of Hamas, and only Hamas, who are committing war crimes in and around Gaza - against Jews and against their own people.
March 19, 2019
Opinion: Ireland’s anti-Israel drift – how did it come to this?
There was a time when Irish sympathies were decidedly pro-Zionist. The historical romance between the Jews and the Irish dates back centuries.
March 18, 2019
Opinion: Message to President Trump – Israel is Not a Nation of Profits
What do we actually know about Trump's unreleased 'Deal of the Century'?
March 16, 2019
Analysis: Jordan faces existential threat to royal family’s rule
These days, Jordan, more than ever, is facing a real existential threat to the royal family’s continued rule.
March 14, 2019