Commentary
Russia and Iran’s Dangerous Energy Gambit in the Caucasus
After Armenia’s attack on Azerbaijan’s borders on July 12, a flurry of speculative articles appeared that contained obvious disinformation intended to portray what had...
The UK Must Support Sanctions on Iran
The recent refusal by the UN to accept an American request to renew sanctions against Iran is an unsurprising, but grave error. The so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) was supposed to have placed an embargo on...
Whither the BDS Movement?
The normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates may be one of the biggest and final nails in the coffin of the antisemitic BDS movement. The truth is that the movement has...
Parshat Ki Teitse: Does Love Conquer All?
Our parsha this week contains more laws than any other. Some of them have generated much study and debate, especially two at the beginning -- the law of the captive woman and that of the...
New Israel-UAE Pact Shatters Peace Myths
JNS.org - For decades, international decision makers and opinion shapers have theorized that Israel will...
UAE-Israel Deal May Signal New Hope for a Future Investment Fund for the Palestinian People
The decades-old refrain throughout the Washington policy establishment tells us that peace would grace the entire Middle East if only the Palestinian-Israeli...
What Biden’s Speech Was Missing
JNS.org - What did Joe Biden fail to tell us in his eloquent acceptance speech...
Don’t Confuse Selective Journalistic Accuracy for Ethics
If you are a fictitious character, and National Public Radio (NPR) has mistakenly failed to...
The Presumption of Innocence and Alan Dershowitz
On Friday August 14, The Jerusalem Post Frontlines section featured a massive two-page article by...
Russia and Iran’s Dangerous Energy Gambit in the Caucasus
After Armenia’s attack on Azerbaijan’s borders on July 12, a flurry of speculative articles appeared that contained obvious disinformation intended to portray what had happened...
The UK Must Support Sanctions on Iran
The recent refusal by the UN to accept an American request to renew sanctions against Iran is an unsurprising, but grave error. The so-called Joint Comprehensive Plan of...
Whither the BDS Movement?
The normalization of relations between Israel and the United Arab Emirates may be one of the biggest and final nails in the coffin of the...
Parshat Ki Teitse: Does Love Conquer All?
Our parsha this week contains more laws than any other. Some of them have generated much study and debate, especially two at the beginning --...
New Israel-UAE Pact Shatters Peace Myths
JNS.org - For decades, international decision makers and opinion shapers have theorized that Israel will not be accepted in the region until it makes peace...
UAE-Israel Deal May Signal New Hope for a Future Investment Fund for the Palestinian People
The decades-old refrain throughout the Washington policy establishment tells us that peace would grace the entire Middle East if only the Palestinian-Israeli conflict could be solved. This thesis imagines a Middle East thoroughly consumed by...
What Biden’s Speech Was Missing
JNS.org - What did Joe Biden fail to tell us in his eloquent acceptance speech on the night of August 20 at the Democratic National...
Don’t Confuse Selective Journalistic Accuracy for Ethics
If you are a fictitious character, and National Public Radio (NPR) has mistakenly failed to use your preferred pronoun, rest assured that the publicly-funded network...
The Presumption of Innocence and Alan Dershowitz
On Friday August 14, The Jerusalem Post Frontlines section featured a massive two-page article by David Brinn about allegations leveled against Alan Dershowitz. As I...
Israel and the UAE: The Sky’s the Limit
JNS.org - There is probably no reasonable person who has yet to praise Israel’s normalization agreement with the United Arab Emirates. It’s a real achievement...
You Don’t Have to Be a Zionist to Make Aliyah
JNS.org - When I made aliyah, I was not a Zionist. It’s a strange fact to share, as most people know me as a proud American-Jew-become-Israeli...
In Memory of Professor Edward Alexander
In September 1974, I arrived in Israel as a Guggenheim Fellow to teach American history at Tel Aviv University. Having visited Israel for the first...
‘And Your God Will Be My God’: For One Jewish Convert, the Wait Is Over
JNS.org - “I’m so thrilled to be a part of B’nai Israel and to have finally found my place with the Jewish people, after nearly...
Fearing Putin’s ‘Liberation’ of Belarus
Most observers agree that the autocratic president of Belarus, Alexander Lukashenko, appears to be on his way out, and that Russia will play a key...
