Commentary
Memories and Expectations of Antony Blinken
An extended metaphor from Meir Blinkin, the immigrant Yiddish writer, born in 1879 in Pereyeslav, the Ukraine, dead at 37 in New York where...
Obama’s Promised Land
A Promised Land, Barack Obama’s newly-published 768-page memoir that tops The New York Times Best Seller List, borrows its title from the Biblical recounting of God’s promise to Abraham and his descendants. Millennia later that...
Conflict in Ethiopia Extends Greater Middle East’s Arc of Crisis
Fighting between the government of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Tigrayan nationalists in northern Ethiopia could extend an evolving arc of crisis that stretches from the Azerbaijani-Armenian conflict in the Caucasus,...
From Mecca to Jerusalem: Does More Bloodshed Await?
JNS.org - The dispute that is now rocking the Muslim world is not about whether the Prophet Muhammad’s famous “Night Journey” actually took place or was merely a dream. The current debate, which is intertwined...
Netanyahu’s ‘Secret’ Trip to Saudi Arabia
JNS.org - Despite the purposeful fog surrounding it, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with...
Ideology Is Dead, Long Live Regional Interests
JNS.org - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Saudi Arabia last week and his meeting...
Is Killing Iran’s Nuclear Scientists a War Crime?
The European Union this weekend condemned as a “criminal act” Friday’s killing of top Iranian...
Dispelling Lies About Israel, COVID-19, and Gaza
Throughout the past eight months, the BBC has produced numerous multi-platform reports on the topic...
BDS Faces Setbacks Amid New Political Landscape
The November election produced a mixed result for the BDS movement. The pro-BDS faction in...
Memories and Expectations of Antony Blinken
An extended metaphor from Meir Blinkin, the immigrant Yiddish writer, born in 1879 in Pereyeslav, the Ukraine, dead at 37 in New York where mourning...
Obama’s Promised Land
A Promised Land, Barack Obama’s newly-published 768-page memoir that tops The New York Times Best Seller List, borrows its title from the Biblical recounting of...
Conflict in Ethiopia Extends Greater Middle East’s Arc of Crisis
Fighting between the government of Nobel Peace Prize-winning Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Tigrayan nationalists in northern Ethiopia could extend an evolving arc of...
From Mecca to Jerusalem: Does More Bloodshed Await?
JNS.org - The dispute that is now rocking the Muslim world is not about whether the Prophet Muhammad’s famous “Night Journey” actually took place or...
Netanyahu’s ‘Secret’ Trip to Saudi Arabia
JNS.org - Despite the purposeful fog surrounding it, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman and US Secretary of...
Ideology Is Dead, Long Live Regional Interests
JNS.org - Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s visit to Saudi Arabia last week and his meeting with Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman made headlines worldwide,...
Is Killing Iran’s Nuclear Scientists a War Crime?
The European Union this weekend condemned as a “criminal act” Friday’s killing of top Iranian nuclear scientist Mohsen Fakhrizadeh. In a possible foreshadowing of how...
Dispelling Lies About Israel, COVID-19, and Gaza
Throughout the past eight months, the BBC has produced numerous multi-platform reports on the topic of the coronavirus pandemic in the Gaza Strip, beginning even...
BDS Faces Setbacks Amid New Political Landscape
The November election produced a mixed result for the BDS movement. The pro-BDS faction in the House of Representatives was enlarged, but large gains for...
Times Bares Its Anti-Hasidic Bias in Covering COVID-Era Weddings
When is the religion of wedding guests worth reporting in the era of COVID-19? For the New York Times, only if it is Hasidic Jews getting...
Who Was Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the ‘Mysterious’ Nuclear Scientist Killed Outside of Tehran?
JNS.org - Mohsen Fakhrizadeh, the senior Iranian nuclear scientist assassinated by a hit squad outside of Tehran on Friday, was being “reserved” by the Iranian...
The Prospective Return of Global Appeasement
JNS.org - An all-too familiar voice in foreign-policy circles has yet again been heard seeking to influence a potential US president. Henry Kissinger, the former US...
Donald Trump’s Gifts to Israel
JNS.org - The New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief David M. Halbfinger seems startled by the “extraordinary four-year stretch” in the relationship between the United...
The Audacity of Belgium
JNS.org - In an official announcement by the “Belgian Federal Public Service Foreign Affairs” department, on Nov. 6 the Belgian government voiced its condemnation of...
