Jack Engelhard
No room for Commies or Nazis, but have fun while it lasts
If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere? Of course not.
If it can happen there, it can happen anywhere? Of course not.


During the past week, more than 65 incidents of crossings into the yellow zone in the Gaza Strip were recorded, and in none of them was fire opened. Warning.

The libels against Israel are all falling apart. The libels are not acknowledged because they are driven by the incontrovertible antisemitic - if insane - belief that Israel is a unique force for evil in the world. Opinion.

The outcry over Hamel’s killing lasted only as long as it took for the ink on the page the following day to dry. And Pope Francis, after Hamel’s murder, said: “If I speak of Islamic violence I must also speak of Catholic violence." He really said that. Opinion.
“Islamophobia" is a crock of drivel as a real phenomenon, but it is employed as armor against any criticism of even the most radical Muslims, and in turn is used as a weapon that has intimidated many Americans into acquiescence in the transformation of their country. Op-ed.

The fictional "Gazan children starving" scenario was never real. It was meant to destroy empathy for Jewish children - schoolchildren, toddlers, and babies. Opinion.

Operational blindness or a deliberate strategic plan that went wrong? Will we ever know? Opinion.

"Your heart was too big for this world."

All a murderous terrorist needs to do is hire a public relations firm, put on a necktie, and adopt the language of Western diplomacy to be accepted. Opinion.

Iran today stands before a choice that involves not just the fate of the regime, but also the very structure of the state. Opinion.

The question of what will happen at Ali al-Taher “the day after" is not a tactical question concerning one more ridge or a few more kilometers inside Lebanon. It is a strategic question. Opinion.

Negotiations with regimes and terrorist organizations are not normal business negotiations. You cannot assume that because someone agreed to or even signed something yesterday, they will honor it tomorrow. Op-ed.

The nightmare scenario is not necessarily that the Mecca agreement immediately becomes an Islamic NATO. The nightmare is that it gradually becomes one. Opinion.

I came to Iceland loving one of the most beautiful countries on earth. I leave after repeated harassment, two physical assaults and moments when I feared for my life as a Jew. Op-ed.

Not voting is, effectively, a vote in favor of the noxious democratic socialist program. Opinion.

The Mossad just reassigned the men who promised to topple Tehran. The mission stands; the instrument was wrong.

Palestinian Arab culture has all the fanatical monomania of Rome's quest to destroy Carthage, but none of Rome's contributions to humanity, all of the anger and vengeance but none of the beauty and truth.

There seems to be a generation gap in awareness and action. Time to focus on those who come out to rallies and want to make their voices heard. Opinion.

Rezaei was the first commander of the IRGC Intelligence Unit and later, in 1980, was appointed by Khomeini to command the IRGC itself. Opinion.

Both Turkey and Qatar are strong supporters of the Muslim Brotherhood and collaborate to finance the construction of mosques in Europe.

Deterrence replaces normalization: Riyadh has found a way to build real security architecture - with a NATO military power and with the only nuclear state in the Muslim world - without having to declare that it is actually abandoning Washington's normalization track.

Does Arab Palestinianism mean anything more than “Death to Israel!"? It does not seem so, meaning that Israeli sovereignty is the only practical solution.

Why Christians should examine our own backsliding before condemning Israel or the Jewish People.

"I think that there is in some respects confusion in the black community. There are some people who hear things that Mamdani says and it reminds them of some things that happened to them at some point." Interview.

For too long, the established Haredi parties have treated the right-wing public as a coalition partner but not as a partner in a shared national mission. That must change.

The life of Malki, the youngest of the children we brought to Israel when we settled in Jerusalem in 1988, ended in a thundering explosion. How we kept her memory alive.

The publishing industry Jews helped build has now decided that we’re the liability. Here is a way to fight back. Op-ed.

Six claims against Israel are refuted by a United States District Judge who treats the claims as testimony in a court of law and the reader of his book as a juror. Just the facts. Review.

The difference between destroying weapons-production facilities and storing them under NCAG is not a drafting detail. It is the difference between genuine demilitarization and managed rearmament under a different name. It is also the difference between the 2025 plan and the 2026 roadmap.

Antisemitism tells the story of what others choose to do to Jews, it does not tell the story of the Jews. Opinion.

I do not believe Gadi Eisenkot should be entrusted with leading Israel. In my view, the strategic decisions he championed contributed to weakening the country's military preparedness at a critical time. Opinion.

Why and how Socialism is coming for every state while the GOP Is sleepwalking. Socialism wins by appealing to the lowest common denominators of any society: fear, greed, anger, jealousy, and laziness and it hands the resentful a villain and a voting booth.Opinion.

Throwing out the word Genociide when it negates the evidence trivializes and inverts the word itself. Mamdani did not establish a fact. He pronounced a verdict. And it was a lie. Opinion.

Anti-Zionism and hatred of Israel are a Trojan horse - the real goal is Islamization. Opinion.

Cultures take centuries or millennia to form organically, but Palestinian Arab culture, or "Palestinianism," sprang into being quickly and artificially.

The ICC’s witch hunt against America and Israel has imperiled its continued existence. Opinion.

Right now, the important task is to garner legal votes from New Yorkers in Israel to push Blakeman into the governor’s mansion in Albany. Your absentee ballot is vital. Op-ed.

Being a Nazi is not enough to be disqualified, as Democrats rush to support any antisemite who looks like he has a chance of winning. Even Chuck Schumer joined the list of Democrats who chose defeating the Republicans over Jewish children's lives. Opinion.

Covid Tsars the world over outdid him in pillage and mega rupture, proving that a pandemic has no peer for propagating greed and megalomania. Opinion.

The modern Diaspora was built on an unspoken assumption: if Jews contributed enough to their host societies, they would be accepted as full members of them. That bargain is over. Only Israel grants Jews full membership. Opinion.

New York City's Jews may face a “clear and present danger" due to their mayor's rhetoric. And too little is being done about it. Opinion.

The West has turned its values - sexual freedom, gender equality, protection of minorities - into weapons against itself. Opinion.

For fifty years, Palestinian Arab leaders have accepted concessions without surrendering their objective or capacity to resume the fight. The new Gaza roadmap preserves that playbook. Opinion.

When Mamdani blasted Netanyahu, and thus all the Jewish people, yes, who rose up in New York City to denounce him? It's deja vu all over again, just like docile European Jewry facing Hitler's henchmen. Opinion.

The people hired to teach young American Jews are, by a majority, on the record against the Jewish state. The widest study ever conducted proves it. Report.

Mr. President, a regime that lies about whether it is even in the room is not a negotiating partner. It is an adversary using your announcements as cover. Opinion.

If you want to know where Britain's new Prime Minister is taking the country, don't listen to his speeches, watch who he empowers. Opinion.

The speech I wish no generation had to hear-and the one every generation of Jews eventually needs.

The physics that built a fortune-and what followed.

NYC residents are about to learn the difference between being taken care of and being managed. They voted for it and now they are about to get it. At the municipal grocery store. Op-ed.

In talking with IDF soldiers, Jonathan Pollard hears opinions that should be carefully listened to by decision makers.

Ceuta is not the only place where Spain is an occupier. Opinion.

This is what Jewish Democrats are becoming - backers of anti-Israel candidates. Are you one of them? Opinon.

Using the term "West Bank" shows how thoroughly some Israelis have internalized the language of their adversaries. Opinion.

Arnold Roth’s 25-year fight for accountability for the terrorist who planned the murderous attack that killed his daughter and her friend at the Sbarro in Jerusalem.

Dear President Trump, you did an excellent job at first but aren't you now starting to behave like most politicians, destroying with one hand what the other hand has painstakingly built?

Safety and a Jewish future brought families to Florida. Israelis know what it takes to keep both. Opinion.

A proposal that is different: barriers that separate Gaza's population from Hamas. Details below. Op-ed.

When Israelis ask Washington to take action against Jews in Judea and Samaria, followed by Bret Stephens and the WSJ, they are ignoring the context of Arab terrorism and attempting an end run around democracy for political reasons. Opinion.

President Trump is continuing his gratuitous onslaught of demeaning behaviors. This means that while Iran is acting rationally in its current war, the United States is not. Opinion.
