Opeds (Page 15)


Holocaust Memorial Day:

Why the Holocaust was different

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 the Holocaust was different

Yom Hashoah:

This day is not for everyone

Why Yom Hashoah cannot be universalised and why that matters now more than ever. Opinion.

This day is not for everyone

No life is unworthy of life

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.

No life is unworthy of life

The story of a great hero:

Mordechai Anielewicz and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

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.

Mordechai Anielewicz and the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising

Approaching Holocaust Memorial Day:

Listen while they can still tell

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.

Listen while they can still tell

The Amalekite Terrorist Iranian Regime:

Why deterrence failed in Islamabad

The Regime’s program calls for ‘Death to America’ and ‘Death to Israel’, which are not vapid slogans, but religious imperatives. Opinion.

Why deterrence failed in Islamabad

April 13, 1948:

When 78 Jews died in the Hadassah Convoy Massacre

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.

When 78 Jews died in the Hadassah Convoy Massacre

Once Jewish blood was cheap. To the world, it still is

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.

Once Jewish blood was cheap. To the world, it still is

Campus Antisemitism:

Harvard and Columbia's deep-rooted Jewish Problem

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.

Harvard and Columbia's deep-rooted Jewish Problem

Giulio Meotti:

Will all of Europe soon be a no-go wasteland?

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.

Will all of Europe soon be a no-go wasteland?

Pride is our Shield, but organizing is our Sword

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.

Pride is our Shield, but organizing is our Sword

Israel’s generation of heroes

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.

Israel’s generation of heroes

Jack Engelhard:

The campaign to blame Israel

Have you forgotten what happens on a day when Israel relaxes? Opinion.

The campaign to blame Israel

Deterrence and muscle, not diplomacy, produced the Iran ceasefire

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.

Deterrence and muscle, not diplomacy, produced the Iran ceasefire

How the media turns terror militias into ‘elite’ armies

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.

How the media turns terror militias into ‘elite’ armies

Melanie Phillips:

The West’s fifth column

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.

The West’s fifth column

The same old story, still being told

A history of disproportionate contribution and disproportionate blame. Opinion.

The same old story, still being told

When ideology trumps humanity:

The moral bankruptcy of AOC's’ anti-Israel posture

Rep. Ocasio-Cortez’s position serves as a cautionary example of how political ambition and ideological alignment can distort judgment.

The moral bankruptcy of AOC's’ anti-Israel posture

A strange, aberrant fire

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.

A strange, aberrant fire

Iranians support their government's defeat

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.

Iranians support their government's defeat

The Canary on the Couch:

The anatomy of American Jews' communal surrender to antisemitism

In "The Canary on the Couch", psychiatrist Kenneth Levin analyzes not just the Jewish community itself, but the psychological health of its leadership. Review.

The anatomy of American Jews' communal surrender to antisemitism

Beyond the Buffer:

Why South Lebanon demands a new strategic logic

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.

Why South Lebanon demands a new strategic logic

The Fabulists

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.

The Fabulists

Israel’s Lebanon quagmire

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.

Israel’s Lebanon quagmire

Analysis:

Iran's rulers bet on fragile calm to preserve power, manage chaos

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.

Iran's rulers bet on fragile calm to preserve power, manage chaos

Giulio Meotti

I don’t know who'll win the war. But I know that Europe lost it

Resistance to Islamic totalitarianism is not supported by Western public opinion, especially not by apathetic France. The protesting Iranians remain forgotten. Opinion.

I don’t know who'll win the war. But I know that Europe lost it

Not "if", but "when", that "ceasefire" blows up into smithereens

The ceasefire exposed Trump’s bluster, lending him the climb-down of all climb-downs, thereby, endangering the free world. Opinion.

Not "if", but "when", that "ceasefire" blows up into smithereens

Strategic Drift:

The danger of inconsistent American messaging on Iran

What is missing, and what Israel's own experience of deterrence theory makes painfully legible, is a victory doctrine. Opinion.

The danger of inconsistent American messaging on Iran

An illegal taking writ small

Arabs' illegal planting on Jewish farms is a microcosm of their strategy to encroach on all of Judea and Samaria. Opinion.

An illegal taking writ small

A Party Unmoored:

Democrats are driving themselves into irrelevance

The party's current trajectory is unsustainable, and the gap between the party and the electorate has grown too wide to ignore. Opinion.

Democrats are driving themselves into irrelevance

A Century of False Alarms:

The persistent myth of Al-Aqsa “In Danger"

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.

The persistent myth of Al-Aqsa “In Danger"

Giulio Meotti:

Viral against Israel, silent about every other travesty

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.

Viral against Israel, silent about every other travesty

No kings!…unless they are our kings

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.

No kings!…unless they are our kings

Case Closed: The Romans, not the Jews, killed Jesus

There are lies that wound, and there are lies that kill. Op-ed.

Case Closed: The Romans, not the Jews, killed Jesus

The Homs Tunnels and the myth of Syrian neutrality

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.

The Homs Tunnels and the myth of Syrian neutrality

The fantasy of a ceasefire while Iran arms for war

If Israel stops-does Iran stop? Opinion.

The fantasy of a ceasefire while Iran arms for war

To understand the NY Times we must recognize its antisemitic past

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.

To understand the NY Times we must recognize its antisemitic past

The Progressive Passover

Passover teaches freedom, but some progressive prophets insist it’s just another homework assignment in lecturing the Israelis. Opinion.

The Progressive Passover

Jabotinsky's Pesach lessons:

For this hard-to-be-a-Jew year

Jabotinsky anticipated the recurring need to answer, to defend, to explain - and sometimes simply to endure. Read and gain strength.

For this hard-to-be-a-Jew year

Trump's War with Iran - where should it be going?

As with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan, only total victory and absolute, unconditional surrender will fix the problem in Iran. Opinion.

Trump's War with Iran - where should it be going?

How Israel can return King Cyrus' favor

Zoroastrian culture, if brought back to its former glory, can make all the difference to downtrodden Iranians' pride. Opinion.

How Israel can return King Cyrus' favor

Islam and Islamism: The Wilhelmine Germany parallel

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.

Islam and Islamism: The Wilhelmine Germany parallel

Jack Engelhard:

My Holocaust memoir that never was

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,

My Holocaust memoir that never was

Moadim Lesimcha: To those who lead when it matters most

Different arenas, the same instinct, to step forward, to speak, to stand firm, to refuse to bow, to cower, or to wait.

Moadim Lesimcha: To those who lead when it matters most

Iran’s Quiet Power Shift:

The rise of a Military Junta

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.

The rise of a Military Junta

View from the UAE:

Gulf security begins at the Strait of Hormuz

'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.

Gulf security begins at the Strait of Hormuz

Turkey’s Final Descent Into Autocracy:

Erdogan's digital Iron Curtain

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.

Erdogan's digital Iron Curtain

Daniel Greenfield:

The God-honest truth about Israel’s Death Penalty Bill

Repeat killers, hostage deals, and media spin led Israelis to a breaking point. Opinion.

The God-honest truth about Israel’s Death Penalty Bill

The Democrats’ fatal weakness

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 Democrats’ fatal weakness

What the Haggada taught us:

Four different children and the power of looking deeper

The Haggadah instructs the adult to take the first step: “You open up the conversation for them."

Four different children and the power of looking deeper

Ma Nishtana 2026:

Seven ways this Passover is different from all other Passovers

What has changed and what has not changed this year?

Seven ways this Passover is different from all other Passovers

Another reason to fight to the finish:

The Iran and Sudan Connection: A new Empire crosses the Red Sea

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.

The Iran and Sudan Connection: A new Empire crosses the Red Sea

Christians, mark my words:

After the Jews, Islamists will come for you

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.

After the Jews, Islamists will come for you

The Plague of Darkness is here. Now choose.

Those who can see the light know exactly what they are looking at.

The Plague of Darkness is here. Now choose.

Silence when Spain closed its airspace spawned French refusal

Let that sink in. An ally-protected by American power-shut its doors on the very country fighting to defend it. Opinion.

Silence when Spain closed its airspace spawned French refusal

Next year iin rebult Jerusalem, and...

A million Jews in Judea and Samaria

Doubling the number of Jews in Judea and Samaria is the strategic imperative of the next two years. Op-ed.

A million Jews in Judea and Samaria