Opeds (Page 36)


The time has come: Confronting the Houthi threat with resolve

The Houthis, officially known as Ansar Allah, have transformed from a Yemeni insurgent group into a well-armed militia with regional ambitions

The time has come: Confronting the Houthi threat with resolve

Fake news and blood libels:

New report debunks ‘settler violence’ narrative

“False Flags and Real Agendas,” produced by Israeli NGO Regavim, shows that the “settler violence” smear is a “modern-day blood libel.” Review.

New report debunks ‘settler violence’ narrative

Deferring to Islam is submission

Each time liberal Jews, police, media, universities, Jewish organizations, or Christians adjust their plans or their speech so as not to "offend" Islamists, we are one step closer to submission. The War has started and we are in danger of losing it. Opinion.

Deferring to Islam is submission

Jewish anti-Zionists

There is a close relationship between the Reconstructionist movement and Jewish Voice for Peace extremists. Op-ed.

Jewish anti-Zionists

Giulio Meotti:

Where do you sign up to be a useful idiot for the Islamists?

Greta Thunberg in the Tristes Tropiques of Gaza. Opinion

Where do you sign up to be a useful idiot for the Islamists?

ANALYSIS:

Why Haredim must serve in the IDF

Let me say it clearly: The halakhic imperative for haredi military service is clear and unambiguous.

Why Haredim must serve in the IDF

IDF or IAF?

The case for an Israel Attack Forces (IAF)

As threats evolve, so too must Israel’s military structure and mindset. Opinion.

The case for an Israel Attack Forces (IAF)

Had Greta docked in Gaza, she might have learned the hard way

Greta isn’t brave. She was not breaking a blockade. She broke trust with every real victim of terror, every hostage family, and every Israeli who still has to check the sky for rockets or the ground for tunnels. Opinion.

Had Greta docked in Gaza, she might have learned the hard way

Rebranding "Palestine"

Suggestion: It's time to call them "Samaritans" and hope they will want to live up to the name. Is this article serious or written tongue-in-cheek? Your call. Op-ed.

Rebranding "Palestine"

The role of US Jewish student leaders in combatting antisemitism

Just blocks from the deadly attack on Embassy staff, U.S. Jewish Student Leaders advocated for Congress to defend Israel and combat Antisemitism. Their voice must be heard. Opinion.

The role of US Jewish student leaders in combatting antisemitism

Anne Frank's birthday is in June:

The trace of Anne Frank’s smile, eighty years on

World famous artist M.C. Escher kept the smile of Anna Frank's face very close to him in his working study for the rest of his life, Story album.

The trace of Anne Frank’s smile, eighty years on

Jack Engelhard:

The loneliness of being Jewish

We were not prepared for what was coming, not in the USA. Opinion.

The loneliness of being Jewish

International law is not a suicide pact

Yet again, Israel is waging mandatory war against an exterminatory foe, this time a jihadist terrorist organization that seeks annihilation for Israel, eternality for its “martyrs” and luxury-laden safety for its leaders. Opinion.

International law is not a suicide pact

The FBI just confirmed what we’ve been saying all along

To every Jew feeling isolated, gaslit, or afraid: No, you’re not crazy. Yes, the threat is real. Op-ed.

The FBI just confirmed what we’ve been saying all along

"Let us not go as sheep to the slaughter."

Stop wringing your hands. Stop hiding behind politics or platitudes. Stop believing that words alone will stop bullets or bombs. Opinion.

"Let us not go as sheep to the slaughter."

Why Israel doesn’t let foreign journalists into Gaza

Critics demand that Israel, aniquely among democracies, must permit full and unfettered media access in the middle of an existential war. They don't demand to be at Ukraine battle zones, or those in Syria. Opinion.

Why Israel doesn’t let foreign journalists into Gaza

No new day would rise had Greta Thunberg set foot in Gaza

No new day can ever possibly rise if led by maliciously biased ego-trippers like Greta Thunberg. Opinion.

No new day would rise had Greta Thunberg set foot in Gaza

Boulder, Colorado:

From the Shoah to “Free Palestine” - Auschwitz nostalgia?

When the Steinmetz family, now of Boulder, Colorado, fled Nazi persecution, people in Europe shouted, “Jews, go to Palestine”. Today, the same kind of people shout, “Jews, get out of Palestine” and try to kill Barbara Steinmetz with a Molotov cocktail. Op-ed.

From the Shoah to “Free Palestine” - Auschwitz nostalgia?

The 6 Day War - June 6, 1967:

The Six Day miracle - “Operation Moked”

Exactly three hours after the start of Operation Moked, at 10:45, the war had been won. Approximately 300 Egyptian planes had been destroyed and all her airfields completely disabled.Then came the return of the Jewish people to Jerusalem, a spiritual and political seismic shift of epic proportions. Opinion.

The Six Day miracle - “Operation Moked”

D-Day, June 6, 1944:

Waiting for D-Day: The general and the justice inspector

Read the diary entry on June 6, 1944 by a brave German justice inspector who hated Hitler and resisted the misinformation and antisemitism of Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels, And then see what he wrote in 1941 about the German people and the Jews.

Waiting for D-Day: The general and  the justice inspector

Juda Honickman:

Fighting back with truth: The Digital War for Israel

In 2025, the war for Israel is also being waged in pixels and posts. And misinformation in the wrong hands doesn’t just mislead—it incites. Op-ed.

Fighting back with truth: The Digital War for Israel

Melanie Phillips:

The West turns against Israel

The Jewish people need to relearn a painful and essential lesson—that they are responsible for their own protection. Opinion.

The West turns against Israel

What lurks beneath

The pathology of Jew hatred was there, probably for decades, just hidden inside. Inculcated early--in homes, houses of worship, schools--it was magnified when the State of Israel was established. Opinion.

What lurks beneath

ANALYSIS: What's next with Syria?

Golan rocket fire a test of reported Israel-Syria security talks

Experts weigh new Syrian regime's intentions versus its capability to control territory after the first cross-border attacks since Assad's fall.

Golan rocket fire a test of reported Israel-Syria security talks

Ben & Jerry's - at it again

The Ben & Jerry's board is suing its parent company, Unilever, for selling ice cream in Judea and Samaria. Opinion.

Ben & Jerry's - at it again

The PKK’s Demise:

Strategic risks for Israel amid a resurgent Turkey

Turkey, unencumbered and emboldened by the demise of a longstanding internal foe, can pivot fully to its broader regional ambitions—ambitions that increasingly run counter to Israeli interests. Opinion.

Strategic risks for Israel amid a resurgent Turkey

Can liberal Jews admit Trump is right about woke antisemitism?

The Boulder attack is more proof that a cause chanting for the genocide of Israelis is inextricably linked to violence against American Jews. Opinion.

Can liberal Jews admit Trump is right about woke antisemitism?

Who does Emmanuel Macron think he is?

Sub-Saharan Africa, and Algeria, Tunisia, Morocco are very familiar with France’s criminal history. And don’t forget that France capitulated and then supported the Nazis. Op-ed.

Who does Emmanuel Macron think he is?

US policy on Iran: Realpolitik or alternatepolitik?

Western policy makers must focus on Iran’s pursuit of nuclear power, but also keep in mind that Iran’s conventional and ballistic power is a chief catalyst of global wars and terrorism. Opinion.

US policy on Iran: Realpolitik or alternatepolitik?

Antisemitism is out of control:

Now Holocaust survivors are burning in America

After a year and a half of media lies and defenses of antisemites, it is no longer taboo not only to hate Jews, but to call for the mass genocide of Jews in America. Attacks like the Colorado firebombing are the inevitable result. Opinion.

Now Holocaust survivors are burning in America

INTO THE FRAY:

Is Israel on the cusp of civil war?

The only way to prevent a civil war in Israel is to acknowledge its impending outbreak, so that steps can be taken to forestall it. Opinion.

Is Israel on the cusp of civil war?

The Greens are the favorite Muslim Brotherhood Western boatmen

Greta, the Swedish useful idiot, wants to stage a violation of the blockade of Gaza, which is in place to prevent armed support for Hamas. Opinion.

The Greens are the favorite Muslim Brotherhood Western boatmen

What I learned by wearing a kippah in Berlin

The writer, a Noahide, decided to see how being an obviously observant Jew affects his everyday behavior and the responses to him in a gentile, non antisemitic environment. It is not so simple. Opinion.

What I learned by wearing a kippah in Berlin

Blood libels 2025:

Rafah and the lie that Israel shoots the starving

The only way such a story makes sense is if you accept the preposterous claim that Israel is committing genocide. And that's exactly the goal of the blood libel mongerers. Opinion.

Rafah and the lie that Israel shoots the starving

Ken's Thought of the Week:

Assessment of Trump's "America First" agenda

How is the Trump Administration doing? Here's a graded report card. Opinion.

Assessment of Trump's "America First" agenda

The Algorithm built him. The Internet took him down.

A new wave of digital demagogues build followings by turning conflict into content. And while they claim to stand for the oppressed, they’ve never once stood for the truth. Opinion.

The Algorithm built him. The Internet took him down.

Here’s a new one - tossing Molotov cocktails is not terror

What would we do without the “experts"? Opinion.

Here’s a new one - tossing Molotov cocktails is not terror

Interview:

The American Promise author, Michael Medved

The history of the American experiment, not unlike Israel's, is a fabric woven of countless instances of improbable, unimaginable events.

The  American Promise author, Michael Medved

Ideological wars do NOT end in deals

This is so even if the leader of the Free World believes otherwise. It seems the deal is Trump’s Achilles heel, one that readily steps on friends. Opinion.

Ideological wars do NOT end in deals

Pakistan’s dangerous pivot: Iran calls for Anti-Israel Alliance

Could Pakistan align itself with Iran’s bloc and potentially join what some might label a modern “Axis of Evil”? Opinion.

Pakistan’s dangerous pivot: Iran calls for Anti-Israel Alliance

Dog whistling for Genocide:

‘Kill the Boer’ and ‘Free Palestine’ are preludes

The human instinct of a Columbia professor or campus crazies is identical to that of Hamas invaders murdering, burning and raping their way through the Gaza envelope. Opinion.

‘Kill the Boer’ and ‘Free Palestine’ are preludes

Roya Sabat: A case of systematic persecution of Baha’is in Iran

Roya Sabat, a Baha’i citizen residing in the United Arab Emirates, returned to Shiraz in January 2024 to care for her elderly, ailing parents. Then her nightmare began. Opinion.

Roya Sabat:  A case of systematic persecution of Baha’is in Iran

Listen to the French? Non!

It’s still not time for a Palestinian state

While the creation of an Arab Palestinian state now would be dangerous for Israel with an indefensible border being the main reason, a Palestinian state would be bad for America, too. Opinion

It’s still not time for a Palestinian state

Jack Engelhard

Are we winning? Does anybody know?

They have two things going for them, the Gaza civilians and the media worldwide, and those two cards they play to the hilt. Opinion.

Are we winning? Does anybody know?

Rabbi Prof. Dov Fischer:

The March of Jewish History: Macron, Europeans, and Annexation

Even the worst tragedies serve as our springboards to become stronger. Just you wait, Mssr. Macron, just you wait...Opinion.

The March of Jewish History: Macron, Europeans, and Annexation

United Nations readies to increase Jew-hatred worldwide

Guterres' own anti-Israelism deliberately stokes the fires of conflict and confrontation. Opinion.

United Nations readies to increase Jew-hatred worldwide

Am Yisrael Chai:

Even in the fire, we sing

To be a Jew is to carry unanswered questions and unrelenting trust. To sing lullabies over fresh graves and still whisper: “Shema Yisrael.”

Even in the fire, we sing

A shameful deal:

US diplomacy in the shadow of Qatar

U.S. Mideast envoy Steve Witkoff's ties to Gulf state businesses raise increasing concerns about his role in the terrible ceasefire deal he proposed between Hamas and Israel, now rejected by Hamas. Opinion.

US diplomacy in the shadow of Qatar

The will of Allah is in the hands of the Jews

If Hamas returns to power, it will be interpreted as Allah's favor, opening the door to new victories. Opinion

The will of Allah is in the hands of the Jews

Melanie Phillips:

Diaspora Jews under siege

Israel’s defenders need to be smarter and more strategic, calling out the haters for being the very things that they purport to hate. Opinion.

Diaspora Jews under siege

The Art of the Deal vs. the Qur’an

“They gotta make a deal. They gotta make a deal.” Sure, Mr President. They already have, and it’s not with you. There is no deal you can offer the Muslims that would be a deal to die for, because Allah already clinched that one. Opinion.

The Art of the Deal vs. the Qur’an

Desperation drove the DC murders

Most of us think the DC murders were the tragically predictabe result of unchecked and escalating rabid antisemitism, but this writer has a different take. Opinion.

Desperation drove the DC murders

Witkoff's "term sheet":

This was not a deal. It was a disaster in the making

Aren't we a nation that knows its survival depends on thinking beyond the now? Opinion.

This was not a deal. It was a disaster in the making

The folly of Humanitarian Aid

We can and should say “no” to Trump, Witkoff, and others who just want an end to war, some diplomatic achievement, and a signing ceremony, regardless of the day after costs and consequences. Opinion.

The folly of Humanitarian Aid

Those who wilfully believe the lies about Israel

People don’t become antisemitic because they believe lies. They believe lies because they are antisemitic. Opinion.

Those who wilfully believe the lies about Israel

Negotiating with Iran:

President Trump - do not forget the Iranian people!

The regime’s deepest anxiety stems from the potential resurgence of widespread domestic anger and unrest—from a nation that is oppressed, impoverished, and seething with rage. Opinion.

President Trump - do not forget the Iranian people!