On the issues about which the world is obsessed, Israel’s new government is basically a continuation of the old one… Continue reading
Not a Mistake, Misunderstanding, or Well-Intended Criticism But a Deliberate Campaign to Bash Israel
The first, most important thing to understand about the Western and especially American debate on Israel… Continue reading
Israel’s election results show that Israelis have a basic consensus and yet have very different ways of expressing their political positions… Continue reading
Supersessionism refers to the belief that Christians have superseded Jews in a new covenant with God. Islam, too, sees itself as superseding all previous divine revelation but, unlike Christianity, Islam freely erases history itself… Continue reading
The sustained anti-Israel de-legitimization campaign is a corollary of the millenarian obsession with the Jews in the Christian and the Muslim worlds… Continue reading
A Friend in Britain: How Churchill Used “Emotional Intelligence” to Help Jewish National Sovereignty
For over three thousand years, the Jewish people were defined by an identity shaped by the Hebrew language… Continue reading
Saul Alinsky, the godfather of subversive radical political action, had a very clear strategy for undermining and destroying his enemies… Continue reading
Churchill’s political involvement with Jews and Zionism was enormously variegated and long, and the list of headings under which this involvement can be assessed no less so… Continue reading
The British leader Winston Churchill visited Palestine in 1921, relatively early in his career while serving as Colonial Secretary… Continue reading
In all of this and throughout the nation on this day, there was not a word of hatred, of reviling any enemy… Continue reading
I can only laugh at the idea of dilettante Peter Beinart and J Street as leader of the anti-Israel movement… Continue reading
The Netherlands is widely considered one of Israel’s closest allies but at the same time continues to take a critical stance toward Israel in line with EU’s pro-Palestinian policies. This article is about the shameful history of Dutch Christian anti-Jewish sentiment… Continue reading
Anti-Semitism may not yet be a litmus test for social acceptability in the US, but it has certainly become acceptable… Continue reading
No one denies the long suffering of the Schalit family… Continue reading
For the last five years I have tried not to think of Gilad Shalit… Continue reading
Holland’s doctors’ association is encouraging Dutch parliament to place a ban on male circumcision, calling the practice “a violation of human rights”… Continue reading
Most Jews today (or should I merely say many?), even the most secular among them, have a tremendous fear of Christians… Continue reading
A newly leaked U.S. Embassy cable provides a startling revelation, not so much of the extremist anti-Israel views of one high-ranking… Continue reading
There is far more violence in the Bible than in the Qur’an; the idea that Islam imposed itself by the sword is a Western fiction… Continue reading
For the first time in Western history, the physical as well as emotional pain felt by animals became a human concern three millennia ago in the Jewish Scriptures… Continue reading
First, almost all of the major news media has reported about the confrontation between Israeli forces and people who… Continue reading
Today Israel celebrates 63 years of independence. We celebrate the rebirth of Jewish sovereignty, the restoration of our capacity for… Continue reading
Once a haven for Jews, Sweden is a hotbed of anti-Semitism. Norway is just as bad. What does that say about Europe… Continue reading
Every few months, we are presented with media reports about Jewish women rescued from their Muslim husbands in the Palestinian Authority or within Israel… Continue reading














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