Commentary
With Antisemitism on the Rise, Deafening Silence From Human Rights Organizations
Recent weeks have seen the most severe global spike in antisemitism in recent memory. In the United States, synagogues have been vandalized and Jews...
Mobs, Wokeness, and the Spread of Antisemitism
Last week, my cousin’s 14-year-old son was enjoying a school trip with his Jewish day school in New York City. The weather was beautiful, the students were having fun, and then someone called my cousin's...
Stop Enabling the UN Human Rights Council
A line that I’m often reminded of when following the United Nations is the idea that it is an institution built on the ashes of the Holocaust. This expresses the idea that the UN was...
Iran’s Crackdown on Smuggling Reveals Vulnerabilities and Traumas
Clashes in February in Iran -- sparked by a crackdown on cross border fuel smuggling to neighboring Pakistan -- achieved what past US and Saudi machinations failed to accomplish: ethnic unrest in a strategic, impoverished, and...
How Did Hamas Become the Darling of the West?
JNS.org - In February 2009, I wrote an essay about a symposium at UCLA that marked...
The Growing Cost of Anti-Israel Media Bias
JNS.org - For one of The New York Times’ most devoted readers, the front-page spread...
A Personal History of Sheikh Jarrah and Arab Violence Against Jews
As the Sheikh Jarrah case awaits the court's decision, many voices can be heard asserting...
From ‘Defund the Police’ to ‘Defund Israel’
A coalition of activists and politicians, such as the "Squad," that repeatedly called on authorities...
Are American Jewish Organizations Supporting Israel Strongly Enough?
While American Jews were being beaten on the streets of New York -- and the...
With Antisemitism on the Rise, Deafening Silence From Human Rights Organizations
Recent weeks have seen the most severe global spike in antisemitism in recent memory. In the United States, synagogues have been vandalized and Jews have...
Mobs, Wokeness, and the Spread of Antisemitism
Last week, my cousin’s 14-year-old son was enjoying a school trip with his Jewish day school in New York City. The weather was beautiful, the...
Stop Enabling the UN Human Rights Council
A line that I’m often reminded of when following the United Nations is the idea that it is an institution built on the ashes of...
Iran’s Crackdown on Smuggling Reveals Vulnerabilities and Traumas
Clashes in February in Iran -- sparked by a crackdown on cross border fuel smuggling to neighboring Pakistan -- achieved what past US and Saudi machinations...
How Did Hamas Become the Darling of the West?
JNS.org - In February 2009, I wrote an essay about a symposium at UCLA that marked the beginning of Hamas’s penetration into academic circles. I also...
The Growing Cost of Anti-Israel Media Bias
JNS.org - For one of The New York Times’ most devoted readers, the front-page spread published on May 28 essentially accusing Israel of murdering Palestinian...
A Personal History of Sheikh Jarrah and Arab Violence Against Jews
As the Sheikh Jarrah case awaits the court's decision, many voices can be heard asserting that Israeli Jews are "colonizing" this Jerusalem neighborhood, and that...
From ‘Defund the Police’ to ‘Defund Israel’
A coalition of activists and politicians, such as the "Squad," that repeatedly called on authorities to "defund the police" last year is focusing on a...
Are American Jewish Organizations Supporting Israel Strongly Enough?
While American Jews were being beaten on the streets of New York -- and the State of Israel’s good name was being shredded all across...
Hamas Then, Hamas Now
It was exactly 20 years ago, when my wife and I were attending a Shabbat dinner in Madrid, that someone gave us the news. A suicide...
On Farhud Day, Many Ask: Could it Happen Again?
JNS.org - History keeps demanding to repeat itself. We bar the door and avert our eyes. But history proves itself an irrepressible companion, constantly jumping...
The Legitimization of Antisemitism Must Be Stopped
JNS.org - Hatred and bigotry can become societally acceptable when two things happen: They move from the realm of the unfathomable to the legitimate; and collective...
Enemies Fighting Israel on Other Battlefields
JNS.org - For the moment, Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad have stopped shooting rockets at Israelis and, in response, Israelis have stopped targeting weapons arsenals in Gaza. But...
Remembering a Great Scholar and Defender of Jews: Harold Brackman
I was shocked to open my inbox on Sunday, and receive a message that Harold Brackman had passed away. Harold was a brilliant, prolific, and...
