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Ramadan Koran lesson: Curse Jews and Christians 17-times daily

It is Ramadan month and the message to Muslims—via didactic analysis of Koran 1:7—is the requirement to be an “essence” isolated and distinct from non-Muslims, abetted by obsessive, monotonous daily repetition of a verse cursing Jews and Christians.Dr. Andrew G. Bostom, 5/29/2019, 6:40 AM

New elections would be great

My hope is based on a simple strategy that requires only sanity among the religious-nationalist community of Israel. I know that is asking a whole bunch. But here goes. Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, 5/28/2019, 7:57 AM

A halakhic state? Or one that respects halakha?

We now have issues on whether men and women should serve together in army units, whether Torah students should be drafted, whether non-essential government works should be done on Shabbat and Supreme Court decisions which conflict with Jewish law. Leonie Ben-Simon, 5/28/2019, 7:16 AM

Islam: America’s historical failure

Quran trained people, with the help of our leftist politicians, take advantage of the provisions of the most benign system known to humanity, our democratic republic, to destroy it from within. Amil Imani, 5/28/2019, 6:48 AM

France, the eldest daughter of Islam

Historically, France is a Catholic country, known as the “eldest daughter of the Church.” That is no more. Giulio Meotti, 5/27/2019, 5:27 PM

Arab Allies want Israel to crush Hamas

Arab autocrats, who need Israel far more than Israel needs them, desire a confident Israel to crush its enemies, not a craven country that bends to terrorists. Rafael Castro, 5/27/2019, 4:30 PM

On Memorial Day remember those who gave their lives to protect America

We honor those who made the ultimate sacrifice to save our families and protect our freedom. Jeff Dunetz, 5/27/2019, 8:03 AM

The Boys from NYU

Will our American campuses soon be safe for Arabs only? Jack Engelhard, 5/26/2019, 9:49 AM

The surprising future of American Orthodox Jewry

American Jewry's past is very different from its present state and even less similar to what is predicted for the future. Israeli leaders would do well to pay attention to the change.Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld , 5/26/2019, 1:23 AM

Hate prevails in Iceland

In Iceland, hate prevails from their joining the Nazi SS to their Eurovision BDS Nasties. Barry Shaw, 5/26/2019, 12:46 AM

Western aversion to Israel is really self-hatred

In the US today, “white people” are being shamed into feeling that somehow they, and all their forebears, are directly responsible for the persecution of whoever makes it onto the accepted list of the “oppressed.” Israel does not relate to that. Douglas Altabef, 5/26/2019, 12:06 AM

Italy allows students to go to Hamas university in Gaza

Siena is the first in the world to send students to the Islamic University of Gaza. Giulio Meotti, 5/24/2019, 5:14 PM

Myths and facts on the Nakba

Victms of their own doing. Eli E. Hertz, 5/24/2019, 5:00 PM

An NYU student-to-be who cancelled her acceptance to NYU

Her great-grandfather X founded the department of music and was a professor at NYU for many decades. Today, she feels her very existence is being threatened there. Arutz Sheva Staff, 5/24/2019, 12:31 AM

Will President Trump extinguish the two-state delusion?

Mr. Trump appears to have changed the approach to Mideast peace by rejecting the theory of linkage and eschewing the much vaunted two-state solution.   Matthew M. Hausman, J.D., 5/23/2019, 9:30 PM

INTO THE FRAY: Cracks in the Dome?

The huge investments made in defensive systems are slowly emerging as an exorbitant and costly failure—or at best a very partial and temporary success. The time has come to rethink Israel’s strategic paradigm. Dr. Martin Sherman, 5/23/2019, 8:30 PM

The Torah is not ‘politically correct’: On Antisemitism

The radical Left and liberal Progressive's supposed opposition to antisemitism is dangerous.Dr. Chaim Charles Cohen, 5/23/2019, 6:35 AM

Stand with your local community Memorial Day Parade next week

Teaching your children and grandchildren about the true meaning of Memorial Day, reminding them of what the day is all about, can help them appreciate the sacrifices made by our fallen veterans and have them show their gratitude. Cindy Grosz, 5/23/2019, 6:07 AM

How to avoid liberals on Fox News

The concept of “fair and balanced” sounds good, but it does not seem okay when just one TV or print news source adheres to a principle so virtuous, when the rest of them don’t. Jack Engelhard, 5/22/2019, 4:52 PM

Why are the Palestinians so opposed to the 'Deal of the Century'?

There are many reasons the Palestinian Arabs oppose Trump's initiative, but a central one is that Iran stands behind Hamas and Islamic Jihad, and the Islamic Republic opposes any agreement that puts an end to hostilities with Israel.Dr. Mordechai Kedar, 5/22/2019, 4:35 PM

Burying Herman Wouk and burying his Zionism 

The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Jerusalem Post as well as wire services and other newspapers all managed to leave Zionism out of their summations of Wouk's life. Except that Zionism is what guided his life. Moshe Phillips, 5/22/2019, 4:00 PM

Americans are in the midst of a dangerously uncivil Civil War

The anti-Ilhan Omar rally this week was different, because everyone realized that all Jews, even - or especially - the Iran-loving Neturei Karta are in the sights of today's anti-Semites. And that the Democrats are party to it. Prof. Phyllis Chesler, 5/21/2019, 11:09 AM

The Mossad Exodus

The Mossad's most shining moments were its Zionistic operations to save Jews. Details of some are now going public.Dr. Harold Goldmeier, 5/21/2019, 9:23 AM

Let's make our avowed Iranian enemies think twice

We must not permit the threats of war by our brutal enemies to cause us to slink away in defeat Alan Bergstein, 5/21/2019, 8:54 AM

How are the Jews of Latin America faring?

An interview with Argentine-Israeli educator Gustavo Perednik.Dr. Manfred Gerstenfeld , 5/20/2019, 10:48 PM

Christianity is dying in Germany while Islam rises

Demographics, lack of community cohesion and lack of belief have brought about a mass demoliton of churches. Giulio Meotti, 5/20/2019, 10:34 PM

Pelosi's misplaced tolerance empowers Antisemitism

Select and vocal group of Jew haters have become more brazen, creating a climate that has made antisemitism far more permissible and lowers the threshold for Jew haters who take the rhetoric one step further. Ron Jager, 5/19/2019, 9:49 PM

Ayaan understands Islam’s Jew-hating Jihad for the prophet

Ayaan Hirsi: It is the most zealous, most potent Jew hatred. It both condemns Jews wholesale and seeks to destroy the State of Israel.” Dr. Andrew G. Bostom, 5/19/2019, 9:15 PM

FGM is a crime against humanity

Estimating the number of girls at risk for FGM in the United States leads to an alarming conclusion.Prof. Phyllis Chesler, 5/19/2019, 12:59 PM

The Poway killer's church is anti-Israel and pro-BDS

Just visit any Presbyterian church vestibule to find anti-Israel literature posted at the front door and BDS promotion. The Poway shooter regularly attended a Presbyterian church. Lee Kaplan, 5/19/2019, 12:52 PM

I’d rather talk baseball — Bryce Harper over Rashida Tlaib

Anti-Semitism is not natural to America. Well, it wasn’t, until some people came along, who have no idea what it means to say Jackie Robinson, Hank Greenberg, or Sandy Koufax. Jack Engelhard, 5/19/2019, 12:18 PM

On Jewish destiny and the calming extension of Jewish Sovereignty

Despite the terrible errors of Israel’s leaders, Jewish destiny continually has thwarted each and every effort to cede any part of Judea and Samaria.Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer, 5/17/2019, 5:03 PM

Democrats – profound on the surface but deep down, very superficial

Every Dem and his aunt glow with righteousness when the ‘Two State Solution’ hits town. Academic Dems more than others love to hang faculty gowns on this cause celebre. But a state for the Palestinian Arabs is foolishness writ large. Steve Apfel, 5/17/2019, 4:45 PM

The 'White Paper': Eighty years later

Chaim Weizmann called it a “Death sentence for the Jewish people.” David Ben Gurion famously stated that Zionists “would fight the war as if there was no White Paper and fight the White Paper as if there was no war.” Larry Domnitch, 5/17/2019, 4:30 PM

Kornet-armed Iranian boats could destroy the USS Lincoln

Calculations of range, firepower and thickness of protective steel show a fair possiblity that a Kornet missile may be able to penetrate the USS Abraham Lincoln's hull. Mark Langfan, 5/17/2019, 4:18 PM

In 1943 Jews found refuge in Sweden. In 2019 Jews are attacked there

Today, Helsingborg, Sweden is a small laboratory of European anti-Semitism. Giulio Meotti, 5/17/2019, 11:19 AM

An open letter to Rashida Tlaib

Were the long-suffering survivors of the Holocaust exploiters? Congresswoman Rashida Tliab thinks so. The question is how many unknowledgeable people she will convince. Lila Lowell, 5/16/2019, 4:02 PM

'High-minded culture' is now rife with antisemitism

High-minded well-known literary types have the chattering classes in thrall with Jew hatred which has, octopus-like, permeated every nook and cranny of what was formerly considered “high” culture.Prof. Phyllis Chesler, 5/16/2019, 12:59 PM

The Third Gulf War has already begun

The location and number of vessels in the Straits of Hormuz that were sabotaged by Iran this week send a clear message from Iran to Trump, and the US president will not take that lying down. Dr. Mordechai Kedar, 5/16/2019, 8:03 AM

Trump is set to reject UN and PLO on Jews' legal rights in 'West Bank'

Trump’s decision, if reports are accurate, will send the UN and the PLO into dual tailspins of their own making. The plans for a PA state are dead in the water. David Singer, 5/16/2019, 7:30 AM

Advocating for Jewish rights

The WJC Jewish Diplomatic Corps is a worldwide network of 300 Jewish professionals from 50 countries acting in the fields of diplomacy and public policy on behalf of world Jewry. Marc Levy, 5/15/2019, 9:19 PM

Academic freedom for me but not for thee

The Israeli public should know how their tax dollars are being spent, especially when they are supporting academics who, in the name of their radical ideologies, are happy to put the country at risk Douglas Altabef, 5/15/2019, 1:06 PM

Had there been Twitter in the Holocaust...

Technology was not the problem when it came to the apathetic world during the last Holocaust. And it is not the solution either.Rabbi Dr. David Nesenoff, 5/15/2019, 6:44 AM

Sorry, Rashida Tlaib: Israel was not a consolation prize for Jews

In Tliab's imagined version of history, after the Holocaust, the Jews were awarded a consolation prize — the establishment of Israel — at the expense of those already living there. Not so, Rashida.Dr. Robert Rozett, 5/15/2019, 6:08 AM

Should Israel do without US financial aid?

If Israel could manage without US financial aid, remaining friends while continuing US-Israeli cooperation on all fronts, it would be able to make decisions with only its own needs in mind. Will Blesch, 5/14/2019, 9:08 PM

Tliab's whopper

If it’s Monday, it must be Omar, and for Friday, count on Tlaib. This must be planned and cannot be coincidence…when the business is to target the Jewish people bit by bit. Jack Engelhard, 5/14/2019, 8:58 AM

Mr. President, no deals with Iran, only regime change

The provisions of the agreement negotiated by former Secretary of State John Kerry and his team of sycophants make Neville Chamberlain’s “peace in our time” negotiations with Hitler look like a stroke of genius. Amil Imani, 5/14/2019, 7:11 AM

Congressional Invocation Imam: 'Deceitful' Jews are apes and pigs

Straight from the Koran, Imam Omar Suleiman’s virulent canonical Islamic Jew-hatred was elaborated in copious, ugly detail during a 5-part, nearly 6-hour 2012 lecture series, “Lost Chronicles of Beni Israel,” still available online (as of 5/13/2019).Dr. Andrew G. Bostom, 5/14/2019, 6:12 AM

Antisemitism, migrants and integration

We asked interviewees their opinion about the statement that Jews cannot be trusted. In the six countries we conducted the survey in, approximately 45% of Muslims agreed with this claim. Among non-Muslims it was eight percentDr. Manfred Gerstenfeld , 5/14/2019, 12:03 AM

Happy Nakba Day!

On Nakba Day, Israeli Arabs are not mourning the Arab loss of the 1967 territories, but of all of today's Israel.  Ariel Natan Pasko, 5/13/2019, 8:01 AM

Zachary Baumol's pledge

It took 37 years, but Zack’s pledge, said to me on a bitterly cold night in the Judean Hills, was finally fulfilled.Rabbi Ron Yitschok Eisenman, 5/13/2019, 7:03 AM

Another look at Hemingway

I went back to “The Sun Also Rises” and wondered how I missed all the anti-Semitism when I read the book in my youth. Jack Engelhard, 5/13/2019, 6:24 AM

The Duma plea bargain

The court is basing their evidence upon testimony which was disqualified after it was found to be forced under prolonged torture and extreme duress. A letter from the minor's parents follows the article. Chaya Chava Shulman, 5/12/2019, 2:20 PM

Are Jews annoying? City Council candidate thinks so

There are antisemitic incidents in Brooklyn and Queens every day. How can Jews even think of voting for people supported by those who denigrate Jews? Cindy Grosz, 5/12/2019, 7:06 AM

Iran's plan for attacking US will fail

Iran’s “Non-Nuke EMP and Swarm” anti-US Fleet attack is doomed to failure as the US deploys its weaponry. Mark Langfan, 5/11/2019, 11:25 PM

Thinking the unthinkable: Aliya in response to shootings

Immigration by American Jews to Israel has never been more than a trickle and maybe it is time for a change. Moshe Phillips, 5/11/2019, 11:20 PM

To whom does the land of Israel belong? Ask Robert F. Kennedy

Robert F. Kennedy wrote a clear explanation of British perfidy and collusion with the Arabs against Israel in 1948. The “Two State Solution,” is the lingering result of the British and Arab collusion to destroy Eretz Israel. Paul Britto, 5/10/2019, 5:08 PM