An entire maritime gateway is planned for outside the potential chokepoint at the strait, redirecting a growing share of energy exports and trade away from the direct line of threat. Opinion.
Iran is replacing blasted Fordow with a more impenetrable hiding place for centrifuges. What should the response be? Opinion.
As Israeli minister Ofir Akunis put it, he might try running New York City and only New York City. The constituency being served here is not New York. It is the segment of his base for whom hating the Jewish state is the organizing obsession of political life. Opinion.
Britain suffers from a broken moral operating system. I want to suggest one treatment entirely within our own control. Opinion.
We are only in the first act of an Israeli- Shakespearian drama of 'reconciling ' the relationship of haredi society to mainstream Israeli society.
JD Vance’s onspiratorial obsessions betray reality, undermine leadership, ancd misplace blame on Israel. Opinion.
Today when Israel is troubled on all sides, from without and within, here’s a short story to help cheer up our spirits. Fantasy.
And where would JD Vance stand in that hypothetical scenario ? Opinion.
The Massie amendment failed, but 103 Democrats voted to eliminate military assistance to Israel. The warning is not only for Jerusalem-it is for American Jewry. Op-ed.
Even if Iran stays non-nuclear, its drone and ballistic missile capabilities could prod Israel to issue measured nuclear threats, with various options that must be carefully considered. Opinion.
Is it any wonder that the talking points, slogans and placards are virtually all the same in the contrived charades we see? It’s all so scripted and rehearsed. Opinion.
Very little changes in our Jewish lives, as we listen to American Democrats scream 2,000 year-old Jew-hating chants…so wake up Rahm Emanuel, because you will be crowned Pope of the Catholics before you are elected President of the United States. Opinion.
There are Torah-true teachings that haredi ideology has ignored and subordinated to the preservation of haredi separateness. Opinion.
The most important consequence of the Iran war was not military but psychological. That shift is transforming the strategic landscape of the Middle East. Opinion.
The Flotilla has brought no help to the people of Gaza, but plenty of publicity to Hamas. Opinion.
The world remembers every Israeli transgression and forgets every Jewish grave. Op-ed.
For one glorious month, football brought nations together. It also revealed what still unites them. Opinion.
Three young communities and what they contribute to Israel's longterm security. Feature.
Astoundingly, the demonization of Israel has become a key driver of Western politics. Vance, for example, has chosen to mask his humiliation at the hands of Iran by the time-dishonored ploy of dumping on the Jews.Opinion.
Parents and grandparents, it is time for you to wake up. To stand up to these bullies of woke. Opinion.
The California congressman’s Judean misadventure was an attempt to boost his long-shot presidential hopes and move on from his sponsorship of the disastrous Graham Platner. It’s clear that the congressman didn’t tell the truth about what happened.Opinion.
"Sa'at Al-Yad Al-Aqsa" is a Juris-political fable in which it is discovered that while democracy had granted majorities the right to decide, at some point, someone confused that right with the power to determine the truth.
Amid rising antisemitism, we should recognize and thank the millions of Christian Zionists whose courage and friendship have stood with Israel. Opinion
Vice President Vance, by spreading lies about Israel, and insulting a loyal US ally, do you really believe that you are serving the best interests of the United States? Opinion.
The letter brought below was sent to the President of the State of Israel, who has the power to grant pardons.
A prominent American Jewish politician stood on Israeli soil and recited, as established fact, the blood libels that Israel's enemies use to justify her destruction: deliberate starvation, rampant 'settler terror', illegal occupation. Each has been demolished by serious research. A look at the patronizing and blood libel-esque gospel of Rahm Emanuel.
At the heart of a current legal conflict is not the law, but a bitter fight over whether pro- or anti-government investors will take control of Israel’s “Channel 13." Opinion.
The Islamic communist mayor of New York did not “forget" the Italians: he simply clarified who the winners are in the great demographic battle that will decide the future of all Western countries. Opinion.
Right now, we have more question marks than answers.
You're threatening Iran's infrastructure unless they make another deal? After everything we've seen, is that a joke?
The perils of politicizing Holocaust memory. Opinion.
We already miss him terribly. Opinion.
To what extent was Israel stopped, and how, from absolutely winning that brutal urban and subterranean war in Gaza? And what lifetime lessons could Trump take from it? Opinion.
Lindsey Graham was the author and sponsor of the Taylor Force Act, which bars U.S. aid to the Palestinian Authority (PA) as long as it continues to allot payments to convicted terrorists or their surviving family members.
How the Gazans never missed an opportunity to miss an opportunity. And how the “open-air prison" fiction leaves out the crucial facts about an opportunity for Gaza's normalization that Israel wished to implement but that Gazans did not allow to come to fruition. Opinion.
If you really want to know what a genocide really is, look at places where less than five percent of the Jewish population survived. Opinion.
Israel now serves both as a physical refuge and a diplomatic shield for Jews worldwide. Opinion.
The question Israel's well-meaning critics never ask. Opinion.
Lindsey Graham chose to stand with America's allies, with Israel in its darkest hours, with Ukraine in its struggle for sovereignty, and with many Iranians who continue to hope for a free homeland. Op-ed.
Will Lebanon’s General Security undermine the Foreign Ministry’s decision against the Iranian Ambassador? Opinion.
What is currently materializing is a highly pragmatic, transactional alliance between two regimes which are setting aside deep historical grievances to challenge the strategic interests of Israel and its Western allies. Opinion.
What happened at the Jewish Agency Board of Governors - and why it matters for every Torah Jew in the Diaspora. Opinion.
The United States has a fundamental interest in relocating its Middle East bases to the Jewish state. But does Israel? Opinion.
For most of recorded history, the center of global gravity lay in Asia. Now the old order seems to be returning. Opinion.
Macron embodies progressivism in sunglasses, believing he can tame radical Islam with symbolic gestures and energy subcontracts. Opinion.
The US President is trading assassination threats with the very men he’s simultaneously asking to please reopen a shipping lane. Is this for real? Opinion.
Rahm Emanuel wants to lecture Israelis on their own survival. His old boss tried the same thing, and it cost him. Op-ed.
Trump’s Erdogan praise and F-35 talk undermine Israel and defy common sense. Opinion.
An interview on antisemitism, Israel, the Iran war and other pertinent issues with NY Republican Gubernatorial Nominee Bruce Blakeman.
Let's face it: The institutional psychology of international peacekeeping operations is fundamentally mismatched with the brutal demands of active counter-terrorism. Opinion.
His first major foreign policy speech wasn't really about the Middle East. It was about the coalition he needs to win power & the moral operating system that has now reached the heart of government. Opinion.
World cup soccer is the madness of the moment, and soccer is the least complicated of any sport. Opinion.
What is the current crisis between the Israel's government and the Supreme Court about - both on the surface, and deep down - and how to solve it. Two articles.
What would actually be gained by occupying Kharg Island? What would the costs be? Can the operation's objective be realized without an invasion?
Democrats welcome their first “Death to America" congresswoman. Opinion.
Will the Trump administration ever decide to choose a much-needed shift from a policy of wishful engagement to one of rigorous, conditional realism? Opinion.
The Islamists are playing the longest civilizational war game in the world. Opinion.
When does one have to mention the injustices that nations or people have done and when can one concentrate on the good? Opinion.
Investigators should be investigated as pro-Palestine law student activists across America pass the Bar Association's Character and Fitness Committee to become licensed advocates. Opinion.
The moral bankruptcy of the flotilla radicals, including Americans who attended Khameneii's funeral in Iran, really requires deep examination. Opinion.
The brilliant shadow of Aryanic civilization over the millennia. Op-ed.
Part I of II. “Who controls the past controls the future; who controls the present controls the past- George Orwell, Nineteen Eighty-Four.
Israel cannot afford to remain passive while others define its story. Op-ed.
Reform Movement President, Rick Jacobs, speaks for radical American Ashkenazis, not the entire Jewish People. He sits on the board of the New Israel Fund and on the rabbinic cabinet of J Street, both antagonistic to the Jewish State. Opinion.
A Tibetan set himself on fire in front of the UN, which has dedicated 173 resolutions against Israel and 80 to the rest of the world, and no one noticed. Opinion.
“Sinat hinam," baseless hatred, was the cause of the destruction of the Second Temple, and remains our great vulnerability and challenge.
I met the world's leading Israel expert at an international newsroom in New York City. Here is my profile of him.
From celebrating the rescue of Jews to questioning whether they should have been rescued at all. Opinion.
Recent developments should sound a warning bell within the national camp. If indeed Trump’s points-based plan is advancing apace, the time remaining to shape a different reality is rapidly shrinking. Op-ed.
After a year of being physically and verbally attacked across the globe, I was targeted again by “Free Palestine" extremists and, unlike in Florida, New Jersey police came to my aid and protection. But after a year of globally witnessed attacks against me, I must ask: when did assaulting Jews become normal? Op-ed.
For the radical terrorists, the theological text is not a rationalization of geopolitical ambitions, but the primary, non-negotiable driver of them.
Israel provides the ultimate marketing tool and export-multiplier for the US: effective combat validation. And there is more. Report.
Reasonable minds can disagree. Deeply. But there's never an excuse for hatred. Opinion.
How a man whose own Arabic-language statements place him within a wider resistance movement that includes armed factions continues to be presented primarily as an innocent victim of political persecution. Exposé.
The Democrats originally supported slavery, segregation, and voter suppression, so going antisemitic is just a return to a new form of their darker past.
The judges' repeated recommendation to remove the bribery charge from the indictments filed against Netanyahu does not only necessitate his acquittal, it requires that those who invented the charges stand trial. Opinion
There are those who kidnap child hostages and those who free them. The hypocritical West prefers the kidnappers because it is Israel who freed their abused female prisoners. Op-ed.
By nullifying a completed Knesset election without explicit legal authority, the High Court has expanded its power at democracy's expense. Opinion.
We must stop treating social media advocacy as a young person’s game. Opinion.
Anti-Zionism, wherever and whenever it appears, is an attack on Judaism itself. Antisemitism has been reframed as an attempt by Jews to mask their own conspiracy against the public good and to conceal the crimes of the State of Israel. Op-ed.
Two nations. Two systems. Two diverging futures. As Americans mark 250 years of their Republic, millions of Iranians continue hope for a future in which their country can once again be governed by law, accountable institutions, and the consent of its people.
We can’t stop fighting for our Independence.
Every week there are people who restore a little of our faith, not always in institutions, but in humanity.
When people feel they can no longer believe in permanent truths that transcend their single Self, they turn to an 'idolatry of self- centeredness', for example, they live autonomous lives and turn to robotic AI for companionship. Opinion.
Two G-d sent miracles - America winning the Revolutionary War and Israel's success in freeing the Entebbe hostages - were heard round the world.
Is the terrorist organization quietly recovering? Without the level of destruction the IDF wrought on it, Hamas would have already become a monstrous threat again. Opinion.
What is true about the virtues of US is also true about Israel. We also seek only the good of mankind, only to be castigated even by those we try to help. Opinion.
We condemn our fascist and Nazi past, but we do not understand it. Because understanding it would mean recognizing that terror does not only come in brown or gray uniforms, but also under the black veil and the green flag. Opinion.
One of America's most influential cities is becoming the principal laboratory for an ideological social experiment which has failed before. The lessons are neither abstract nor academic. They are written in cemeteries across continents. Opinion.
By prioritizing a diplomatic breakthrough at any cost, mediators overlook a critical, defining reality-this is fundamentally a religious war. Opinion.
The younger generation’s opposition to a “genocidal" Jewish state has become one of the organizing principles of U.S. politics. But these toxic beliefs have nothing to do with the actual State of Israel. Anyone who visits sees that immediately. Opinion.
Only a very particular breed of coward welcomes into any tent the people who have already announced their intention to burn the tent down. I cannot wait to see what climbs out of the clown car next and enters the Big Tent. Opinion.
The history of the right vs. left ideological divide in Israel has taken a strange turn in the aftermath of October 7, after it was the mostly left-leaning kibbutzim who were invaded. Opinion.
The blood of the fallen cries out to us from the ground and demands that we bring a clear victory, and not settle for weak compromise agreements and mere postponement of the inevitable.
Comparing Presidential deals is futile. Trump’s two sheet memo, like Obama’s one-sixty sheet nuclear deal, is meant to stop Israel winning wars. Opinion.
Even a strategically coherent plan can carry unacceptable risks if the price of failure is paid by America's closest ally in the Middle East. Opinion.
They played the POTUS like a fiddle once, and are doing likewise now. Trump's newest “deal" is worse than the previous ones. Op-ed.
What the Archbishop of Canterbury did this week during her visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas facilitates those who support violence at a time when Christian communities have been devastated throughout much of the Middle East. Op-ed.
We are increasingly teaching children to interpret the world through the binary of oppressor and oppressed, enforcing a framework which concludes that power before principle, identity before behaviour and grievance before responsibility are defining principles. Op-ed.
New York's Jews are living on borrowed time. Opinion.
Consistent implementation, accompanied by sustained international pressure, may create a historic opportunity to strengthen the Lebanese state, weaken Hezbollah, and improve regional security and stability.
New digital catacombs: Christians massacred and the news buried. How can that be condoned? Opinion.
What was it that moved the progressive paper to declare its hostility to Zionism after years of disingenuous denial? Op-ed.
Herzl thought that Jew hatred would end if we had our own state. Many in the world, including misguided Jews, today believe that Jew hatred would end if we didn’t have a state. There is no apeasement that works. Op-ed.
Parties and ideas once stigmatized are gaining ground precisely because elites prefered to scapegoat Zionism rather than address uncomfortable realities. That policy is being revealed as a boomerang. Op-ed.
No small nation in the Mediterranean basin could survive in that era without aligning with one power or the other, and the Jews knew this as well as anyone. Is it true today? Opinion.
Today the battle is over New York. Yesterday it was London. Tomorrow it will be another city, another nation, or another people who convinced themselves that history could not happen to them. Opinion.
If Iran keeps on toying with him, he’s got all the power to lower the boom. And he gave them a taste of that this weekend. Opinion.
The Fall of Tehran is no longer a question of if-only of when. Opinion.
The United States should resist the temptation to treat the F-35 program as a diplomatic bargaining chip. America's most advanced military technologies should be reserved for real partners. Opinion.
Potentially existential dangers could be produced by enemy hacking operations, computer malfunction (accidental nuclear war) or decision-making miscalculation. Israel must be prepared. Opinion.
A U.S. State Department notification to Congress reportedly found that the PA distributed roughly $156 million in “pay-for-slay" stipends during 2025-in direct contradiction to America's Taylor Force Act. Op-ed.
Not only was Jew-hatred and Israel-hatred far more widespread than any of us believed before October 7, but Jew-hatred and hatred of the little Jewish state have been amplified by a cruel and effective propaganda campaign the likes of which few of us have ever seen in our lifetimes. Book Review.
Jews have always been in serious trouble. But during all this time we have not had a sovereign land and the brave army we have today. Opinion.
Prolegomenon to the Laocoon Project: Aeneid is reworded to awaken the world to the Islamist invasive cognitive war - one that parallels the Trojan Horse debacle he described.
How moral cowardice became cultural leadership. Opinion.
At San Remo iin 1920, the Arabs were not dispossessed of a state in Palestine. There was none. They were granted multiple states across the region. The Jews, by contrast, were allocated one small territory-their historic homeland. Historical review.
Anti-Zionism is turning the Democratic Party into a mortal enemy of America. Opinion.
Dearest Haredim; let me say this as clearly and as directly as I can. You are not being fair.
It seems as if Bennett does not begin with principles and build a coalition around them. He seems to begin with the coalition he wants and works backward until he has manufactured the principles to fit it. Opinion.
For families like mine, skepticism toward Iranian promises is not a political position. It is the product of lived experience. And my skepticism must be proven mistaken, if indeed it is. Opinion.
Let's face it: Canadian antisemitic incidents leading up to the Côte-des-Neiges shooting are typical of the West today while the shooter's deranged manifesto could have been written by any number of Jew-hating future murderers. Op-ed.
Let Israel and Lebanon finally solve the problem, once and for all time, without interference from outsiders.
Mayor Mamdani's attacks on AIPAC revive antisemitic tropes, normalize hatred of Jews, and endanger New York's Jewish community. Op-ed.
The Jews are monsters. Ask Mamdani. And monsters must be stopped whenever they appear - when they hold real estate events, when they pray, when they go to school, and when they buy a cup of coffee. For coffee is evil when a monster drinks it. Op-ed.
With the Western Sahara stalemate and Morocco-Algeria tensions, UN Momentum meets persistent proxy risks. Morocco, much like Israel, learned that yielding to international pressure or relying on endless peace processes only emboldens rejectionists. Op-ed.
Settlement creates a presence on the ground. Sovereignty creates a political permanence. Without sovereignty, that presence remains reversible.
We are witnessing the emergence of a self-defined generation that will carry our story forward with newfound clarity. Opinion.
Like Hamas, they long for intimidated and ultimately dead Jews, both in "48" (as they sometimes call Israel) and throughout the world, which is what "Globalize the Intifada" means. Their vandalism and violent threats are "free speech" to the NYT and Washington Post. Opinion
Iran: Has Trump lost the plot? Op-ed.
Vance is not the first political leader to lose his temper because somebody, somewhere, criticized a policy of his. And when it is the Jews, public shaming is par for the course. But today, US Jews and Israelis are not the obedient vassals they were once. Opinion.
Torah study does not justify broad exemption from military service, except possibly for a small number of elite scholars.
Between Trump’s defeat in Iran and European mediocrity, there is little to be cheerful about. Especially while the West demands of Israel that it wage a war without war and neutralize its enemies without fighting them. Opinion.
The American public deserves a true picture of this relationship, not an agenda dressed up as policy analysis to serve someone’s political interests. Opinion.
The Democratic Socialist prophets of apocalypse usher that very outcome in on a rising tide of free everything, baptizing dependency as justice and fear as conscience. And they keep smiling as the water climbs toward the rooftops. Op-ed.
Holocaust Denial never ended-it only changed tactics. Opinion.
What Britain's Jews saw first about a Prime Minister who never learned to lead. Opinion.
A firm, not a flaccid document is needed, but that is not what we have. Opinion.
It won’t look like a takeover; it will look like civic participation. But they are not ordinary citizens, they are not Jews who wanted to join the American Dream when they reached America, they are operatives executing a well-planned strategy. Op-ed
The battles over the draft, national identity, Judea and Samaria, against terrorism, and against international pressure are all part of the struggle over whether the Jewish people will continue embracing their national revival or retreat from it. Opinion.
Mr. Prime Minister, you must stand before the global media today and declare with courage and Jewish pride: Israel will not withdraw from any territory where IDF soldiers are stationed to protect our people!
This shameful fiasco is all to save a dollar a gallon in the price of oil?Did Trump seriously plan on fighting history’s first casualty-free war or think the MoU would grant him the chimera of retaining Republican control over Congress this autumn? Opinion.
Increasingly, the institutions shaping Iran’s future are not seminaries, religious councils or traditional clerical networks. They are military organizations, intelligence structures and security elites. America is negotiating with the previous Iran. Opinion.
Jewish power is supposed to be restrained by Jewish memory. The vulnerable and foreign person should not be humiliated. That this has been documented in Israel is reprehensible, even if minor compared to Christians persecuted and slaughtered in other parts of the world today. Opinion.
When the situation is an armed, ideological movement whose founding charter, broadcasts, and decades of terror announce that its purpose is to cross your border and murder every Jew it can reach, then killing your way out is the only proposal that can work. Op-ed.
Jerusalem was not surprised by the self-styled master negotiator’s capitulation itself, only by its scope. Opinion.
Sisi has long played a double game with Hamas. When he needs to look vital to Washington and Jerusalem, he acts as the stern mediator. When he wants to pressure Israel, the borders mysteriously become porous. Opinion.
Republicans Overseas Israel chairman Marc Zell argues Trump's Iran memorandum is driven by U.S. midterm politics, not a retreat from Israel.
Something darker is at work here than just a concern over rising fuel prices. Opinion.
Jerry Seinfeld, Iranian expatriats, Jews of Edgeware and the Court of Appeals - kudos for courage (in stark contrast to President Trump who has folded under pressure).
The proposed deal surrenders key leverage before Tehran dismantles its nuclear program, curbs terrorism or changes its behavior. Opinion.
The distinction between what can be condemned in words and what must be purchased in silence reveals, more than any statement, where ideologies end and where the calculus of survival begins. Opinion.
For one evening in America, the most powerful symbol in the stadium was not the scoreboard. It was the reappearance of the Lion and Sun-and the message carried by thousands who raised it. Opinion.
Why did Iran destroy access to the nuclear stockpile? Why make access to the uranium more difficult? Opinion.
A signed agreement may bring a temporary pause in fighting, but it could also reshape how America's allies and adversaries view deterrence for years to come. Opinion.
Israel should not apologize for receiving American military assistance. It was not a handout thrown into the wind. It helped produce one of America’s most capable allies. But Israel should also be confident enough to say that the relationship can mature. Opinion.
President Trump stupidly said, among other inanities, that he does not understand why Israel had to destroy an entire building just to eliminate one person. Is that the end of a beutiful friendship or is there hope down the road? Opinion.
Perhaps the biggest betrayal of all is that the administration increasingly appears to view Israeli military actions not through the lens of Israeli security needs but through the lens of how those actions affect US negotiations with Tehran. Opinion.
The advanced word appears quite catastrophic for the safety of Israel. The Israelis never asked Trump to serve as their negotiator. He has no right to take that on. Opinion.
By agreeing to this farce of a deal, Trump has destroyed his legacy. American defeat and humiliation is now his legacy. Op-ed.
A stable, Israel-friendly partner on that coastline does not merely represent a diplomatic trophy. It represents a security asset of genuine long-term importance. Op-ed.
Three factions claim to define "America First." Israel exposed the fault lines between them - and showed which vision is winning. Opinion.
Listen carefully when the leaders in the region speak. Do not faint at every insult. Do not assume every threat is a battle plan. But do not make the opposite mistake either. Opinion.
The gravest moral hazard is not the man who knows he is doing wrong. It is the man who has constructed a story in which what he is doing is something else. Op-ed.
Every product purchased from Judea and Samaria, every order placed, every investment made, is a direct repudiation of a boycott built on the premise that Jews are trespassers in their own homeland.
In Europe, political leaders - “leaders" here is a figure of speech - massively imported a foreign population with a culture that cannot assimilate and without asking themselves whether the graft would take. It didn't. Opinion.
The damage that Israel and the United States did to the Islamist terror regime was undone by an agreement that rewards Tehran and vindicates former President Barack Obama. Opinion.
How a generation learned to mistake belonging for truth and why the price will be paid by everyone else, Opinion.
If the same regime survives with the same ideology, pursuing the same long-term objectives, it is reasonable to ask whether the agreement solved a problem or merely postponed it for a time.
A short-term “deal" will leave 350 million Americans and the rest of the world fighting an endless war with radical Shiite Islamists. Opinion.
If Trump really believes that Iran will ever willingly divest itself of its nuclear program or materials, then he is now, officially, the most dangerous man in the free world, not its leader.
The Iran campaign handed the United States something it spent decades trying to achieve through other means: a globally witnessed proof of concept that Russian air defense is penetrable, brittle
A signed agreement may bring headlines, market rallies, and diplomatic applause, but a piece of paper does not change the nature of a regime that still threatens America, Israel, and the West. Op-ed.
I honestly don't know what combination of technologies and alliances can meet the timeline which takes Iran, after this deal is signed, to possess such a massive number of long range ballistic missiles and launchers that we can no longer defend ourselves. Op-ed.
What if the repeated delays in the negotiations were never primarily about the negotiations? What if they were about time?
The first duty of any government is to ensure security for its citizens and borders. This is never questioned anywhere except when it involves Israel. Op-ed.
America has a pattern. And allies are paying attention. A deal with Iran that weakens Israel’s position may appear to be a tactical convenience, but it is a strategic debt that the West will pay. Op-ed.
The EU, comprised of many countries that have tolerated and even encouraged antisemitism on their city streets, has become Israel’s largest overall trading partner. There is no new hypocrisy under the sun. Op-ed.
There does seem to be one region of increasingly strategic importance where Trump policy initiatives seemed to have resonated and could yield far-reaching results. Op-ed.
I do not believe the story is over. Quite the opposite. Trump may have simply decided to postpone collection day. Opinion.
"We stand with Israel because her cause is our cause, her values are our values, and her fight is our fight."
Trump negotiates for the safety of the West, the mullahs play for Islamic intolerance. And the media continues to torment him. Opinion.
The West imagines that painful compromise is a sign of a mature civilization. The rejectionist imagination sees compromise as shameful surrender. Opinion.
Accountability constricts western actions, but is completely absent in Iran. Like other theocratic adversaries, it has become adept at exploiting Western accountability by appealing to westerners who are opposed to their leaders while it mows down opposition at home. Opinion.
A Muslim blogger exposes the hypocrisy of Hamas in the Gaza Strip in a series of tweets.
From 'All Eyes on Rafah' to riots on British streets, amplification has become a substitute for understanding. Opinion.
A society reaches danger not merely when enemies gather outside its walls, but when its own tribes cease seeing one another as indispensable parts of a shared destiny.
How Greece thwarted a Hamas terrorist cell bent on Israeli targets. Opinion.
The Iranian regime remains a threat not because it’s strong, but because America is weak. Opinion.
What the critics who warn against "escalation" consistently fail to account for is that the alternative they are defending is not peace. It is a repeat performance.
Permission to remain is granted by bureaucrats who have never walked at night on Kinnaird Avenue, nor in Molenbeek, nor in Rinkeby, nor in Saint-Denis. Opinion.
Israelis know Rabbi Shmuley not because he is famous. They know him because he has spent decades standing up for them. Op-ed.
Northeast Syria, known as “Rojava", is populated by Kurds and other ethnic and religious minorities including Chaldean Christians. The upheaval they suffered in the recent period as the West abandoned them should make us pause - and cause Israel to beware. Op-ed.
Europeans refuse to confront what is happening within their own societies and remain fixated on Israel. Opinion.
The test for 2028 will not be who says “I stand with Israel" the loudest. Everyone knows how to say that at a fundraiser. Opinion.
Talks must be formally suspended until Iran demonstrates, through action and not rhetoric, a willingness to operate in good faith. Opinion.
Point number 7 in SJP's 7-point plan is unequivocal in its goal "to unseat our Boards of Trustees as the dictators of our universities." Opinion.
What's next? Your guess is as good as mine and every pundit's. For one morning, a helicopter tipped the scales. And I am watching developments from the front row.
The Abraham Accords proved that Israel can rewrite regional architecture from strength. Saudi normalization, if it comes, would be the architecture's keystone. Opinion.
As the West surrenders its freedoms to Islam, Israel must develop new military alliances with India, Japan, S. Korea, Singapore and others. Asian countries, besides missiles and planes, also share more of our Jewish values than does the disintegrating west.
If Washington decides to avoid a larger war, the deeper crisis shaping the Middle East will remain unresolved - for now.
Critics may occasionally misinterpret restraint as weakness. In reality, Israel's current posture reflects immense strength.Opinion.
The Kaplanist, haredi and legal mobs irritate, aggravate, and infuriate as many innocent people as possible, not to convince them of the rightness of their views but simply to compel acquiescence to their demands. Opinion.
New York’s antisemitism crisis must not be ignored. Opinion.
The Democrats keep picking the wrong side, and then they wonder why so many of their men turn soft and feminine. Opinion.
It’s no more difficult or time-consuming to convert the 200 bombs’ worth of plutonium at Bushehr than to convert the estimated 11 bombs’ worth of uranium hexafluoride at Isfahan into nuclear weapons. Opinion.
The world is betting on Israel's future. The challenge now is ensuring that the workers, exporters, tourism businesses, young families, and future olim who built that success are not burdened by it. Opinion.
By the hour or by the news cycle. From a candidate’s SS death’s-head tattoo to a war they have arbitrarily decided is unconstitutional, the Democrats keep proving that their much-trumpeted principles are fine-tuned instruments, not broad convictions. Opinion.
What is our American President doing? Or failing to do? How can he fail to understand that he has finally met the Deal that he cannot make? Opinion.
My journey to New York exposed me to a deeply unsettling reality in what has long been considered the capital of Diaspora Jewry.
Faith drives this story forward. Not the political calculation. Not the military strategy. Not only the courage of soldiers. All of that matters. But underneath it, holding it all up, is the one who moves without fear of the what, because her trust in the Who is complete.
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.
