Commentary
Visiting The Temple Mount: Much Ado About Nothing
This past week, The New York Times ran an ominous sounding headline: “Hard-line Israeli Minister Visits Jerusalem Holy Site; Palestinians Seethe.” What made them seethe?...
‘Pro-Palestinian’ Means No Such Thing
“There are three kinds of lies,” Mark Twain said, attributing the insight to Benjamin Disraeli, “lies, damned lies and statistics.” Turns out there is a fourth: “pro-Palestinian.” Virtually everything described as pro-Palestinian is not. That is,...
After Barbara Walters, the Other Media Stars Who Go to Bat for Israel
The death of acclaimed journalist, anchor, and talk show host Barbara Walters at the age of 93 was met with sadness in the media world last week. Described as “trailblazing” and a “legend” in tributes, Walters...
Reconsidering Israel’s Grandchild Clause
By anyone’s standards, the creation of the State of Israel is one of the most extraordinary events of modern history. Ahad Ha’am (1856-1927), a founding father of the Zionist project, cautioned early on against an...
Challenging China: Turkey Walks a Fine Line on Repressed Uighurs
An official visit by Turkish officials to Xinjiang to assess the fate of Turkic Muslims...
Article on Minister’s Visit to Temple Mount Was Riddled with Distortions
A Telegraph article by Middle East correspondent James Rothwell, egregiously misleads readers, beginning with the...
The Washington Post Rewrites History Again on Israel and Palestinian Terrorism
“Those who don’t learn history,” the philosopher George Santayana famously intoned, “are doomed to repeat...
Four Worst Ways the New York Times Slimed the Jews in 2022
It was an ugly calendar year for The New York Times in terms of coverage...
Why I Changed My Mind About Borat
When Jewish actor Sacha Baron Cohen’s hilarious character, Borat, famously launched into his song “In...
Visiting The Temple Mount: Much Ado About Nothing
This past week, The New York Times ran an ominous sounding headline: “Hard-line Israeli Minister Visits Jerusalem Holy Site; Palestinians Seethe.” What made them seethe? Itamar...
‘Pro-Palestinian’ Means No Such Thing
“There are three kinds of lies,” Mark Twain said, attributing the insight to Benjamin Disraeli, “lies, damned lies and statistics.” Turns out there is a...
After Barbara Walters, the Other Media Stars Who Go to Bat for Israel
The death of acclaimed journalist, anchor, and talk show host Barbara Walters at the age of 93 was met with sadness in the media world...
Reconsidering Israel’s Grandchild Clause
By anyone’s standards, the creation of the State of Israel is one of the most extraordinary events of modern history. Ahad Ha’am (1856-1927), a founding...
Challenging China: Turkey Walks a Fine Line on Repressed Uighurs
An official visit by Turkish officials to Xinjiang to assess the fate of Turkic Muslims in the troubled north-western Chinese province is a risky proposition...
Article on Minister’s Visit to Temple Mount Was Riddled with Distortions
A Telegraph article by Middle East correspondent James Rothwell, egregiously misleads readers, beginning with the headline: As we noted in a complaint to Telegraph editors, the...
The Washington Post Rewrites History Again on Israel and Palestinian Terrorism
“Those who don’t learn history,” the philosopher George Santayana famously intoned, “are doomed to repeat it.” This includes The Washington Post, which seems determined to...
Four Worst Ways the New York Times Slimed the Jews in 2022
It was an ugly calendar year for The New York Times in terms of coverage of issues related to Israel and Jews—so ugly that choosing...
Why I Changed My Mind About Borat
When Jewish actor Sacha Baron Cohen’s hilarious character, Borat, famously launched into his song “In My Country There is Problem,” it featured the chorus, “Throw...
Some Politicians Finally Find Their Voice on Fighting Antisemitism and Campus Hate
The calendar year ended with politicians holding conferences and making statements in opposition to antisemitism, as well as the anti-Israel Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS)...
How a Knesset Bill Becomes Law
As the media maintains its focus on domestic Israeli politics, and political analysts and commentators in Israel and around the world continue to opine on...
What the Torah Teaches About Heredity, Meritocracy, and Guilt
As we come to the end of the Book of Bereishit (Genesis), we can look back and see a thread in the narrative of human...
A View from Campus: How Israel’s Image on the Media Battlefield Impacts Jewish Students
University students have become central to anti-Israel movements, with many of them participating in organizations such as Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) and others...
UNRWA Leads to a Path of Violence for Israel, Not Peace
When UNWRA (the United Nations Relief and Work Agency) was formed In December 1949, it was supposed to temporarily tend to the needs of the...
