Dr. Alex Grobman

From Prayer to Action:

The High Holidays in Bavaria, 1945

Jewish chaplains who encountered Holocaust survivors in 1945 went from dealing in spiritual healing to much-needed relief work, with Chaplain Abraham Klausner at the helm. Op-ed.

25 years since Durban:

The Durban strategy and the campaign to isolate Israel

By hijacking an anti-racism agenda for its own antisemitic goals, the Durban summit sought to delegitimize a sovereign state and rationalize terrorist violence. Opinion.

The Lone Wolf Is not alone: What drives the stabbing Jihad

The decisive question is why one society’s political, religious and media institutions repeatedly provide a ready-made target, a heroic script and communal validation for those who commit terror. Op-ed.

When a stone becomes a “precious Diamond:"

"Battle of Civilization Versus Barbarism"

Peace becomes impossible when a public culture rewards the sacrifice of children more than the protection of their future. Opinion.

The Weaponization of History:

Why cheapening Shoah vocabulary threatens American democracy

When critics hurl Nazi labels at progressive politicians, they fail to address the actual substance of the threat. Opinion.

The Genocide Inversion

Mamdani’s verdict came before the evidence

Throwing out the word Genociide when it negates the evidence trivializes and inverts the word itself. Mamdani did not establish a fact. He pronounced a verdict. And it was a lie. Opinion.

Hamas' plan:

Retreat, rebuild, resume the war

For fifty years, Palestinian Arab leaders have accepted concessions without surrendering their objective or capacity to resume the fight. The new Gaza roadmap preserves that playbook. Opinion.

Historical erasure and a distortion:

Calling Judea and Samaria the “West Bank"

Using the term "West Bank" shows how thoroughly some Israelis have internalized the language of their adversaries. Opinion.

Bret Stephens’s dangerous half-picture

Condemning the few episodes of Jewish lawlessness as if comparable to non-stop Palestinian Arab terrorism-or pretending that statehood will cure it - is not only ignorant, it is downright dangerous. Opinion.

Rome and the Two-State Illusion

Statehood is not an experiment. Opinion.

Tisha B’Av, the Shoah, and the Jewish refusal to despair

Faith does not mean pretending that suffering is not real. Faith means refusing to let suffering have the final word. When the physical Temple was destroyed, Jews took the idea of it with them into exile, learning the Talmud and praying to return and rebuild it.

Defying the Normal Laws of History:

Jewish Independence alone ensures Jewish survival

Israel now serves both as a physical refuge and a diplomatic shield for Jews worldwide. Opinion.

The West and Iran:

The Secular Impasse: Why modern minds misread Divine imperatives

For the radical terrorists, the theological text is not a rationalization of geopolitical ambitions, but the primary, non-negotiable driver of them.

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.

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.

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.

June 22, 1941:

The day systematic destruction of Russian Jewry began

Holocaust Denial never ended-it only changed tactics. Opinion.

Anti-Christian harassment in Jerusalem defiles God's Name

Jewish power is supposed to be restrained by Jewish memory. The vulnerable and foreign person should not be humiliated. That this has been documented in Israel is reprehensible, even if minor compared to Christians persecuted and slaughtered in other parts of the world today. Opinion.

The truth about the Mufti and Hitler:

Truth requires neither exaggeration nor minimization

Hitler encouraged the Mufti’s wishful thinking that assisting Germany would lead to Arab sovereignty. In reality, the Nazis intended to use him, yet the Mufti was not merely being used.

A Singular Sovereignty:

Israel in the context of the 22 Arab States

Israel’s critics treat Israel, the restored nation-state of an ancient people, as illegitimate, while accepting without hesitation the legitimacy of states whose borders were drafted by imperial powers only a century ago. 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.

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.

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.

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.

Historical Fact vs. Modern Distortion:

The centrality of Jerusalem to the Jewish People

Jerusalem appears in the Jewish Bible 669 times and Zion 154 times, and not once by name in the Qu'ran. Denial of Jewish Jerusalem is not a dispute over archaeology, but an attempt to dispossess the Jewish people retroactively-to strip them not only of land, but of memory; not only of sovereignty, but of legitimacy. Opinion.

The choice:

The mitzvah of Yishuv Eretz Yisrael or a false sense of security?

Do not confuse a favorable historical moment, one which seems to be disappearing, with a covenantal destination. The American Jewish community has mistaken comfort for destiny.Op-ed.

The Death of Shame:

2026 Senate contests show anti-Israel extremism has mainstreamed

The issue is whether American politics will normalize the kafkaesque claim that Israel is uniquely illegitimate, uniquely evil, uniquely undeserving of self-defense, and Jews uniquely unworthy of sovereignty. Opinion.

The pathology of Jewish anti-Zionism

When dissent becomes a strategy of communal self-erasure and double standards, it becomes pathology. Opinion.

From erasure to inversion:

The new face of Egyptian Holocaust Denial

In Egypt's morally obscene rhetoric on the Iran Warr, Iran becomes the victim, Israel becomes the aggressor, Nazis become a rhetorical weapon against Jews, and the Holocaust becomes either a lie, an exaggeration, or a political inconvenience. Opinion.

'Poisoned Ivies' by Elise Stefanik:

'The Inside Account of the Moral Rot at US Elite Universities'

A courageous book by the woman who initiated and led the famous congressional hearing on exploding antisemitism in three prestigious American universities, exposing their moral rot with a simple question. Review.

From Prayer to Pogrom:

How the Western Wall dispute ignited the 1929 massacres

The lesson of 1929 is not historical trivia. The pattern is painfully familiar. And a historian called the period “Year Zero," because it shattered the remaining illusions of peaceful coexistence. Op-ed.

Israel is the ultimate response

Israel exists precisely because Jews learned, at unbearable cost, that eloquence without power is fragile, and law without force is often meaningless. Opinion.

The Warmonger Default:

How ancient canards shape modern foreign policy myths

The lie claiming that Jews are the hidden hand behind wars - this time the Iran War - has followed the Jewish people from Shushan to Des Moines to September 11 to the present.

The ashes were still warm:

When Israel’s flag rose over the ruins of Europe

In a displaced persons camp in Salzburg, just days after the 5th of Iyar 5708, Holocaust survivors did not merely hear that the Jewish state had been declared. They saw redemption take form before their eyes.

Deir Yassin and the birth of the anti-Israel blood libel

The battle at Deir Yassin was turned into a fabricated “massacre," helping launch a strategy of demonization that is still used against Israel today. Opinion.

Holocaust Memorial Day:

Why the Holocaust was different

Yom Hashoah demands clarity. Nazi antisemitism was not another round of oppression, however cruel, but something far more sinister. And Yom Hashoah is not only what happened then, but what we do now. Opinion.

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

The Hadassah convoy massacre should be remembered as part of a much larger and uglier truth: when Jews are murdered, the world finds ways to excuse it, explain it, or ignore it. Opinion.

The Canary on the Couch:

The anatomy of American Jews' communal surrender to antisemitism

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

A Century of False Alarms:

The persistent myth of Al-Aqsa “In Danger"

The PA is skewing the Home Front's rules meant for protection of worshipers during the ongoing war to claim danger to Al Aksa and incite the Arab population. This is nothing new.

Goebbels then, Social Media now:

Why Holocaust language Is a propaganda weapon

Words don’t merely describe reality. In the wrong hands, they manufacture it. Opinion.

Call It What It Is:

Judea, Samaria, and Gaza - not “the West Bank"

There was a good article recently in the Wall Street Journal about the need to start using Judea and Samaria instead of the 'West Bank'. Since, however, it lacks much needed historical background, a respected historian filled inthe gap for Arutz Sheva readers. Op-ed.

To US Vice Pres. Vance:

The Holocaust: ‘A Primordial Act' whose primary victims were Jews

When JD Vance spoke of “millions of lives lost" in the Holocaust without saying Jews or Nazis, that wasn’t nuance. That was historical erasure. Six million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany because of antisemitism. If you can’t say that sentence cleanly, you’re not being careful. You’re being dishonest. You're sayiing that Jewish specificity is inconvenient. Op-ed.

Misconceptions about the Wannsee Conference (January 20, 1942)

Wannsee remains historically significant for a chilling reason: it reveals how a modern state can coordinate mass murder through routine administration. Opinion.

The greatest Holocaust memorial is not a museum, it is Israel

The Mandate for Palestine conferred the right of the Jews to settle anywhere between the Jordan River and the Mediterranean Sea. This entitlement has not been changed in international law. Opinion.

For Holocaust Remembrance Day:

The Shoah: “An Event of Overbearing Magnitude”

What is so alarming about the Holocaust is the involvement of average people, many of whom participated not so much out of hatred of Jews, but because this was part of their job. And then there is the intelligentsia. Opinion.

Dew of Revival:

First letters of people of faith after the Holocaust

Elie Weisel famously said: 'If anything can, it is memory that will save humanity.' While antisemitism sweeps the globe, it is time to remember, act, and place our faith in G-d. A book that expresses those feelings in Holocaust survivors' own words. Review.

"We Will Rise":

Jewish resistance in WWII: A desperate cry for future generations

Ben Shapiro's musical 'We Will Rise' on the Warsaw Ghetto and October 7th is set to open in Israel this week. A historian's prelude, below, shows Jewish resistance in WWII in tragic perspective. Never again. Op-ed.

A look at the Holocaust shows the Dutch acting true to form today

The Dutch did not save the Jews during the Holocaust, they betrayed them during the war and afterwards. Except for a very few, their actions toward Jews went from active hostility to indifference. Opinion.

A Harris victory means a fourth Obama term

Remembering what that means: Obama refused to recognize that Israel’s leaders might have a better grasp of the situation than he did. He also thought it wrong that they would prioritize their nation’s security. Op-ed.

The absurd demonization of President Trump

Comparing Trump to Hitler? Can any rational person compare what Hitler did when he initiated the most disastrous war in history to what the former president accomplished during his four years in office? Opinion.

No, President Macron: The UN did not create Israel

If it were within the power of the UN to create states, an Arab state would have arisen in 1948 alongside Israel, whether or not the Arabs agreed. Op-ed.

Book review:

On Duty: The Polish Blue & Criminal Police in the Holocaust

Millions of Polish Jews were murdered by the Nazis. But they did not work alone. A new and damning book shows how Polish law enforcement and firefighting personnel played an integral part in the destruction of Polish Jewry.

Operation Barbarossa: What really happened and why

The June 1941 German invasion of Russia was called Operation Barbarossa, in which 3,000 men of the Einsatzgruppen planned to seek out and destroy the 5,000,000 Jews in Russia and end civilian resistance. Setting the Carlson-Cooper record straight.

Yom Hashoah 2024

The fragility of the world

The Germans presumed the right to determine who should live and who should die. Op-ed.

Jewish blindness to the Arab mindset

Ben Gurion admitted that he was “naïve then to imagine …that the Arabs think like us.” Op-ed.

Truman: "With a beast, you have to treat him like a beast"

Truman:“Nobody is more disturbed than I am but I was greatly disturbed over the attack on Pearl Harbor and their murder of our POWs." Op-ed.

The search for peace-loving Palestinian Arab leadership.

Antisemites will find fault no matter what we do. Op-ed.

“Why my generation hates Jews”

There was no comparable act of terrorism in Israel's 75-year history, but not for lack of trying - and yet, Gen Z sides with Hamas.Opinion.

'Remaining decent' - an SS speech

Henrich Himmler, Reichsführer SS, actually assured those involved in the annihilation of the Jewish people they had remained decent. Op-ed.

How antisemitism shifted from Nazi Germany to the Arab world

There is “an ideological link between the Nazi war against the Jews and the Arab war against Israel three years later..". Op-ed.