Commentary
Palestinian Rams a Checkpoint: Death, Lies, and Videotape
Two recent deaths, each captured on video, generated two different reactions about accepting truth rather than clinging to flawed narratives. Video of George Floyd's death...
Will China and Russia Compete in the Middle East?
Russia’s relations with the West are at their lowest point in two decades. Similar patterns of warming and cooling have taken place intermittently ever since Russia emerged as a major Eurasian power in the early...
Remembering Israel’s Forgotten War — and Its Lessons for Today
Edmund Burke, the British parliamentarian and political theorist, once claimed that “you can never plan the future by the past.” But the past does often foreshadow the future. And events that unfolded in the Middle...
John Bolton and the Art of Ingratitude
The environment surrounding American politics has become increasingly contaminated over the past few years, with political and media figures off all stripes veering sharply into hard partisanship. Worse, the winds of political conflict have blown...
Antisemitism Gets You Fired at Labour, but Hired by The New York Times
JNS.org - It turns out The New York Times has lower standards when it comes...
Explaining Israel’s Security Establishment
JNS.org - We who argue for Israeli victory watched with dismay as Qatar’s government threatened Israel...
Iran’s Rulers (Still) Seek Nuclear Weapons
JNS.org - Baden-Württemberg is a bucolic state in southwest Germany, but its capital is Stuttgart, one...
The Experience and Meaning of Prayer
We are living in a fraught, unpredictable world of conflicting values and policies -- so...
BDS Movement Dealt a Blow at Lawyers Guild
JNS.org - After nearly four years of litigation, the National Lawyers Guild -- a non-profit...
Palestinian Rams a Checkpoint: Death, Lies, and Videotape
Two recent deaths, each captured on video, generated two different reactions about accepting truth rather than clinging to flawed narratives. Video of George Floyd's death under...
Will China and Russia Compete in the Middle East?
Russia’s relations with the West are at their lowest point in two decades. Similar patterns of warming and cooling have taken place intermittently ever since...
Remembering Israel’s Forgotten War — and Its Lessons for Today
Edmund Burke, the British parliamentarian and political theorist, once claimed that “you can never plan the future by the past.” But the past does often...
John Bolton and the Art of Ingratitude
The environment surrounding American politics has become increasingly contaminated over the past few years, with political and media figures off all stripes veering sharply into...
Antisemitism Gets You Fired at Labour, but Hired by The New York Times
JNS.org - It turns out The New York Times has lower standards when it comes to those who spread antisemitic canards than even Britain’s controversial...
Explaining Israel’s Security Establishment
JNS.org - We who argue for Israeli victory watched with dismay as Qatar’s government threatened Israel with ending its financial donations to Gaza, insinuating that Hamas will resume its...
Iran’s Rulers (Still) Seek Nuclear Weapons
JNS.org - Baden-Württemberg is a bucolic state in southwest Germany, but its capital is Stuttgart, one of the world’s great high-tech centers. Like other German states, Baden-Württemberg has...
The Experience and Meaning of Prayer
We are living in a fraught, unpredictable world of conflicting values and policies -- so I am returning to an earlier post about prayer. What...
BDS Movement Dealt a Blow at Lawyers Guild
JNS.org - After nearly four years of litigation, the National Lawyers Guild -- a non-profit organization that purports to be a storied network of human-rights...
BLM, Israel and the Dangers of Intersectionality
In the past month, America has transformed from a landscape of empty streets under COVID-19 lockdown to streets crowded with protesters, vocalizing anger and grief...
Palestinians and Others Are Promoting Murder: Why Doesn’t Anyone Care?
Civilized societies should not be silent when people state their intention to murder even a single person, let alone an entire people. Many Western politicians...
Korah and Moses: Not All Views and Histories Are Worth Venerating
Judging historical figures along with the movements or ideals they launched and promoted is not an easy task. Decades, even centuries, may pass before there...
Can Palestinian Despair Lead to an End of Conflict?
JNS.org - The great English novelist George Eliot once wrote: "But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope." Recent...
Support Civil Rights With Everything You Have — but Look Carefully at Who You Support
One month ago, we witnessed the killing of George Floyd by police officer Derek Chauvin in Minnesota; it was a scene that had played out...
