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The moral clarity of Nikki Haley

With Republicans lacking a vision for America to counter the disastrous Biden administration, her recent speech was rain in a desert.Op-ed.

The moral clarity of Nikki Haley

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The EU’s Jerusalem charm offensive

Despite all the warm words in Jerusalem, there’s no sign that the longtime hostility towards Israel is about to ease.Op-ed.

The EU’s Jerusalem charm offensive

The anti-Israel travesty of Pillay’s kangaroo court

The UN singles out Israel for condemnation as a human-rights abuser when it is in fact a democracy deeply commited to human rights.Op-ed.

The anti-Israel travesty of Pillay’s kangaroo court

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Biden administration won’t stop appeasing the Palestinian Arabs

A lethal refusal to face reality in the Middle East plagues American administrations, as well as Britain and Europe, for many decades.Op-ed

Biden administration won’t stop appeasing the Palestinian Arabs

No rainbow’s end for the Jews of Oz

New Australian PM Anthony Albanese has called Israel an “oppressor” and accused it of collective punishment against Palestinian Arabs.Op-ed.

No rainbow’s end for the Jews of Oz

The ‘broken windows’ strategy for combating Israel demonization

A culture self-destructs if its people choose not to defend it. Bad people get away with bad stuff when everyone looks the other way.Op-ed

The ‘broken windows’ strategy for combating Israel demonization

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How Western dupes help propagate murderous Palestinian lies

The media generally choose to believe the Palestinians, even though they routinely lie about Israel. Op-ed.

How Western dupes help propagate murderous Palestinian lies

Why Russia has once again turned on the Jews

This reversal of truth and lies, victim and aggressor, right and wrong is the hallmark of Soviet propaganda.Opinion.

Why Russia has once again turned on the Jews

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The real reason for Blinken’s alarming warning about Iran

Perhaps the US secretary of state intended to frighten people so much that opposition to American concessions to Iran melted away. Op-ed.

The real reason for Blinken’s alarming warning about Iran

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The key lesson from Ukraine for international order

Israel understands that the UN is a broken institution that helps sow terror and injustice - and it’s so often on the receiving end. Op-ed.

The key lesson from Ukraine for international order

Blinken’s obscene Western ‘progressive’ agenda

Blinken showed what a Western progressive is: supporting murderers of Israelis and empowering others who want to wipe out Israel.Op-ed.

Blinken’s obscene Western ‘progressive’ agenda

Why liberals fail to equate Israel and Ukraine

The reaction to aggression against each country plays very differently in the anti-Semitic West. Opinion.

Why liberals fail to equate Israel and Ukraine

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Biden’s unconscionable empowerment of both Russia and Iran

Biden is now accepting Putin—the man he calls a “war criminal” and who has threatened nuclear war - as Iran’s nuclear-weapons program. Op-ed

Biden’s unconscionable empowerment of both Russia and Iran

America hasn’t learned the grim truth of asymmetric warfare

The West’s nuclear knife is sheathed, but Putin is brandishing his Like Iran and the PA, disdain for human life lets fanatics succeed.Op-ed

America hasn’t learned the grim truth of asymmetric warfare

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For the Jews, history repeats itself in Ukraine

It’s true that many Ukrainian nationalists welcomed the Germans as liberators during WWII, then suffered more than Russia from Nazism.Op-ed

For the Jews, history repeats itself in Ukraine

How Biden has empowered evil in both Russia and Iran

Behind the administration’s policy is the belief system fundamental to the West’s governing and intellectual classes. Op-ed.

How Biden has empowered evil in both Russia and Iran

The lethal miscalculations over Vladimir Putin

Countries saying he is a menace and has to be stopped were until recently using the “mafia state” he created to enrich themselves. Op-eds.

The lethal miscalculations over Vladimir Putin

How America is helping Iran get a nuclear arsenal

With the U.S. State Department’s sanctions waiver, Iran will be confident that it can finish developing nuclear weapons with impunity.Op-ed/

How America is helping Iran get a nuclear arsenal

How the West’s appeasement mentality brings not peace, but war

The US gov't doesn't grasp the fact that tyrants and extremists regard compromise as proof of weakness and an incentive for aggression.Op-ed

How the West’s appeasement mentality brings not peace, but war

The unspoken truths behind the Texas synagogue attack

British intelligence has much to answer for. But there’s also the question of how Akram was allowed into America in the first place.Op-ed.

The unspoken truths behind the Texas synagogue attack

The emergence of Arab Zionism?

As Arabs increasingly turn towards Israel and survival, the West continues in the opposite direction. Op-ed.

The emergence of Arab Zionism?

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The most important conversation the Jewish world needs to have

Shared peoplehood does not negate the particular compact of citizenship between Israel’s government and its citizens alone. Op-ed.

The most important conversation the Jewish world needs to have

New Year’s resolution? Abolish the UN Human Rights Council

The new UN commission of inquiry is poised to accuse Israel of purported crime of its very existence going back to its creation. Opinion.

New Year’s resolution? Abolish the UN Human Rights Council

A Christmas crusade: scapegoating the Jews

Church leaders blame Israel for driving Christians out of Israel, but the country’s Christian population actually increased last year.Op-ed.

A Christmas crusade: scapegoating the Jews

Trump and Netanyahu: Allies no longer?

Political leaders should be neither blindly supported nor opposed. But it’s their deeds that matter, not their words.

Trump and Netanyahu: Allies no longer?

Double standard of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

Claims of moral equivalency are bogus. Bigotry is based on falsehoods, not fact.Opinion.

Double standard of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia

Imagine’ all those people …

Indifference or active opposition to border control, without which a nation ceases to exist, is an attitude of national self-hate. Op-ed.

Imagine’ all those people …

Why Israel needs a strategy to shape the narrative

America and the West ignore the reality about Iran or the Palestinians or the Muslim Brotherhood. Opinion.

Why Israel needs a strategy to shape the narrative

Keir Starmer’s Labour anti-Semitism problem

Like so many liberals, he selects aspects of issues that conform to his idealistic viewpoint, blanking out those that undermine it. Op-ed.

Keir Starmer’s Labour anti-Semitism problem

The most alarming threat of all to the Jewish people

Leaders fear that speaking the truth on Israel will cause them to lose access to the circles in which they think they are accepted. Op-ed.

The most alarming threat of all to the Jewish people

The inconvenient truths behind the hysteria over climate change

Green ideology represents humanity as the enemy of sustainable life. Such priority for the inanimate and animal world is pagan.Op-ed..

The inconvenient truths behind the hysteria over climate change

The crucial but underrated gift of being ‘a people apart’

Many liberal Jews don’t want to know about Jewish exceptionalism because it runs smack into the cardinal precepts of iberal dogma. Op-ed.

The crucial but underrated gift of being ‘a people apart’

The baleful consequences of not dealing with Islamist extremism

The West is like the apocryphal frog being uncomprehendingly boiled in the pot. In Britain, France and America, the heat is rising. Op-ed.

The baleful consequences of not dealing with Islamist extremism

The real reason for Western support of the Palestinian Arabs

What actually binds these groups together is an ultimately incomprehensible animus against Judaism and the Jewish people.Op-ed

The real reason for Western support of the Palestinian Arabs

It's time for Israel supporters to remake the cultural weather

When it comes to the West, Israelis not only fail to grasp the depth and extent of Jew-hatred, they also don’t try to understand it.Op-ed.

It's time for Israel supporters to remake the cultural weather

The false accusation of ‘Israel apartheid’

The smear triggers emotions of deep anger and disgust among the ignorant whose knowledge of Israel is drawn from malicious propaganda.Op-ed

The false accusation of ‘Israel apartheid’

The baleful significance of the Democrats’ Iron Dome fiasco

Jewish defenders should target their enemies’ Achilles heel—their narcissism and belief in their own unimpeachable virtue.Op-ed.

The baleful significance of the Democrats’ Iron Dome fiasco

The hate-fest that is Durban rears its ugly head again

The United Nations itself is allowing evil to triumph with the complicity of the West. Op-ed.

The hate-fest that is Durban rears its ugly head again

The West’s cultural fault line exposed by 9/11 remains

In the West there are no “forever wars.” Its wars are either won or lost. For Islamic extremists, war is forever; defeat is temporary. Op-ed

The West’s cultural fault line exposed by 9/11 remains

When anti-Semitic lunatics take control of the academic asylum

A new literary weapon by Andrew Pessin is a sparkling and savagely satirical novel about campus “cancel culture.” Op-ed.

When anti-Semitic lunatics take control of the academic asylum

When the Jew-bashers are Jews

Their values turn Jewish principles on their heads, and their Israel-bashing is a thin veneer for a hatred of Jews or Judaism itself. Op-ed.

When the Jew-bashers are Jews

Envoy will first need to root out Democratic Party anti-Semitism

A president who trivialized the Nazi regime to make a partisan political smear has appointed Lipstadt, who defended him for it. Op-ed.

Envoy will first need to root out Democratic Party anti-Semitism

The invisible victims of jihadi violence

Westerners don’t understand the threat to their own security because it doesn’t fit the liberal narrative about Muslims as victims. Op-ed

The invisible victims of jihadi violence

The real scoop? How Jews won’t lick the demonization of Israel

The point about Ben & Jerry’s, as with all boycotts of Israel, is that the main issue is not the boycott. It’s the thinking behind it.

The real scoop? How Jews won’t lick the demonization of Israel

The real challenge of reconciling Christians and Jews

Saying sorry for the past just isn’t enough. Addressing Christian anti-Semitism involves facing its anti-Israel element head-on.Op-ed.

The real challenge of reconciling Christians and Jews

Western media malpractice has caused permanent harm to Israel

The effect of media's invidious role fomenting rage against Israel and Jews, while sanitizing the Palestinian Arabs, is incalculable. Op-ed.

Western media malpractice has caused permanent harm to Israel

Donald Rumsfeld’s legacy: a warning against American retreat

Rumsfeld wanted to show unwavering resolve against the enemy. The Biden administration is learning this, or failing to, the hard way. Op-ed

Donald Rumsfeld’s legacy: a warning against American retreat

Palestinianism opens up a posthumous Nazi front against Jews

In the UK cultural manipulation and intimidation pushes politicians into hostility to Israel, imperiling the security of British Jews.Op-ed

Palestinianism opens up a posthumous Nazi front against Jews

Meddling with Israel’s security, Biden is hurting UK governance

Such interference is based on an ignorant partisan view that, instead of advancing peace, is a powerful incentive to aggression. Op-ed.

Meddling with Israel’s security, Biden is hurting UK governance

Actions, not bromides, are how the West must meet antisemitism

This madness must be fought by those who help make the cultural weather. Politicians' promises of support are not enough. Op-ed

Actions, not bromides, are how the West must meet antisemitism

The last, overlooked but still active front of World War II

The West needs the Jews to be proved bad people. Israel-haters are eager to yell “gotcha” and put the Jews into the public pillory.Op-ed

The last, overlooked but still active front of World War II

Might Biden be turning America into Israel’s foe?

When it comes to the Middle East, Biden's specialty is the “values-feint”— high-minded statements to disguise morally bankrupt action.Op-ed

Might Biden be turning America into Israel’s foe?

A complex relationship made in heaven

If Jews feel threatened by some Christians through conversion or assimilation, Christianity itself feels threatened by Judaism. Op-ed.

A complex relationship made in heaven

How Biden is smashing America’s moral compass

Obama repudiated the “Durban Declaration and Program of Action” for its demonization of Israel. Biden has embraced it. Op-ed

How Biden is smashing America’s moral compass

Anti-Semitism is a form of delirium, especially in France

Those in its grip believe Jews have diabolical powers, have a secret conspiracy to control global affairs, cause all the world's ills. Op-ed

Anti-Semitism is a form of delirium, especially in France

Jared Kushner’s curious change of heart

With the Biden administration re-empowering PA aggression, Kushner has shown he doesn’t grasp the significance of the Abraham Accords. Op-ed

Jared Kushner’s curious change of heart

The brouhaha over defining Jews as an ethnic minority

The idea that Judaism is both religion and peoplehood feeds the antisemitic paranoid suspicion that the Jews are slippery customers.Op-ed.

The brouhaha over defining Jews as an ethnic minority

We recogniize Haman, but where are Mordechai and Esther?

Today’s Persia declares its intention to annihilate Israel and works to achieve that infernal aim. And there’s Western media and academia …

We recogniize Haman, but where are Mordechai and Esther?

Christian leaders silent as church recycles its oldest hatred

Moderator of the WCC’s Commission of the Churches on International Affairs, openly suggested that Israeli Jews were demonic. Opinion.

Christian leaders silent as church recycles its oldest hatred

The haredi COVID tragedy has created a crisis for Judaism itself

They fear that if they shut their schools, they will lose an entire generation that learning Torah is more precious than life. Op-ed..

The haredi COVID tragedy has created a crisis for Judaism itself