Commentary
How the BBC Manipulated a Major Arab World Survey in Order to Slam Israel
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), in a June report about a major new survey regarding the Arab world’s shifting attitudes towards democracy, managed to...
What the Highland Park Massacre Hides From Us
JNS.org – There might have been 20 million acts of goodness that occurred across our country on Independence Day, but the only act I heard about was the murderous rampage in Highland Park. I can’t...
Why a Religious Code Gives Us Purpose
When I try to put myself into the minds of the Children of Israel in the wilderness, I simply cannot understand their mentality. Why are they constantly complaining about everything? The plagues in Egypt and the...
Presbyterian Church (USA) Scrapes the Bottom of the Antisemitic Slippery Slope
In 2014, the Presbyterian Church (USA) became the first Protestant mainline denomination to call for divestment from Israeli companies. When the PCUSA reversed itself in 2016, we at the Simon Wiesenthal Center cautioned against too...
Do North Carolina Democrats Have an Antisemitism Problem in the Party?
As I previously reported, on June 18, the North Carolina Democratic Party (NCDP) held their...
Stopping BDS Cold: Five Lessons to Be Learned From Ben & Jerry’s Attempt to Cream Israel
The agreement enabling Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to continue to be sold throughout Israel...
We Cannot Be Indifferent to CUNY Antisemitism
With New York City in a sad state of affairs, there’s a lot of shame...
The Bullet That Killed Abu Akleh
JNS.org - Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh died covering an Israeli counter-terror operation on the West...
Moses: Conduct Unbecoming?
JNS.org - A life sentence for jaywalking? Twenty years for chewing gum in public? Singapore...
How the BBC Manipulated a Major Arab World Survey in Order to Slam Israel
The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC), in a June report about a major new survey regarding the Arab world’s shifting attitudes towards democracy, managed to work...
What the Highland Park Massacre Hides From Us
JNS.org – There might have been 20 million acts of goodness that occurred across our country on Independence Day, but the only act I heard...
Why a Religious Code Gives Us Purpose
When I try to put myself into the minds of the Children of Israel in the wilderness, I simply cannot understand their mentality. Why are...
Presbyterian Church (USA) Scrapes the Bottom of the Antisemitic Slippery Slope
In 2014, the Presbyterian Church (USA) became the first Protestant mainline denomination to call for divestment from Israeli companies. When the PCUSA reversed itself in...
Do North Carolina Democrats Have an Antisemitism Problem in the Party?
As I previously reported, on June 18, the North Carolina Democratic Party (NCDP) held their statewide convention and adopted two anti-Israel resolutions. A third was...
Stopping BDS Cold: Five Lessons to Be Learned From Ben & Jerry’s Attempt to Cream Israel
The agreement enabling Ben & Jerry’s ice cream to continue to be sold throughout Israel announced on June 29 was a sweet victory against the...
We Cannot Be Indifferent to CUNY Antisemitism
With New York City in a sad state of affairs, there’s a lot of shame to be passed around. Now, against a backdrop of rising antisemitism...
The Bullet That Killed Abu Akleh
JNS.org - Journalist Shireen Abu Akleh died covering an Israeli counter-terror operation on the West Bank. That this was a tragedy is the only thing...
Moses: Conduct Unbecoming?
JNS.org - A life sentence for jaywalking? Twenty years for chewing gum in public? Singapore notwithstanding, surely that’s over the top! Well, was it so different...
Yet Another Correction for Error-Prone New York Times Jerusalem Bureau Chief
Chalk up yet another correction for the New York Times’ error-prone Jerusalem bureau chief, Patrick Kingsley. The latest Times correction to a Kingsley article reads: “An...
After the Bullet: Re-Examining the Media’s Reporting on the Death of Shireen Abu Akleh
Since the death of veteran Al Jazeera journalist Shireen Abu Akleh on May 11 -- during an Israeli military operation in the terrorist hotbed of...
Qatar World Cup Offers Lessons for Human Rights Struggles
It’s a good time, almost 12 years after the world soccer body, FIFA, awarded Qatar the 2022 World Cup hosting rights -- and five months...
A Threat to Women in the US or Middle East Is a Threat to Freedom Everywhere
Though some might have missed it, leading media outlet Arab News featured an extraordinary front page last Monday. The lead story on page 1 was topped...
Islamist Terrorism Resurfaces in Scandinavia
The man who opened fire in an Oslo gay bar on Pride Night last month has deep ties to an extremist leader dubbed "the most...
