Alma Report: Hezbollah's transformation

From a large terror army to a decentralized guerilla threat

Hezbollah has sustained unprecedented damage, but it currently continues to invest in recovery and force buildup, while adapting its force structure and operational plans to the new reality that has emerged in Lebanon and the region. Opinion.

From a large terror army to a decentralized guerilla threat

25 years since Durban:

The Durban strategy and the campaign to isolate Israel

By hijacking an anti-racism agenda for its own antisemitic goals, the Durban summit sought to delegitimize a sovereign state and rationalize terrorist violence. Opinion.

The Durban strategy and the campaign to isolate Israel

Media Wars:

The Wizard and the Media

This current cycle of blood libels is not new to the Jewish nation, but it is unique because technology has allowed the poison to infiltrate the entire world at lightning speed. Opinion

The Wizard and the Media

Jews for Haman

The Jewish people are cursed to have “leaders" like Dana Nessel and Brad Lander in politics, cowards who throw their own people to the wolves, who lack the courage to stand up to true evil and who cheer as it triumphs. Opinion.

Jews for Haman

The front line is everywhere:

Why Europe must dismantle Tehran's hybrid terror network

IRGC-linked networks have exploited open borders, civil liberties, and gaps in counter-terrorism coordination to establish operational cells across the continent. Opinion.

Why Europe must dismantle Tehran's hybrid terror network

Were claims of ‘Famine’ in Gaza a Blood Libel?

It all depends. Did Israel weaponise food to starve adults and kids especially to death? Opinion.

Were claims of ‘Famine’ in Gaza a Blood Libel?

The Genocide Lobby

There exists a lobby that operates against the Jewish people, and its most powerful instrument is Jews. Opinion.

The Genocide Lobby

Expect a chaotic Fall 2026 semester in New York City

Unlike his predecessor Eric Adams, who was mayor during the Spring 2024 semester of encampments (the most confrontational semester in decades), Mamdani is on the side of the Student Intifada. Opinion.

Expect a chaotic Fall 2026 semester in New York City

Jewish Civic Engagement:

The 360° Approach

The Jewish community and its allies need to adopt a comprehensive 360° strategy to confront the challenges of modern Jew Hatred. Opinion.

The 360° Approach

‘Woke 2’ is Worse Than ‘Woke 1’

Wokes are only pretending to turn the page. They are no more mature and no less cruel than their old counterparts. Opinion.

‘Woke 2’ is Worse Than ‘Woke 1’

Europe has become Islam's playground

Is Europe so shortsighted that it does not realize that Islamic mega-gifts have strings attached? Or does it simply not care? Opinion.

Europe has become Islam's playground

Does Jewish existence conflict with human survival?

Unlike Dana Nessel, most Jews still consider the existence of the Jewish people, and the Jewish state, to be a Jewish value. They’re proud to be Jews-and they’re equally proud of the role Jews have played in human history. Opinion.

Does Jewish existence conflict with human survival?

Unaddressed violence in Judea and Samaria

They fled into their "sanctuary city", confident that no one would bother to search for them and not one of the local residents would turn them in. Op-ed.

Unaddressed violence in Judea and Samaria

The Illusion of Integration:

Why validating Ra'am threatens Israel's security realism

If Israel normalizes political Islamism within its own governing coalitions to satisfy immediate electoral math, it projects strategic incoherence to its regional partners. Opinion.

Why validating Ra'am threatens Israel's security realism

What the Mossad’s Ahmadinejad Bet got right -- and wrong

Where the creative plan of the Mossad stumbled and what the plan for overthrowing Iran's current regime needs to succeed. Opinion.

What the Mossad’s Ahmadinejad Bet got right -- and wrong

When facing progressive antisemitism, Jewish liberals blame Trump

Many Jewish democrat liberals would probably only feel rain if spat upon by antisemitic progressives. Opinion.

When facing progressive antisemitism, Jewish liberals blame Trump

Into the fray:

How Bibi ruined Israel

The impressive post-October 7th achievements of the current government are often overlooked and undervalued. If you are have RLB (anyone but Bibi) virus, they are likely to be denied. Opinion.

How Bibi ruined Israel

Preventing nuclear war is an urgent obligation

A nuclear war - any nuclear war - would resemble an incurable disease. Of necessity, all meaningful “therapies" must lie in prevention. Opinion.

Preventing nuclear war is an urgent obligation

Moti Leitner:

Making the Jewish World like haredim again

After years in which Israel’s haredi political representatives made too many Jews resent us, Moti Leitner and his new party may be achieving what once seemed impossible. Opinion.

Making the Jewish World like haredim again

Repairing a world that hates us

As catastrophe strikes Nepal, Israelis have once again travelled thousands of miles to help strangers. Real Tikkun Olam demands that we perfect the world God rules - and what better way than to try repair a broken world, even when parts of that world despise us.

Repairing a world that hates us

Jack Engelhard:

Media madness

Media misinformation absorbed from Hamas to TikTok, has indeed spawned a Lost Generation on Israel. Opinion.

Media madness

The fatal narcissism of the Dems sanctuary stovepipes

Democrat sanctuary policies is killing Americans - but that will not stop them on their suicidal crusade to genuflect to their radical left wing. Opinion.

The fatal narcissism of the Dems sanctuary stovepipes

Op-ed:

Sovereignty demands taking back our universities from the left

The new academic year begins soon. This is the time to insist that University professors teach our students the same Jewish and Zionist values held by the Israeli taxpayers and Jewish donors who pay their salaries. Opinion.

Sovereignty demands taking back our universities from the left

The Druze and Israel:

A Covenant of blood

Who are the Druze? They are Arab in language, culture, and DNA, but It is their religion that is unique. And what is the covenant of blood? Op-ed.

A Covenant of blood

First they erased terror in Israel, now they are erasing 9/11

The word “terrorism" requires sensitivity. Condemning Israel apparently does not... Opinion.

First they erased terror in Israel, now they are erasing 9/11

How antisemitism can advance your career

The more I understood the riotous Jewish tribe, the more I realized that a nation that can barely run the so-called "West Bank" (or, for that matter, a heated Knesset session) is unlikely to deviously pull the strings behind everything happening in the world. But never mind. Opinion.

How antisemitism can advance your career

Iran’s Unit 4000 and the new architecture of outsourced terrorism

The genius-and danger-of this model is its ability to fragment an operation among people who understand only a fraction of it. Tehran’s reported covert networks use digital recruitment, criminal intermediaries, and deniable local operatives. Opinion.

Iran’s Unit 4000 and the new architecture of outsourced terrorism

Five things Jews (and Christians) need to know about October 7

By portraying Israel and the West as preternaturally blameworthy, leftists advance the cause of Islamism. Opinion.

Five things Jews (and Christians) need to know about October 7

The Israeli force-multiplier factor in US military strength

Israel did not grow strong because it had an American alliance. It acquired an American alliance because it had grown strong. Opinion.

The Israeli force-multiplier factor in US military strength

Gary Lineker, Mark Ruffalo and the Antisemitism they cannot see

Two global stars, millions of followers and the same question: when Jews identify antisemitism, why does everyone else get to tell us we’re wrong? Opinion.

Gary Lineker, Mark Ruffalo and the Antisemitism they cannot see

Melanie Phillips:

Britain’s moral depravity

UK's campaign against the Israeli “settlers" amounts to racist ethnic cleansing and Burnham's threatened boycott would affect all Israeli products. Israel might now suggest politely that since the UK apparently hates the Jewish state so much, it surely won’t want to benefit any further from Israeli intelligence or arms. Opinion. supplies.Opinion.

Britain’s moral depravity

Hareidi army service:

Please just listen - or read

For a hundred and one reasons, most haredim will not join a non-hareidi institution and, therefore, they will not join the IDF as it is today. Opinion.

Please just listen - or read

Elections 2026:

Who leads?

Humility, coupled with a dose of reality, can temper the fantasies of even the most quixotic politicians and forge true leaders. It is not too late for some or all of these mushrooming right wing parties to amalgamate and save us from a left wing government. Opinion.

Who leads?

Filastin, Syria, and the Turkish Shadow

A century of regional confrontation-and the old Ottoman Map that refuses to die.

Filastin, Syria, and the Turkish Shadow

The Trump Peace Council:

Déjà Vu - Creating the UN all over again

It begins with one sentence: “Israel and Hamas violated the agreement." How dare they? Opinion.

Déjà Vu  - Creating the UN all over again

Oped:

Half of Israeli faculties we audited signed a War Crimes letter

Half of the faculty audited at Israel's most prestigious research universities put their name to a document accusing the IDF of war crimes and crimes against humanity, during a war that responded to the deadliest single massacre of Jews since the Holocaust.

Half of Israeli faculties we audited signed a War Crimes letter

Synagogues and churches to Congress: Protect us now

Government must do more to meet the urgency of the times we live in. Opinion.

Synagogues and churches to Congress: Protect us now

The Lone Wolf Is not alone: What drives the stabbing Jihad

The decisive question is why one society’s political, religious and media institutions repeatedly provide a ready-made target, a heroic script and communal validation for those who commit terror. Op-ed.

The Lone Wolf Is not alone: What drives the stabbing Jihad

The Gaza Questions Europe doesn't want to answer

Dear "horrified" Europeans, what would you have done if October 7 had happened to your country, your community, your wife, your daughters, your children or your grandchildren? Op-ed.

The Gaza Questions Europe doesn't want to answer

Iran Regime Change:

Why it has failed and what must happen now

The dilemma facing Washington and Jerusalem: A nuclear-capable Iran that still funds proxies from Lebanon to Yemen is not a foreign-policy result. It is a failure. What can the US do? Opinion.

Why it has failed and what must happen now

Alma Research Center Analysis:

What is Hezbollah’s objective?

Why are they fighting Israel? Opinion.

What is Hezbollah’s objective?

Galas don't build alliances

People remember those who helped them. But they usually become even more deeply attached to those who appreciated them enough to accept their help. Opinion.

Galas don't build alliances

Giulio Meotti:

If only 130 slaughtered Christians were Palestinian Arabs

If only the nameless bodies buried in the red earth of the Nigerian Plateau, the children burned in the churches of Congo, the women kidnapped and disfigured in the Sahel, carried another name, another flag, another cause - we would know about them. Opinion.

If only 130 slaughtered Christians were Palestinian Arabs

Time for an Irish exit?

Israel must impose its own cost on Europe’s E1 obsession as Europe threatens Israel with sanctions in response to Israel’s plans to finally begin construction there. Opinion.

Time for an Irish exit?

Destroying the Evidence:

UNESCO against its own nature

What happens when the custodian of memory alters it? Archaeology does not change its nature according to who operates the excavator.

UNESCO against its own nature

Why is Mark Ruffalo using the genocide libel again?

Mark Ruffalo once admitted the “Genocide" libel fuels antisemitism. Now he’s doing it again? Opinion.

Why is Mark Ruffalo using the genocide libel again?

Antisemites can treat Zionists with compassion

After Oct 7 the government of South Africa lost no time dragging Israel to The Hague for genocide in Gaza. It also got bosom buddy Hamas which had dragged slain IDF Capt Daniel Perez to Gaza, to return his mortal remains to the mother and father, who happens to be President of the World Zionist Organisation.

Antisemites can treat Zionists with compassion

The Arab Case for Israel: Essays from a distant conflict

Review of an excellent book that could only have been written by a free man in a free country and not in the Islamic Middle East. Opinion.

The Arab Case for Israel: Essays from a distant conflict

Jack Engelhard:

Yes to Israel tough guy

Peace negotiations? What peace? Been there, done that. Opinion.

Yes to Israel tough guy

How to become a Middle East expert in seven minutes

Why waste years learning Arabic and Hebrew, studying history and visiting the region when seven minutes of theory can give you everything you need to explain the Middle East to Israelis? Op-ed.

How to become a Middle East expert in seven minutes

Kol Hakavod (kudos):

To those who refuse to disappear

Apparently Jews being somewhere they are not wanted is a recurring problem. Op-ed.

To those who refuse to disappear

When a stone becomes a “precious Diamond:"

"Battle of Civilization Versus Barbarism"

Peace becomes impossible when a public culture rewards the sacrifice of children more than the protection of their future. Opinion.

"Battle of Civilization Versus Barbarism"

Tehran's regime hasn’t changed - its old enforcers are back

No regime change has taken place in Tehran. America’s longtime enemies and veterans of the Islamic Republic’s machinery of violence are back at the commanding heights of power-and Iran is entering a new age of hard-line rule. Opinion.

Tehran's regime hasn’t changed - its old enforcers are back

Midterm Madness:

Who’s afraid of the Big Red Scare?

We are. Dark forces infiltrate every breach in the USA, widening them through chaos, migration and party infiltration until power concentrates in the hands of a few and there is no way back to the gardens that grew its distinct beauty. Opinion.

Who’s afraid of the Big Red Scare?

Beyond the classroom:

How schools shape the generation fighting for Israel

The Religious Zionist educational system in Israel prioritizes responsibility over self-interest, connects learning to lived action and insists that Torah is not just something to study, but something to live. Opinion.

How schools shape the generation fighting for Israel

VP Vance is actually a dangerous choice for POTUS

The Vice President’s words and actions--the hard evidence--are what makes him a dangerous choice for President of the United States. Opinion.

VP Vance is actually a dangerous choice for POTUS