Sean Durns
ARTICLES BY: Sean Durns
North Jersey Paper Aims at Israel — and Misses
“Get your facts first,” Mark Twain once intoned, “and then you can distort them as you please.” Yet, when it comes to the Israel-Islamist conflict,...
Remembering Israel’s Forgotten War — and Its Lessons for Today
Edmund Burke, the British parliamentarian and political theorist, once claimed that “you can never plan the future by the past.” But the past does often...
Is Abbas Destroying Evidence of the PA’s Support for Terrorism?
The President of the Palestinian Authority (PA) Mahmoud Abbas ordered his security services to destroy “secret documents, fearing possible Israeli raids on their offices,” according...
Bias Gives Way to False Claims on Israel, Gaza, and Coronavirus
On April 15, 2020, The Washington Post published an op-ed entitled “Gaza is an open-air prison. As covid-19 spreads, it’s time to life the siege.” The author, Tarek...
Shouldering Israel With Palestinian Coronavirus Woes
“It’s up to Israel,” a Foreign Policy opinion headline blares, “to stop a coronavirus catastrophe among Palestinians.” The March 30, 2020, commentary -- by Zaha Hassan and Hallaamal...
Israel’s Critics Distort the Country’s Coronavirus Response
At a time of a global pandemic, Israel is taking drastic measures to prevent COVID-19 from potentially killing thousands of its citizens. But while the...
The Palestinian ‘Right of Return’ Is Really About Destroying Israel
On January 28, President Trump revealed his administration’s long-awaited Israeli-Palestinian peace plan. As several commentators noted, the proposal explicitly states that there shall be no...
The Audacity of Herzl
“With audacity,” Napoleon Bonaparte once observed, “one can undertake anything, but not do everything.” As Derek Penslar’s new book Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader makes clear, few...
The Media Hides Palestinian Human Rights Abuses
The Palestinian Authority (PA) has admitted that it will not honor any agreements that violate sharia (Islamic) law. And the press, it seems, have declared...
Let’s Tell the Truth About Hamas and Gaza
It turns out that genocidal Islamist terrorist groups are bad at governing. This shouldn’t come as a surprise. But apparently it is to The Washington...
Revisionist Author Tries to Distort the Record of David Ben-Gurion
Tom Segev’s well-written biography of Israel’s first prime minister, A State At Any Cost: The Life of David Ben-Gurion, is undercut by the author’s biases...
The Washington Post Bars the Truth About Israel
You can tell a lot about a news outlet by what it chooses to cover -- and even more by what it chooses to ignore....
The Bahrain Conference and the Big Omission
Reporters writing about the latest Israeli-Palestinian peace initiative seem to have amnesia. Curiously, the press and pundits pontificating about the Bahrain Conference have largely omitted...
The World Ignored Israel’s Restraint in Gaza — and the Larger Story
Not for the first time, many in the press and around the world have missed an important story in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. In dozens of...
