Howard Rotberg

Habakkuk 612 BCE and Habakkuk May 5, 2022

No matter the joy of the modern Habakkuk, we see today's Babylonians, the evil so-called Palestinians, again murder our best people.

Bad times: The Shoah, Ukraine War, terror and the Flood

Israel manifests a social resilience in a nation that is far from giving up or rejecting the Jewish role in history, despite terror. Op-ed

On Leaders and War: Ideological transformation in the West after Ukraine

We have the opportunity to make the post-Ukraine world a better one with better values and ideologies and leadership by better people. Op-ed

Leadership in a time of crisis: Israel and America

Israel is facing some potentially catastrophic challenges and a government crisis at the same time. America's government is unpopular Op-ed.

Reality and Resilence: A Zionist Jewish author's lament

Can we compare how the Israelis counter the demoralizing effects of terrorism and how Ukrainians counter the effects of the invasion? Op-ed.

The 10 lessons the West should learn from Putin’s war on Ukraine

The Olympics: Sportsmanship or BDS?

Does boycotting a country as the Olympic venue differ from shunning an athlete from that or any other country? Op-ed.

Hostage Texas Rabbi and wife said to be allies of the entire Muslim community

I predict the Rabbi will become an even stronger advocate of kindness to Islamists who might be embedded in the “entire community.”.Op-ed.

The Passion of the Antisemites

Why, as the Atlantic asked recently, is Hollywood still hiring Mel Gibson, whose Passion of the Christ movie reeks with antisemitism? Op-ed.

The frog in the boiling water

Those of us living outside Israel should not counsel Israelis in the line of fire, but here are two stories about that boiling water.Op-ed.

Proud lunatic: Billy Joel and the Diaspora Jewish baby boomers

Renowned, talented singer-songwriter Billy Joel.is a prototype of what has happened to American Jewry's baby boomers. Opinion.

My twilight zone: Past, present and future

The past cannot alter the present. Holocaust museums have not affected young Islamists who don’t believe it occurred. And the future?Op-ed..

Michelle Goldberg and Angela Merkel seek moral absolution in the wrong place

​​​​​​​Taking the long view of history as we must requires us to specify key events in the culture war by Islamism against the West. Op-ed.

The Associated Press war of words against Israel

There is no other country that AP subjects to such obvious journalistic lies, so we can consider AP to be an antisemitic organization.Op-ed.

Totally tolerating the Taliban: Naive tolerism in the face of Islamism

Toleration of evil is not a Jewish value. In the 1967 War, tolerism led to a key mistake by a top Israeli General.Op-ed.

Twenty ways the Western media attacks Israel

Younger journalists reflect critical theory and relativism popularized in universities and among leftist and Islamist politicians. Op-ed.

The Palestinianization of children's books - spreading the evil culture

We are in a war for the hearts and minds of children. Op-ed.

The re-settlement by the indigenous Jews of Israel

Archaeology and recorded history prove Jewish indigenous status. You cannot settle your own land or occupy it. Denial is antisemitism..Op-ed

Sometimes it takes a few pogroms

Sometimes it takes a few pogroms to drive home the solution, inducing Diaspora Jews to make Aliyah as their forebears left Europe. Op-ed.

Tolerating Iran's genocidal aims - for how long?

It will be up to Israeli generals and politicians to decide if response to rockets and control of Arab rioters preclude another front. Op-ed

Justice, justice shall you pursue: The crisis for American and French justice

France and the USA are struggling with moral and cultural relativism critical race theory and equity” not “equality” before the Law. Op-ed.

The Boulder Colorado Islamist shooting: Ancient Egypt, mordern America

No media want to say that the store was Jewish and the shooter an Islamist. So is America any better for the Jews than ancient Egypt? Op-ed

The Western cultural Stockholm Syndrome

Are US leftists, so enamoured of the supposed victims of racism, creating an antisemitic Stockholm Syndrome of “domestic terrorists”? Op-ed.

The singer in the market and the ex-PM in jail: A study in masochism

Miri Aloni and Ehud Olmert may display masochism in believing Israel's enemies, but most Israelis know better. Does the West? Opinion.

The revenge factor in America's crisis: Pelosi and others

The Democrats did not seek Justice, but to avenge Trump’s threat to their elites in msm, in bureaucracy, and their politicians. Op-ed.

From cancel culture to political exterminationism

Falsely accused racists are the new Jews. Anything is justified against them. How long till political exterminationism gets physical? Op-ed.

The Washington protest and its context

Unlike the summer protests/riots by young thugs, this protest was done by an older crowd, with very few storming the building. Op-ed.

The New York Times grinch that stole Hanukkah

The NYT went from Hanukkah in the eyes of a clueless assimilated Jew two years ago to the holiday in the eyes of a non-Jew this year.Op-ed.

The abuse of Truth and the abuse of Jews

Promoting lies against politicians helps prepare the way for lies against Jews. What do we know about the neuroscience of lying?  Op-ed.

Tolerism at Berkeley: The guy who had no clothes

Many liberal academics preach that violence is due to our lack of tolerance for the "root causes" of that violence, so anything goes. Op-ed.

Will the USA see emigration after the election?

Leftistt emigrants who spent the last 4 years loudly hating America, may find that they have caused other countries to feel the same. Op-ed.

The power of public fantasies: Three years of political libel

Public fantasies are behind 3 years of political libel reflecting not hatred of 1 man, but of American democracy and the rule of law..Op-ed.

The NYT's failure to rededicate itself to fairness

The NYT, is an anti-Israel paper still read by so many Jews that it must share the blame for the decline in their support.for Israel. Op-ed.

Tired of fighting: The first front and the second front

To learn to deal with terror and protect our citizens, stop criticizing Israel and realize that we must never get tired of winning.Op-ed.

America can learn from Israel how to deal with internal terrorism

There has to be an active fight for social cohesion, impossible as that may seem, or America is doomed. Israel has managed to do it. Op-ed.