Fresno Zionism

Students are drawn into psycho-political cyclotrons and are insulated from all other voices. What begins as a concern for human rights is amplified by contact with more and more extreme expressions of anti-Israel ideology.

Morsi, who all but expressly said Jews control the Western media, would find a comforting embrace in the anti-Semitism of some Westerners.

It is business as usual for Arab media to find murderous conspiracies that can be blamed on Jews or Israel.

There is no way the Jewish state (or for that matter, the Jewish people) will ever generate feelings of love or even liking in the world.

When push comes to shove, today’s liberals, even “strong supporters of Israel” like Chuck Schumer, are Obama supporters first.

In March, President Obama said "when the chips are down, I have Israel’s back," but U.S. actions since have shown otherwise.

Could there be an Israeli politician more cynical than Ehud Olmert? Yesterday he accused PM Netanyahu of alienating President Obama — as if Obama could dislike him more — by ‘intervening’ in the US election.

Many of you have been shocked by the story of Malala Yousafzai, a 14-year old Pakistani girl shot in the head by a Taliban terrorist because of a blog she wrote and interviews she gave starting in 2009, criticizing the Taliban and calling for the education of women. This lovely, self-possessed girl, who speaks and writes on a level far above her age, and who planned to enter politics (video), may or may not survive. If she does not, it will be an enormous loss for Pakistan and for the world.

Although it was widely claimed in the press that this child died in an Israeli strike, none appears to have taken place at the time of his death.

Background on MP George Galloway, the British legislator who refused to debate an Israeli.

The Iranian regime apparently believes that its frequent repetition of the “fatwa” lie will make it be accepted as truth.

It's not surprising that, especially in Egypt, the State Department had a hard time finding someone who did not share the common prejudices against Jews.

My alarm bells went off when the President chose Chuck Hagel for Secretary of Defense.

Peace is not at hand — maybe it will never be, but that doesn’t mean that Israel can’t continue to survive and thrive.

A clear explanation of what international law is and is not, and how it applies to some of the controversies around the Jewish state.

A situation has arisen in Judea and Samaria where attempted murder — and sometimes the attempts are successful — is a daily occurrence.

Following the letter from American Jewish leaders calling on Israel to make concessions, the Emergency Committee for Israel penned it's own letter to the Prime Minister.

When something outrageous goes on for a long time, people stop being outraged. It is boring to hear or read about things like genocidal wars in Africa, Europe’s collapse into poverty, or the complaints of Israelis about being the targets of thousands of rockets, day in and day out. I’m in Israel now, so a few words about the rockets. Everyone I talk to says the same thing: how can this be allowed to continue?

Israel's 'apology' to Turkey will not improve relations with Turkey because relations are poor as a result of a deliberate strategy, not an unpleasant incident.

Israel must insist that there can be no negotiations until all parties agree that Israel is the Jewish state of the Jewish people.

Sometimes I read something that is so on-target and illuminating that I want to say “stop what you are doing and read this now!” Fiamma Nirenstein is...

Honor is a concept that is paramount in non-Western cultures, but sometimes it seems that the West has no clue about.

I can’t believe, if the government actually has information to justify the sentence, that it could not be provided in a manner that would be convincing without revealing damaging secrets.

To a great extent, the whole idea of a two-state solution as presented by President Obama, Shimon Peres, etc. is a winged pig.

The liberal wing of the Jewish establishment in the US is following the same path as it did in the 1940s.

In the mainstream media version, the IDF killed peaceful protesters. In reality, the terrorists were throwing firebombs at an army post.

People are not influenced by rational argument, but rather by emotion, so make your appeals powerful and emotional.

Peres chose the uranium because Israel needed it to survive.

Obama's visit is costly and complicated, and will have objectives that the President thinks are important, like Israeli withdrawals.

Unwilling to issue an ultimatum, the U.S.will go no further than to repeat that “we will not allow Iran to get a nuclear weapon,” but it will not say — publicly or to Israel — how far it will allow Iran to go.