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Analysis: Is an ill wind blowing in Congress against Israel?

A growing segment of the U.S. population, as well as legislators and staffers, are estranged from the 400-year-old historical, cultural, moral and civic foundations of the U.S.-Israel kinship.

March 7, 2021

United States Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley

Nikki Haley: Joe Biden is going backward at the United Nations

'Rejoining the Human Rights Council and renewing funding for UNRWA will make neither organization better. It will only give heart to our enemies and cause pain for our allies, all while wasting American money.'

March 4, 2021

Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-Vt., speaks during a campaign event in San Antonio, Saturday, Feb. 22, 2020.

Analysis: Bernie Sanders castigates Israel about vaccinating Palestinians

More study needed, Bernie, please, before you again presume to lecture or hector on this matter. Please, go ahead and burn the midnight oil.

March 4, 2021

Opinion: In defense of Dr. Seuss

Instead of erasing art, Dr. Seuss Enterprises could follow Disney’s lead and simply run a disclaimer.

March 3, 2021

Opinion: Robbing Israel’s far-left Labor leader of plausible deniability

Though their criticism of Israel’s ultra-activist judges is justified, they should be celebrating, rather than mourning, the decision in question.

March 3, 2021

Opinion: Religious pluralism won’t be achieved in Israel’s courts

An Israeli Supreme Court ruling recognizing non-Orthodox conversions is more symbolism than substance. The fight to curb the power of the rabbinate must be resolved at the ballot box.

March 3, 2021

Opinion: Is the two-state solution an anti-Semitic whistle?

These are people who pretend to know what’s best, but are bothered by the fact that Israel exists, period. There is a word for them…anti-Semites.

March 2, 2021

Opinion: With a court system like Israel’s who needs enemies?

Israel's court system delivers three shocking decisions.

March 1, 2021

Opinion: The danger of appeasing Iran’s mullahs

Governments around the world need hold the Iranian regime accountable for its foreign adventurism and its reprehensible repression of dissent and peaceful protests at home.

February 28, 2021

Opinion: Who’s legitimizing the vaccine blood libel?

Journalists, leftist Jewish groups and politicians like Bernie Sanders are lending weight to the toxic lie that Israel is denying the COVID vaccine to Palestinians. By JNS Don’t put all the blame on “Satu...

February 28, 2021

Analysis: Woke Coke – Company tells workers to ‘try to be less white’

When something like this has taken hold so completely that it happens at Coca-Cola, you’d better believe that you need some warriors to roll it back.

February 24, 2021

Opinion: A gag about Israel and vaccines is more than a bad joke

Pop culture may have more influence over young viewers than news shows. That makes a so-called comedic endorsement of an anti-Semitic blood libel a serious problem. By Jonathan S. Tobin, Editor in Chief, JNS...

February 24, 2021

Opinion: Why is Biden going back to the Iran deal?

Even the way the administration goes about reentering the deal is puzzling.

February 23, 2021

Opinion: Why BDS is winning, even when it seems it isn’t

The BDS campaign is all about hounding Jews wherever they can find them, to punish Jews around the world for the existence of the Jewish State.

February 23, 2021

Analysis: Why Iran considers Biden a ‘weak’ president

'In Tehran's eyes, Biden is a pushover,' wrote Abdulrahman Al-Rashed, former editor-in-chief of the Saudi newspaper Ashraq Al-Awsat.

February 22, 2021

Opinion: Why the Israeli left’s leadership capacity is fading

Disavowal of the religious underpinning of Zionism is the main reason for the left’s loss of a path to the national leadership.

February 22, 2021

Caroline Glick: One week in progressive America

Sunlight is the best disinfectant, and the scrutiny the Democrats are not being subjected to will likely make it difficult for them to maintain their Senate and House majorities in 2022.

February 21, 2021

Opinion: Christian leaders silent as church recycles its oldest hatred against Jews

The World Council of Churches has gone full theological incitement against the State of Israel.

February 21, 2021

Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., left, joined at right by Rep. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich

Analysis: Will Biden take on the new anti-Semitism?

He claims to oppose it, but it’s spreading in the progressive wing of his own party.

February 18, 2021

Palestinians say Biden aid will only fund more corruption

A recent survey among Palestinians sends a clear message to the Biden administration: the funds you are sending to Palestinian leaders are being stolen.

February 16, 2021

Opinion: The Hollywood blacklist is back, and Jewish liberals are fine with it

Seventy years after leftists were purged for their politics, the practice is revived, only this time against the right.

February 16, 2021

Opinion: Is Israel still a US ally? The answer was no

Jen Psaki's circuitous answer wasn't pretty but it said plenty.

February 15, 2021

Opinion: Biden opposes religious freedom at home and abroad

He calls on his State Department to meddle in the moral and religious affairs of foreign countries.

February 15, 2021

Opinion: Is the phrase ‘State of Palestine’ catching on?

Searches for the 'State of Palestine' generated sufficient data for 18 countries compared to only six for the 'Palestinian Authority' among the Arab public, according to a Google Trends analysis.

February 15, 2021

Analysis: EU coronavirus drive so inept even the cover-up was botched

EU bureaucrats produced more hot air than vaccines, like European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen, who said 'Today, we start building a European Health Union, to protect citizens with high quality care in a crisis.'

February 14, 2021

Melanie Phillips: The absurd malevolence of the International Criminal Court

The ICC ruling's legal and moral illiteracy follows from a campaign at the very core of liberal universalist beliefs: to negate the authority of the sovereign nation Israel.

February 14, 2021

Opinion: Kerry emitted 302 tons of CO2 in quest to save the planet

Kerry’s flights would have powered all the appliances in 50 American homes for a year.

February 11, 2021

Opinion: Biden’s dysfunctional human rights policy

The Biden administration has an awfully strange approach to human rights.

February 10, 2021

Analysis: Biden’s already backing down on Iran

The president sent a strong message to Tehran about nuclear talks. A day later, his spokesperson walked it back, showing that Obama-era appeasers remain in charge.

February 10, 2021

Opinion: Can faith help us stop hating our neighbors?

A columnist’s contempt for Trump voters who plowed her driveway without being asked reminds us that our Founding Founders believed in a cure for what Jews call “baseless hatred.” By Jonathan S. Tobin, JNS ...

February 10, 2021

Opinion: Fears of Big Tech renew interest in IBM’s role during Holocaust

The author says 'it was IBM that helped the Third Reich create the industrial, high-speed, six-million-person Holocaust.'

February 9, 2021

Dershowitz: International Criminal ‘so-called’ Court makes up rules as it goes

Unlike real courts, which have statutes and common law to interpret, the International Criminal Court just makes it up.

February 9, 2021

Opinion: Joe Biden, basement president

The strategy seems to be for him to remain as invisible as possible until called to write his signature on a bill he likely did not write or read a speech he almost certainly did not draft.

February 9, 2021

Opinion: Are Democrats planning to gut America’s election system?

House Resolution 1, or H.R.1, is a Democratic bill dedicated to 'election reform.' In reality, it takes the worst of the election horror show of 2020 and makes it a permanent fixture nationwide.

February 8, 2021

Opinion: Jewish right needs to condemn Republican congresswoman’s anti-semitism

A few, such as the Republican Jewish Coalition and the Coalition for Jewish Values, have spoken out.

February 8, 2021

Analysis: Will the Trump successes in the Middle East survive?

The new Biden administration, in under two weeks, is already threatening to undermine these and other victories.

February 8, 2021

Melanie Phillips: Obama’s third term an ‘active threat’ to Israel’s security

Israel scarcely needs the absence of a phone call to tell it that it has a grave problem with the new occupant of the White House.

February 7, 2021

Opinion: ‘Palestinians’ want London to give back ‘Big Ben’

How did Big Ben, which was built in 1859, become a Muslim clock tower from the 20th century? When your entire history is fake, you can believe anything.

February 3, 2021

Opinion: Leftists are trying to destroy Trump’s new attorneys

Activists are working to destroy completely the two new attorneys who have stepped up to defend Trump.

February 2, 2021

Opinion: Israel’s vaccine rollout a shining beacon

While it gives us no pleasure to see Israel’s greatest friend floundering in its efforts to inoculate its population, it does throw into relief once more how well Israel is doing.

February 1, 2021

Caroline Glick: Maher Bitar and Israel’s ideological elections

US President Biden’s choice to name an anti-Israel political activist as senior director for Intelligence at the National Security Council may place Israel in a precarious position.

January 31, 2021

Opinion: It’s time to stop counting Jews in the Cabinet

Pride in members of the tribe in the new administration is understandable, even if many disdained the Jews in the Trump White House. But what matters is what they will do, not their religion.

January 29, 2021

Analysis: Arab medical apartheid – where is the outrage?

Israel, in fact, has vaccinated more Palestinians than any Arab country. In Lebanon, Palestinians are denied vaccines as 'foreigners.'

January 28, 2021

Opinion: Why I’m a Zionist

To be a Zionist is to revel in the ways Israel has integrated Jewish principles and traditions into the daily life of a large modern democratic society.

January 28, 2021

What’s the matter with Holocaust education?

More Americans are being taught about the Shoah, though that doesn’t seem to be doing much to stop anti-Semitism. Maybe the problem is what they’re being taught and why.

January 28, 2021

Jonathan Tobin: Who will defend Jewish students against anti-Semites?

If the Biden administration reverses Trump’s policy penalizing Jew-hatred on college campuses, it may be open season on pro-Israel kids for BDS advocates.

January 26, 2021

Analysis: What Israel can learn from the descent of Lebanon

Lebanon was founded to serve as a home for Christians and other minority groups in the region. Over the years, it gave up its national character and began to fall apart from within.

January 25, 2021

Opinion: Biden inaugurates DC occupation and barbed-wire democracy

Biden and the Democrats celebrated their democratic victory with barbed wire, troops in the streets, political terror, and the threat of even more political repression to come.

January 25, 2021

Donald Trump, Miriam Adelson, Sheldon Adelson

Miriam Adelson: Israelis and proud Jews owe Donald Trump our gratitude

As President Trump leaves the White House, we must remember that we, as Israelis, as Americans and as proud Jews owe him our gratitude.

January 24, 2021

Caroline Glick: America’s ‘great purge’ and its effect on Israel

The Great Purge isn’t about one side seizing the levers of power. It is about one side denying the other side the right to even vie for power.

January 24, 2021

Analysis: Jews are being ‘educationally ethnically cleansed’ from UK universities

'Jewish people today on campus can be tolerated, protected or abused. At no point are they treated as equals.' — David Collier, Academia, January 18, 2021.

January 21, 2021

Analysis: The changing of the guard in US-Israel relations

As U.S.-Israel relations gear up for a great reset, the Obama administration's parting shot may be the starting point for the Biden administration.

January 21, 2021

Opinion: Biden enters presidency under a cloud

Have Democrats run roughshod over the U.S. Constitution in an effort to elect their man? The question deserves at least a hearing.

January 20, 2021

Analysis: Wendy Sherman and the art of failing upward

Biden’s foreign-policy team is a veritable Obama era reunion party.

January 19, 2021

Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif

Analysis: Nuclear extortion – Mullahs want more concessions from Biden

The regime now knows that Biden seems desperate for a deal and doubtless sees this as a delectable weakness.

January 19, 2021

Opinion: Solving the American corona vaccine crisis

Only a third of the vaccine doses shipped to the states by the federal government are making it into people's arms. That is unacceptable.

January 19, 2021

Caroline Glick: Will Israel be able to withstand Biden administration’s pressure?

A new administration led by men and women with long records of unbridled hostility towards Israel and support for its enemies is taking the reins.

January 17, 2021

Opinion: Is there a statute of limitations on racism and anti-Semitism?

Biden nominated an apparent racist and anti-Semite to run the Department of Justice’s powerful Civil Rights Division.

January 14, 2021

New York Times lists Iran, not Israel, among top ‘places to love,’ citing ‘beauty and innocence’

The New York Times has placed Iran — but not Israel — on its list of '52 Places to Love in 2021.'

January 14, 2021

Opinion: Big Tech’s hypocrisy and double standards

Social media giants suspend accounts of the president but allow foreign leaders to call for genocide.

January 13, 2021

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