Opeds (Page 7)

Internet Jihad

The hatred of Jews fills up and dominates the social media. Opinion.

Academia's Iran lobby

More and more pro-Islamic Republic academics have emerged in the past few years, so many in fact that calling them "Academia's Iran Lobby" is not even slightly hyperbolic. Opinion.

Melanie Phillips:

War against Israel targets the British Museum

Historical truths backed up by ancient artifacts are now pitted against a lethal echo chamber. Opinion.

The Satmar Rebbe and Zionism

Rabbi Joel Teitelbaum zt"l and the Jewish argument over Redemption.

When the checks don’t clear

The Gaza pledges were always theater. The Gaza Agreement the same. Opinion.

A lost opportunity

The anti-Mamdani rally was a success, but it lacked a crucial message. Opinion.

A graduation, a wedding and my mother’s earrings

Older generations watch younger ones with a particular expression, a little heartbroken at how fast it all moves. They carry with them everything that the Jewish people have lost, and everything that has been built in its place. Opinion.

A Palestinian state would add Hamas terror to Fatah corruption

The Palestinian Arabs are not ready for a state. The world should stop pretending otherwise. Opinion.

Stuck in the middle

The far left and hard right thrive on the same fuel: grievance, division and permanent outrage, Opinion.

Goldfinger’s Operation Grand Slam can solve Fordow “uranium dust"

Bombing Fordow and blowing up every centrifuge,will not have “destroy" the centrifuges’ enriched uranium. It will create a unranium mine. Opinion.

The Jew-Hatred pandemic is not a mystery

In the global eruption of Jew- and Israel-hatred, the campaign manager is Iran, Qatar the banker, China and Russia campaign co-chairs, Hamas and Hezbollah the front liners, and NGOs the movers. Opinion.

The Global Sumud Flotilla:

Dismantling the Islamist maritime lawfare machine

By conventional military metrics, Israel prevailed completely. By the metrics that the flotilla's architects actually care about, the results are more complicated. Opinion.

Responding to the attack on Ambassador Leiter in the JPost

J Street pressures Israel during wartime, legitimizes narratives weaponized against Israel internationally, and helps fracture bipartisan support for the Jewish state. And Sebastien Levi responds in the JPost by scolding the ambassador who critiicized it. Opinion.

Alma Research Center:

Strategic Drones: Why Hezbollah has intensified its attacks

This is Iran’s familiar game of buying time, whose purpose is to avoid reaching a deal that would force them into a compromise they are not interested in. Opinion.

Giulio Meotti:

They call terrorists insane to deny the madness in welcoming them

Europe has convinced itself that it has a problem of collective mental health instead of confronting the reality of a totalitarian ideology it imported in massive doses. Opinion.

The Iran Gamble:

The high stakes for Trump in Iran

Trump’s Iran gamble is a doctrine of pressure, pragmatism and power - and the stakes are high. Opinion.

How to be a Zio without really trying

Most Jew haters have little idea of what Zion and Zionism are. It's time they found out. Opinion.

Iran's Empty Cradles:

Why Washington must not rescue a dying regime

The regime will not be negotiated out of existence, but America must not resuscitate it, because it can be outlasted. The empty cradles of Tehran are the most honest evidence available that outlasting it is an achievable strategy. Opinion.

Zombie Journalism at the New York Times

The Middle East has generated a rich tradition of zoological conspiracy theories about Israel. Will the Times now assign a 4,000-word investigation into Israel's alleged army of killer dolphins and spy eagle operatives? Opinion.

Campus activism's blindspots:

From Hitler to Tehran

Elite academic institutions helped normalize Nazism, although antisemitism was visible from the beginning. Today, they insist they are managing complexity, but too often, they are managing cowardice while Jewish students are intimidated. Opinion.

A cancer within Diaspora communities

Jews craving inclusion are the antisemites’ delight. Do anti-Israel Jews know they act as doormats? Normal antisemites can hardly get by without them. Opinion.

The Jew-hating pacifist

In the Jew-hater's world, Israel should remain morally pristine and allow itself to be destroyed. That will show ‘em! But no thank you. Op-ed.

Gaza, Lebanon and the Trump deal:

"Quiet for quiet" again?

Someone should tell Donald Trump that the saying that "Insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results" is a truism. Opinion.

Mockery is now worse than murder

The West reacts more passionately to an Israeli politician ridiculing activists than to entire political cultures built around hatred of Jews. Opinion.

Tehran's assassins

Why Germany's indictments demand a hardline transatlantic response. Opinion.

The batons of Barcelona and the double standard against Israel

Israel detained flotilla activists and fed them sandwiches. Spain met similar activists with clubs and riot police. Guess which country the world condemned. Opinion.

Israel should have let the Flotilla enter Gaza

After all, Greta Thunberg and the others say that everyone in Gaza is ready to welcome them as liberators. Why not put that bonhomie to the test? Opinion.

Trump between a rock and a hard place

What outcome can save his presidency? Opinion.

Deal or no deal

For some reason, the West cannot get its collective head around the fact that the Iranian regime’s mindset is not one of mutual existence.

Melanie Philliips:

A dangerous dividing line

Diaspora Jews cannot properly be defended if they do not or fail to comprehend the monstrosity of the scapegoating and demonization of Israel. Opinion.

Shavuot Brit Olam:

On the Hebrew Architecture of Generations

Standing at Sinai is not an event that happened and ended. It is ground that continues - that is transmitted from vessel to vessel to vessel. And without that transmission, the standing at Sinai does not exist. Break the chain, and Sinai disappears.

Ban New York Times reporters from Israel

After 100 years of Jew hatred, the New York Times is obsessed with destroying Israel, which is why we should not help them by allowing their reporters to work in our country. Opinion.

Anatomy of a Catastrophe:

Willful blindness, arrogance, and terror denial

Hamas did not need Israel to know nothing. Hamas needed Israel to believe the wrong thing. The lesson of October 7 is that refusing to recognize war when it is being waged against you does not produce peace. It produces surprise, paralysis, and catastrophe. Opinion.

“ The end of history" that never came to pass

In response to the efforts by Jew-haters to bring an end not to history, but to the Jewish people and their one, tiny country, Jews must be ready to fight. Opinion.

Lebanon's Fractured Minorities:

Why Israeli security architecture works better than UN buffers

The choice is between Israeli security architecture and a reconstituted Hezbollah. UNIFIL is not a factor. Opinion.

Atlas mugged

It's not only antisemitism - although if it makes US Jews leave they will take their money with them - but the Blue States' plan to milk the wealthy is already causing them to move to other places - taking their income with them. Opinion.

Giulio Meotti:

Doctor Goebbels is the hidden master of the West

The machinery of Islamic propaganda understood the postmodern void: fill it with emotional narratives, sacred victims and white-Jewish executioners. It works! Opinion.

Disaster ahead?

Iran didn't just close the Strait, Now it wants Internet control

In 1973, the weapon was oil. In 2026, Tehran is reaching for the internet. An IRGC with supervisory authority over data flowing between Abu Dhabi and Tel Aviv under Hormuz is not a hypothetical threat. It is a strategic catastrophe waiting to materialize. Opinion.

A response to J Street:

What the critics of an Israeli Buffer Zone in Lebanon get wrong

J Street's opposition to the buffer zone stems from an abstract ideological discomfort. The debate should center instead on what can be done so that Israeli families can live without thousands of rockets aimed at their homes from a few miles away.

Peace or decisive miliary victory are not 'around the corner'

Today, 'Victory' means mobilizing our spiritual-national resources for a march of divine destiny. Opinion.

Circumcision in the crosshairs

Belgium law invents a tame excuse for tampering with a miraculous ritual. Opinion.

Silent Iran, angry Iran:

A regime in fear, a society on the brink

Although the atmosphere of censorship and suffocation is unprecedentedly heavy, the people, with great difficulty and at every opportunity, find ways to access information and news. They are just below the boiling point. Opinion.

We are all settlers now

In response to the accusation of us all being settlers, the only answer is “guilty as charged." Do you know that settlers of different nationalities and locales succeeded in transforming much of the world? Opinion.

Don’t take Jerusalem for granted!

The city is at the root of our religious identities.

Ken’s Thought of The Week:

Regime change is the best option

The fanatical ideology of the autocratic regime makes any attempt at negotiation pointless. And the result of any agreement a false front on Iran's part. Opinion.

From libertarian extremist to liberal hero:

How antisemitism transformed Thomas Massie

The anti-Trump congressman from Kentucky is blaming his primary woes on Israel and Zionist billionaires. And the liberal press and Jew-haters everywhere are cheering for him. Opinion.

Can America keep the Covenant?

As America nears its 250th anniversary, the question is not whether the nation deserves applause for what it has achieved. It does. The question is whether Americans still understand and believe in what made those achievements possible. Review.

A replay of the 1948 Arab Blood Libel will not deter Israel

Our best weapon is the self-confidence Israelis exude. Opinion.

Sorry for accosting you on the Paris Metro

Eli, if by some extraordinary chance you are reading this: I’m sorry for accosting you on the Paris Metro. I don’t think you knew what hit you!

Why Eurovision success matters so much to Israel

Eurovision in Israel is viewed through a much broader lens than music alone. Opinion.

The rise of Judicial Supremacy in Israel

An eye-opening summary and review of a book detailing how the Israel Supreme Court appointed itself a super-legislature whose opinions and policy goals are more important than those of the people as expressed through their elected representatives. Review.

President Donald Trump - historical inevitability?

President Trump's time in office has undeniably had a profound effect on Western democracies and global alliances, and has also provided a response to a pervasive feeling of American cultural malaise. Opinion.

Uprooting the Ideological Engine:

The federal campaign against the Muslim Brotherhood

Western governments once thought the Muslim Brotherhood a firewall against jihadism, although it was one of its principal incubators. In the US, it is at last being treated as the ideological engine that helped power the jihadist century. Opinion.

Beyond Drones

Drones are suddenly transforming warfare, from Ukraine to Iran. The first wave of a global robotization of war? Opinion.

Regime Survival vs. Civilizational Reckoning:

The Jewish imperative for support of Iran's true opposition

Iran is a young country with a highly educated population whose professional and civic ambitions have been systematically crushed by a regime that views indigenous talent as a threat to be managed rather than a resource to be cultivated. This is an opportunity not to be missed. Opinion.

We want Mashiach patch now!

Patchwork

Our army serves a greater purpose than merely defense of land. The wars of Israel have a far more profound basis than simply territory. Opinion.