Opeds (Page 4)

55+ Digital Activism- the diamond in the rough

We must stop treating social media advocacy as a young person’s game. Opinion.

Melanie Phillips:

The fateful question for Diaspora Jews

Anti-Zionism, wherever and whenever it appears, is an attack on Judaism itself. Antisemitism has been reframed as an attempt by Jews to mask their own conspiracy against the public good and to conceal the crimes of the State of Israel. Op-ed.

Two nations. Two systems. Two diverging futures

America celebrates at 250, Tehran buries a dictator

Two nations. Two systems. Two diverging futures. As Americans mark 250 years of their Republic, millions of Iranians continue hope for a future in which their country can once again be governed by law, accountable institutions, and the consent of its people.

Ken’s Thought of the Week:

Happy July 4th! But the fight isn't over

We can’t stop fighting for our Independence.

Shabbat Shalom:

To those who carried the principles when institutions failed

Every week there are people who restore a little of our faith, not always in institutions, but in humanity.

A relationship via an AI-Robot is pure Idolatry

When people feel they can no longer believe in permanent truths that transcend their single Self, they turn to an 'idolatry of self- centeredness', for example, they live autonomous lives and turn to robotic AI for companionship. Opinion.

July 4th - 1776 and 1976

Two G-d sent miracles - America winning the Revolutionary War and Israel's success in freeing the Entebbe hostages - were heard round the world.

Amit Segal

How Hamas is trying to rebuild after 1,000 days of war

Is the terrorist organization quietly recovering? Without the level of destruction the IDF wrought on it, Hamas would have already become a monstrous threat again. Opinion.

For July 4, 2026:

Semiquincentennial Fever

What is true about the virtues of US is also true about Israel. We also seek only the good of mankind, only to be castigated even by those we try to help. Opinion.

Giulio Meotti:

Multicultural barbarism is destroying Europe from within

We condemn our fascist and Nazi past, but we do not understand it. Because understanding it would mean recognizing that terror does not only come in brown or gray uniforms, but also under the black veil and the green flag. Opinion.

The NY Socialist Surge:

A warning America cannot afford to ignore

One of America's most influential cities is becoming the principal laboratory for an ideological social experiment which has failed before. The lessons are neither abstract nor academic. They are written in cemeteries across continents. Opinion.

The Theological Imperative:

Why Western diplomacy fails in the Middle East

By prioritizing a diplomatic breakthrough at any cost, mediators overlook a critical, defining reality-this is fundamentally a religious war. Opinion.

Jonathan Tobin:

The Israel they hate is imaginary

The younger generation’s opposition to a “genocidal" Jewish state has become one of the organizing principles of U.S. politics. But these toxic beliefs have nothing to do with the actual State of Israel. Anyone who visits sees that immediately. Opinion.

The Democrats:

A Big Tent for arsonists

Only a very particular breed of coward welcomes into any tent the people who have already announced their intention to burn the tent down. I cannot wait to see what climbs out of the clown car next and enters the Big Tent. Opinion.

Post October 7th:

Israel divided: Ideological politics in the Jewish State

The history of the right vs. left ideological divide in Israel has taken a strange turn in the aftermath of October 7, after it was the mostly left-leaning kibbutzim who were invaded. Opinion.

From the Hebrew press:

Our sons did not give their lives for the world’s energy market

The blood of the fallen cries out to us from the ground and demands that we bring a clear victory, and not settle for weak compromise agreements and mere postponement of the inevitable.

No pieces of paper ever bound the Islamic Republic

Comparing Presidential deals is futile. Trump’s two sheet memo, like Obama’s one-sixty sheet nuclear deal, is meant to stop Israel winning wars. Opinion.

Trump may be playing Iran's hand, but Israel cannot be the stakes

Even a strategically coherent plan can carry unacceptable risks if the price of failure is paid by America's closest ally in the Middle East. Opinion.

America as a new ‘Light Unto The Nations,’ - or I told you so

They played the POTUS like a fiddle once, and are doing likewise now. Trump's newest “deal" is worse than the previous ones. Op-ed.

An Archbishop, terrorists, and the Christians she chose to ignore

What the Archbishop of Canterbury did this week during her visit to Israel and the Palestinian Authority-controlled areas facilitates those who support violence at a time when Christian communities have been devastated throughout much of the Middle East. Op-ed.

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The inversion of Reality

We are increasingly teaching children to interpret the world through the binary of oppressor and oppressed, enforcing a framework which concludes that power before principle, identity before behaviour and grievance before responsibility are defining principles. Op-ed.

From the Hebrew press:

New York. The end.

New York's Jews are living on borrowed time. Opinion.

Alma Research Center Analysis:

The Israel-Lebanon Framework Agreement: What is the "end game"?

Consistent implementation, accompanied by sustained international pressure, may create a historic opportunity to strengthen the Lebanese state, weaken Hezbollah, and improve regional security and stability.

Christians are burning and Western media are cold and silent

New digital catacombs: Christians massacred and the news buried. How can that be condoned? Opinion.

Haaretz’s ideological mission: Dismantling the Jewish state

What was it that moved the progressive paper to declare its hostility to Zionism after years of disingenuous denial? Op-ed.

The price of appeasement

Herzl thought that Jew hatred would end if we had our own state. Many in the world, including misguided Jews, today believe that Jew hatred would end if we didn’t have a state. There is no apeasement that works. Op-ed.

The banality of Antisemitism

Parties and ideas once stigmatized are gaining ground precisely because elites prefered to scapegoat Zionism rather than address uncomfortable realities. That policy is being revealed as a boomerang. Op-ed.

Herod, Bar Kochba, Trump and Huckabee: The Battle for Eternity

No small nation in the Mediterranean basin could survive in that era without aligning with one power or the other, and the Jews knew this as well as anyone. Is it true today? Opinion.

Civil Disobedience

Today the battle is over New York. Yesterday it was London. Tomorrow it will be another city, another nation, or another people who convinced themselves that history could not happen to them. Opinion.

Jack Engelhard:

Trump’s successful game of Rope-a-Dope

If Iran keeps on toying with him, he’s got all the power to lower the boom. And he gave them a taste of that this weekend. Opinion.

Tehran's threats against Trump and Israel cannot prevent its fall

The Fall of Tehran is no longer a question of if-only of when. Opinion.

No F-35s for Erdogan:

America must not reward a Hamas-harboring regime

The United States should resist the temptation to treat the F-35 program as a diplomatic bargaining chip. America's most advanced military technologies should be reserved for real partners. Opinion.

Nuclear risks to Israel:

Looking behind a contrived "peace"

Potentially existential dangers could be produced by enemy hacking operations, computer malfunction (accidental nuclear war) or decision-making miscalculation. Israel must be prepared. Opinion.

When Pay-for-Slay came out of the closet

A U.S. State Department notification to Congress reportedly found that the PA distributed roughly $156 million in “pay-for-slay" stipends during 2025-in direct contradiction to America's Taylor Force Act. Op-ed.

The Hidden Hand:

The Information War and the Rise of Antisemitic Propaganda

Not only was Jew-hatred and Israel-hatred far more widespread than any of us believed before October 7, but Jew-hatred and hatred of the little Jewish state have been amplified by a cruel and effective propaganda campaign the likes of which few of us have ever seen in our lifetimes. Book Review.

Heroism, not denial, is our only option

Jews have always been in serious trouble. But during all this time we have not had a sovereign land and the brave army we have today. Opinion.

Laocoon's failure, Troy's suicide

Prolegomenon to the Laocoon Project: Aeneid is reworded to awaken the world to the Islamist invasive cognitive war - one that parallels the Trojan Horse debacle he described.

The Institutional Playbook

How moral cowardice became cultural leadership. Opinion.

Read hiistory, Mr. Vice-President:

J.D. Vance and the Myth of the American-Made Israel

At San Remo iin 1920, the Arabs were not dispossessed of a state in Palestine. There was none. They were granted multiple states across the region. The Jews, by contrast, were allocated one small territory-their historic homeland. Historical review.

Melanie Phillips:

Alarm bells go off in New York

Anti-Zionism is turning the Democratic Party into a mortal enemy of America. Opinion.

My one - and only - difference with haredim

Dearest Haredim; let me say this as clearly and as directly as I can. You are not being fair.

Bennett's dangerous delusions

It seems as if Bennett does not begin with principles and build a coalition around them. He seems to begin with the coalition he wants and works backward until he has manufactured the principles to fit it. Opinion.

The questions begin where the memorandum ends

For families like mine, skepticism toward Iranian promises is not a political position. It is the product of lived experience. And my skepticism must be proven mistaken, if indeed it is. Opinion.

When a civilization goes mad, it starts killing Jews

Let's face it: Canadian antisemitic incidents leading up to the Côte-des-Neiges shooting are typical of the West today while the shooter's deranged manifesto could have been written by any number of Jew-hating future murderers. Op-ed.

The MOU correctly omits mention of FTO Hezbollah

Let Israel and Lebanon finally solve the problem, once and for all time, without interference from outsiders.

Mamdani is mainstreaming antisemitic conspiracy theories

Mayor Mamdani's attacks on AIPAC revive antisemitic tropes, normalize hatred of Jews, and endanger New York's Jewish community. Op-ed.

Check under the bed for Jews

The Jews are monsters. Ask Mamdani. And monsters must be stopped whenever they appear - when they hold real estate events, when they pray, when they go to school, and when they buy a cup of coffee. For coffee is evil when a monster drinks it. Op-ed.

Amine Ayoub:

The parallels between Morocco and Israel are impossible to ignore

With the Western Sahara stalemate and Morocco-Algeria tensions, UN Momentum meets persistent proxy risks. Morocco, much like Israel, learned that yielding to international pressure or relying on endless peace processes only emboldens rejectionists. Op-ed.

Nadia Matar at JNS Conference:

"Settlement alone is not sovereignty"

Settlement creates a presence on the ground. Sovereignty creates a political permanence. Without sovereignty, that presence remains reversible.

Generation Z in 20 years

We are witnessing the emergence of a self-defined generation that will carry our story forward with newfound clarity. Opinion.

The media minimizes University of Michigan's 'Student Intifada'

Like Hamas, they long for intimidated and ultimately dead Jews, both in "48" (as they sometimes call Israel) and throughout the world, which is what "Globalize the Intifada" means. Their vandalism and violent threats are "free speech" to the NYT and Washington Post. Opinion

Into the Fray:

Et tu, Donald?

Iran: Has Trump lost the plot? Op-ed.

J.D. Vance wants the Jews to keep quiet

Vance is not the first political leader to lose his temper because somebody, somewhere, criticized a policy of his. And when it is the Jews, public shaming is par for the course. But today, US Jews and Israelis are not the obedient vassals they were once. Opinion.

Who should be learning instead of serving?

Torah study does not justify broad exemption from military service, except possibly for a small number of elite scholars.

Giulio Meotti:

There’s little to celebrate when the West gets a beating

Between Trump’s defeat in Iran and European mediocrity, there is little to be cheerful about. Especially while the West demands of Israel that it wage a war without war and neutralize its enemies without fighting them. Opinion.

Everything they say about U.S. aid to Israel is wrong

The American public deserves a true picture of this relationship, not an agenda dressed up as policy analysis to serve someone’s political interests. Opinion.