Must Israel do America’s Dirty Work?
Netanyahu’s Munich speech in which he gives Iran a warning was denounced as a provocation. But the real alert is to a Trump administration still asleep at the wheel on Syria.
Let’s Talk Truthfully About the Issues behind Mass Shootings
When Lori Alhadeff screamed at a camera from CNN and demanded that President Trump, “Please do something, do something, action, we need it now,” Americans instinctively sympathized with the grieving parent.
‘Outside-in’ is ‘Inside out’
The notion that Arab states can be relied upon to safeguard Israel’s security in a theoretical peace deal is a a pipe dream. Far from the Arabs protecting Israel, the reality is that Israel protects them.
Gravity in Action: When a Rock Falls in a Plaza . . .
The Kotel rock was a case of a stone meeting gravity. But it was also used as an excuse for Jewish score-settling while allowing the Palestinians to explain again why peace is not in sight.
Gaza and the Worthlessness of International Opinion
Even though the Palestinian “March of Return” was far from peaceful, Israel’s critics still absolve Hamas.
Swimming Against the Tide? The Battle for Camp Ramah
An anti-Zionist group’s effort to use Jewish camps to undermine support for Israel poses a difficult challenge for a key American Jewish institution.
Futilely Searching for Meaning in anti-Semitic Crimes
Scholar Ruth Wisse wrote, that anti-Semitism is the most successful ideology of the 20th century—a virus that morphed from fascism to Nazism to communism and then Islamism. The continuation of this trend in the 21st century has nothing to do with Trump, and everything to do with the fact that Jews remain a convenient scapegoat for extremists of all political and religious stripes.
Has Trump Finally Figured it Out?
Choosing John Bolton as his national security advisor gives the president the foreign-policy team members he needs. But will he listen to them?
70 Years of Miracles
The focus on Israel’s problems often obscures the astonishing nature of a historic turnabout for the Jewish people.
Trump’s Peace Plan Irrelevant
Israel’s economic integration into the region is proceeding nicely without a resolution to an unsolvable conflict with the Palestinians.
Is Ocasio-Cortez REALLY Jewish? Does it Matter?
The elected congresswoman’s Jewish possible ancestors shouldn’t be a problem for anyone. But the idea that her leftist stands are somehow authentically Jewish is troubling.
Religious Freedom for Me, but not for Thee
Opposition from Jewish groups to a Supreme Court decision defending the rights of a believer is a discouraging retreat from principle.
Ending the UN’s Human-Rights Farce
Trump’s critics prefer to attack him, rather than acknowledge that he was right to withdraw from a Human Rights Council that engages in anti-Semitic bias against Israel.
The Virus that Just won’t DIE: Ever Adapting anti-Semitism
Why are French “yellow vests” protestors attacking the Jews?
Ice Cream Causes Brain Freeze
Ben & Jerry’s decision to fund a group whose leaders endorse Louis Farrakhan throws zero tolerance for hate out the window.
What Do We Expect from a Jewish State?
Anger about the new nation-state law is misplaced. Concern over the rabbinate flexing its muscles and contempt for the Diaspora is not.
The Dead-Baby Strategy
Exploiting the death of a Palestinian infant shows the depths to which anti-Israel propaganda has sunk and how effective such immoral arguments can be.in defending human rights.
Assimilation and the American Jewish Immigrant Experience
Tom Brokaw was pilloried for urging immigrants to do a better job of assimilating. But he was right, and the success of the Jewish community is proof of it.
FINALLY! Israel’s Enemies: ‘Rocks Kill’
Rock-throwing has always been depicted as a harmless act of symbolism used by the powerless, but after an alleged settler attack, it’s time to agree that it’s an act of terror.
Nikki Haley: Proof that Americans can Succeed at the UN
The resignation of U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Nikki Haley took the political world by surprise, but it’s likely that no one is more disappointed than supporters of Israel.
Culture-war Abortion Battle SHOULD Transcend Politics
The willingness to justify abortion up until birth is taking us into a moral vacuum created more by politics than any legitimate concern for the rights of women. It’s one thing to say women must have a right to choose. But to assert that women or doctors should have a right to terminate the life of a 40-week-old fetus or a viable infant or even to contemplate the death of an unwanted child born alive despite an attempted abortion is to lead us down the path to a moral abyss.
Did Trump Endanger Israel?
Withdrawing from the Iran nuclear deal raised tensions, but it’s Iran that’s more isolated and weaker now, not Israel.
What Did you Hear when Mike Pence Spoke to the Knesset?
That vast numbers of Americans are inspired by the Bible to support Jewish rights in their ancient homeland isn’t so much a function of the left-right conflict as it is an integral part of America’s political culture
The Portman Factor
The actress’s snub isn’t a victory for BDS or the Israeli prime minister’s political foes, but it does show how Netanyahu’s image problem has undermined one of his strengths.
What a Political General Teaches us about the Israel-Diaspora Disconnect
American Jews don’t know much about Benny Gantz, but they should acknowledge the collapse of the Israeli left.
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