The protest is a meticulously worded declaration of intellectual resistance against what these scholars describe as the weaponization of language. Opinion.
What kind of policy is this insistence on diplomacy with the “savage mullah"? What benefit does it serve? Opinion
Iran and Israel learned much from their 2025 war, meaning the next conflict may be more ferocious and dangerous. Opinion.
The hostages are home. The symbols have come off. The responsibility has not. As he drove off to fight, Ran Gvili said just one thing to his father: “I have no choice. I won’t leave my friends to fight alone." That is the whole story. Opinion
The more the opposition accuses Netanyahu of preventing the return of the hostages, the less success it will have at replacing him. Opinion.
The world is missing the key point-that it was a uniquely monstrous crime aimed specifically at the extermination of the Jewish people. Opinion.
Real peace is never made with active enemies who believe they can wait out their opponents; it is made only with former enemies who have been unequivocally defeated. Opinion.
Greenland’s importance to the US is not symbolic or speculative. It is structural. From a U.S. strategic perspective, Greenland is not a luxury. It is a keystone. Analysis.
Terror-supporting organizations do not need explosives when they can secure endorsements, proclamations, and civic honors from Western governments so as to receive legitimacy step by step. Opinion.
History offers no guarantees, but it does record moments when nations - bound by pain, pressure, and purpose - achieved what seemed implausible or even impossible. Opinion.
It is beginning to look as though Jews are being erased from history, including their own. Op-ed.
Wannsee remains historically significant for a chilling reason: it reveals how a modern state can coordinate mass murder through routine administration. Opinion.
After the horrors of WWII, we thought it was over, but it had just gone underground. Opinion.
Donald Trump appears to be the only world leader actively opposing the trend to abandon Western values. Opinion.
Is the Far Left suffering a mental health crisis? Opinion.
What' the use of International Holocaust Day events and Holocaust Museums if the murder of 6 million can be wantonly trivialized? Opinion.
Regime change must be the objective. Military success without political dismantling produces cycles, not solutions.Opinion.
President Trump is a showman, an entertainer, whose blustery rhetoric often has little connection to reality. The odds of the Board of Peace succeeding are less than the odds of Greenland becoming the 52nd state of the United States (after Canada becomes the 51st). Opinion.
Until he undoes the antisemitic incitement, we reject him entirely. Opinion.
81 years after the world refused to lift a finger to save Jews, and the Nazis reduced them to numbers tattooed on their forearms, the army of the Jewish State showed that every Jew matters and brought home one of its own. Opinion.
Those who demonstrate for another Holocaust and murder innocents in cold blood do not deserve recognition, let alone a terrorist Arab state Opinion.
"They are taking people away, and there is nothing we can do about it," wrote the 14-year-old girl in her diary in April 1944. “I wish I could do something to stop it, but all I can do is cry and pray." Is that where the rise of antisemitism is leading us? Opinion.
Ye is free to speak irrationally, to contradict himself, and to buy as many ads as he wants. The question is whether the media is obligated to follow every turn of that spiral when it should ignore him. Opinion.
Washington is making the cost of Iraqi Iranian alignment unavoidable. Opinion.
While Trump is portrayed as the bully who “threatens the liberal order," Europe yields symbolic and strategic ground to its number one systemic rival, China. Opinion.
Bobsleighs, boycotts, and the quiet defiance of Jewish sport. Opinion.
FAA writes of its mission: 'We’re confronting antisemitism in our own movement, uncovering how it shows up in feminist spaces, and exploring what can be done to challenge and end it.' More power to them! Opinion.
When the Jew is dominated and defenseless, the world weeps. When he rises, defends himself, and prevails, the world grits its teeth. And tries to make sure he does not achieve total victory. Opinion.
Jewiish Voice for Peace (JVP), wiith its membershiip of useful idiots, is the self-hating Jewish wing of Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP). The proof is in the article below. Opinion.
A water-starved Egypt risks becoming a source of radicalization and even military escalation. Sisi's appearance at Davos reflects that Egypt is seeking an external lifeline to stabilize a system weakened by years of strategic miscalculation tht led to that shortage. Opinion.
There is a long and sordid history of extremists from one end of the political spectrum making common cause with those at the other end-when the cause is hatred of Jews and the Jewish state. Opinion.
President Trump’s peace plan requires Hamas to disarm-but lasting peace also depends on dismantling the culture of violence taught in Gaza and PA classrooms. Without reforming education, demilitarization alone will fail.
Solidarity is vital - but strength is better. Opinion.
Usually we like Trump's American swagger. But not when it comes to Israel, our most loyal ally in the Middle East. Opinion.
"Middle powers" like Canada and others are waking up to a world Israel encountered beginning decades ago. Israel might be blamed for collapsing the old order, but it simply outlived it. Opinion.
How can the U.S. be elevating a leftist Dutch globalist who hates Trump and Geert Wilders? What is Witkoff's motivation for doing so? Opinion.
The situation demands that the West and the United Nations stop being fooled by Syrian political theater and humanitarian platitudes, all part of Turkey's plan for control of the area. The Kurds plight is the proof. Opinion.
Europe cannot be trusted to keep out Russia and China from Greenland. Opinion.
Summary" Thanks to the international community, social media, and mainstream media for ensuring that truth remains absent, responsibility remains optional, and the elephant (aka Hamas rearmament) remains unseen. For the undiluted protocol, read below.
They may hold rifles from the time they can crawl, but Hamas terrorists obtained their weapons due to a world that also allowed them the cement for tunnels. Will that change? Opinion.
The daycare tragedy and its attendant scandal show that our priorities are misguided in more ways than one. Opinion.
Netanyahu is made of far sterner stuff than the political leaders who have bent to Trump's will, and he knows that Israel's survival is at stake. Opinion.
The old world order is dead because Western universalists destroyed it. Opinion.
How the world keeps sacrificing Gaza, Israel, and Iran’s people to avoid the truth. Opinion.
Read the real reason the US allowed thousnds of Iranian protesters to be slaughtered. Everything else you have read is a smokescreen. Opinion.
Pennsylvania Governor Josh Shapiro’s new memoir about his questioning by staff of the then-Democratic Presidential candidate Kamala Harris and by Harris herself show clearly that classic antisemitic tropes are back. Appalling. Opinion.
Qatar, like Turkey, calls for the destruction of Israel and Jews. Qatar, like Turkey, also continues praise the October 7 Hamas attack on Israel. Qatar, like Turkey, also propagates libels against Jews. Opinion.
The indicators are there, though military action takes foresight, timing and precision because success must be the result-once the definition of success is made by governments and their armed forces.
An example of Israeli black humor opens the door to a frank discussion of what keeps Jews fighting for the Jewish homeland. Op-ed.
Israel changed the geopolitical situation in the Horn of Africa when it recognized Somaliland. Read about the "Blue Homeland" (Mavi Vatan) doctrine and its goal, stymied by Israel, and why Turkey has to stay on the good side of the UAE despite that setback. Opinion.
The assisted suicide bill is contrary to Jewish law - but the points raised against it are universal in nature and valid for everyone.
Don’t encourage people to risk their lives, hoping that America will actually intervene bigtime if you’re not serious about the promise. Opinion.
The US needs Greenland for the survival of Its strategic future. Opinion.
Trump wants Greenland, and since I am a betting man, my money says he is going to get it one way or another. Opinion.
Our Sages could have been talking about today's abandonment of Jews and principles to gain the Muslim vote when they wrote: “Be cautious with the government, for they only bring a person close to them for their own needs."
Today's Jewish predicament parallels the Mandate period in its players - the enemy, the governing power and ourselves - but there are crucial differences that make it clear that things will get worse, not better for diaspora Jewry. Opinion.
Cowardice is an effective survival strategy for effete westerners, but courage emerges in Iran where fear no longer has any power. Opinion.
Enforcement, the single factor that determines whether Phase II exists at all, is treated as an afterthought, but naming Phase II without defining its mechanics is not leadership. And it will lead to war. Opinion.
Antisemitism, institutional failure and the quiet shame of being grateful for what should be automatic. Opinion.
Israel must now navigate a dangerous northern front where the "Victory Doctrine" of its neighbors-specifically Turkey-has succeeded in replacing a pluralistic buffer with a centralized Islamist-aligned cage. Opinion.
Despite all that Josh did for Israel, its Defense Ministry abandoned him and his loved ones after he died. Oped.
Israel has emerged as the most vocal advocate for the Iranian people, while the much-touted Islamic "Ummah" watches the slaughter from the sidelines. An upside-down situation that can lead to a better future for Israel and Iran. Opinion.
Canceling his performances in Israel over Netanyahu’s treatment of the “whole Palestinian issue," the venerated conductor hypocritically asserts that music can’t be separated from politics. Opinion.
Jews do not belong in Britain, but they do not belong in America either. Opinion.
Miami Beach now stands where many cities have stood before it-often too late. Will it be a place where antisemitism is confronted early, honestly, and forcefully? Opinion.
The decision by the White House to include an anti-Israel Turkish extremist in a key position on the National Committee for the Administration of Gaza is outrageous. Opinion.
MLK Jr.'s strong partnership with Jews and support for Israel was grounded in mutual responsibility and moral discipline, not ideological conformity. Attempts to minimize his pro-Jewish stance are ignorant at best, lies at worst. Opinion.
It is time to stop apologizing, to stop pleading for understanding. It is time to return to the language of justice. Opinion.
There is a kind of unspoken pact in which leftists and Muslims living in Western countries do not criticize fellow Muslims even if they are massacring other Muslims. Opinion.
Julani has shown exactly who he is. The videos, the prisoner releases, the ideological fingerprints-they are not echoes of ISIS. They are continuity. Ameriica must stop it now. Israel must help. Opiinion.
Presidencies come and go but Israel’s interests transcend any particular presidency and the vagaries of who holds the office during any particular four-year term. Discontinuity is democracy’s flaw. Op-ed.
Disengaging from these bodies is not isolationism. It is an act of strategic hygiene. Opinion.
Generally, in Trump we trust, but in this instance his instincts may be a touch unreliable. Opinion.
APR is a dangerous term that suggests that trying to combat antisemitism is itself racist against Palestinian Arabs. A full report is linked below. Op-ed.
These are dark times for the Jewish People, but we are not without hope. And our fire will not be consumed.
Does the world understand that a nation of ninety million people is being held hostage by wild clerics who rule through fear, bullets, and graves? Opinion.
Iran bleeds and the world talks. History will not judge who issued the most carefully worded statements, but who stood on the right side when a nation demanded freedom. Opinion.
What Hezbollah and our local Islamists are up to is what’s called hybrid or unconventional warfare. Opinion.
At a cost exceeding sixty billion dollars and located forty-five kilometers deep into the desert, the new capital was designed not for governance but for insulation. Will it work? Opinion.
“When the eco-citizen claims to ask the most disturbing question-‘What world will we leave to our children?’-he avoids asking the truly unsettling one: ‘To which children will we leave the world?’".
To attribute this revolt to Israel is to deny Iranians their humanity and their courage. How paternalistic. Shame on Candace Owens. Opinion.
Ending the Islamic regime in Tehran would help reset the West’s moral compass. Opinion.
There is a master plan behind Trump's behavior towards Iran and Hamas - and it gets results. Opinion.
This is not a government losing control. It is a regime behaving exactly as it always has. Opiniion.
An historic missed opportunity that will cost at the ballot box. Op-ed.
The movement that turned out en masse to demonize the State of Israel for defending itself is uninterested in the slaughter of Iranians. Maybe it’s because they can’t blame it on the Jews. Opinion.
More Christians in the Qatar than in Israel, as Tucker claims? Yes, but they live under a system that international labor experts identify as meeting the criteria for forced labor and modern slavery. Opinion.
In New York City, synagogues require police barricades and families hide Stars of David under their coats due to violent anti-Israel protestors, but NY's attorney general acted only against Betar, the group which fought back. Opinion.
India and Israel, though vastly different in terms of size, geography, and population, have a uniquely strong partnership based on many common strengths and challenges. Opinion.
For decades leading up to the atrocities of October 7, the top echelons of the Israeli leadership wildly misjudged the realities that prevailed in Gaza. Opinion.
To allow a weakened, cornered Hamas to project an image of dominance in the heart of Jerusalem by alowing its flag to fly on the Temple Mount would be to grant them a strategic lifeline precisely when they must face the reality that their war aims have failed. Opinion.
The Islamic Forever War against Israel is a continuation of Islamic history and not an aberration. Peace with Israel in this view, is not only impossible-it is heretical. Review.
Khamenei leaving the scene is not the same as the regime falling. Opinion.
Textbooks most clearly reflect the way in which a society seeks to instill its principles in the minds of its youth. PA textbooks clearly contradict its commitments under the Oslo Accords. Op-ed.
He is dangerous bcause he is effective. He is a good salesman. The Jews are his merchandise. Opinion.
Many Jewish educators the world over describe a growing sense of strain as they wrestle with the same underlying questions of identity facing their students, even as their realities differ. Op-ed.
Weaponizing religion as a political tool is an immoral tool - look at the hadiths that promote jihad. Opinion.
The organizational infrastructure of Hamas must be pulverized beyond the point of reconstitution. Nothing short of that can work. Certaiinly not a repeat of Arafat's move to Tunis. Opinion.
The people who haven’t stopped shouting about injustice since Oct 7th 2023 suddenly cannot find their voices on Iran. But from Moses to Joseph, From Iran to Britain, the price of refusing to speak never changes. Opinion.
How group-psychology status seeking and quasi-religious fervor make anti-Israel activism resistant to logic, evidence, and dialogue. Opinion.
The fact that in Western squares no one demonstrates for the heroic Iranians, but only for the cutthroats, does not bode well. Opinion
Revolutions are judged by what they overthrow; governments are judged by what they protect. And here, the record grows troubling. Opinion.
Jews funded the American Revolution-and why that truth matters now. Reminder that religious freedom in America was not invented in theory. It was earned in battle-and paid for in Jewish coin. Op-ed.
Ankara’s foreign policy relies on a "double game" that exploits its membership in NATO while subverting the security of its allies. Opinion.
Jihadi Islam is the fundamental evil driving violence and oppression in the Middle East and beyond. The Jewish people and the Jewish state of Israel are the answer. Op-ed.
Their Iranian civilians' courage and resolve should be a wake-up call for freedom loving people everywhere. Opiinion.
This isn’t a list of banal, cliché habits you’ll read in an “Introduction to Israel" pamphlet. These are the invisible instincts you only absorb by living here. Opinion.
The template for organizing self defense already exists. Just look at Hatzalah. Violence is coming to us whether we like it or not. It’s up to us to choose how we respond to it. Opinion,
Iran's race to rebuild is the real danger to Israel, writes the Alma Research Center in this report.
The war the West won’t name - or fight -- is coming to everyone's doorstep. Iran's regime, the major sponsor of terror, may fall, but there are others waiting to take over. Opinion.
Exactly forty-seven years after the civilized departure of the late Shah from Iran, the Crown Prince is prepared to return. Opinion.
The great Harold Bloom knew he had lost: “For fifty years I have fought the death of the humanities, but we have lost the war, and all I can do now is a kind of guerrilla action. The barbarians have taken over the academy."
Spain’s "Permit to Hate" is a result of govt rhetoric that birthed the 'Barcelonaz' terror map. Will there be another Jewish exodus? Op-ed.
The Arabs have as much to learn from the Iranians as they do from the Israelis. Opinion.
The rules-based global order has expired in disgrace. Opinion.
If a solution to Somaliland’s lack of water is not found soon, and it can be found if the money to execute it is provided, the country’s largely pastoral economy may completely collapse. Opinion.
Fortunate is the man who leaves this world after a life filled with observing commandments and doing acts of kindness . Rabbi Uri z"l was such a man.
Remember: It is unacceptable to demand the release of babies, such as the Bibas brothers, as long as those babies are Jewish. You can even deface the posters asking for their release. But is it perfectly acceptable to demand the release of mass murderers who are not Jewish. Opinion.
Columnists like…Breslin, Talese, Mailer et al, they pounded, they hammered their prose. Op-ed.
Stability in Syria will depend not on a single hegemon, but on a delicate balance among several power centers. Israelis have yet to realize that and mistakenly bank only on the US. Opinion.
2025 saw widespread chaos worldwide, as those defending Judeo-Christian norms and Western Civilization found themselves under attack, but 2026 can see us victorious if we act resolutely to win. Opinion.
The problem isn’t a different opinion about Zionism or the politics of modern-day Britain. It’s that he has advocated for extreme violence against Jews, institutions and white people.
“What the Jews need from JD Vance is not perfection," Bellos writes. What is it?
The intricacy of the slogan lies in its fusion of the three elements that have gained world attention: misogyny, Jew-hatred and Islam.
The problem is not decisive American action. It is Western abdication and evasion in the face of tyranny. Opinion.
Our nation knows how to defend itself but hesitates to define itself. Opinion.
Within days, Mamdani and Maduro found themselves conjoined in New York City. Opinion.
As the month since the legendary Commentary Magazine editor draws to a close, a look at the 40th anniversary issue of that magazine is an eye opener.
Don’t be misled: it’s time for us to all put our heads above the parapet and be vocally proud of the world’s only Jewish state. Opinion.
Why the end of Maduro is a strategic nightmare for Iran and Turkey. Opinion.
We must continue to be proactive after recognizing Somaliland and use Trump's Venezuela exploit as a guide. Opinion.
The Trump-Netanyahu relationship is not symbolic. It is strategic. It is personal. And most importantly, it is effective. Opinion.
Churches turned into mosques are the proof of the Western takeover by Islam. No clangor, no titanic clash. Just doors that close for one community and open for another. Opinion.
The confluence of shared values and interests with congruent policies is an exceedingly rare phenomenon among leaders in modern times and the effect is electrifying. Opinion.
In the most oil-rich nation in the world, by 2017, almost 75% of the population had lost an average of over 19 lbs through hunger. And there was no hope of elections to bring about change. Opinion.
Tehran’s leadership made the same calculation throughout: maintain ideological posture abroad, invest everythiing in war, absorb the economic pain at home. The result was predictable. Opinion.
A former Prisoner of Zion who spent years in a Russian prison turns to US Jewry with a request - before it is too late.
“As a survivor of Bergen Belsen, I did not think I would live to see history repeating itself." Op-ed.
Spielberg has gone from funding Holocaust survivors to funding those accusing Israel of a new Holocaust while enabling Hamas, Hezbollah and Iran to perpetrate a new one. Opinion.
Dear God…keep us safe. Op-ed.
This was law enforcement on a continental scale. Prsident Trump revived a doctrine that Washington has used before when criminal regimes become operational cartels.Analysis.
Hamas bemoans what it calls Israel's "grand plan [to] isolate and strangle Jerusalem [and] undermine any possibility of a geographically contiguous and viable Palestinian state." And we say, kudos to Smotrich. Opinion.
This is a fight we cannot afford to lose. When the mayor fails to deliver on his pie-in-the-sky promises, he has two ready-made scapegoats to feed to the rage of the masses: The millionaires, the billionaires--and the Jews.Opinion.
The "New Syria" is indeed stable, but it is the stability of a graveyard. Opinion.
Excepting the USA and Israel, the Western world’s deliberate avoidance of the Iranian uprising speaks volumes. Opinion.
Critics of the Venezuela operation are regurgitating platitudes about “escalation" and the fragility of international order.
Those who have never lived in freedom desire it with visceral passion. Those who inherited it consider it obvious, boring, perhaps even oppressive. It will not end well, at least for us. Opiinion.
If a public persona chooses not to denounce an antisemite for speaking falsehoods and spreading hate speech, they themselves can be guilty of amplifying it. Opinion.
If we want any chance of keeping the Turks and their Somali allies away from Berbera, we have to ensure that there is a mobile, heavily armed Somaliland force. And more. Opinion.
For Western and regional policymakers, the central issue is not whether the current Iranian regime will survive-it will not, and its eventual demise is only a matter of time-but whether change will produce a stable partner or another permanent crisis.Opinion.
There are murders and murders. Opinion.
For many Jewish New Yorkers, the inauguration spectacle raised an uncomfortable question: when socialist leaders speak of predatory elites exploiting the masses, who do their followers imagine? Opinion.
Reports indicate that the Netanyahu government, emboldened by the Trump administration, is preparing to unilaterally facilitate the exit of Gazans. Egypt is preparing for the overflow. Opinion.
The terrible fact is that conscience in the West has become harnessed to absolute evil. There have been no demonstrations in Western streets chanting “Free, free Iran!” or “Death, death to the IRGC!” Opinion.
A Jewish-owned NY bakery is being told that its very cultural expressions-baking cookies with Israeli flags, participating in Jewish food festivals-are illegitimate. Opinion.
The government can’t be trusted to investigate itself, but neither can institutions that are biased against it. History will render its verdict; in the meantime, it should be left to Israel’s voters. Opinion.
What do we think will happen when they become the majority in Europe? The real movie will soon arrive in theaters. Opinion.
From now on, according to Tucker and the anti-Zionist wing of the Party, America is a Christian country, Period. Opinion.
The "deep state" is not deep at all. It is glaringly obvious. Opinion.
Qatar’s alleged use of figures in the Prime Minister’s most innermost sanctum directly affects the very security of the citizens of Israel. The truth must out. Opinion.
Israel faces dilemmas and dangers at every turn. It must formalize the love of the Land of Israel into the sovereignty of the State of Israel. Opinion.
Did Israel and America auction off Iran’s national wealth to finance Islamist militias, proxy wars, and regional chaos across the Middle East? Opinion.
The relationship between the Trump and Netanyahu is very strong. There is complete alignment on Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria and Iran. And Trump’s fondness toward Israel remains unshakable. Opinion.
Egypt is losing the battle for the Red Sea as Israel's recognition of Somaaliland proves a diplomatic coup that puts Cairo in the shade. Opinion.
The claim of the rise of antisemitism on the right presupposes that those making the antisemitic comments represent the part of the right wing Maga viewpoint, Do they?
Israel’s recognition of Somaliland is generating headlines for sound reasons. Opinion.
The first day at the Auchwittz death camp.
The Palestinian Arab clients of UNRWA gradually took over the organisation and, with UN compliicity, undermined what was originally an international relief effort, created in naïve good faith. UNRWA should have died decades ago. Opinion.
To Tucker, and all Jew-haters: if the Jews controlled the world, as we are accused, don’t you think with our intelligence and abilities we would do a far better job? Opinion.
This is classic scientific cover for military capability. Independent sensors will allow the Egyptian military to keep a watchful eye on the Negev and monitor IDF movements without relying on intelligence sharing that might be withheld during a crisis. There is more. Opinion.
American Jews should take action now to protect their lives, fortunes and honor. Now that conservatives are collecting Qatari bribes too, expect a further corruption of institutions meant to protect you, perhaps including the next administration’s FBI. Opinion.
From reporting on UNRWA's real actions to influence its funders to encouraging a Yemeni journalist to slam the UN for ignoring Arab massacres of Arabs, UN Watch makes a real difference. Report.
"The Fake Jewish Voice for Palestine." is a better name for JVP. Opinion.
Trump's normalizing relations with an Islamist government that tolerates-or profits from-a narco-economy is strategic suicide. The United States must stop viewing the drug war in the Levant as a secondary issue. Jordan has emphatically done so. Opinion.
Preventing the Arab-Israel conflict from sliding into a religious war is the greatest challenge facing the Middle East today. Opinon.
What is provocative is the world’s growing comfort with Jews being hunted in plain sight. If a Jew cannot walk freely in a modern city, then ‘Never Again’ is just an empty slogan and a lie. Join us to change that. Opinion.
Looking back at 2025's terror victims, and those who came before, we realize that we must make a concerted effort to keep their names alive. Opinion.
Let's consider what Jewish activists in the U.S. can focus attention on, where they can make real difference. A suggested list is below. Opinion.
Reflections on a friend and happy warrior sorely missed.
They are trying to manipulate your consciousness through the blood libel known as “settler violence.” Do not be dragged into this false discourse. Before you condemn, stop and think for a moment. Opinion.
President Trump, leopards don’t change spots, only tactics! Iran has leveraged negotiation - as a time stalling tactic - to expedite the restoration and upgrading of its military capabilities. Opinion.
Sometimes it takes an iconic biblical story to restore clarity, as Trump prepares to meet Netanyahu. Opinion.
In an interview, Roth demands the extradition from Jordan to the U.S. of the terrorist behind the 2001 attack in Jerusalem in which his daughter, Malki, and 15 others were murdered.
Trump has done many good things so far, but he made two grave errors, one of which is stopping the war in Gaza before Hamas was destroyed. Opinion.
Ankara and Abu Dhabi are actively reshaping the security architecture of one of the world’s most vital waterways. Why is the US silent? Opnion.
President Trump is not on the same page as we are when it comes to Turkey in general and Erdoğan in particular. Opinion.
The "two-state solution" is politically naïve. ideologically flawed, strategically disastrous, and spiritually blind. Opinion.
The idea of a triple alliance consisting of Greece, Cyprus and Israel is a good one. However, given the nature of the Turkish threat it’s facing, significant improvements to both the IDF and Greek Army are needed. Opinion.
The silence of mainstream conservatives over the antisemitism in their midst is lethal for the Republicans and America. Opinion.
This is no longer merely a trial of a prime minister. It has become a trial and exposure of the system that brought him to the dock.
Classic Islam does not demean a person’s individual path of submission to divine will. Quran 3:113-4 requires that we must respect the religious choices of Christians and Jews, who it refers to as the Ahi al Kitab (People of the Book).
Da'wah is jihad-of-the-tongue. Read how Muslim reactions to Bondi show a whole psychological attack on the Australian people, so you can recognize it in other places. Opinion.
In the West, peace means “live and let live.” In Islam, peace means the world has bent the knee to Allah. What does love have to do with it? Opiniion.
There is a strategic and political vacuum in Gaza. We should fill it now, before it is too late once again and we revert to the same failed policies of the last seventy years. Opinion.
A New York Landmark Building tried to erase my daughter’s memory. A simple calendar check would have told us if the building is available on the date we asked for, bu we were ignored. Opinion.
In the IPC report, the authors at last acknowledge that there is and was no famine in the Gaza Strip, but claim a situation of acute food insecurity; COGAT rejects that claim as well.
Vice President JD Vance had an opportunity to establish some boundaries at the Turning Point USA AmericaFest. He specifically chose not to. Opinion.
Human rights monitors have documented what Turkey’s Jews already feel daily: discrimination against religious minorities is no longer episodic but systemic. Opinion.
The essential factor in the Dreyfus affair was that it was a story of Jews who felt that something like that could never happen in the modern world, until it did. Opinion.
The burning of the Christmas tree at a church in Jenin is ignored by the Vatican which cannot process Palestinian Arab oppression of Christians. The West ignores it at its peril. Opinion.
The reality for Jewish people living in increasingly hostile nations is no longer theoretical, and no longer distant. Reciprocity is vital. Opinion.
Did I miss the part where he calls himself an American patriot plus a proud Zionist? Opinion.
The pending legislation in the Knesset to block media channels that harm national security is surprisingly consistent with the actions of other Western governments. It is simply "defensive democracy". Opinion.
Anti-Semitic hate speech and terrorism must be punished. When world leaders call for immediate Palestinian Arab statehood in the aftermath of October 7, they send a chilling message: that terrorism works. Opinion.
A message of love and faith from 400 bereaved children in Israel to the bereaved and injured children and families of the Bondi Beach masssacre.
The Islamic State and its ideological sympathizers have not vanished; they have simply moved into the Syrian army barracks. Opinion.
Jerusalem traded energy for leverage, tying Cairo to its fuel supplies while securing strategic calm despite ongoing violations in Sinai.
Madalyn Drewno, commissioned to paint a portrait of Denver’s Vietnamese immigrant community decided, instead, to paint a mural with anti-Israel and anti-Jewish themes, and a few Vietnamese-Americans thrown in. Why should taxpayers fund that? Opinion.
What distinguishes Antisemitism's growth on the right from its proliferation on the left is the refusal of Jewish conservatives to rationalize or validate it or make excuses fellow conservatives who spew antisemitic venom. Opinion.
The real immorality is pretending that Gaza can be rebuilt while its society remains committed to jihad. Opinion.
Their current favorite line claims Israel is an enemy of LGBTQ people - that the Jewish state hides its “crimes” behind rainbow flags and Tel Aviv pride parades.
A democracy is defined by its decision-making process, and not the ideology of its adopted social policies. Over the last twenty years, the Israeli Left has deceived the Israeli public by claiming that its particular ideology of 'secular liberalism' is sole definition of democracy. Opinion.
The greatest shame belongs to the leaders of religious institutions and the organized Jewish community for not safeguarding their own interests for at least two generations, but also to all those Jews who thought antisemitism was over. Opinion.
Going after the inciters, the attackers, the supporters who enable an atmosphere of intimidation and fear directed against Jews is the only solution that can begin to change the direction towards which American society is heading. And the time is now. Op-ed.
By calling for stronger gun control instead of owning up to his incitement and failure, Australia’s Prime Minister made a mockery of himself and exposed his disconnect on the global stage. Opinion.
Does promoting a Palestinian Arab terror state constitute support for Israel or is it exactly bowing down to terrorism? Op-ed.
The Bar Lev Line was easily washed away into the sea; will the Prime Minister and his Security Cabinet put millions of Jewsh lives in danger by relying on a Yellow Line in the sand? Opinion.
As Argentina files charges, Iran’s regime panics at home. Opinion.
We choose life, lechaim, they choose Allahu Akhbar.
A record of Australia’s alarming descent into open Antisemitism. What began as chants metastasized into arson, threats, and ultimately mass murder. Op-ed.
The time for platitudes is over. What’s needed is zero tolerance of Islamic extremism and anti-Zionism. Opinion.
It was only in 1967 that living and praying openly as Jews as a community was finally officially permitted in Spain. Now, barely a half century later, we are back to the dark days of Spanish antisemitism. Op-ed.
Qatar, our enemy, has infiltrated the highest levels of the American government and it should be sobering for us to realize the outsized influence Qatar now has on American foreign policy, including Trump’s pronouncements.
The think tank has veered far from its original mission and namesake not because of its funders, but in spite of them. Opinion.
Trump says “I’m not allowed,” and Johnson says “there’s no path,” so why did a Jewish donor broach the idea of bypassing constitutional limits and allowing a third term for the president? The statement and resulting backlash could not have come at a worse time. Opinion.
If all assessments and opinions in the broad Zionist tent should be taken seriously, then that’s what it means: all views, on both the left and right. Opinion.
Reduced to its essentials, a worst case scenario for Israel would commence with progressively explicit warnings from Moscow or China about new Israeli preemptions against Iran. Opinion.
From Israel, I don’t look to America for reassurance. I look for clarity.
As we reflect on the origin of Hanukkah, we can better understand the Jewish response to the devastating Bondi Beach Hanukkah massacre of Jews by terrorists in Australia. Opinion.
A tragically timely response to a recent podcast debate that took place before the Sydney massacre, between two American Rabbis who discussed whether frum Jews in America should be making aliyah now. Opinion.
Islam has taken over. They did it to themselves, over there in Europe and Australia. Is America doing the same? Opinion.
Hanukkah does not celebrate violence. It rejects illusion. It reminds us that light does not survive on intention alone. The light survives because someone is willing to protect it. There is no automatic happy end. Opinion.
This madness is only the appetizer before the entree of a suburban caliphate under whiich Sydney will become Sidnei al-Islam. Opinion.
Diaspora Jewry should at least be talking about aliyah. They should be discussing the positive reasons for moving to Israel, the problems and their solutions. Now, while it is not the only choice. Opinion.
The newsrooms of the unfriendly foreign media operate with an anti-Israel religious fervor, and it is no longer possible to expect reporting from them that will be anything except biased and untrue. While we might not be able to convince the leftist media to listen to us, Israel certainly does not have to assist them when they seek to harm us. Opinion.
It's now season on Jews of all stripes, anywhere, any time. Active self help can begin to blunt the wave of attacks. Opinion.
Antisemitism is no longer a fringe problem in Australia. It has moved from the margins to the mainstream. This is the moment for clarity. Opinion.
Misinformation and disinformation are among the most severe near-term global risks, and synthetic content accelerates the problem. Within hours, that tool was used against Ahmed al-Ahmed, the hero at Bondi Beach. Opinion.
What could have happened had we had a large number of YKJ-1000 HGVs (see below) at our disposal during the Iran 12 Day War? I ran a simulation and the results were astounding. Opinion.
Is there some kind of malevolent cabal going on--a rightwing Deep State--that is working overtime to sabotage and ultimately topple President Trump, the better to implant their toxic, racist, anti-Semitic agenda at the pinnacle of the American government? Op-ed.
The indigenous population is aging and leaving, while the barbarians are young and passionate. Opinion.
The ideological fingerprints of Islamist terror anti-Jewish hatred sanctified by dogma are unmistakable at Bondi Beach. Op-ed.
There is a clear line from the chants of “where’s the Jews” in October 2023 to the slaughter of Jews just a few miles away in December 2025. Opinion.
Australia can respond by tightening screws on people already following the rules. Or it can respond by dismantling the networks and ideologies that produce terrorists. Opinion.
The Holocaust did not begin with murder. It began with accountants. Jews were first destroyed economically, banks cooperated, and no one else interfered. Today's BDS is a macabre echo. Op-ed.
This wasn't just a tragedy; it was a receipt. It was the bill coming due for years of Western complacency, bureaucratic cowardice, and a suicidal tolerance for the intolerant. Here's an example: Why is the Iranian ambassador still in Canberra? Op-ed.
Let's tell it like it is: It's from the Atlantic to the Medirerranean to the Pacific to the Tasman Sea. Op-ed.
A message to the Jewish Community and others who care: The miracle of Hanukkah was never really about oil. It was the refusal to let the light go out.
People weep, but multicultural tears do not wash away the blood shed by radical Islam which is taking advantage of the political cowardice of those who are too innocent to recognize evil when it does not wear the uniform of a cartoon villain. Opinion.
Is it just a coincidence that there has been so much antisemitism in Australia during the same period that the Australian government has been turning against Israel and tolerating local pro-Hamas activity? Opinion.
The Australian Massacre makes it even more shocking that a New York building is suing Rabbi Shmuley Boteach for honoring my murdered daughter Shani. Opinion.
The clean, fast, and practically politically viable path if there is a genuine transformation in Gaza.
You cannot vet an idea, and you cannot fingerprint a theology. This is precisely why the Trump administration’s overhaul of the vetting apparatus is not merely a policy shift, but an existential necessity. Opinion.
"Decolonized" Xmas is one where the Nativity is a Eurocentric narrative that hides the “real” Jesus who, if he were here today, would join a “from the river to the sea” demonstration. Opinion.
Mass murder has been branded as conscience to mess with people’s minds. Regarding UNRWA, a U.S. State Department official called it a “corrupt organization with a proven track record of aiding and abetting terrorists.” Not so the UK. Opinion.
One of the issues causing grave concern for the future of the GOP is the troubling rise of antisemitism within certain sectors of its constituency. This story is a wild flight of hateful imagination. Opinion.
There is only a single, unbroken truth: This is a battle between light and darkness and the line between them is absolute.
Once, long ago, journalism was an honorable profession - which it is no more, especially in terms of antisemitism. Opinion.
The former Israel Security Agency director is last person who has the right to sermonize about accountability and leadership. Op-ed.
Israel must launch a campaign to expose the dangers of Palestinian state recognition-not only for itself, but for Western nations promoting it. Opinion.
A whistleblower alert: President Trump must order a full review of outreach operations, liaison performance, communication failures, gatekeeping abuses, and community engagement strategy. Opinion.
Texas and Florida have realized that the Muslim Brotherhood is not a misunderstood “social movement.” It is the ideological mothership of some of the most dangerous anti-Jewish and anti-Western groups on earth. Opinion.
This isn’t about left or right, hawk or dove. It’s about the basic decency your music always seemed to champion. Opinion.
Now that Cory Booker is married to a Jew, it is time he realizes he owes us an apology for blindly following the Obama party line and voting for the Iran deal. Opinion.
Nick Fuentes who was not, feels insulted. Do the judges realize that both Jew-baiting and witch hunting are where the money is? Opinion.
J Street denounced what it termed "the West Bank settlement movement" as "a moral stain on the Jewish people and a threat to Israel’s future." Perhaps the shoe is on the other foot. Opinion.
A satirical look at the PA's yearly attempt to remake Jesus as a Palestinian, not a Jew. Opinion.
Trump may have abandoned Europe, but Europe abandoned itself first. Opinion.
The United States and its partners must reject the "storage" framework entirely. A ceasefire that leaves the enemy’s order of battle intact is a strategic failure. Opinion.
A law that can change the situation at American synagogues - dramatically. And you can help. Opinion.
Investigative journalist David Collier and anti-Semitism researcher Rachel Feldman show how politicians and activists manipulated the narrative around a violent crime to ensure Jews-who played no part in the incident whatsoever-would be scapegoated. In sum, if the truth doesn't fit, ignore it.
Amazingly, the Maccabees were able to defeat the major world power of their day. We should be looking more carefully at the details of that victory to see what we can learn from it.
The proposed legislation document outlines concerns that a proposed Apartheid Bill in South Africa could disproportionately target and criminalize Zionist Jewish South Africans and their activities related to Israel. Opinion.
A Review of Omar El Akkad’s "One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This" (Alfred A. Knopf, 2025). Don't boost its sales.
Qatar, Turkey, and Egypt are trying to undermine US President Donald Trump's Gaza peace plan. Sadly, it is all true to form. Opinion.
A celebration of press freedom that honours its true enemies. Opinion.
Spain’s anti-Isrrael embargo is not a symbolic slap on the wrist; it is an attack on the logistical and technological integrity of the southern security front. Opinion.
UNICEF is allowing the Jihadi curriculum to continue. We have learned from Our Gaza crew that the children n Gaza will be taught by the same teachers as before. Opinion.
While China and the US have built muscle - nuclear plants, production lines, aircraft carriers - Europe has cultivated the illusion of living off soft power and ever-more intricate regulations about everything, serving only to employ legions of lawyers and Brussels consultants. Opinion.
The Israeli is still trying to overcome the Jew, and if this means siding with the enemy, including on the world stage, so be it. But we are witnessing an historic changing of the guard. Opinion.
In the strange universe of Western celebrity culture, elevating a man with his record is easier and more fashionable than demanding the release of 251 innocent people who were kidnapped for the crime of being Israeli, which these celebs did not find reason to do. Opinion.
The real problem isn’t Israel or Zionism. It’s whether Western civilization still matters. Opinion.
Unlike Israel, which expressly laments the collateral damage of its self-defense operations in Gaza and elsewhere, jihadi rocket fire and terror attacks are the relentless product of “criminal intent.” Opinion.
Somalis out there in Minneapolis number at around 100,000, and do nothing “but complain", ssaid Trump. Seems like it may be murkier than that. Opinion.
Global solidarity? Kyiv cannot seek global compassion for its own suffering while consistently aligning with forces that undermine Israel’s right to defend itself. Opinion.
Exposing the ultimate and overarching goal of anti-Zionism is essential if we wish to discredit and defeat its proponents. Opinion.
Alternate title: Don't trust the Saudis and Turks as far as you can throw them. Opinion.
The antisemitism surge in Australia is a failure of collective leadership. Opinion.
Trump’s presence in the White House is an exceptional opportunity a pillar of strength for global stability, a more secure Middle East, a peaceful Persian Gulf, and an empowered Israel. Opinion.
The interminable investigation against the PM was more than a fishing expedition; it was corroboration of the Communist police chief Lavrentiy Beria’s boast to Stalin, “give me the man, and I will find the crime.” Opinion.
Unmanned Collaborative Combat Aircraft (CCA) are going to be essential for air superiority. Turkey has already built them but Israel has not even begun. Someone in the IAF should get on with it.Opinion.
When the "derecognized" SJP chapter at the University of Rochester began a hunger strike protest on campus in October, I had to get a closer look. Opinion.
Anti-Zionism declares that there is one people who are not equal, who do not have basic human rights. Opinion.
For “progressives,” including celebrities across the board, the Palestinian cause is their badge of conscience. Opinion.
Loyal citizens all, Jews have always chosen to serve their countries of residence well. What do their antagonist immigrrants have to show for the West's kindness to them? Opinion.
There is no epistemological difference between academic Israel studies and conspiracy theories.
Pope Leo XIV urged Catholics concerned about the West to be “less afraid” of Islam. How did that work out in Lebanon? Beirut, once known as the Paris of the Middle East, is a terrorist stronghold - and today, Paris is the Beirut of Europe. Opinion.
When a Jewish man is violently attacked at a synagogue and the rescuer is prosecuted while the attacker walks free, the message is unmistakable: Jews are not safe in New Jersey. Opinion.
There are reasons to oppose the push to pardon Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that originated with President Donald Trump. But his farcical 'trial' should still end. Opinion.
What began as Israel’s survival instinct has become a global security asset, with nations far from the Middle East now safer because of technologies born in Tel Aviv, Haifa, and Jerusalem. Opinion.
The basic assumption of its central supporters in the US (as well as in France and Britain), whereby the Lebanese Army can serve as a counterweight to Hezbollah, is fundamentally flawed. It is incapable and unwilling to disarm Hezbollah. Report.
When antisemite Jimmy Carter became president, it was easy to leave the Left, but as time went on, it became even easier. Opinion.
The October 7 massacre did not merely kill Israelis; it killed the Oslo paradigm and a host of long-held illusions such as the belief that global "marketing" of harsh and unwarranted legal action against Israeli soldiers - see Sde Teman - will earn us international favor. Opinion.
As Arabs rioted in Jerusalem on December 2, 1947, British policemen and soldiers were ordered to stand silently and watch as screaming Arab mobs attacked and killed Jews, and while Jewish stores and homes were looted and set afire. And the only arrests the British made during the December 2 Arab riots were of 16 Jews.
Over the test of time truth does win out over lies, it's not a question of if, but when. Opinion.
My greatest fear is that taqiya, the Islamic art of dissimulation, has made incredible and chilling progress in the West. A look at who is carrying out the terror attacks in the West. Opinion.
It is time this ugly chapter in Israeli politics comes to an end.
Born in Uganda and raised in South Africa by Indian Muslim Marxist parents, the 34-year-old Mamdani arrived in the US at the age of 7. It took him an additional 20 years to apply for and receive his U.S. citizenship. On January 1, 2026, with no prior management experience, he will oversee New York City’s $116 billion budget. Opinion.
The strengthening of Israel’s national security, the enhancement of its independence, and reduction of dependence on foreign actors to a minimum will occur when, as a first step, Israel secures and defines its borders by applying Israeli sovereignty over Judea, Samaria and Gaza.
Antisemitism will always be with us, but the intensity of it comes and goes in waves. Indeed, the best of times and the worst of times. To flee or not to flee? Opinion.
The most dangerous lifeline for the Venezuelan dictatorship today isn't Havana or Moscow. It is Ankara. Opinion.
Bottom line: Today, the entire PA curriculum is tuned to war. The moto is liberation from "occupation", and the liberation struggle is violent and terror-involved. Israel is not on the map.
Israel’s Ministry of Aliyah and Integration and the National Emergency Authority recently ran a full-scale drill in Ramla simulating a sudden influx of tens of thousands of Jews fleeing exploding antisemitism and security crises abroad. But where would they go? Opinion.
The danger is real, as demonstrated by the horrible murderous terrorist attacks on US soil, including the most recent one on the National Guard soldiers this Thanksgiving. The US gov't has legal grounds to stop it - now. Opinion
Dublin’s attempt to erase Jewish history shows the movement is no longer about 'justice'-but about hate. Opinion.
The Mossad’s active presence inside Iran and throughout Tehran has served as a barely concealed warning to the regime, yet the clerical establishment remains lost in its delusions and the destructive ideology of Khomeinism. Opinion.
The righteous were remembered because they were few, the rest were silent. Now history is doing what history does, it's repeating itself. Opinion.
Accountability and justice must be prioritised over expediency, but they are not.
US policy must signal that Washington supports the ideological quarantine of Islamism, but will not reward replacing it with the descent into strongman rule. Opinion.
American divisiveness has reached the point of 6 Democrat legislators advising soldiers to consider refusing orders. Israel had reached that point when it learned the hard way that when the enemy attacks, there are no political points to gain. Opinion.
Israelis know that externalizing internal dissent during war creates a strategic threat to the state. That lesson seems to be forgotten by those who should know it best. Ehud Olmert is the prime example. Opinion.
Ongoing Israeli infiltrations have severely damaged Hezbollah's self-confidence and have caused paralysis in the Iranian proxy's operations. Opinion.
It is high time we look into this claim of “the Israeli government committing genocide.” Opinion.
just because people criticize Israel does not mean that they are not anti-Semites. Those who claim to love Jews but hate Israel should prove it. Opinion.
They all protect persecutors of Christians and pillory a benevolent Jewish state and lobby. Opinion.
The real reason to worry about Mamdani’s victory is that surveys indicate that around 30% of New Yorkers self-identifying as Jewish cast their ballots for an avowed anti-Zionist and Hamas apologist. Opinion.
The twin causes of Arab Palestinianism and human rights have destroyed the West’s moral compass. Opinion.
Pilgrim leader Governor Bradford announced the celebration of Thanksgiving - proclaiming appreciation for the first harvest in “the New Israel” - by citing Psalm 107. The Pilgrims saw themselves as repeating the Exodus story.
A plan broached by then US Sec. of State Ickles on Thanksgiving in 1938 offered a chance at life for Europe’s Jews by allowing them to emigrate to Alaska. FDR buried it.
Let’s drop the pretense: Peace is not being built. Peace is being sabotaged by the decision to allow a genocidal terrorist organization to continue to exist in Gaza instead of disarming and dismantling it. Now. Opinion.
The Houthis understand that they are now the primary engine for Iran's anti-Israel and anti-US posturing. This gives them immense leverage. Opinion.
One example: According to the 1922 British census, Jews were the majority of residents of Jerusalem, outnumbering Moslems with 33,971 Jews to 13, 413 Moslems.
This week, another Christian school was attacked, 300 children kidnapped. The reaction of the media and the world is indifference, while Pope Leo is in denial. Opinion.
The American Jewish community has just watched a rising political figure who targets Israel and mainstream Jewish institutions receive credibility at the highest level of government-without a single concession to moderation. What now? Opinion.
John Cleese recently canceled his upcoming Israel performances despite the sold-out crowds that awaited him. The question is: why the sudden change?
The Trump administration’s move toward designating the Islamist group as terrorists is long overdue. But it makes no sense to treat the Brotherhood’s sponsor as an ally. Opinion.
When you read what the Palestinian Authority is teaching the next generation, one thing becomes impossible to deny: They hate my children more than they love their own - and the West, with its selective silence, has become their enabler.Opinion.
if Israel's desire to become militarily self sufficient represents more than just aspirational rhetoric, the Ministry of Defense is simply going to have to reprioritize its weapons projects. Opinion.
The greatest threat to regional stability is no longer Syria’s collapse, but its successful institutionalization. Opinion.
Peace might be a geopolitical strategy that could disarm both extremes - or a geopolitical mirage that could harm Israel. Should we pursue it? Opinion.
Trump’s silence was strategic. He did not challenge Mamdani because he understands that if Mamdani is going to collapse under the weight of his own ideology, he must have no one else to blame. Opinion.
How many viewers see Israel in a different light after watching his show last week? How many no longer trust the mainstream media? Opinion.
The welfare state is based on an implicit assumption: the beneficiary belongs to the community and contributes to its well-being. Here, social assistance finances terrorists and is experienced as a tax paid by a society guilty of existing. Opinion.
Israeli policy must always be grounded in brutal reality, as we recognize that the current support from America is based largely upon the mercurial personality of President Donald Trump, and might well end once he leaves office. Opinion.
Turkey used military dominance to dictate the terms of diplomacy, achieving a military presence on the ground while simultaneously securing diplomatic channels for economic gain and refugee management. Opinion.
Is there any difference between medieval blood libels inspired by the Church and fabricated claims of Israeli genocide disseminated by today’s useful idiots in the west? Not really.
Sanctions punished Iran economically, but paradoxically boosted its sovereignty score: it became harder to pressure because it had already adjusted to living outside the global economic mainstream. Opinion.
Aliya now has to be a central point for every Zionist organization. Those who don’t make aliya, are making a choice to stay. And if they choose to stay, then Jews need to learn to fight. Opinion.
Under Mamdani’s warped interpretation of international law, Jews have even fewer rights than actual illegal immigrants who violated US federal law by entering the country illegally and who Mamdani seeks to protect from federal authorities! Opinion.
They heal patients and teach students to gain legitimacy - then send other people’s children to die. They are the ultimate professional hypocrites. They do not need welfare, they need defeat. Like the Nazi doctors. Opinion.
The mayor-elect is spinning his wheels as he gaslights New Yorkers while pretending to recreate the wheel. Opinion.
Why is President Donald Trump signaling willingness to sell F-35 fighter jets to Saudi Arabia and may be to Qatar too? The answer may lie in a broader strategic attempt to redefine the Middle East map. Opinion
It’s wrong to assume that most Americans will look at the behavior of a tiny number of Jewish youth, blame the entire State of Israel for their actions, and then proceed to “abandon” the Jewish State. Opinion.
President Trump has such a strong and deep relationship with the Jewish People and Israel. It is “Peace through Strength” in action. Opinion.
The process starts with removing Reem Alsalem, its special rapporteur on violence against women and girls. Opinion.
By his recent agreements with Qatar and Turkey and his expanding financial relations with Saudi Arabia, Trump makes it clear that maintaining Israel’s “qualitative edge” will no longer be Washington’s top regional priority. Opinion.
The ghost of terrorism will not recede without penalties that have maximum impact, decisive punishments that can finally end the cycle of impunity. And there are other issues that demand similar moves.
Kidnapping, ransom, extortion, violence rip across the Sahel, perpetrated by an Al-Qaeda linked terrorist network. Mali may be just the beginning. Is North Africa next? Opinion.
Hadrian rebranded Judea to annihilate Jewish identity; modern pan-Arabists rebranded themselves to appropriate that identity. Opinion.
There is no reason to agree to a timeline with the Saudis. Opinion.
The Western silence weighs more than the stones covering the nameless graves of the innocent. Opinion.
The Resolution is effectively a restatement of International Law that exonerates Israel and casts Hamas and its cohorts as the wrongdoers. And there is more. Opinion.
The conspiracy theory of Israeli control of America is a myth and has always been a myth, but this sale clinches it. Opinion.
Israel is right to be wary of the Saudi F-35 deal for many reasons - read them below. Opinion.
A recurring pattern shapes reports of "West Bank" violence: accusation first, facts later. Especially since the perpetrators seem to be mostly a roaming group of extremists, not residents. Analysis.
Israel has allowed its enemies to defame victims of attack as perpetrators. Opinion.
The Crown Prince has brilliantly fused his strategic goals, treating the "Palestinian" Arab issue not as a foundation for genuine peace, but as a political key to unlock maximum national security and economic demands from the global community-demands that could fundamentally threaten Israeli defense posture.
How a Christian Zionist looks at America's relations with the State of Israel in our turbulent times.
A chronicle of calumny, collapse, and the plunge from the pinnacle of power to the depths of depravity-which provides a lens through which the Netanyahu trial should be viewed. Opinion.
Whereas its neighbors have long planned for the absence of rainy days, investing in the infrastructure to provide water for its subjects, the Islamic Republic has wasted all its resources foolishly pursuing nuclear weapons. Opinion.
Trump built a thriving business of making antisemites pay, but he’s got unfinished business to make South Africa’s antisemitic government pay. Opinion.
There are flaws at the heart of the Resolution that could cost us dearly in the near future. Opinion.
Actually, no one should be shocked by this election. But it won't take long for people to wake up. Opinion.
Washington is offering Riyadh more than hardware; it is dangling access to the very technology that has kept Israel’s skies unchallenged for decades. It has to come with strings attached. Opinion.
It is important to realize that Trump is the US President, not Israel’s prime minister, and he rightly acts in what he perceives to be the interests of the United States, not the interests of Israel. HIs wealth-oriented thinking misses the real conflict. Opinion.
Oslo did not fail because of bad intentions. It failed because it misunderstood the nature of the leadership it empowered. The new Gaza plan is on track to make the same mistake. Hamas must be eliminated. Opinion.
To understand what’s in store for New York City, and for New York’s Jews, all we have to do is take a glimpse into what’s happening in London, England, a city run by a Muslim mayor since 2006. Opinion.
The “pathway” to a Palestinian Arab state is not a “gesture,” but a proven security risk, a diplomatic trap, and an opening to a real threat against Israel’s heartland. Opihioh,
The tunnels have no windows, no wind, no sky. Only stale air, stagnant water, and silence heavy as iron. And yet, in that abyss, something happened that the world above cannot fully grasp: Jewish faith did not die. It was kindled. Opinion
Meet two people who refuse to hand over public streets to the mobs who claim they "defend democracy." Opinion.
The path to long-term stability demands that regional powers assume ownership of the security environment, but their current policy is evasion. Opinion
We built a state, but the instinct to explain ourselves, to ask permission from the nations of the world, still lingers. It's time to embrace our destiny and stop apologizing. Opinion.
America can stand With Israel - but it must not stand inside Israel. Opinion.
The Palestinian Arab state was created in Jordan, and Jordan is, to this day, the Palestinian Arab state. Opinion.
Trump has revitalized America. In the midst of eight wars, Netanyahu retains Israel as the house on the hill. But the media wants blood. Opinion.
Why does Zohran Mamdani hide the fact that 80,000 Asians, including his father, were expelled from Uganda in 1972? Opinion.
A book by a hassid who was the first to be confirmed by the US Senate for a senior administrative position. Review.
The mayor-elect says it is to ‘Stand With Workers,’ but his real goal Is rewarding a union that backed Hamas, and that is a dangerous abuse of office. Opinion.
We all get caught up in the headlines and sometimes we forget the big picture. I will never stop thanking, thinking of and shining a light on Hashem and ...the people who held the line.
Have American not learned anything from the spoutings, attitudes and behavior of Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, amongst others? Do they not look at Britain, France, Sweden and Belgium and not see the dangers? Opinion.
It is time to regroup. We have many friends in America and we must ask all of them to help us now. Opinion.
The acts of Jewish vigilantism, which General Bluth decries and which I do not support, are, however, the result of the failure to conduct an effective enough proactive anti terror policy. Opinion.
Trump’s Syria strategy is brilliant, but al-Sharaa remains untrustworthy. Opinion.
Inserting Turkey and Qatar into Gaza will play into the hands of Hamas. Israel prefers that the United States turn to local clans that oppose Hamas rule as being a far more effective way of sidelining Hamas, Opinion.
The years-long legal campaign against Israel’s longest-serving and most consequential leader has descended into a grotesque political spectacle-a weaponization of the judiciary by the “Deep State.” Opinion.
The core argument is simple: capital punishment would convert Arab terrorists into international heroes. Opinion.
What some are calling the ‘Fatocide’ reflects the reality that there was never a famine in Gaza, but there was a very real obesity problem. Opinion.
They haven’t won in a war, but they’ve changed the battlefield: no longer the streets, but our minds. Opinion.
The actions of the past week confirm that Turkey views its relationship with the West as a transaction to be leveraged, not a commitment to be honored. Opinion.
Assimilated German Jews insisted that Jews had nothing to fear if they behaved correctly, shed their national identity, rejected Zionism, and embedded themselves wholly within German society. Sound familiar? Opinion.
Fragmentation threatens to empower extremes on both the left and right of the political spectrum. Opinion.
This regime serves neither the people nor the land; its only mission is to preserve power, even if Iran itself dies of thirst. Opinion.
The building of an American army base on the Gazan border would be nigh irreversible. Why we must not let it happen. Opinion.
A hostage of the 1970 PFLP hijacking insists that Israel stick to its guns in implementing Trump's plan. Opinion.
Something is rotten in the state of American Conservatives. Just ask Ben Shapiro. Opinion.
MBS saying he will only normalize relations with Israel if it provides the dates for establishing a Palestinian Arab state is holding peace for ransom. Washington must reject the Saudi political extortion. Opinion.
They are bullies--and are therefore cowards who never act alone, and, in masking, refuse to be held accountable for their actions. Opinion.
Israel cannot turn a blind eye to the past. Opinion.
The bombastic taboo-breaker isn’t worth the fallout between the ZOA, Heritage Foundation and Tucker Carlson at a time when antisemitic idols are on the ascendant. Opinion.
The mission of the Muslim Brotherhood in America was never co-existence; nor was it organic. It was and is strategic. Their long-term quest is to destroy the United States from within. Opinion.
Socialist and Communist "messiah"-figures have long paved the way to political and everyday hell. Opinion.
Hate has no sanctuary in America. Op-ed.
Ahmed al-Sharaa's well-tailored suit is for Washington. The message about Israel is for his jihadist base. Opinion.
Tensions between the Azerbaijani and Kurdish residents of Urmia spiral sporadically in this northwestern city, now part of Iran. Which is the dominant culture of the city? Opinion.
The key point is that though supporters of the BBC speak of “mistakes”, these cases of falsification are not random errors. There are too many of them and they take too many form, crucially, in the BBC’s shockingly biased coverage of Israel, Opinion.
One of the most effective responses to critics of American military aid to Israel has always been simple: the U.S. does not fight Israel’s wars. A US military base in Israel is a bad idea for many reasons. Opinion.
When Muslims massacre, the West sleeps....
Who is really responsible for October 7? Despite supporting one catastrophic decision after another, the American Jewish left has yet to conduct the most basic introspection into the long and short term results of its policies. Op-ed.
American Jews should no longer contribute a penny to all the very large Jewish organizations that have served us so poorly and whose major priorities are their own pension plans, inflated salaries, and travel perks. Instead, they should focus asap on the actions described below. Opinion.
A weakly mandated international force that cannot or will not act decisively would simply become a fixed obstacle between Israeli forces and the very militants an operation claims to neutralize. The UN has a long history of such failed forces. For Israel it is life or death. Opinion.
How an NGO and CNN packaged claims as established fact. Op-ed.
There is a safety in blaming the Jews that makes antisemitism attractive to cowards who are afraid to oppose people who murder their opponents. Opinion.
Do you know that President Trump actually broke American law when he arbitrarily threatened to punish us if we dared to annex the "West Bank"? Here is why. Opinion.
What good was remembering the past if you did not act upon its lessons? Santayana wrote. And we realize that the potential for a modern version of Kristallnacht exists wherever there is unchallenged hatred and a willingness to let it go unchecked. Opinion.
Until Hamas honors every part of the ceasefire agreement, Israel should allow no rebuilding in Gaza, no resettlement, no schools to reopen. Opinion.
Once one could ask, how could the entire world stand by and allow such a disaster to occur? Not anymore. Opinion.
For the last 30+ years, Israel has had its own Charlie Kirk - a man who has written - in Hebrew - 5 books, over 1,000 articles, 10,000 social media posts and has recorded hundreds of videos. Opinion.
There is no room in Israel’s tiny territory for partition - not with a friendly polity and certainly not with an enemy entity sworn to bring about Israel’s destruction and to rise upon its ruins.
As the Jewish people take center stage in the eyes of the world, King Solomon’s wisdom reminds us that even moments of joy demand humility, vigilance, and restraint. Opinion.
There was always an implicit understanding that New York worked according to its own user’s manual, its own rule book. Never the easiest, and not always the most sympathetic, but a place of dynamism and opportunity. Opinion.
Kazakhstan has chosen prosperity, pragmatism, and partnership over the destructive, zero-sum game dictated by terror groups. Hamas's predictable and furious reaction is simply an acknowledgment that their influence is waning. Opinion.
The economic and political history of the twentieth century is a graveyard of movements that promised justice through equality and delivered only scarcity through control.
What is it about the historical, Jewish "Being" (our existential state) that brings about an almost never-ending rage of antisemitism?' Opinion.
What is that Zionism idea all about? A primer for Jewish students.
To understand who New York’s new mayor is, one must read a Wall Street Journal profile. Opinion.
Pro-Israel groups are abandoning the Heritage Foundation because no antisemitism initiative can defend people who platform antisemites-and expect Jews to stay. Opinion.
While the very signing of the Abraham Accords is an unprecedented step towards regional and worldwide peace, there is not one unique agreement that all parties signed onto and the glaring lacunas should be addressed.
Ankara is using energy deals to expand its influence in contested waters and to entrench patronage inside a fragile, divided Libya. The hazard is real. Opinion.
The Prescott Report proves what we’ve always known - and I’m done hiding from your myths. Opinion.
America must wake up. This is about more than one upstart revolutionary. Opinion.
Bob Dylan sang "the times they are a-changing", but he did not know how right he was. You did it to yourselves, New Yorkers. Opinion.
The two inexorable rules of Jewish history are that every exile comes to an end, and that Jews are always too late to realize that. And now, the Jewish moment in America is over. Opinion.
Say hello to the new Radical Socialist Islamist New York Mayor. Opinion.
As New Yorkers, we have to take the theoretical lessons from this election and practically apply them for our own protection. That means using all means possible - legal, organizational, financial, political, educational - to hold the mayor “accountable” to all his constituents. Opinion.
A book on the life of Hermann Schwab portrays a man of many talents who was a model of the kind of upright men of principles we need in public positions today. It is also the history of a bygone era. Review.
Every time someone like Tucker Carlson dignifies the likes of Nick Fuentes, they gift the left a propaganda victory, alienate Jewish voters, disgust mainstream conservatives, and fracture the moral core of the Republican coalition. Opinion.
They’re not here to reform. They’re here to replace. And in the end, what matters is demography. Opinion.
Forget Sanchez. Morocco Is the partner Israel and the U.S. can actually rely on. Opinion.
Israel's former military advocate general, Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi, deceived the Supreme Court as she pretended to oversee a bogus investigation. Were others involved? Is the Deep State finally going to be exposed - or will it stay buried? Opinion.
Repeating a falsehood again and again may cause people to believe it, but it doesn’t make it true. Opinion.
The New York City mayoral candidate and his followers treat hostility to Israel as a badge of moral enlightenment. Karl Lueger did the same in Vienna at the turn of the 20th century - and we know how that turned out. Opinion.
Israel and its allies can ensure that Iran’s ambitions remain just that: ambitions. Opinion.
The same pragmatic diplomacy that secured Morocco’s Sahara should now be used to secure Israel’s heartland. Opinion.
Hezbollah, under the direct sponsorship and assistance of Iran, is managing a broad military and civilian rehabilitation process in Lebanon, aimed at restoring its capabilities after the severe damage it suffered during the last war. Report.
Since Hamas named the Gaza war the “Al Aqsa Flood,” at some point, doesn’t Israel need to respond? Opinion.
North Korean cooperation (through the Islamic Revolutionary Guard) has been crucial to Iran’s reconstituting and safeguarding its ballistic and nuclear capabilities, in particular, and military infrastructure, in general.
How can we defeat our enemies as we fight World War III, which, I claim, began on October 7, 2023? Opinion.
Trump and his Real Estate moguls insist that the war is over. For Hamas that would be heresy. Opinion.
The unholy alliance between the progressive Left and Islamist fundamentalists - and the ancient hatred that binds them. Together, they’ve built a movement whose foundations are the rubble of reason. Opinion.
A pro-Israel American majority can no longer be assumed given the growing appeal of raw Jew hatred in America. Here’s what Israel can do to prepare for a future President AOC and Sec'y of State Mamdani. Opinion.
While participants may claim they are advocating for Palestinian Arab rights, speeches and chants at their rallies are rooted in rage against the Jewish state and the very fact of its existence. Every NYC voter is entitled to hear Mamdani at these rallies.
WZO must represent all law-abiding members of the Zionist family. A Zionist Congress that boycotts Zionists is failing to promote unity at this critical time. Opinion.
There are moments when we can no longer just speak about unity - we must rise and live it
Now, only a short time remains before ICE decides on my OSUP release. Until then, I will spend my time in prayer and reflection, and before any official announcement, I want to express my deepest thanks to President Donald J. Trump, Secretary Kristi Noem, the Acting Director of ICE, the Dallas Field Office Director, and the AUSA who handled my case.
There are many sufferers of this disease. Wholesale you find them at the United Nations and among the mullahs of Iran, whose entire business appears to be Israel. Individually, there’s the man all set and ready to go as mayor of New York City, Zohran Mamdani, who is running on a platform of hatred against Israel. Opinion.
The Free Press: "Clearly, the [NYC] population is primed for a villain, and the world’s oldest scapegoats are just wandering around New York for the taking." Will those naive scapegoats realize who Mamdani is in time and not vote for an antisemitic villain? Opinion.
A running death tally is not a moral compass, although Hamas has succeeded in making the world think so. No one kept track of much larger war deaths in Suday, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq, and no one called them genocide, so why in Gaza? Opinion.
The death of this man-who crossed the desert of persecution to reach the promise of a European homeland-becomes a symbol of the crisis of the West. Opinion.
More than anything else, Israel’s survival will require intellectual supremacy. Opinion.
Behind yesterday's haredi protests lies a choice that will define our future: will we remain anchored in Galut, or rise to the challenge of Geula with unity and responsibility?
I’m scared. I’m scared for this city. And for the rest of America. Curtis Sliwa must step down, not because he is undeserving, but because he really cares about America. Opinion.
We should ask our government, many of whose leaders have been promising sovereignty over Judea and Samaria for decades - especially during election season - when is the right time? Opinion.
Appallingly, progressive Jews are supporting an unhinged Jew-hater because they define this stance as conscience. Opinion.
Despite alarming headlines, Brit Milah complications remain extremely rare - and bureaucratic oversight won't fix what's not broken. Op-Ed.
Mamdani should be the Mayor of Gaza City, not New York. He screams "Islamophobia" before anyone can muster the courage to call out his antisemitic hate and seditious anti-Americanism. Opinion.
This is a new quasi-religion, quasi-syndrome that demands voluntary human sacrifices in the name of ‘universal progress and justice’. Don't fall for it. Beware.
Beyond the watchful eyes of Marxist-Islamists working in the regime’s censorship and propaganda apparatus, I have published this book in America to expose the profile of the criminal dictator Ali Khamenei.
For the first time in modern history, religious and traditional delegates form the clear majority in the WJC. Instead of embracing the situation, the progresssive agenda was totally out of touch. We must work to retore integrity to this institution. Opinion.
Ignorance can be forgiven. Willful gutless idiocy cannot. Let's face it. The sad reality is that our current Western leaders are pathetic despicable opportunists. Opinion.
The self-titled ‘guardian of Israel’ has gone missing and while Zohran Mamdani spews poison and rallies activists, Chuck Schumer is nowhere to be found. No statement. No pushback. Not even a polite rebuke. Opinion
There can be little doubt that Zohran Mamdani poses a threat to the safety of New York City residents who are not Muslim. His views and those of his supporters are a far cry from the expectations of Western morality. Opinion.
Even if we are not absolutely sure of Amiram Ben Uliel's innocence, the reasons given for the guilty verdict against him are even weaker. Now that we have freed terrorist mass murderers, it is time to correct the terrible miscarriage of justice in his case. Opinion.
A scholarly new book on a fascinating yet little known subject in the chronicles of Jewish History tells the story of the young Russian Jewish boys forcibly drafted into the Tsar's army for up to 25 years.
Want to destroy America? Destroy its family unit. Opinion.
Trump is not dreaming in the literal sense. He is betting. The difference is subtle but important. A dream is detached from reality; a bet at least acknowledges the odds. But this bet is so long that one could easily mistake it for a fantasy. Opinion.
Is there any hope on the horizon for a reversal from seemingly universal Muslim antagonism toward the “devious Jew” to peaceful accommodation with the Jewish Abrahamic brother? Read a possible Dr. Mahdi Abdul Hadi Legacy. Opinion.
Follow the money invested in Qatar. It is the only way to understand why Israel was forced to lose the momentum enabling it to destroy Hamas and to agree to another hudna. Opinion.
It misportrayed Hassidic Jews as hapless victims, denied the education they need to support themselves, and not so subtly belittled them for having more children. Op-ed.
By throwing his weight behind Mamdani, a politician whose anti-Israel extremism and flirtations with antisemitic rhetoric have roiled Jewish New Yorkers across the five boroughs, Rodriguez has shattered his moral standing. Opinion.
Same character. Different suit. Opinion.
The horror of October 7 can’t be separated from the centuries of anti-Jewish violence that preceded it. Opinion.
Trump’s Gaza deal is a terrible mistake. It’s painful to watch. But even human errors can’t derail God’s plan. And the question was asked. Opinion.
Diplomatic equilibrium between the Turkic states and Israel signals expanded possibilities for the Jewish state in its relations with an Eurasia rapidly becoming the world's new center of gravity. Opinion.
Israel must expose Jihadist exploitation of "intersectionality." Rather than arguing about false accusations against Israel, it should explain to the West that global Jihadist and global intifada partners in the intersectionality movements seek total victory over Western civilization. Opinion.
Today’s Jew-haters are parroting the rhetoric of the Nazis, the Soviets and the Islamists. They are unaware that they are the heirs of the Nazis and Stalin. Opinion.
Says the NYC man-in-the-street: ‘’This is so disturbing. I know people who are leaving. I’m thinking about it myself.” Opinion.
Though Jerusalem’s defense and security policies ought always to be science-based, these policies would still benefit from variously other refined understandings. Opinion.
Qatar has given one million dollars to UN Women "in an effort to strengthen its commitment to promoting the empowerment of women and girls around the world." In burqas, of course. Opinion.
Begin did it with quiet firmness; Netanyahu can, too, making sure that when a U.S. president seeks to “call the shots,” Israel still holds the trigger. Opinion.
Senior Arab voices and Israeli critics warn that excessive Qatari involvement in postwar Gaza risks sabotaging any effort to remove Hamas from power. An arsonist does not make a good contractor. Opinion.
The wording of a resolution to be presented at the WZO conference this week on relations with Christian Zionist allies, makes it sound as though Israel is the homeland of Christians as well as Jews. Clear boundaries are needed. Opinion.
The Chen Zhi scandal shows that Jews are far from causing the worldwide financial corruption and scams they are accused of masterminding. Opinion.
The friendship between America and Israel isn’t built on convenience, but on shared belief in God, in freedom, and in moral clarity. Opinion.
If efforts to unite opponents against an antisemitic Democratic Socialist fail, what will be the consequences for Jewish life in New York City or the rest of the country? Opinion.
Alarmingly, what U.S. President Donald Trump is helping Israel fight in the Middle East is rampant in his own backyard. Opinion.
Netanyahu, beware. The heads of Yesha, beware. The friends of Christian “lovers of Israel” - beware. Their embrace is the embrace of wolves. Opinion.
The assistance we received from the Trump administration helped the U.S. in its efforts to show it stands on the moral, good and just side of history. It did not make Israel a star on the American flag. Opinion.
Palestinian Arabs have no more historical entitlement to ancestral Jewish land than Germany had to the Sudetenland in 1938. The difference between appeasement then and now is that the west’s faux moral virtue today is an expression of its own antisemitism. Opinion.
Ze’ev Jabotinsky, the great Zionist prophet and founder of Betar, wrote: “Silence is despicable. A man must shout the truth as he sees it, even if his voice trembles.” Opinion.
Pretending the Muslim Brotherhood is merely another faith-based fundamentalist organisation is not "tolerance" - it is wilful blindness. Opinion.
The International Court of Justice demands that Israel cooperate with UNRWA - the people who helped massacre its citizens. This is obscene. Opinion.
How will Afghanistan react to Trump's effort to reassert American influence after the humiliating 2021 withdrawal - and what will be the consequences of the methods the US president employs? Opinion.
Israel must insist that the disarming of Hamas and demilitarization of Gaza take place before any money enters Gaza, that voluntary emigration be placed on the table as a viable option that the international community will facilitate, and that a Palestinian state is a nonstarter. Opinion.
We are carrying ou strategic military lessons in response to a persistent threat. Report.
To quote Malmö’s imam Basem Mahmoud, “whether Swedes like it or not, in ten or fifteen years, Sweden will be ours.” Opinioin.
Phase 2 of the Mideast peace plan was never intended to be so amorphous as to allow Hamas to do as it pleases. Opinion.
What has become clear is that the events of October 7th didn’t cause Jews to lose their friends. It exposed their enemies, including those they thought were friends. What now? Opinion.
Under existing law, the nukhba murderers who attacked Israel on October 7, 2023, are already eligible for execution. As things stand, none will face it. Opinion.
What happened on Oct. 7 was the result of two false governing assumptions-but only one was a betrayal.
The calculus of terror is simple: if the enemy remains capable, he will try again. Israel’s history has entire chapters demonstrating the costs of half-measures and delayed justice. October 7 should be a lesson, not an inevitability. Opinion.
The pipe dreaming Gaza peace plan hits reality. And things go back to where they were. Opinion.
There's no room for Jews in Mamdani’s New York City. Opinion.
If we don't close the UN, the UN will close the West and replace it with the "Global South”. Opinion.
We can’t fight what we refuse to see. Now, at least, we can see it clearly. They told us it was about peace. They told us it was about Palestine. Now they say it out loud - and finally, the world can hear what we’ve known all along. Opinion.
Just as Covid developed different strains of its lethal origins, so the Palestinian Arab pathology has taken different forms, with Hamas becoming the most predominant virus. Opinion.
How Charlie OBM visited an IDF checkpost. Opinion.
Never mind the nonsense. What’s important is that Trump hasn’t wavered from his backing of Israel and tough stance against Hamas. Opinion.
Hamas fell into its own trap as President Trump used Global Optics to free hostages and expose Hamas for what it truly is. Opinion.
Israel is a unique added-value-ally of the US, in addition to serving as a leading innovation center for the US high tech sector. And more. Opinion.
As the left marches to take over New York City with an antisemitic mayoral candidate, the Jewish leadership must not surrender to anti-Jewish totalitarian extremists. Opinion.
American military aid has turned from an asset to a liability for the State of Israel.
A society that treats Jewish symbols as “provocative” is one that has shifted the burden from the perpetrators of hatred onto the targets of it. Opinion.
In essence, for Hamas, terror is a form of sacred violence oriented toward the “sacrifice” of enemies and martyrs. Opinion.
This linguistic warfare is part of a coordinated psychological and political campaign to delegitimize Israel, erode its moral standing, and recast its self-defense as aggression. Opinion.
National heroism has returned to us with phenomenal force: heroic fighters and heroic families. Opinion.
The most combative, definitive action any university has taken against an SJP chapter to date is a permanent ban. From a legalistic perspective, this would seem to end the matter. But it won't. Opinion.
Has Israel ever known real peace? Are the appeasers working for War or Peace? Opinion.
"Palestine" may not be a state, but, Islam is already an “empire” from Milan to Barcelona, and would like to open the prisons of Allah to priests as well. Opinion.
The terrorists' brazen post-ceasefire crackdown on rivals and dissidents mocks Trump’s promise to disarm them and shows they believe that they’re not going anywhere. Opinion.
Please understand that Hamas terrorists are sadistic barbarians whose codes of behavior have never evolved and never will. Opinion.
The Oct. 7 attack fired a starting gun for what the Islamists believed was the final push to destroy not only Israel but the West itself. Opinion.
For what sin, what crime, what fault must I suffer this? I have seen no justice in this case, no fairness, no American values, no humanity, no rule of law.
The idea that Ankara, the sustained patron of Hamas, can be a neutral arbiter of peace is a profound danger to long-term regional stability and the interests of every nation seeking a moderate, secular post-conflict future. Opinion.
When you leave evil breathing, you don’t preserve morality. You postpone tragedy. Opinion.
The Jews of Israel are not foreigners in a strange land but the descendants of the native Hebrew-Israelite-Jewish inhabitants from time immemorial. For starters. Opinion.
Gaza had a Constitution, in fact, more than one. None of them can be allowed to continue to be in force. Opinion.
Distinguishing between civilians and terrorists in Gaza is not so simple.They may not all actively fight Israel, but they identify with the goal of destroying it. Opinion.
And as for Netanyahu, I’ll take unpopular, and stubborn, and difficult, if it means unyielding for the safety, security, and sovereignty of the Jewish State. Opinion.
Hamas promised to liberate "Palestine. Instead, it has enslaved Gaza. What kind of liberation movement turns its guns on its own civilians the moment the external threat recedes? Opinion.
October 7 was not a false flag. It was a tragedy born of bias, blindness, and bureaucratic failure. Opinion.
Today’s antisemitism reflects a systemic malaise in American identity itself. What changed? Opinion.
Trump’s Gaza “peace” deal, and the peculiar ceremony hosted by Abdel Fattah al-Sisi in Sinai, can best be described as a shotgun wedding: forcing Israel and Hamas, our figurative bride and groom, into tying the knot. The Talmud in Sanhedrin teaches that when the wicked unite, it brings harm to them and to the world. Opinion.
Nothing-absolutely nothing-of the European chatter, shuttles, winks or diplomacy produced any results, except that their warnings, declarations, and travels fueled hatred toward Jews worldwide. Opinion.
The self-destruct gene of the Palestinian Arabs in general and Hamas in particular may come into play next, as Jew-hatred makes them cut off their nose to spite their face. Opinion.
'I warmly welcome you to Jerusalem and thank you for your steadfast friendship with Israel,' writes Minister Orit Strock in a personal letter to US President Trump, urging him to stand firm for a secure, demilitarized Gaza and a true, lasting peace.
The other side of the deal. Opinion.
In their eyes, because this deal ends the war now, they won. They slaughtered 1,200 Jews on October 7, killed 500 IDF soldiers in the two years since then, and will now receive 2,000 of their own from Israeli custody. Opinion.
Do France or the United Kingdom have consulates in China-occupied Tibet serving Tibetans? Do they have consulates in Turkey serving only the Kurds? Opinion.
The second phase could create a "bottleneck" leading to resumption of war - Maj. Gen. (ret.) Yaakov Amidror.
ICE is doing crucial work, but in this case, they are endangering a man who fights the Iranian mullahs, who courageously writes what he thinks and who must not be returned to Iran - where he will be summarily executed. Opinion.
Eros vs Thanatos continues. They are still battling for the survival of the world. Opinion.
When politics replaces principle, even peace itself becomes a casualty.
Qatar is lnot just a mediator and not just a power broker of the first order, but the actual de-facto leader of Hamas itself. Opinion.
The Qatari-endorsed anti-Jewish vitriol has become sport itself, cloaked by a cleverly cunning propaganda that has successfully sold that oil-rich nation of savages as “moderate.” Beware the other hand. Opinion.
Continued support of pro-Islamic Jihad causes is not compatible with your gender-equality, democratic way of life, livelihood, and even the right to imbibe your drink of choice. Opinion
US Diplomacy could succeed only because it was backed by Israel's courage, sacrifice, and a leadership that refuses to blink. Opinion.
Stopping in its tracks the misinformation that can harm families and undermine one of Judaism’s oldest and holiest rituals: Circumcision does not cause autism.
Our brush with intended destruction shook off not only our complacency, but also our intrinsic conviction of stability and sovereign existence. Opinion.
Eternal Witness was designed to force Jews into pariah status. Opinion.
The lion lays down with the lamb…and we shall study war no more? Wake me when it starts. Opinion. Wake me when it starts.
With all the joy at the anticipated hostage release, these swaps are classic and nauseating examples of stage-one thinking, in which people do not think of consequences beyond the immediate. Opinion.
It is a milestone, but not necessarily a breakthrough. It hides more than it reveals, but no matter what, Israel must treat the agreement as a phase, not an end. Opinion.
The Azerbaijan-Armenia agreement can lead to a shift from confrontation to regional integration, good for both countries. There are many problems left, but in contrast to Gaza, there is no implacable and murderous Islamic hatred. Instead, there is a government in Baku with a vision for peace. Opinion.
Luckily, Hezbollah did not join the Hamas invastion - for several reasons - becauseThe IDF had ignored clear threats and signs. Israel must ensure that the failure of October 7, 2023 is seared into future generations, so that its lessons do not disappear from its mode of operation in years to come as the Yom Kippur War's. lessons did.
Across the region, something unimaginable is happening: the Arab world is no longer standing with Hamas it’s standing back. Opinion.
The Trump Administration put the public pressure where it belongs: On the butchers of Hamas. That does not mean the deal is perfect, but it is a victory for Israel. Opinion.
How one day of horror shattered my political world view forever, Trump agreement or not. Opinion.
I get up each morning and daven, raise my children, work, and try to go forward. But a part of me remains at Simchat Torah 5784.
We have learned much about the barbarism of our enemies, but we have also learned that contrary to the expectations of our enemies, Israel’s staying power is stronger and longer than theirs. Opinion.
A Western pathology has shown its face: passion and admiration for the barbarians, hidden under the flag of pity. Little do they know that the barbarians will soon turn on them. Opinion.
A new book says there were signs on the night of October 6th that something was wrong to the point that some of the higher-ups in the defense and intelligence establishment went to their offices late on the night of the 6th or early on the morning of the 7th. But they did nothing. Review.
The two heard of the invasion, drove to the Gaza envelope armed with handguns, jumped out of their car at Kibbutz Alumim, and rushed towards the fighting at 9:40 a.m. They prevented the terrorists, who had killed 20 Thai workers living in a house outside it, from entering the kibbutz. In memoriam.
Hamas ignored Trump's 72 hour ultimatum to free the hostages, but it took him only 72 seconds to get Israel to stop fighting. Sukkot is the perfect time to shed illusions, dump Trump’s 21-point “peace” plan, and grow out of our slave mentality. Opinion.
Shoham's experiences tell a great deal about the kind of people who make up Hamas or identify with it. Opinion.
Ibrahim Al-Arjani and corrupt Egyptian officers are behind a growing drone smuggling network threatening Israel's Negev region; there is an urgent need for a fortified anti-drone defense line along the Sinai border. Op-ed.
Sir Keir Starmer’s government has abandoned Britain’s Jewish community, not because they don’t believe they are endangered by antisemitism, but because they have skin in the game. Opinion.
Disunity among U.S. Jews has helped enable anti-Israel narratives to flourish globally. Opinion.
Leaders do not need to give orders; they need only create climates of permission. And that is exactly what Starmer has done by "recognizing" a Palestinian Arab state. Opinion.
The bell has fallen silent, absorbed into the undulation of the sirens. Perhaps there is no one left to listen. But the Rav said: "The Jew is obligated to inform the world that his blood is not cheap. Vengeance for its own sake is forbidden, but when it comes for the sake of deterrence and self-defense, it is the elementary right of man." Opinion.
Everything about the day was planned for maximum cruelty. No analogues in modern history exist. Call it simply October 7. Opinion.
Greta Thunberg has become a symbol of moral bankruptcy — of a generation that confuses emotion with ethics and noise with courage. Opinion
Who pays for all this? Chartering ships, crews, logistics, international media coordination — it doesn’t come cheap. Opinion.
Diaspora Affairs Minister defends decision to invite British activist Tommy Robinson for an official visit to Israel, despite objections by British Jewish establishment.
Some of us, those of us who do not live in Trump’s perfect world, remain far more skeptical overall. Opinion.
Israel is the barrier that has prevented—or slowed—the expansion of Islamic fundamentalism. Its terror warnings and technology protect Europe and the free world. And what does it get in return? Opinion.
Arranging meetings only with social media greats instead of real grassroots fighters for Israel's image was not a wise decision. Here is who the PM should have met in New York. Opinion.
We’re not replacing jihadists who want Israel destroyed. We’re rotating them. Opinion.
To Tehran’s authoritarian rulers, Erfan Fard's anti-mullah writings are unforgivable. If deported to iran, he will be in mortal danger. Opinion.
The role of Islamic teachings in Jihad Al-Shamie's terror attack cannot be ignored, Mohammed's massacre and enslavement of Jews is in the Quran.
