Commentary
Antisemitic Pamphlet Stoked American Revolutionary Cause, a British Historian Contends
The American Revolution was stoked in part by an antisemitic pamphlet, a British historian contends in a new book defending King George III. Common Sense,...
Iran as Depicted in Middle Eastern Media: Polarized Coverage of Soleimani’s Assassination Anniversary
The second anniversary of the targeted assassination by the US of Iranian Quds Force general Qassem Soleimani was marked on January 3 by an attempted Iranian drone strike against a civilian airport in Baghdad, the...
The Essence of Judaism is Chesed
I have just spent two days as a visitor to the Orthodox Jewish community of Chicago in anticipation of a rabbinic gathering being planned there for the spring. My time in Chicago flew by very fast;...
Shabbat Bo: Blood on the Doorpost
We are all familiar with the mezuzah, which we place on the right doorpost of our houses and offices. Many people believe its function is to ward off evil spirits and guarantee protection. But its...
Here’s Some PR Advice for Israel
This week, Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid warned that Israel will face intense campaigns to...
Emma Watson Is Right
JNS.org – “Free Palestine!” says actress Emma Watson. She’s right. The territories where the Palestinian Arabs live...
It’s Not the Antisemitism Your Grandparents Warned You About
Hebron, Ramallah, and eastern Jerusalem are tough neighborhoods. I know, because I served there as...
French Show Features Jews as Marijuana Sellers for Laughs
The plot is absurd. The dialogue contains lines that a real human would never say....
Peter Beinart’s Antisemitism Strikes Again
In Peter Beinart's Substack, he writes: In 1984, in an essay in The London Review of...
Antisemitic Pamphlet Stoked American Revolutionary Cause, a British Historian Contends
The American Revolution was stoked in part by an antisemitic pamphlet, a British historian contends in a new book defending King George III. Common Sense, the...
Iran as Depicted in Middle Eastern Media: Polarized Coverage of Soleimani’s Assassination Anniversary
The second anniversary of the targeted assassination by the US of Iranian Quds Force general Qassem Soleimani was marked on January 3 by an attempted...
The Essence of Judaism is Chesed
I have just spent two days as a visitor to the Orthodox Jewish community of Chicago in anticipation of a rabbinic gathering being planned there...
Shabbat Bo: Blood on the Doorpost
We are all familiar with the mezuzah, which we place on the right doorpost of our houses and offices. Many people believe its function is...
Here’s Some PR Advice for Israel
This week, Israel’s Foreign Minister Yair Lapid warned that Israel will face intense campaigns to label it an apartheid state in 2022. Against that backdrop, Public...
Emma Watson Is Right
JNS.org – “Free Palestine!” says actress Emma Watson. She’s right. The territories where the Palestinian Arabs live are indeed enslaved. They deserve to be freed from the...
It’s Not the Antisemitism Your Grandparents Warned You About
Hebron, Ramallah, and eastern Jerusalem are tough neighborhoods. I know, because I served there as a soldier in the Israel Defense Forces (IDF). I was...
French Show Features Jews as Marijuana Sellers for Laughs
The plot is absurd. The dialogue contains lines that a real human would never say. And some of the plot turns are beyond predictable. Even...
Peter Beinart’s Antisemitism Strikes Again
In Peter Beinart's Substack, he writes: In 1984, in an essay in The London Review of Books, Edward Said observed that while Palestinians were increasingly talked...
Harry Potter and the Search for Fake Antisemitism
JNS.org - Jon Stewart tells us he was just kidding. The former star of Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show” who now has a popular podcast...
The Other (Ugly) Face of Lebanon
JNS.org - Lebanon’s dire economic situation, and the paralysis of its governing structures, trigger in many a yearning for the country that once was. The...
The Media Continues Its Iran Deal Myth-Making
“The great enemy of the truth,” John F. Kennedy once observed, “is very often not the lie -- deliberate, contrived and dishonest -- but the...
The US Is Betraying the Memory of Taylor Force
Taylor Force was a West Point graduate, and a veteran of tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. He was murdered by a Palestinian terrorist while walking...
Two Years After Soleimani Drone Strike, Media Still Obscuring Iranian Terror Leader’s Legacy
On January 3, 2020, a US precision drone strike outside Baghdad International Airport killed Qassem Soleimani, the longtime head of Iran’s Quds Force, the Islamic...
