Ilan Goodman

From Shushan to Washington

The greatest political drama in Jewish history has much to teach America’s current Jewish politicians. Opinion.

It wasn't all Biden

We were looking for someone to blame and many of us could not take the constant harping on Netanyahu. We should have looked at ourselves. Op-ed.

The tragedy of our Jew-ish allies

What makes a convert and why it matters.

I miss Joan Rivers

When it’s so easy to hide, we need more Jews standing proud. Joan Rivers is gone, so who will be the one to stand up for Israel in an increasingly dangerous and hostile world? Opinion.

In Trump we trust?

No matter who is in the White House and the Knesset, no matter how much they disappoint us, the Jewish people only have one Leader. Op-ed.

The Palestinian Arabs are fighting a “Lost Cause”

What the history of the Confederacy "Lost Cause" movement can teach us about the Palestinian Arabs' conflict - for example, that Hamas is nothing but a crueler version of the Klan with better public relations. Opinion.

We were never Arabs: A response to Israel-hating Jews

There is only one Jewish people, and we will never be divided. In the face of so much history contradicting them, Jew-haters are inventing their own alternative history. Opinion.

Yes, you are an antisemite

You don’t hate genocide. You just hate Jews.

The American Jewish left needs to make a sharp right turn

This election, choose life.

To all the people I once thought were my friends

I come to you with a simple question. In the Torah, it’s the first question ever asked. And it’s as timely now as when G-d first asked it to Adam. Where are you?

America's misguided morality is killing our soldiers

Israel is offering up its children to a false god, with the same disastrous results. Opinion.

Are we allowed to celebrate the destruction of evil?

Now is the time to celebrate the destruction of evil. Compassion has its place, but also its limits. In war, there’s no room for misplaced compassion.

There’s nothing heroic about Marvel's Israel-Erasure

The controversy over the latest Marvel Movie is a symptom of a much deeper issue, the lack of proud Jewish representation. Opinion.

Decolonize Israel

The Jewish world must see Israel as it’s home to be protected, not as a commodity to be exploited. Op-ed.

From Fourth Estate to Fifth Column

Americans are willingly allowing themselves to be indoctrinated by their enemies, Hamas terrorists moonlighting as journalists. It is as if America had received its information on the Vietnam war from the Viet Cong. Opinion.

A fictional genocide of the genocide of fiction?

The world is ready to belive in anything, except Israel. A satire on the lines of Jonathan Swift's "A Modest P:roposal." Op-ed.

Want to be a revolutionary? Be a Zionist.

By fighting Zionism, today’s protesters are fighting against the very values they claim to champion. If the protesters really understood what Zionism was, they would be on the front lines, ready to defend it. Op-ed.

World Jewry, do you feel the heat?

It is frightening that as the world reaches a boiling point, once again most Jews remain comfortably unconcerned about the dangers they face. Opinion.

Who really wins if America forces Israel to lose?

How a dire warning by President Eisenhower predicted the actions of President Biden. Opinion.

To all the “As a Jew” Jews

As a Jew myself, I have some questions for you, Charles Schumer and Jonathan Glazer.

Defining terror

President Biden claims that Palestinians are not Hamas but can’t come up with who else they are. Op-ed.

What my son’s Bar Mitzvah means for Israel.

There is so much darkness in the world but the light of the Jewish people has never been brighter.

The Don Quixote Delusion

What a 17th century classic can teach us about the West’s current attack on Israel. Op-ed.

The United Nations’ Goebbels Maneuver

How the UN utilized a Nazi propaganda technique to attack the Jewish State. Op-ed.

Letter to my Gentile Friend

If this letter is hard for you to accept, it really doesn't matter Opinion.