Context is essential: Israel strikes back. Its actions arise from survival imperatives after years of rockets, tunnels, and massacres, not from unprovoked aggression. Opinion.
Israelis may be going into shelters when the siren wails, but they know who the enemy is and that their country protects them. European Jews are abandoning multiculturalism - which doesn't include them - and coming home. Opinion.
Iran's message to Washington was unambiguous: we can hurt you, but we are choosing not to, and that choice should be compensated with concessions at the negotiating table, and with Trump telling Israel to ignore rockets from Lebanon and missiles from Iran. Opinion.
How can a little boy in the Ashkenazi community have the same name as his father?
'Never Again' isn’t just about gas chambers. it’s a way of thinking. Opinon.
You see, if you cannot tame the enemy - tame your friend instead. Even if it means insulting Israel by boasting that “I had a really good talk with Hezbollah this week," spoken only hours before Hezbollah missiles were launched again. And soldiers are being killed. Op-ed.
It is up to us, men and women of good courage, to pick up the fight for Israel, and America as well. Opinion.
Opponents of President Trump’s decision to attack Iran appear to advocate for the same failed Obama-Biden approach toward a hostile country that wants to destroy America - and would hesitate to do it. Opinion.
For the Iranian regime, the purpose of negotiations is to force America to surrender. Opinion.
The doctrine established by then Israeli Prime Minister, Menachem Begin was that any regime in the region that is hostile towards Israel would be prevented from acquiring weapons of mass destruction or nuclear weapons.
They stormed the beaches and saved the world. The roughly 160,000 Allied troops who landed in Nazi-occupied France on June 6, 1944, not only successfully executed the largest air, land and sea invasion in history, they did so amid daunting obstacles, terrible bloodshed and stakes that couldn’t have been higher.
To oppose the existence of the Jewish state while claiming not to oppose Jews is like claiming to love someone while advocating the destruction of their home, identity, and collective future. And the term “Zionist" enables that deception because it sounds ideological rather than human. Opinion.
Control of the Beaufort area is a military achievement with operational significane for Israel and psychological significance for Israelis. Opinion.
The Western Wall does not need recognition from Senator Van Hollen. But American policy does need moral clarity. Opinion.
By delivering a ceasefire on paper while Hezbollah's actual behavior guarantees its collapse, Israel and Washington have handed Tehran a paper concession that costs nothing real. Opinion.
Hitler encouraged the Mufti’s wishful thinking that assisting Germany would lead to Arab sovereignty. In reality, the Nazis intended to use him, yet the Mufti was not merely being used.
Iran's generals were watching. They are already acting accordingly. Four Republicans broke with their own president in wartime to side with a Democratic-led measure that Tehran's state media will now replay on a loop. Opinion.
An important review of U.N. Watch’s new report on an issue that is an absolute scandal - like so much else at the corrupt and irrelevant organization that was meant to serve as a beacon of hope.
If Israel wishes to upend its criteria for daycare subsidy eligibility, it must rethink the whys and hows - and do it fairly, to avoid hypocrisy and double standards. Opinion.
Freedom of expression has become an offense for which it is not worth risking assassination. Opinion.
The dismissal of Yitzhar’s security coordinator is the Conceptzia in miniature: a warped system that punishes the men who make the enemy hesitate and bankrolls the enemy who does not. Opinion.
The objective today is no longer simply to contain the outer branches of Iran’s regional network, but to weaken the central nervous system that sustains and reproduces instability across the Middle East. Opinion.
Israel has a long history of winning wars and then not being allowed to finish them decisively, forfeiting its gains during the ensuing ceasefires forced upon it by international pressure. Opinion.
Iran is little more than a depleted skeleton of a state without a functional leadership. And at that moment, Trump obsessively wants to agree to a deal that lifts sanctions on the regime, unfreezes its assets, and allows oil sales, playing negotiation games with a cheater he can never beat. Opinion.
Israel’s critics treat Israel, the restored nation-state of an ancient people, as illegitimate, while accepting without hesitation the legitimacy of states whose borders were drafted by imperial powers only a century ago. Opinion.
President Trump and the Iranian regime may have very different goals, yet both appear more comfortable with the status quo than with the compromises necessary to close a deal. Opinion.
Extortion as a diplomatic strategy. Opinion.
France's panic tells us less about humanitarian principle than about the enduring European compulsion to rescue failing actors from the consequences of their own aggression, particularly when Israel is the one delivering them.
Mr, Netanyahu, for all our sakes, do the right thing and drop this "quiet for quiet" farce.
An investigation into Adam Hamawy's 1995 testimony for the Blind Sheikh. Exposé.
If Moses owed gratitude to sand, what do Jews owe to soldiers who literally die protecting Jewish lives?
Israel’s “deep state" led by unelected bureaucrats, legal advisors, and judges has thwarted the will of the people by preventing Israel’s elected government from passing laws and ensuring policies that reflect the voters' wishes. Opinion
What is meant by the term “Dahieh"? Which area does it refer to? Report.
Hezbollah's capacity to threaten northern Israel from southern Lebanon depends entirely on its ability to control and transit terrain up to the Zahrani River and ending that is the IDF objective. Opinion.
When we want to hold this mayor accountable, let us hold him accountable for what he does in office, not for declining an invitation he should never have received. Who needed him there? Opinion.
Mamdani did what 95% of Jews did. Opinion.
Israeli ambassador Yechiel Leiter’s new booklet takes aim at grotesque falsehoods about Israel-it may not change antisemites, who do not want to be confused by the facts, but it is crucial for “singing to the choir." Opinion.
In every conflict of this magnitude, there is one variable that decides the outcome before weapons, diplomacy, or economics: determination. Op-ed.
For decades, Swiss banks have served as a repository for funds linked to "rogue regimes", dictators, and corrupt officials. A glimpse behind the “chocolate-box" image. Opinion.
While Gaza has fractured the party’s elite and the small core of its most passionate activists, most Americans don’t count it among their priorities. Opinion
Pearl-clutching about the veteran journalist possibly being sent to the New York consulate misses the point. The Jewish state needs bold advocates more than traditional diplomats.
President Trump: Don’t make a new truly democratic black African Muslim nation have to grovel to earn America’s attention. Opinion.
Why Israel's security now starts at the Strait of Hormuz. Opinion.
Only a plea to be braver than the people in this column.
Jew-hatred is a matter of faith for progressive atheists who employ ancient mystical or religious imagery - often superimposed over the myth of "Palestine" - to justify smug sanctimony when villainizing Jews. Opinion.
Years of repression, executions, corruption, poverty, lies, and humiliation have pushed Iranian society to a breaking point. Many young Iranians no longer believe the Islamic Republic can be reformed from within. Opinion.
The hatred of Jews fills up and dominates the social media. Opinion.
More and more pro-Islamic Republic academics have emerged in the past few years, so many in fact that calling them "Academia's Iran Lobby" is not even slightly hyperbolic. Opinion.
Historical truths backed up by ancient artifacts are now pitted against a lethal echo chamber. Opinion.
Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum zt"l and the Jewish argument over Redemption.
The Gaza pledges were always theater. The Gaza Agreement the same. Opinion.
The anti-Mamdani rally was a success, but it lacked a crucial message. Opinion.
Older generations watch younger ones with a particular expression, a little heartbroken at how fast it all moves. They carry with them everything that the Jewish people have lost, and everything that has been built in its place. Opinion.
The Palestinian Arabs are not ready for a state. The world should stop pretending otherwise. Opinion.
The far left and hard right thrive on the same fuel: grievance, division and permanent outrage, Opinion.
Bombing Fordow and blowing up every centrifuge,will not have “destroy" the centrifuges’ enriched uranium. It will create a unranium mine. Opinion.
In the global eruption of Jew- and Israel-hatred, the campaign manager is Iran, Qatar the banker, China and Russia campaign co-chairs, Hamas and Hezbollah the front liners, and NGOs the movers. Opinion.
By conventional military metrics, Israel prevailed completely. By the metrics that the flotilla's architects actually care about, the results are more complicated. Opinion.
J Street pressures Israel during wartime, legitimizes narratives weaponized against Israel internationally, and helps fracture bipartisan support for the Jewish state. And Sebastien Levi responds in the JPost by scolding the ambassador who critiicized it. Opinion.
This is Iran’s familiar game of buying time, whose purpose is to avoid reaching a deal that would force them into a compromise they are not interested in. Opinion.
Europe has convinced itself that it has a problem of collective mental health instead of confronting the reality of a totalitarian ideology it imported in massive doses. Opinion.
Trump’s Iran gamble is a doctrine of pressure, pragmatism and power - and the stakes are high. Opinion.
Most Jew haters have little idea of what Zion and Zionism are. It's time they found out. Opinion.
The regime will not be negotiated out of existence, but America must not resuscitate it, because it can be outlasted. The empty cradles of Tehran are the most honest evidence available that outlasting it is an achievable strategy. Opinion.
The Middle East has generated a rich tradition of zoological conspiracy theories about Israel. Will the Times now assign a 4,000-word investigation into Israel's alleged army of killer dolphins and spy eagle operatives? Opinion.
Elite academic institutions helped normalize Nazism, although antisemitism was visible from the beginning. Today, they insist they are managing complexity, but too often, they are managing cowardice while Jewish students are intimidated. Opinion.
Jews craving inclusion are the antisemites’ delight. Do anti-Israel Jews know they act as doormats? Normal antisemites can hardly get by without them. Opinion.
In the Jew-hater's world, Israel should remain morally pristine and allow itself to be destroyed. That will show ‘em! But no thank you. Op-ed.
Someone should tell Donald Trump that the saying that "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" is a truism. Opinion.
The West reacts more passionately to an Israeli politician ridiculing activists than to entire political cultures built around hatred of Jews. Opinion.
Why Germany's indictments demand a hardline transatlantic response. Opinion.
Israel detained flotilla activists and fed them sandwiches. Spain met similar activists with clubs and riot police. Guess which country the world condemned. Opinion.
After all, Greta Thunberg and the others say that everyone in Gaza is ready to welcome them as liberators. Why not put that bonhomie to the test? Opinion.
What outcome can save his presidency? Opinion.
For some reason, the West cannot get its collective head around the fact that the Iranian regime’s mindset is not one of mutual existence.
Diaspora Jews cannot properly be defended if they do not or fail to comprehend the monstrosity of the scapegoating and demonization of Israel. Opinion.
Standing at Sinai is not an event that happened and ended. It is ground that continues - that is transmitted from vessel to vessel to vessel. And without that transmission, the standing at Sinai does not exist. Break the chain, and Sinai disappears.
After 100 years of Jew hatred, the New York Times is obsessed with destroying Israel, which is why we should not help them by allowing their reporters to work in our country. Opinion.
Hamas did not need Israel to know nothing. Hamas needed Israel to believe the wrong thing. The lesson of October 7 is that refusing to recognize war when it is being waged against you does not produce peace. It produces surprise, paralysis, and catastrophe. Opinion.
In response to the efforts by Jew-haters to bring an end not to history, but to the Jewish people and their one, tiny country, Jews must be ready to fight. Opinion.
The choice is between Israeli security architecture and a reconstituted Hezbollah. UNIFIL is not a factor. Opinion.
It's not only antisemitism - although if it makes US Jews leave they will take their money with them - but the Blue States' plan to milk the wealthy is already causing them to move to other places - taking their income with them. Opinion.
The machinery of Islamic propaganda understood the postmodern void: fill it with emotional narratives, sacred victims and white-Jewish executioners. It works! Opinion.
In 1973, the weapon was oil. In 2026, Tehran is reaching for the internet. An IRGC with supervisory authority over data flowing between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv under Hormuz is not a hypothetical threat. It is a strategic catastrophe waiting to materialize. Opinion.
J Street's opposition to the buffer zone stems from an abstract ideological discomfort. The debate should center instead on what can be done so that Israeli families can live without thousands of rockets aimed at their homes from a few miles away.
Today, 'Victory' means mobilizing our spiritual-national resources for a march of divine destiny. Opinion.
Belgium law invents a tame excuse for tampering with a miraculous ritual. Opinion.
Although the atmosphere of censorship and suffocation is unprecedentedly heavy, the people, with great difficulty and at every opportunity, find ways to access information and news. They are just below the boiling point. Opinion.
In response to the accusation of us all being settlers, the only answer is “guilty as charged." Do you know that settlers of different nationalities and locales succeeded in transforming much of the world? Opinion.
The city is at the root of our religious identities.
The fanatical ideology of the autocratic regime makes any attempt at negotiation pointless. And the result of any agreement a false front on Iran's part. Opinion.
The anti-Trump congressman from Kentucky is blaming his primary woes on Israel and Zionist billionaires. And the liberal press and Jew-haters everywhere are cheering for him. Opinion.
As America nears its 250th anniversary, the question is not whether the nation deserves applause for what it has achieved. It does. The question is whether Americans still understand and believe in what made those achievements possible. Review.
Our best weapon is the self-confidence Israelis exude. Opinion.
Eli, if by some extraordinary chance you are reading this: I’m sorry for accosting you on the Paris Metro. I don’t think you knew what hit you!
Eurovision in Israel is viewed through a much broader lens than music alone. Opinion.
An eye-opening summary and review of a book detailing how the Israel Supreme Court appointed itself a super-legislature whose opinions and policy goals are more important than those of the people as expressed through their elected representatives. Review.
President Trump's time in office has undeniably had a profound effect on Western democracies and global alliances, and has also provided a response to a pervasive feeling of American cultural malaise. Opinion.
Western governments once thought the Muslim Brotherhood a firewall against jihadism, although it was one of its principal incubators. In the US, it is at last being treated as the ideological engine that helped power the jihadist century. Opinion.
Drones are suddenly transforming warfare, from Ukraine to Iran. The first wave of a global robotization of war? Opinion.
Iran is a young country with a highly educated population whose professional and civic ambitions have been systematically crushed by a regime that views indigenous talent as a threat to be managed rather than a resource to be cultivated. This is an opportunity not to be missed. Opinion.
Our army serves a greater purpose than merely defense of land. The wars of Israel have a far more profound basis than simply territory. Opinion.
Kristof could serve as publicity agent for, say, Hamas and the Palestinian Authority. Opinion.
We’re living through a throwback to murderous beliefs from before the age of reason. Opinion.
In the current twilight of the West, America and Europe are still different, but only in this: they have taken different roads toward the same destination. Opinion.
To attend or not to attend? To attend is not merely to partake in a cultural observance; it is to engage with an administration whose words and positions are antagonistic. Opinion.
When Israelis alone become unwelcome among the nations, history begins repeating itself. That tragedy is especially painful in Greece. Opinion.
The Shabbat 250 proclamation is not merely a gesture: it is a response that recovers the original spirit of the Constitution. The enemies of the Jewish people rejected it. The guardians of history applauded. Those who love the free world rejoiced.
The hardest front of all is the enemy’s will to fight. That is not something you drone‑strike into submission or sanction into good behavior. It is something you crush by making defeat undeniable. It can be done. Opinion.
The White House is asking American Jews to keep the Sabbath in honor of America's 250th . It is even asking all Americans to celebrate their faith and freedom on Shabbat, the Jewish Sabbath. Why?
What does it mean to declare sovereignty in all of Israel? What difference does it make? Analysis.
Learning that Israel had just come into being, soldiers of a free Jewish state stood to recite the Shabbat kiddush in 1948 for the first time since their brother soldiers chanted during the final shabbat of Bar Kokhba’s rule in 135 CE.
Jerusalem appears in the Jewish Bible 669 times and Zion 154 times, and not once by name in the Qu'ran. Denial of Jewish Jerusalem is not a dispute over archaeology, but an attempt to dispossess the Jewish people retroactively-to strip them not only of land, but of memory; not only of sovereignty, but of legitimacy. Opinion.
I am trying to write this without crying. Alas I am failing. 10,000 photos, 1800 hours of video, 430 witnesses. One Shabbat morning. The festival of Simchat Torah. Hamas and - let’s not forget the many Gazan civilians - turned a Jewish holiday into a fiesta for savages.
The propaganda effort to disassociate Jews from Israel and Jerusalem is absurd. International Law, the Bible, Quran (5:21 and 17:104) and history recognize the rights of the Jewish People to Israel. So did President Trump.
Jerusalem reminds us that no matter how dark the world may feel, God’s promises endure. Jerusalem teaches us that resilience is born from faith.
He got up on a stage in Vienna, in an arena full of people who ranged from cheering fans to those actively chanting for his country’s destruction, and he performed. Op-ed.
Modern ideological sacrifice does not look like ancient pagan altars. It hides itself behind therapeutic language, sociological jargon, and moral self-congratulation. Opinion,
The FPV (First Person View) drone based on fiber-optic navigation - has become the prominent weapon used by Hezbollah against IDF forces in southern Lebanon. What danger does it pose and what can be done?
Calling it like it is: Anti‑racism that excludes Jews is not anti‑racism at all. Open letter.
When “Zionist" becomes culturally understood shorthand for something sinister, Hollywood no longer needs explicit antisemitism. The implication does the work. When Shane Gillis hosted a show aired live on Netflix, he used the word that way and Chelsea Handler fell for it. Op-ed.
Two stories that do much to shed light on the cruel nature of the British Mandate and the crimes committed against young Zionists are the cases of 16-year-old Alexander Rubowitz and Yaacov Eliav. Op-ed.
The ADL is trying to take the credit, but it is the Trump administration that taught college leadership that they needed to be more afraid of the federal government than the social justice mobs. Opinion.
They know that their amplification of totally insane blood libels plays a role in the attacks on synagogues, the stabbings, and the shootings. And they do it anyway. Opinion.
The hopeful motto of the French Revolution was 'liberty, equality, fraternity'. That last word has now been changed to 'submission.' Anyone entering certain suburbs and town centers today feels he has landed in another civilization. Opinion.
Iran cannot currently launch a missile campaign, but it can demand international vessels file paperwork. Hamas cannot currently rocket Tel Aviv, but it can sail toward a blockaded coast and let the cameras do the rest. Opinion.
Sentimental alliances, which governed a large share of Arab politics for decades, seem to have collapsed. Anyone seeking a stable relationship with the UAE must now offer more than displays of solidarity or the expectation of routine financial support. Opinion.
Iran is not irrational within its own framework. The framework itself is fundamentally different from the assumptions guiding much of Western strategic thinking. And that is a grave danger. Opinion.
Do not confuse a favorable historical moment, one which seems to be disappearing, with a covenantal destination. The American Jewish community has mistaken comfort for destiny.Op-ed.
How the Greens abandoned Britain’s environment for a cause many of their supporters cannot even define. Opinion.
What should alarm anyone who remembers the years before October 7 is not that the buildup is happening. It is how Israel is processing it. Opinion.
As Amit Segal writes: "Oct. 7 launched the propaganda war, but the trial of the perpetrators will put the propagandists on trial." Op-ed.
...and also birds, reptiles, fish, insects, and genies. A short, but very specific excursion into history.Op-ed.
There is something not just moral but even liberating about an apology culture, in which people take responsibility and learn from their mistakes. Opinion.
Rising antisemitism and NYC leadership have created a dangerous political climate. Opinion.
Churchill never wavered, and he was a winner. The UK sure could use him today. Opinion.
Only several years ago, one antisemitic act would have provoked sustained national outrage. Now, these acts are so numerous that one cannot even count them, let alone sufficiently lament them. Opinion.
When Israeli and Lebanese delegations sit down in Washington on May 14 and 15, they will not be creating something new. They will be attempting to recover something very old: the idea that the Lebanese state is capable of acting in its own interest. Opinion.
For decades, Swiss banks have served as a repository for funds linked to "rogue regimes", dictators, and corrupt officials, Opinion.
Children in Israel learn to think with AI, not against it, from very young ages. The American Jewish day school system has not. And that is the problem this column is about. Opinion.
Condemning Jew-hatred while simultaneously inciting it through incendiary distortions is the mind-twisting stock in trade of the anti-Israel left. Diaspora Jewish leaders should get up off their knees and start fighting it. Opinion.
While Europe indulges in suicidal moralism as the predicted clash of civilizations rages, the Jewish enclave produces, fights, and innovates. Opinion.
For us in 2026, faced with a resurgence of antisemitism and innocent Jews once again being targeted-- by fanatical Muslims and deluded leftists-the lesson of V-E Day must remind us that neutrality in the face of antisemitism is a form of complicity. Opinion.
The issue is whether American politics will normalize the kafkaesque claim that Israel is uniquely illegitimate, uniquely evil, uniquely undeserving of self-defense, and Jews uniquely unworthy of sovereignty. Opinion.
Israel will end up having to nuke the underground facility unless its destruction is part of any US-Iran agreement. Opinion.
Why is it that those who claim they are upset about Palestinian Arab lives lost in Gaza do not care about Iranian civilian lives lost in Iran? Opinion.
The lie is not merely that there is an ancient Palestinian Arab nation where history records none. The lie is that the Jews are foreign colonizers in their own ancestral homeland. Opinion.
Everything people believed was stable suddenly appears temporary. That realization is deeply uncomfortable - but perhaps it is also necessary. Opinion.
The anti-circumcision crusade is not really about medicine. It is about discomfort with Jewish distinctiveness. The real scandal is that less than a century after Europe tried to exterminate the Jews, European governments once again feel entitled to criminalize core Jewish religious life. Opinion.
One burned to destroy. One burned to endure. The third spoke, but said too little too late. Opinion.
Every Iranian marching peacefully in Berlin, Paris, or Washington represents countless others in Tehran, Shiraz, Mashhad, Tabriz, and Isfahan who are unable to protest without risking death. Opinion.
Who cultivated the wicked son, writhing in self-contempt and standing with our enemies? Who raised the simpleton, emptied of spiritual literacy, no longer able to formulate a question? Opinion.
Israelis talk of the flawed understanding of reality that allowed October 7 to occur, but US Jews labored no less under a flawed understanding of their own reality. How did this happen and what can be done? Opinion.
Israel is at war on all fronts.That’s my point. That is not news. Opinion.
When Democrats have no policy, they reach for guacamole. They tell Americans that the price of avocados is the real measure of whether the US should use its economic power against Mexican cartels, and that the price of gasoline is the real measure of whether Iran should be allowed to hold the civilized world hostage. Opinion.
Appealing to the British Government to safeguard the country’s Jews against the increasing anti-Semitic violence is like a mother rabbit imploring a fox to guard her baby bunnies. Opinion.
If you have not read the facts written below in your news sources, ask yourself whether “freedom of the press" really exists and whether mainstream journalism is worth saving. Opinion.
Contention isn’t a bug in Israel. It’s the operating system. The same has been true of Jews since time immemorial. Opinion.
What ingredient inhabits an aggressive capitalist who votes for Democrat candidates, almost all of whom say they detest capitalism, although many of those candidates are immensely wealthy themselves? Opinion.
The little known story of how in May 1942, dozens of Jewish soldiers lit a Lag Ba'Omer bonfire in the shadow of the pyramids, dancing and singing in honor of Rashbi and Jewish independence.
King Charles alluded to terror when discussing global instability-yet he declined to name it where it is most acute. That was not an accident. Opinion.
Simply put, the strategic lesson of the Trump years is not that America can be relied upon - it is that Israel has been fortunate enough to have a true friend in the White House at a critical moment, and that it should use that fortune to make itself permanently less reliant on whoever comes next. Opinion.
Iran has relied on dual-use German nuclear technology, equipment and training to enrich and produce weapon-grade uranium. Nazi ideology lives on in Iran, whose very name is derived from the world "Aryan." Op-ed.
This is a reality Israel understands all too well. Opinion.
When dissent becomes a strategy of communal self-erasure and double standards, it becomes pathology. Opinion.
When our children are asked who they are and they will be, our responsibility is to ensure they do not hesitate, do not shrink, and do not apologise, but answer with pride. Op-ed.
There is a critical distinction between rigorous critique and relentless vilification. When criticism crosses into the territory of demonization, it risks creating an environment where violence is normative. Opinion.
Data on Israel as a force and dollar multiplier for the US. Op-ed.
If loyalty to the regime truly exists, a simple question remains: why is the internet not opened?
Why Russia must be kept out of the Iran nuclear endgame. Opinion.
Samuel Hayek, president of the Jewish National Fund, shocked England by saying: “Jews have no future in the United Kingdom," Not only Jews, but Western civilizatiion. Opinion.
It’s a reversal of sympathies that baffles Iranian dissidents and pro-Israel activists, but it shouldn’t. Opinion.
The Prime Minister’s response to the Golders Green attack sounds like leadership. But listen carefully, it says far more than he intends. Opinion.
Shockingly, the West has framed antisemitism and anti-Zionism as conscience itself. Opinion.
To prevail in future wars, Israel will always need to be the “fittest" adversary. Recalling Charles Darwin and his interpreters, this signals a continuing capacity to “adapt" as required. Opinion.
Review of a book that serves as an indispensable contribution to the preservation of Holocaust memory, a reminder of the human faces behind the statistics, and a call to vigilance in the face of escalating Jew hatred.
Cartel membership came with Arab political expectations. Independence from it comes with Arab political freedom.
Where is Francesca Albanese when you need her? And Human Rights Watch? Both missing in action. Totally silent. Op-ed.
Antisemitism is perhaps the last acceptable prejudice, embraced alike by both right and left, religious and secular, Christian and Muslim. Op-ed.
The war on Jews could have been prevented if the media and political leaders had stood up for the truth instead of letting antisemites get away with their lies and justifying their hate.
The country that taught the world the rule of law now hesitates to enforce it where it matters most, and hopes the language of concern will compensate. It will not. Opinion.
In Egypt's morally obscene rhetoric on the Iran Warr, Iran becomes the victim, Israel becomes the aggressor, Nazis become a rhetorical weapon against Jews, and the Holocaust becomes either a lie, an exaggeration, or a political inconvenience. Opinion.
The story of a courageous Iranian diplomat who operated entirely within the belly of the beast, using the Nazis’ own pseudoscientific racial theories against them - and saving thousands. Op-ed.
Israel's activist Supreme Court has significantly overstepped its traditional role in statutory interpretation in significant ways, an explosive recipe for national unrest. Opinion.
Firm deadlines must be reestablished. Pressure via blockade must remain constant until the enriched uranium is rendered unusable and the ballistic missiles neutralized. Opinion.
Hamas is looking for a new home, both metaphorically and literally. Erdogan may be waiting in the wings, but the facts are that Hamas leaders have been forced to leave their Qatari luxury accommodations. And no one cares. Op-ed.
Democrats and their media allies spent years calling Trump Hitler, MAGA fascist and law enforcement the SS reborn. Now, when someone acts on the logic they created, they pretend the problem is not their demonization, but everyone’s equally guilty rhetoric. Opinion.
We live. We really live. We make it count in the most ordinary ways possible, because the ordinary is what gets taken. Opinion.
For every ugly meme or video taken down in social media, thousands replace it. For every excellent rebuttal article by our finest writers and pundits, new censorship is introduced. Op-ed.
Strategic threats do not announce that they will eventually become irreversible. But by the time nuclear capability is fully realized, prevention is no longer an option. It must be dealt with now, even if gas priices go up for a while. Opinion.
The Israel-Lebanon equation is a hinge of the Iran conflict, if not of global history. In fact, southern Lebanon has become a frontline in a wider Iran-Israel conflict. Opinion.
A courageous book by the woman who initiated and led the famous congressional hearing on exploding antisemitism in three prestigious American universities, exposing their moral rot with a simple question. Review.
Iran's weakening leaves a vacuum. Will its role be filled by countries waiting to emulate its use of proxies, armament and pressure to sow chaos and increase their own power, or by a different view leading to prosperity and peace in the region? Opinion.
Some US soldiers were enraged, others went mad after witnessing unspeakable horrors in the Dachau concentration camp, and they killed their SS prisoners. Op-ed.
Cancel culture was just the warm-up. The next step is physical because the radical left no longer wants to convince: it wants to bury. Opinion.
Bahrain is battling the network of citizens, residents, and IRGC-cultivated operatives embedded inside Bahraini society who passed targeting intelligence to Tehran while the attacks were still ongoing. Iran has spent decades cultivating this 5th column - and not just in Bahrain. Op-ed.
It is imperative to underscore to the public what the stakes in this conflict are, and why nothing less than the total capitulation of the theocrats in Tehran will suffice as an acceptable outcome. Opinion.
A major financial opening for Diaspora Jews has arrived, signed in the Knesset on March 30. Read about it below along with a message for decision makers. Op-ed.
The lesson of 1929 is not historical trivia. The pattern is painfully familiar. And a historian called the period “Year Zero," because it shattered the remaining illusions of peaceful coexistence. Op-ed.
Rabbi J.B. Soloveitchik wrote of six knocks. We still hear them today, but they are not only knocks of gratitude. They are also knocks of mourning, of anger, of exposure. The Beloved, however, is still knocking and outside the door.
Five times a day this death-cult prays to their Moloch. Opinion.
And the IDF is the only force in the world willing to emasculate Hezbollah to the point that Lebanon is no longer a battered wife. Opinion.
By platforming Ussama Makdisi as a moral voice on Israel, America's newspaper of record handed its op-ed page to a man who publicly said he wished he had been among those who massacred 1,200 Israelis on October 7. Opinion.
Different lives, different arenas, the same decision to draw the line.
New York State mandates Holocaust education. It's the law. But a third of Long Island voters either want it gone or won't even defend it. Opinion.
The truth is that Iran's usual approach to managing pressure, raising tensions to extract concessions, no longer produces the same outcomes. Opinion.
The jury is still out on Ahmed al-Sharaa. And it is not a theoretical question, because developments inside Syria matter far beyond its borders. Opinion.
While everyone inside Iran has suffered since the ceasefire came into effect, with the rampant repression gaining steam during the pause in fighting, Iran’s ethnic minorities in particular have felt the heat
The court and a legal bureaucracy - that were never elected -increasingly treat democratic choice itself as a dangerous force to be contained by a permanent enlightened class. And the outrage is growing. Opinion.
A successfully concluded, permanent deal ends the lucrative Saudi bailouts, American military contracts, high profile presidential phone calls - and Pakistan was never bombed so it feels no urgency. Opinion.
The word genocide is being deployed as a political weapon, detached from its legal meaning and its historical weight. This cheapens the memory of victiims of real genocide.
Why this insistence on placing Israel at the center of a decision that, by all available evidence, originated within the strategic calculus of the United States itself? Opinion.
Israel is very concerned that it may be losing America. America should be no less concerned that it’s losing Israel. Opinion.
When Carlson said that killing the murderous antisemites supporting Haman was a genocide, he erased all context, turning the victims into the aggressors and exposing a broader pattern that also removes intent from the equation. Opinion.
in Alexanderplatz, which was the stage for Hitlerian parades, DDR marches and today tourist selfies, an incredible pantomime has taken place. Opinion.
Israel exists precisely because Jews learned, at unbearable cost, that eloquence without power is fragile, and law without force is often meaningless. Opinion.
Turkey’s trajectory is not dependent on the outcome of the Iranian case - it is a function of its desire to claim leadership within the Sunni world. Israel must recognize and react to this reality. Opinion.
It is not only oil being blocked in the Strait of Hormuz, but materials crucial to crops are not going through the strait. If nothing is done, consequences wll be dire and famine is around the corner. Opinion.
The United States and Israel must not repeat the mistakes of 2015. Critiical objectives must be met by agreement or by renewed fighting, because in spite of the heavy damage inflicted on it, the Iranian regime has remained in power and continues to function. Opinon.
Only in the Jewish tradition are arguments considered the safest path to peace, harmony, and holiness. Israel today is the proof of that tradition's longevity. Opinion.
People often wonder how they would have acted had they been alive during the Holocaust. Many non-Jews seem to be failing that test today, but some have passed with flying colors and are willing to pay the price. Opinion.
The lie claiming that Jews are the hidden hand behind wars - this time the Iran War - has followed the Jewish people from Shushan to Des Moines to September 11 to the present.
The last thing the U.S. president should want is to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory. Opinion.
The Jewish vote is switching from the Democratic party to the Republican party and we likely will see in the next Presidential election the first time the Republican candidate receives a majority of the Jewish vote. Opinion.
The lived reality of Israelis rarely makes it into the conversation.
In the midst of war, disruption, and uncertainty, the country has continued to build, compete, innovate, and dream. That is not incidental. It is the story. Opinion.
As long as the Jewish people exists, we will continue to remember those the world tries so hard to forget:
The faces of the fallen swim before my eyes...
The link between sacrifice and statehood is not historical, it is immediate, and it remains widely misunderstood.
We say their names in the same breath as Am Yisrael Chai, because that phrase only means something because of what it cost.
The writer, a bereaved parent who lost two sons on October 7, 2023, strenghthens the Jewish People despite his pain.
Parallels can be drawn between the pre-state era and today. The current Israeli leadership must draw the necessary lessons from the historic decision made then by David Ben-Gurion-the declaration of statehood. Op-ed.
We must sustain those who came home from battle physically unhurt, but psychologically scarred. Opinion.
Gaza's future must be built on truth. And the truth is that the Jews were there first, returned again and again, and were expelled each time by force.
The scenes are worthy of the Palace of the Absurd, but the venue is called the United Nations instead. Opinion.
Why we never feel we are winning, when we really are. Opinion.
Without a permanent guarantor, we are merely subsidizing Iran’s "long game" until the next administration. Opinion.
A deep dive into Iran’s power structure, economic capture, and social rupture. Opinion.
Years ago I threw out a letter to Abe Rosenthal, then editor in chief at The New York Times, and surprisingly, he answered. Turns out, he was the boss, but was surrounded by people like Tom Friedman and needed to vent.
In a displaced persons camp in Salzburg, just days after the 5th of Iyar 5708, Holocaust survivors did not merely hear that the Jewish state had been declared. They saw redemption take form before their eyes.
The 1492 expulsion of Jews formalized the redefinition of the Jew, who had contributed so much to Spain, from neighbor to threat. People removed not only from land, but from legitimacy, just as Pedro Sanchez is doing today, having learned nothing. Opinion.
What is unfolding is the systematic embedding of Turkish institutional infrastructure into Syrian economic life at a moment when Damascus is too weak, too dependent, and too ideologically aligned with Ankara to resist. Opinion.
We understand only too well that ceasefire means nothing to terrorists. It only gives them time to reorganize until the next round. Opinion.
The intensity of the frenzy is not proportional to Israel’s misdeeds; it is directly proportional to Israel’s success.Opinion.
The story of the Jewish people has never been simply that we are still here. Op-ed.
An important piece of legislation recognizes what history, faith, and scholarship have long affirmed. Opinionl
US combat pilots attest that the IAF operates at a pace that “shatters global standards."
However you look at it, the reality on the ground suggests a volatile outcome. Opinion.
The pope’s genuflection to Islam spells disaster for Western civilization. Opinion.
Would his critique have been as forceful, as immediate, if the conflict in question did not involve Israel?
A naval blockade can create leverage against Iran, but only over time, while unrealistic expectations risk undermining the strategy itself. Analysis.
When we hold this ground through everything it demands; the wars, the worry, the grief that becomes just part of the texture of life here, we are holding it for you too.
Parts of the Diaspora are beginning to view Israel not as a source of protection and refuge, but as a problem. Their turning policy disagreements into public campaigns against Israel, particularly during wartime, crosses a line. Opinion.
Introducing modern Israel’s fearless pioneer leader, Daniella Weiss. America's Daniel Boone has met his match. Opinion.
The battle at Deir Yassin was turned into a fabricated “massacre," helping launch a strategy of demonization that is still used against Israel today. Opinion.
Those who understand Israel's existential danger are not the Islamizing Western European nations but the small, threatened ones. Opinion.
On Iran, Pope Leo tragically follows the silence of Pius XII on the Nazis and the Holocaust.
Some day, in a world in which factual accuracy is honored and things are called what they really are, Jew-hatred will again be called ‘Jew-hatred’ and we will no longer use the anachronistic term ‘antisemitism.’ Two writers write two totally disparate analyses of the phenomenon. Review.
If Iran can be a member of the UN Human Rights committee, why not let it host the entire corrupt organization? Opinion.
We cannot defeat an enemy we refuse to name and whose ideology we are afraid to confront. It's time to define the Arabs of Judea and Samaria, whose children are taught to kill Jews in school, as part of the enemy. Opinion.
One cannot assume that the Lebanese government will carry out any agreed upon measures in the near term. Responsibility for safeguarding the residents of northern Israel lies with Israel. Analysis.
When Holocaust survivor Aryeh Goldberg passed away, he left his son, Tzachi, his gold Patek Phillippe watch. On opening the box, Tzachi found an old black and white photo of two women hidden behind the watch.
Yom Hashoah demands clarity. Nazi antisemitism was not another round of oppression, however cruel, but something far more sinister. And Yom Hashoah is not only what happened then, but what we do now. Opinion.
Why Yom Hashoah cannot be universalised and why that matters now more than ever. Opinion.
The story of Meir, Meir, who endured unimaginable hardship and went on to build a full life, then helped create new possibilities for others who followed.
On the first day of the uprising led by Anielewicz, the Jewish fighters forced the Nazis, used to preying on the weak and defenseless, to retreat. Op-ed.
She was older and she was small and she began to tell us what had happened to her, slowly, in detail, with a kind of pain that exists outside of language. Op-ed.
The Regime’s program calls for ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’, which are not vapid slogans, but religious imperatives. Opinion.
The facts show that it was the British who sat with the Moslems and planned the time and date that Jerusalem Arabs would slaughter Jews on April 13, 1948. Why do we divert our eyes from that damning truth? Opinion.
The Hadassah convoy massacre should be remembered as part of a much larger and uglier truth: when Jews are murdered, the world finds ways to excuse it, explain it, or ignore it. Opinion.
Harvard's "deliberate indifference" to campus antisemitism began long before October 7, 2023 and shows no signs of being corrected, while for the entire 21st century, Columbia University has been ground zero of academia's anti-Israel problem. Opinion.
Ten years ago Donald Trump shocked the respectable classes by stating that “no-go zones" were emerging in Europe. By now, it is an open secret, the number growing daily. Opinion.
The very tools used against the community should be used to empower it. The Jewish community cannot afford the cynicism that says nothing can be done. Opinion.
Our heroes have shown our enemes and the nations of the world sitting on the sidelines, what it means to be Jewish, what it means to be a proud Israeli, what it means to be a true military professional, and what it means to be the best at what you do. Opinion.
Have you forgotten what happens on a day when Israel relaxes? Opinion.
The ceasefire reveals what much of the commentary missed: diplomacy did not produce quiet - deterrence did. In the Middle East, calm follows consequences, and Israel understands this. Opinion.
When Israel calls a unit elite, it refers to demonstrated capability, rigorous selection, and a decades‑long record of operational performance - not political branding by a fawning media. Opinion.
It’s been chilling to witness a media and political class-mainly on the left, but also on the right-from the start, willing America and Israel to lose this war in which Iran used proxy armies to impose its murderous brand of Islam throughout the world. Opinion.
A history of disproportionate contribution and disproportionate blame. Opinion.
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s position serves as a cautionary example of how political ambition and ideological alignment can distort judgment.
On some of the hills in Judea and Samaria, there is a small group who wish to redeem the Land of Israel, but are ready to do so even if it means lawlessness. And we who love the land must stop them. Opinion.
The internal Iranian dimension of this war must not be overlooked. The regime in Tehran is not a misunderstood regional actor seeking calm. It is not a victim of circumstances. And it is certainly not a government pursuing peace or its citizens' welfare. Opinion.
In "The Canary on the Couch", psychiatrist Kenneth Levin analyzes not just the Jewish community itself, but the psychological health of its leadership. Review.
An adversary that does not accept the permanence of the opposing state does not experience a ceasefire as a settlement. It experiences it as a reloading interval. Israel must act in accordance with that unpleasant truth. Opinion.
A fabulist possesses an astonishing ability to assert alternate realities and spin fictional tales of accomplishment and conquest. But at this point, it seems everyone is lying. Opinion.
A familiar dilemma exists: to reoccupy Southern Lebanon, which might push Hezbollah north of the Litani River. But that doesn’t remove the terror group’s long-range capabilities or prevent its rebuilding. Opinion.
Reality will remain unchanged unless internal fracture within the regime, sustained pressure from an increasingly disillusioned society, and the willingness of external forces to move beyond ambiguity to a defined strategy, change it. Opinion.
Resistance to Islamic totalitarianism is not supported by Western public opinion, especially not by apathetic France. The protesting Iranians remain forgotten. Opinion.
The ceasefire exposed Trump’s bluster, lending him the climb-down of all climb-downs, thereby, endangering the free world. Opinion.
What is missing, and what Israel's own experience of deterrence theory makes painfully legible, is a victory doctrine. Opinion.
Arabs' illegal planting on Jewish farms is a microcosm of their strategy to encroach on all of Judea and Samaria. Opinion.
The party's current trajectory is unsustainable, and the gap between the party and the electorate has grown too wide to ignore. Opinion.
The PA is skewing the Home Front's rules meant for protection of worshipers during the ongoing war to claim danger to Al Aksa and incite the Arab population. This is nothing new.
Israeli police protecting a cardinal vs. Islamic terrorists killing Christians. Who does the West villify? It’s the same perverse logic that turned Gaza into a global obsession while ignoring Chinese camps for Uyghurs, church burnings in India, beheadings in Somalia and Iran massacring protestors. Opinion.
The anti-Trumpers do not oppose concentrated power. They oppose rival power, while excusing true tyrannies of censorship, confiscation, judicial activism, and bureaucratic dominion in the name of the 'protection of democracy'. The close Israeli parallel is impossible to miss. Opinion.
There are lies that wound, and there are lies that kill. Op-ed.
Western reconstruction funds and diplomatic recognition must not precede verifiable proof that Iranian smuggling networks have been permanently dismantled. The proclaimed neutrality of Ahmed al-Sharaa is a diplomatic posture, not an operational reality. Opinion.
If Israel stops-does Iran stop? Opinion.
Afraid to be identified as Jews, the owners of the New York Times embedded their own Reform Jewish self-hatred into their newsroom to perpetuate its hateful reporting about Israel and the Jews.
Passover teaches freedom, but some progressive prophets insist it’s just another homework assignment in lecturing the Israelis. Opinion.
Jabotinsky anticipated the recurring need to answer, to defend, to explain - and sometimes simply to endure. Read and gain strength.
As with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, only total victory and absolute, unconditional surrender will fix the problem in Iran. Opinion.
Zoroastrian culture, if brought back to its former glory, can make all the difference to downtrodden Iranians' pride. Opinion.
Cultural DNA matters. You cannot allow or promote celebrating seventh-century conquests every Friday and then act shocked when some take the lesson literally. And Iran under the Ayatollahs is Nazi Germany redux. Opinion.
Mother's family nearly all wiped out, Father turning, as always to Torah, and explaining how our ordeal, and deliverance mirrors the Biblical Exodus. Op-ed,
Different arenas, the same instinct, to step forward, to speak, to stand firm, to refuse to bow, to cower, or to wait.
The war broke the Islamic Caliphate of Shi’ism but hardened its inner core, elevating the junta within while clerical authority is a façade. U.S. and Israeli strikes have eroded Iran’s conventional and nuclear capability while empowering the IRGC, intensifying repression. Opinion.
'Countries in complex security situations must rely on alliances that protect stability and secure vital passages rather than emotions or ideology,' says the writer. Read carefully to fill in the names of those forces not identified by name.
With its new ruling, Turkey can be called 'a consolidated autocracy utilizing 21st-century technology to enforce a level of societal control reminiscent of medieval absolutism.' Opinion.
Repeat killers, hostage deals, and media spin led Israelis to a breaking point. Opinion.
The long-term consequences of weak Western leadership, the Democrats' giving in to Muslim pressure, the failure of multiculturalism with unassimilated Islamic immigration, and the risk of demographic and ideological pressures are eroding the open societies we take for granted. Op-ed.
The Haggadah instructs the adult to take the first step: “You open up the conversation for them."
What has changed and what has not changed this year?
Iran is great at turning battlefields into bases for its ideology, and Sudan's military culture is soaking this up. If no one stops them, they will control the Red Sea and Khartoum will host permanent Iranian drone teams, electronic spying stations, and naval advisors reaching deep into Africa's interior.
Only a fool, an ignoramus, or a useful idiot could suppose that the current wave of hatred against Israel and the West will stop with the Jews. Op-ed.
Those who can see the light know exactly what they are looking at.
Let that sink in. An ally-protected by American power-shut its doors on the very country fighting to defend it. Opinion.
Doubling the number of Jews in Judea and Samaria is the strategic imperative of the next two years. Op-ed.
Major Jalaa Ibrahem HY"D came from a family of IDF fighters. He grew up with Israel's Declaration of Independence on the wall outside his room, and although he had a future in NASA, he followed the family tradition and chose the green IDF uniform instead.
Read about one of the hottest topics currently dominating the Iranian media space: the potential entry of Iraq-based Hashd al-Shaabi into Iran, a move which is less about defending the nation and more about defending the regime. Opinion.
“The fox knows many things, but the hedgehog knows one big thing."-Archilochus.
Egypt faces a classic lose-lose proposition. And once the indispensable Arab mediator, Cairo now watches its traditional leverage erode. What will it do? Opinion.
How can one celebrate one's freedom while rushing to a safe space, living in exile or starving in a Nazi death camp? Op-ed.
Aid to displaced persons is being transferred to an affiliated organization. Report.
The legacy of Passover deeply impacted the Early Pilgrims and the Founding Fathers, and was essential in shaping of the US culture and political discourse. Op-ed.
The rise of antisemitism under Mamdani is not merely a political issue; it is a moral one. It challenges the very principles upon which New York City-and indeed the broader American project-are founded. Opinion.
Where are the hundreds of billions of dollars in military hardware that the United States and Western Europe sold to these Arab "emperors without clothes" over decades? Opinion.
To ask what an American-Israeli victory over Iran would “look like" is to assume that there exists a final state that can be identified, fixed, and preserved. There is no such state. Opinion.
The US must counter Iran’s brazen plan to impose a permanent Hormuz Toll, extorting millions from every commercial vessel seeking safe passage through the Persian Gulf. Opinion.
The percentage of Jews in Harvard was once 25%, but that number has gone down to 7% of undergraduates for next year. Op-ed.
The public must be presented with a clear list of differences in worldview and action between the national and the left-wing camps. Specifically, Likud should remind the public of the disastrous policies initiated or supported by the Left. There is a large arsenal of such material. Op-ed.
Iran is at a historic crossroads. The planned gathering of Iranians in Washington, D.C. this Sunday is a moment of collective visibility signaling that Iranians, both inside and outside the country, are aligned in their desire for a different future. Op-ed.
It could have been me. Op-ed.
With the U.S.-Israel joint operation to stop the death cult of the Islamic Republic of Iran, new fatwas were issued by Muslim clerics everywhere, obliging all Muslims (Shiite and Sunni) to take revenge. A clear call to kill Christians and Jews. Opinion.
We must do whatever is in our power to protect the status quo of the Kotel, thus protecting the status quo of halakhic decisions that come under the purview of Israel’s Chief Rabbinate. Opinion.
And the strange case of Iran's American propagandist--Calla Mairead Walsh
The most dangerous form of antisemitism is not the one that declares itself openly. It is the one that hides inside arguments that sound reasonable. Opinion.
Each Friday I try to end the week by saying Shabbat Shalom to those who have made a difference over the past few days, those who have stepped forward when it mattered most, often quietly, often without recognition. Every week the names change, but the idea remains the same, to recognise those who run towards the fire.
The Abraham Accords laid the economic and diplomatic groundwork, but the crucible of the current war has forged the true alliance, as Iran attacks GCC states. Opinion.
Europe, do you hear the gong of danger? Because it is not enough to pray, first we Europeans must save ourselves from ourselves. Opinion.
Impulsive antisemitism snares even the best of people. They don’t know they have it until it mutilates. Opinion.
After the digital age begat Twitter and Facebook mobs, the paper of record bid a fatal farewell to objectivity. On the Iran war ‘all the news that’s fit to print’ roots for the regime. Opinion.
If the Iranian regime isn’t totally defanged but survives to recover and rearm, it will not only continue to menace the region. Such an outcome will also advertise that the leader of the free world is a paper tiger. Opinion.
Recent acts of hatred and cowardice in the West perfectly encapsulate the unique ability antisemitism possesses to destroy the civilizations it infects. Opinion.
In covering the misnamed 'Arab Spring', later cynically dubbed the 'Arab Winter,' media provided sycophantic and uncritical analysis of Obama's moves, while treatment of the war with Iran is tinged by reluctance to say anything positive about Trump. Or Israel.
Should students escape as fast as possible to home since missiles are falling and they are on their own in Israel? Or should they stay in Israel because Israel is home and it’s the right thing to do? Opinion.
The lessons of 1979 are clear: strategic hesitation carries long-term consequences. Is this going to be a definitive war that defeats the oppressor? Iranians are waiting. Opinion.
The US-Israeli war against Iran is not failing-the media's analysis is. Here is what is really going on. Analysis.
'Let my people go" iis only half the verse Moses said to Pharaoh in G-d's Name. While the first part of the verse took years of fighting to free Soviet Jewry, the end of the verse -'so they can serve Me' was ignored. A memoir.
There may no longer be a single, coherent entity that can be called “Iran" in the context of negotiations. Opinion.
Should Israeli municipalities insist that storefront signs include Hebrew or should they not? In either case, why? Op-ed.
God orchestrates destiny and history so that the Jewish People always win.
The human mind is built to respond to images and narrative, not to cross-reference satellite data and dig for facts. Opinion,
Kharg Island is not just an Iranian asset; it is a global pressure point whose fate could influence Israel’s security environment for years to come. Opinion,
The United States does not need Israel to tell it that Iran is a threat. The evidence is written in blood-American blood-spilled over decades of unprovoked aggression. Opinion.
Pope Leo suggested recently that Christian political leaders who start wars should "go to confession". NYC Councilman James Gennaro responds.
What happens when a society no longer recognises the moment it has gone too far. Opinion.
Israel’s claim to be the “only democracy in the Middle East" has become increasingly farcical. Opinion.
Preventing catastrophe rarely looks reasonable in the present. It looks premature. It looks aggressive. It looks unpopular. Until the catastrophe arrives. Opinion.
We Europeans are a bunch of cowards who have lost the sense of sovereignty and reciprocity. Opinion.
The Director of National Intelligence assessed that Iran remains committed to its decade-long effort to develop surrogate networks inside the United States. Examples aboung, starting in 1979. Opinion.
There is a particular kind of loneliness that comes with living here and watching how the outside world talks about us and contextualizes the barbaric murders of our children. Opinion
It's not just Netanyahu they hate at Cornell - it's Israelis in general. Op-ed.
Jabotinsky’s words of many years ago are still relevant today. Opinion.
Iran’s missiles are no longer a Middle East problem. Europe hasn’t noticed. Opinion.
The primary, overarching target is the regime’s very claim to absolute authority. The coalition’s most potent tactical opening lies precisely in the exploitation of this glaring succession void. Opinion.
An Iranian shares his thoughts, hopes and fears. Op-ed.
Show trials, torture, public hangings - how the Iranian regime cows its citizens. Opinion.
There is a line I come back to often when trying to explain what it means to be a Jew.
Not argument as mere disagreement, still less as rhetorical combat, but as a disciplined, structured, and socially sanctioned process through which ideas are tested, refined, and, if necessary, dismantled. Opinion.
Churchill's words in 1921 are as relevant now as they were then, let alone Menachem Begin's. Op-ed.
The writer sees three options open to Trump at this point in time, not necessarily the same as Israel's. Opinion.
Sometimes diplomacy doesn’t begin with treaties or official visits. Opiniion.
The war with Iran is clarifying who is for civilization against barbarism-and who is not. Opinion.
By reopening Rafah now, Israel risks providing the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) with a logistical reset button. Opinion.
If there is one nation that has stood on the front lines of global security, often at great cost and with minimal support, it is Israel. But instead of being thanked, it is condemned. Op-ed.
This war of the future will be fought not only with swords, but with words and speech against a virulent ideology masquerading as a theology. Opinion.
Defeatism is the worn-out garment of decadent Western ruling classes. Not so the US and Israel. Opinion.
In America, where war, this war, is a distant thing, it concerns us no more than who won an Oscar, and who won the ball game. Opinion.
The Strait of Hormuz Is choking, And Europe Is looking away. Opinion.
Millions of Iranians are waiting. Waiting for a breaking point, for the collapse of a system that has long defined itself through fear and repression. Opinion.
How the coalition that once stood with Jews against facism, now marches beside those calling for their destruction. Op-ed.
What is the next pretend peace going to be - hudna, tahida, hudaybia or sulch? None of these misused Arabic words mean peace, just different periods of relative quiet during which they can restock weapons stores. Opiniion..
Border enforcement is unpleasant. So is cleaning up after a government that spent years refusing to enforce the border at all. Opinion.
Iran shattered the carefully cultivated myth of Omani exceptionalism, the one diplomatic card Tehran played for decades to shield itself from total Gulf isolation. Opinion.
The US victories in World War II (WWII) over Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan offer profound lessons on transforming militant dictatorships, led by cult-like virtually religious ideologues. Opinion.
“A lot of Americans are embarrassed by the fact that our leadership rarely represents our best interest and seems to prioritize the best interests of Israel in every instance"-Ana Kasparian. Not quite.
In 2008, 120 countries signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions, grounded in a simple idea: some weapons are so dangerous to civilians that their use cannot be justified. Where is the outcry now that Iran is launching them at Israel? Opinion.
This Khuzestan operation is a limited but strategically transformative military action designed to seize the economic heart of a hostile nation without triggering the civilizational overreach that destroyed previous Middle Eastern interventions.
Among the Jew Haters’ many odious traits is an extreme level of ingratitude. How about their being consistent and abstaining from polio vaccine, for example, discovered by a Jew? Op-ed.
The PA mistreats women, a fact glossed over or ignored by human rights groups intent on blaming Israel for everything, but can they ignore its honoring murderous female terrorists on Internationl Women's Day? Opinion.
While Israel and the US are concentrating on Iran, a Turkish-Egyptian earthquake is about to erupt that may put the crucial EastMed Gas Forum at risk. Opinion.
There is a vast difference between talking about antisemitism and living it. Still, Jewish history has always been written by the Jews who refused to wait for permission to exist.
No publicity, propaganda nor political proclamations from the United Nations, NGO’s, the EU or the Islamic bloc greet the atrocities being perpetrated as I write. The silence is deafening. Opinion.
Falsified data is exposed in this thorough demographic review, refuting the canard of an "Arab time bomb" in Israel. Report.
Experts assess the current location and possible fate of Tehran’s nuclear stockpile. Analysis
If Israel does not overthrow the ayatollahs while Iran is at its weakest, we guarantee that our grandchildren will fight and die in future wars in Gaza and Lebanon. Opinion.
A man targeted a synagogue. That is the story. No amount of geopolitical context should blur that truth, but the NYT subtly blamed Israel. Opinion.
Israel is in this war for existential reasons. Can you understand that? Opinion.
How are we? We are great. Actually, scratch that. We are better than good and great, we on fire over here. And you better believe it. Op-ed.
President Trump has prevented a Holocaust in both America and Israel. One day the world will give him the credit he deserves.
The Syrian army is exploiting the regional escalation - which includes missile and UAV interceptions over southern Syria and Israel’s engagement on additional fronts - in order to move forces and expand its deployment in the area. Report.
The radical nature of Iran's Islamic leaders and the people who follow them blindly indicate that will not be another change of leader Maduro event, nor a war decided through bombardment alone. Analysis.
A militia of uniformed, bearded men took possession of the streets of Manchester. On horseback. They charged anti-Iranian regime protesters like something out of an Islamic Western. The police did nothing. Op-ed.
A unilateral arrangement is required to ensure that Iran can never close this vital waterway again. Opinion.
Why total regime change and an interim non-Islamic leader like Reza Pahlavi offers Iran its only hope of internal prosperity and Western acceptance. Opinion.
DHS must prepare for the reality that it is dealing with a fanatical, brutal, and criminal cult on American soil. Op-ed.
President Trump’s warning that trade relations with Spain could end should be just a first step if Sanchez does not cease to undermine America's war effort. Opinion.
Do you know that for three decades the Brotherhood governed Sudan through the National Congress Party? It hosted Osama bin Laden from 1991 to 1996, constructed Sudan’s military-industrial complex with Iranian assistance, and exported jihadist ideology across Africa. It now chokes oil transport at Bab el-Mandeb. Op-ed.
Epic Fury is going well, but we must plan for the future and take the oil supply out of Iran's control.
Jews should be aware of the cry of pain behind a resurrected antisemitic libel. Opinion.
Democrats rediscover - or invent - constitutional principles when Republicans use force. Opinion.
As Yogi Berra said, it is difficult to make predictions, especially about the future. An analysis of possible outcomes of Epic Fury/Roaring Lion. Op-ed.
Those Jews are at their witchcraft again...just ask Tucker Carlson and Ilhan Omar. Op-ed.
The embrace of terror supporters by the mayor and his wife, coupled with the media’s efforts to confuse the public about an Islamist terror attack at a protest in front of Gracie Mansion, is a tipping point in American society. Op-ed.
Anyone who talks to you about ‘Greater Israel’ - which does not exist -is out to distract you from ‘Greater Islam’ - which is becoming greater every moment. Opinion.
When Iran can build 11 nuclear bombs in days, National Security is not a podcast debate. Op-ed.
America has never been shy about showcasing its prowess. It should not be shy now either. Opinion.
Tehran, perhaps unintentionally, has permanently dismantled the illusion of Qatari diplomatic immunity. The era of tolerating Qatari two-faced hypocrisy should end forthwith. Opinion.
Being Israeli isn’t just a nationality. It’s a posture. A way of standing in the world. Op-ed.
For 200 dreadful days, the Yishuv in "Palestine" waited to see if Hitler would realize his plans, aided by the Mufti of Jerusalem, to slaughter them all. Opinion.
MBS cannot break the fundamental pact without risking his throne. because the religious establishment and the brainwashed “Arab street" are too powerful to ignore. Opinion..
Leaving everything to Israel and Trump, while criticizing them, doesn't work when you are stranded in a war zone. Westerners suddenly discovered, with belated horror, that the world is not an Airbnb catalogue and that history does not pause to let them check out. Opinion.
The anti-Zionist fetish for violence and Jewish blood was never more fulfilled than on the dark day of October 7, 2023, but unfortunately for them, it is not 1939 anymore. Opinion.
When Jews stand on the front line against tyranny, the tyrants become the victims, the Jews the villains. The reaction to the confrontation with Iran shows just how predictable that pattern has become. The Iranian people, however, understand perfectly well who their enemy is. Opinion.
Noam Batan's Eurovision song blends Hebrew, French, and English with a Mediterranean rhythm to invoke the deep historical connection between Europe and Israel.
MBS is paralyzed. When will he realize that the only way out is immediate normalization with Israel instead of his continued groveling to Iran? Opinion.
We residents are staying put in the face of a concerted barrage from both Lebanon and Iran, hoping for an IDF operation to extend the borders and decimate Hezbollah. Opinion.
Shockingly, Khamenei was presented as a benign, pragmatic leader who was against nuclear weapons in NYT, WSJ and Wash Post eulogies. It's hard to believe how low the liberal press has fallen in their refusal to approve of anything done by President Trump. Opinion.
Bob Dylan's 1983 song says it all. It's unpolitcal, he said, and he was right - it's downright historical and immortal as well.
Reading obituaries is like acquiring advanced degrees in history, psychology, political science and philosophy. It is a way to follow change, especially when it comes to media figures and politicians. Opinion.
Amid the campaign against Iran and its regional proxies, the strategic challenge is not Shiism itself but the dominance of Tehran’s radical doctrine. Op-ed.
A Talmudic principle used by Herzog's revered grandfather and other legal factors make a pardon doable, but what is needed is the courage to put the people first and allow the Prime Minister to concentrate wholly on the war. Letter.
Most American Jewish liberal critics of Israel are committed to ideologies that cannot be reconciled with a State Of Israel that holds that saving Jewish lives is vitally important - as long as it isn't their lives at stake. Opinion.
For years, the Iranian Foreign Ministry physically bankrolled high-level strategy sessions at Vienna’s Palais Coburg, ensuring that the "independent analysts" appearing on Western television screens were reading from a script vetted by the Mullahs. And that's not all. Exposé.
The Iranians ruined Purim, wept my young son. How explain to him that in the skies over Persia, and from India to Ethiopia, the Megillah is coming true again, word for word? A story of resilience and faith.
This is a once-in-a-century opportunity born of war and collapse. Opinion.
We may decapitate the Islamic Jihad sponsor, but its franchises are improvising in Gaza and the Sahel. The IRGC may be reeling, but its ideology is entrepreneurial and the West's response must be immediate, surgical and relentless. Opinion.
A basic principle that has been eroded in the USA: you do not cheer for your country’s failure simply because you dislike the president leading it. Opinion.
I am certain that when I tell my grandchildren that I had the privilege of working with this man, it will be one of the most meaningful things I will ever be able to tell them. Op-ed.
Whether the country remains trapped under a radical clerical system or evolves into a more open and democratic state will shape not only Iran’s destiny but the future stability of the entire Middle East. Opinion.
Western funds intended for civic institution-building are actively being manipulated to sustain a massive, hidden infrastructure that financially rewards past and present terror attacks. Op-ed.
Europeans are terrified of fighting this war. Because they already have lost it at home. Opinion.
Courage has a way of spreading and when we recognise it, celebrate it, and shine a light on it, we make it easier for others to find the strength to do the same. Opinion.
If figures such as Khomeini, Nasrallah, Assad, Sinwar, Deif, and the broader network that supported and celebrated them had known the full consequences of October 7, there is no question that they would not have launched it. Opinion.
The war against Iran may defeat the axis of evil-and put America and Israel at the head of a new world order. Opinion.
He fought with his life. I fought with what I had. Op-ed.
Iran’s Islamic regime appeared to have Allah at their backs because they were able to brutally torture and murder Americans, make videos and recordings of it, and distribute them to the world. While the US did nothing. Well, that has changed. Opinion.
NATO reticence, rhetorical hostility toward Israel, equivocal strategic alignments, and domestic fragility - form the basis of a growing critique: that Spain under Sánchez is repositioning itself at the margins of Western strategic consensus. Opinion.
He shouldn’t have been. They acted true to form. Opinion.
Mojtaba’s elevation changes nothing about the regime’s nature. It simply reveals its weakness. Opinion.
The catastrophes we prevent are invisible. The catastrophes we fail to prevent define history. Opinion.
Iran’s actions are rooted in Shiite theology, where martyrdom, Hudna truces and Karbala shape strategy toward Israel and the US. Oped.
The Left's reactions to Khamenei's elimination are a cowardly moral inversion and a progressive skewing of reality. Opinion.
Why striking Iran was a moral and strategic imperative. Opinion.
The sooner this circus of corrupt lunatics shuts down, the better off we will all be. Opinion,
Erdogan mourns Khamenei while blocking US bases. His behavior is that of a state sponsor of terrorism. Opinion.
Jews and supporters of Israel have made a strategic error by constantly defending, denying or softening their identification with Zionism. Opinion.
The US and Israel air forces struck with precision, based on exquisite intelligence, and wiped out the wicked Ayatollah and his evil senior leadership team in one fell swoop. And that's for starters. Opinion.
Iran's failure is Israel's success. Op-ed.
When the modern-day iteration of fascism is confronted, the real test is not who applauds, but who rushes to condemn, and why. Op-ed.
The US and Israel have just struck the greatest blow against Islamist terror since the September 11 attacks
You stated plainly that Iran remains “the world’s largest state sponsor of terrorism." You warned that a nuclear-armed Iran would be “an intolerable threat." All true. All accurate. All devastating.
The Ayatollah regime has harnessed regional instability to erode the US’ strategic posture, launder billions through criminal enterprises, and position terror operatives - in coordination with China and Russia - within reach of major US cities. Opinion.
This cruel strike is a stark reminder that no city in Israel is safe so long as Tehran’s missile infrastructure remains intact. Opinion.
As I move from home to shelter and back, as the sirens wail amid the boom of missile interceptions, I hear Jabotinsky's words: “We hold that Zionism is moral and just. And since it is moral and just, justice must be done, no matter whether Joseph or Simon or Ivan or Achmed agree with it or not." Op-ed.
Jews have been asking this question since Haman's efforts to annihilate them, but in the USA today, just follow the money and media to find out the source. Opinion.
We must continue to break their backs until they understand that the free world will not be assimilated into their infernal project of subjugation. Opinion.
Amalek, the evil force that Haman represented then, and now, is recognizable in the Iranian regime controlled by Shiite clerics, and Muslim terrorists, such as ISIS, and Islamic Jihadists throughout the world. Opinion.
Tucker, listen here: no US troops ever fought or died for Israel. Iran is a worldwide threat. And Megyn, why don't you listen as well? Opinion.
While the Revolutionary Guards are unconditionally loyal to the Supreme Leader, the Artesh, Iran's regular army, has historically viewed itself as the defender of the Iranian nation. Opinion.
Israel. The nation doing the hardest, most necessary work of keeping the free world safe - and the first nation the world lines up to boycott, sanction, and condemn for doing it. Opinion.
“Political language is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind." - George Orwell, Politics and the English Language (1946)
The first hours revealed the Iranian regime vulnerable at the center and unprepared for sustained war. Report.
With the collapse of the mullahs’ regime, a new well-trained SAVAK, helped by the CIA and Mossad, must knock down the remaining pro-regime actors, going against the world’s most ruthless Islamic terrorists. Opinion.
Deterrence rests not merely on possession, but on credible delivery. And modern missile defense systems, while advanced, are not impermeable. Opiniion.
Revolutions are judged first by what they overthrow. Governments are judged by what they protect. It does not look promising for Syria's minorities. Opinion.
“Our shared ideals are the deep foundations that give strength to our modern partnership. We are democracies shaped by history and focused on the future," Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi said in Jerusalem. Analysis.
“Before mass leaders seize the power to fit reality to their lies, their propaganda is marked by its extreme contempt for facts as such, for in their opinion fact depends entirely on the power of man who can fabricate it." Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism (1951). Op-ed.
Leaders should examine why so many young African-Americans have aggressively embraced the Palestinian cause, and its resulting antisemitism and anti-Zionism. Opinion.
It seems, though, that nothing can be allowed to challenge the narrative of heartless Israelis and wretched Palestinian Arabs. Opinion.
After closing the Al-Hol camp, we are witnessing the birth of a "Ghost Caliphate," where radicalized operatives with no identifiable paper trail are migrating toward the world’s most vulnerable security rifts. Opinion.
We are done constantly explaining ourselves. We are done trying to make people like us. We are done pretending that one more perfect argument will change hearts poisoned by hate.
“Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities." - Questions sur les miracles, Voltaire (1765). The pattern is constant: invent a lie, claim fear, commit atrocities.
To succeed in Iran, military and political warfare must be accompanied by information aimed to overcome the regime’s ability to keep people in the dark. A crtique that is really aimed at President Trump is not the way to do it. Opinion.
Why did British Elites tolerate the social death of women they were obligated to protect? How should we relate to a Western country where law enforcement horriifically betrays its citizens so as not to be called Islamophobic? Opinion.
Why British Jews must redefine themselves in a post-October 7th World. Opinion.
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Even if he never scores another goal, Hughes has already achieved greatness, as one moment is all it takes, by the grace of G-d. Opinion.
Can anyone say whatever they wish in an interview, with no repercussions? The audience seems to lap up the lies, perhaps because it is what they want to hear. The truth, however, is below. Opinion.
Textbooks praise the upbringing of children ‘to love jihad,’ and students are taught that God rewards those who fight and die for Islam by granting them entry into Paradise. Op-ed.
Given that the candidate who won the election was widely known as the most pro-Israel president of all time, what is the logic behind the idea that opposing Israel was the key to success? Opinion.
What happens when Gentiles with no personal stake are angered by anti-Israel agendas they perceive as antisemitic, and what happens when they belong to unions that use organizational resources to support political causes irrelevant to or opposed by rank and file. Opinion.
The war against the first bomb of the Shi‘ite Caliphate in Iran. Opinion.
U.S. engagement in the South Caucasus must find a consistent path between corridors, capitals and competing models of engagement. China is watching closely. Opinion.
Killing the illusion of 1967 can start the only peace process that has a chance of succeeding. Opinion.
Understanding the real evil: The Ayatollahs and their henchmen do not follow external laws, but create their own new set of ethics. It is the act of looking at the world without the "lens" of morality, seeing only Will to Power and raw existence. Opinion.
The United States has turned a blind eye to the PA's blatant ignoring of the Oslo Accords - and murderers are still free because of that. Will Trump change that? Opinion.
Germany and Japan did not surrender because they were warned or nudged toward moderation. They surrendered when they were strategically broken.Opinion.
Israel and Azerbaijan intend to deepen their ongoing alliance through artificial intelligence. The resulting possibilities are limitless. Opiinion.
This concise summary of Islam is intended to convey the integral nature of Islam as a totalitarian social order based on a plunder economy fronted by a religion. It is aimed at Western leaders, policy-makers and military planners who may currently be under pressure to respond to an Islamic onslaught that is rapidly getting out of control. Opinion.
Carlson has been forced to apologize for several wild statements, including his declared hatred for Christian Zionists but also for accusing President Herzog for befriending Jeffrey Epstein and visiting the infamous island. Why do we listen to his ranting? Opinion.
How the collapse of ISIS containment at al-Hol could reshape regional security - and deepen Syria's crisis of impunity. Opinion.
When Israel retreated from its holiest site during Ramadan, it fueled the hope that the Jewish state can eventually be pushed out of Jerusalem entirely. No more. Op-ed.
Jewish history is not something we study from a distance. It is unfolding around us, in real time. The stories are not just ancient narratives. They are patterns. And those patterns keep repeating. Opinion.
Censorship should continue in Gaza since international news reporters no longer act as journalists who present unbiased facts to their readers….instead, they are an anti-Jewish echo chamber who guarantee to bring continued death and destruction to the Jewish people. Opinion,
It is not a conspiracy; it is biology applied to sociology. Childless Europe has only a glorious past and a twilight present. Opinion.
President Trump would do well to end the nightmare. He may not win a Nobel Prize, but more importantly, he will save the world.
The 60-day window given by the Israeli cabinet is not an "ultimatum" to be negotiated; it is a reality check for the international community. Opinion.
It is possible to have an accommodation with certain types of odious regimes. The problem for the world with the ayatollah regime is that it claims global jurisdiction. Opinion.
On courage, clarity and recognising those who refuse to bend. Op-ed.
Nations gripped by antisemitism self-destruct. The eternal law took a pivotal turn when South Africa and Israel sent their diplomats packing. Opinion.
Who will be the voices of the Holocaust when we, the children of Holocaust survivors, are also gone? Who will tell the truth? Who will prevent a recurrence?
Heritage Minister Rabbi Amichai Eliyahu issues strong critique of the Reform movement’s stance on Israel and the Supreme Court's recent ruling, highlighting the ongoing battle to protect Jewish identity and the sanctity of the Western Wall. Op-ed.
Qatar has seemingly unlimited wealth and uses it to shape American minds and amass power in high places. Can it be that money is all that counts in the USA?. Opinion.
Jewish victimization should not be dismissed as unbeatable. It must be fought harder and better. Op-ed.
The recipe of deradicalization for Gaza is likely to prove a dangerous and unrealistic pipe dream. Opinion.
Every adversary calculating the limits of Western resolve is watching. Russia and China are watching for fractures. The Middle East is watching for deterrence. And Tehran is watching for the blink. Opinion.
The multicultural destruction we are experiencing in the West is brought on by an elite unafeected by it, because it spends its time between Davos, the UN and Epstein's island. Opinion.
If you are a Likud voter, do not miss the chance to vote in the primaries and don't wait till election day to have your voice heard. Here's why. Op-ed.
The calamitous hatred of the corrupt regime of the Islamic Republic of Iran will lead to its demise and send a strong message to other dictators. Opinion.
There are no second acts in American lives. Opinion.
That's the way to go- showing the antisemites that civilized people fight back. Opinion.
Parenting and Prayer are the best ways of retaining our sense of humanness- our 'image of G-d' - in the AI Age. Op-ed.
By removing these territories from the "negotiating table" of the failed Oslo framework, Israel is forcing a shift in Palestinian Arab psychology. Opinion.
Rubio named what many have sensed but few have articulated with such economy: that the West, in mistaking the end of one ideological contest, the fall of Communism, for the end of history itself, disarmed its own civilizational defenses. Opinion.
Jews, in all our magnificent diversity, have the right to define ourselves. Or is that a right denied us? Opinion.
Antisemitic incidents in the United States increased roughly tenfold between 2019 and 2024, from under 1,000 annually to over 9,000. Is it a coincidence that this coincides with the increase in Muslim immigration in those years? Opinion.
A black-run cafe in Harlem has become the newest victim of the ongoing economic warfare waged by Hamas supporters. Op-ed.
A choice is being forced upon the Gazan street: side with the ideology that brought ruin, or side with the local strongmen who can provide security, trade, and survival. Opinion.
The man who had carelessly demeaned Jews in 1984 became the man who interceded for Syrian and Soviet and Iranian Jews, who praised Zionism as a liberation movement before a global Jewish audience. In memoriam.
We have a moral obligation to fight for our survival. We should be saying that Zionism is an inseparable part of Judaism, and so antizionism is an attempt to destroy not just Israel but Judaism itself
Jews must cease hoping to solve antisemitism and make their own way forward.
The assault that culminated in the surrender of Kurdish sovereignty was not solely Syrian. It was engineered regionally, with Turkey as a dominant architect and beneficiary. And US Amb. to Turkey, Tom Barack, facilitated the tragic sell-out.
The desire to purify the world of Jews was bequeathed by the Nazis to Hamas terrorists and their Pro-Palestinian Arab supporters. That a UN employee felt free to express them is an historic low. Opinion.
Major international NGOs like Oxfam, once dedicated to the impartial relief of suffering, have been transformed into narrative laundries. Opinion.
Re Eli Cohen, Ron Arad and Yehuda Katz. Their families are still waiting, and nobody seems to remember… or care. Opinion.
Racist humor among presidents is not a new phenomenon; it dates back to at least a century ago. So what changed? Opinion.
Labour’s drift, Palestine Action’s reprieve and the quiet recalculation already underway. Opinion.
PM Yizhak Rabin's words on Gazans while an ambassador, before he became a Nobel Peace Prize winner, seem to have been echoed by US President Donald Trump, a would-be Nobel Prize winner. Opinion.
Europe's welfare states depend on American largesse, but Trump has his own ideas about what America should spend its money on. Opinion.
We do not need more "interfaith dialogue" with a regime that hangs its own people from cranes. We need a fight-back, a return to the muscular resolve that understands that evil must be confronted, not managed. Opinion.
When will we all know Khomenei is defeated? Opinion.
The only positive aspect of the Epstein scandal is the fall of a monarchy of leftist nepotists and opportunists who helped destroy Europe - and whose 'gauche caviar' hypocrisy was exposed. Opinion.
Four American ingrates at these winter Olympics is not so bad compared to the number we had in Tokyo 2020. Opinion.
The Legal Response Israel should be making must show this sham document for what it is - the legalese language version of "from the river to the sea." This is not a document about building a state. It is a document about erasing a people. Opinion.
Democracies depend on the belief that courts adjudicate discrete wrongs, not that they preside over permanent plebiscites on leadership. Opinion.
Jew-haters think their time has come. The proper response to this war against the Jewsh people is not to deflect it, but to fight it better. Opinion
The UN Women agency’s “Palestine" branch gave Norwegian funds to a PA women’s center that was named after mass murderer Dalal Mughrabi. So much for the Oslo Accords. Opinion.
Cultural totalitarianism turned people into sterile zombies, brainwashed them, perverted the minds of men and women, and subdued intellectuals responsible for the future of their people. The entrane to the cave is closing.
The Palestinian Arab 'refugee' issue is not a humanitarian tragedy; it is a manufactured industry designed to facilitate the destruction of the Jewish state. We must stop asking "How do we reform UNRWA?" and start asking "How do we sunset it?" Opinion.
The Iran debate has been framed as a choice between a deal and a military attack. That is the wrong choice. Opinon.
It is shocking that Qatar has not voluntarily turned over Meshaal to US custody. He was indicted by the US Justice Department (DOJ) for, among other things, terrorism and murder conspiracy. Opinion.
It’s hard to know whether the three-hour meeting, which went much longer than planned, was filled with consensus. Yet with Netanyahu and Trump, public appearances may be intentional projections designed to camouflage future intentions.
We Jews can no longer allow ourselves the luxury of a house divided. We've already seen that the enemies will kill us as one. Now we need to find the strength to live as one.
Words don’t merely describe reality. In the wrong hands, they manufacture it. Opinion.
As Israel navigates the regional landscape, the transition from military administration to civilian "Administrative Sovereignty" is no longer an ideological luxury; it is a fundamental security requirement. Opinion.
Chomsky liked Epstein. But he liked Epstein's private plane even more, while devoting every breath to proclaiming his own moral purity. Opinion.
Hitler himself would be welcomed at the modern United Nations in the name of “anti-Zionism."
Mamdani has changed the old immigrants' dream and his streets are paved with garbage. Opinion.
How I tried to act on my yearning to be a liberal and join the anti-ICE peaceful protest in Minneapolis. And how I woke (no pun intended) up. Opinion.
While the Prime Minister is in Washington fighting for Israel's survival, it is crucial to remember that the Jewish people's attachment to its tiny land was continuous, documented, and unmatched by any competing national claim. It was also legally recognized. Opinion.
A misunderstanding of the Middle East has led President Trump to criticize steps toward Israeli sovereignty. We must be clear: sovereignty is what will bring stability. Opinion.
The challenge for the United States and Israel alike is ensuring that the display of American power near Iran does not become a substitute for strategic rigor. Opinion.
The truth many are afraid to say out loud is that the blue-square antisemitism campaign is not helping young Jews. It is actively harming them. I am a Jew, I am a Zionist, and I walk in that name in freedom because Israel exists. It is this that our children need to hear Opinion.
For the U.N. as an institution, Albanese’s hatred of Jews is a feature, not a defect. Opinion.
Embedding soldiers from a country that refuses to recognize Israel, has no diplomatic ties with Israel, and consistently backs resolutions targeting Israel’s legitimacy introduces serious risks. Opinion.
In a move that exposes his growing insecurity, Khamenei has publicly called for participation in the February 11 anniversary rallies. What lies in store? Opinion.
New York City would smell worse than it does if it weren’t so cold.
January 2026 exposed, with measurable clarity, how deeply the Israeli public's perception has diverged from strategic reality. Analysis
This week’s findings, revealed through an independent investigation and testimony before the United States Senate Judiciary Committee, allegedly expose a far deeper web of complicity than Credit Suisse ever admitted. Opinion.
As Netanyahu tries to convince Trump of the 'Muscat Trap' in an agreement with Iran, Israelis must be made clearly aware that ballistic missiles left intact are a death warrant. Opinion.
An item not reported on the BBC or other world media, just another of those major stories, like real genocide in Africa as opposed to non-existent genocide in Gaza, left unreported because mainstream media consider them unworthy of exposure.
Israelis pored over U.S. Ambassador Mike Huckabee’s latest interviews to see if anything new or encouraging could be gleaned from them. Opinion.
Epstein was not a solitary monster. He was a facilitator. A maître d’hôtel of nothingness. He organized the banquet for elites who no longer hungered for anything except confirmation that the rules do not apply to them. Opinion.
The real tragedy isn’t what happens to us. It’s what happens to our children, and their children. Opinion.
There was a good article recently in the Wall Street Journal about the need to start using Judea and Samaria instead of the 'West Bank'. Since, however, it lacks much needed historical background, a respected historian filled inthe gap for Arutz Sheva readers. Op-ed.
Peering behind the AI curtain.
When jurors choose to acquit not because the accused are innocent, but because they sympathize with their motives, the law has no meaning. Opinion.
Trump seems to assume Muslim leaders behave like rational cost-benefit actors. That assumption is his central mistake. He seems to have made that mistake with Iran and al-Jolani, tragically sacrificing the Iranian protestors and the Kurds. Opinion.
The regime has survived by waiting for attention to fade. A coordinated global mobilization on February 14, urging Iranians to gather in Los Angeles, Toronto, and Munich, aims to keep the memory of the atrocities alive. Opinion.
Perhaps most disquieting was the emergence of an anonymous online project, Barcelonaz, which published a map identifying Jewish-owned businesses across Catalonia. Shades of earlier Spanish history. Opinion.
Regarding stage two of Trump’s undoable plan, the President must have known all along that Hamas would never give up its arms or make any real concessions for peace with Israel. Opinion.
History repeats itself - and Jewish history is rife with tragedy after tragedy. The warning signs are once again unmistakable. Opinion.
Never Again does not mean never hurt again. It means never helpless again. Opinion..
Qatar represents the Jeffrey Epstein of world politics. Opinion.
How the Saudi-Turkish naval axis is dismantling the Abraham Accords architecture as the synergy between Saudi financial weight and Turkish expeditionary power creates a multi-theater security challenge. Analysis.
This verdict will be remembered not as an act of mercy, but as a moment of moral abdication. Opinion.
They have nothing left but to act tough. Opinion.
Major Tal Cohen HY"D of Sayeret Matkal constantly asked himself: 'How well do I live up to my obligations, my responsibility, and how strongly am I dedicated to my mission and to our people?' On October 7, 2023, he answered that question with actions, not words.
Since when do courts have the right to decide who can be a minister in a democracy? If Ben Gvir deserves to be removed, the public will do so at the ballot box. Opinion.
It's not really about Palestinian Arabs, police, migrants or human rights as recent hypocrisy in the face of Iran's wholesale slaughter of its citizens has proven. Opinion.
Frankfurter’s act announced, with tragic clarity, that the menace incubating in Germany could no longer be regarded as a domestic aberration. Op-ed.
Granting citizenship to hordes of illegal immigrants coming from Africa and the Middle East is a threat to the whole of Europe, but it makes the left happy. Opinion..
The most dangerous shift has not been the rising level of rhetoric or the pace of military maneuvers. It lies in the nature of the targets that Tehran has chosen to bring into the theater of threats - and that the US cannot allow. Opinion.
Read a damning expose of how US Envoy Tom Barrack aligned himself with Al-Jolani's murderous attacks on Kurds, Christians and Jews, and how the media followed suit. Only Israel came to the aid of the Druze - and was criticized for doing so even as the Druze thanked the Jewish state.
In a recent Pew survey, half of Republicans under the age 50 expressed an unfavorable view of Israel. Opinion.
The U.S. and its European allies must fight fire with fire, recalling ambassadors, triggering the full return of all United Nations sanctions, and more. Opinion.
What’s most unsettling about this moment isn’t the milestone itself. It’s that it qualifies as one at all. Opinion.
