Commentary
Is Netanyahu’s Significant Victory Sufficient?
JNS.org - Keeping in mind that the results of Israel’s Knesset elections are not final, the tally indicates that the attempt to oust Prime...
Bernie Sanders and the Question of Antisemitism
The rise of Bernie Sanders presents American Jews with a terrible conundrum. On the one hand, he is the first American Jew with a reasonable chance of gaining the presidential nomination of a major party, and...
Fighting BDS at the UN, ICC, and on Campus
The leading BDS event of February was the long awaited publication by the United Nations' Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of a list of 112 firms doing business across Israel's "Green Line"...
A Silenced View From Inside Egypt: The Problem of Egyptian Identity
I am an Egyptian, and I have some inconvenient questions. How did Egypt descend from the status of a great civilization that once fascinated the world to a position of insignificance bordering on irrelevance? What principles...
Trump, Netanyahu, and Obama
The close relationship between President Trump and current Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has steadily...
Iran’s Useful Idiots and the Coronavirus
Pity poor E. Michael Jones, the professional antisemite from South Bend, Indiana, who blames Jews...
Bernie Sanders Is the Wrong Choice for Democrats and Jews
On Tuesday, I will be voting in the Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary. As a young...
The US ‘Ally’ That Protects Killers of Americans
JNS.org - At first glance, you might not think there was anything very significant about...
There Is No Effort to ‘Ban Criticism of Israel’
A Guardian article ("New York: college volleyball players kneel during Israeli national anthem," Feb. 29)...
Is Netanyahu’s Significant Victory Sufficient?
JNS.org - Keeping in mind that the results of Israel’s Knesset elections are not final, the tally indicates that the attempt to oust Prime Minister...
Bernie Sanders and the Question of Antisemitism
The rise of Bernie Sanders presents American Jews with a terrible conundrum. On the one hand, he is the first American Jew with a reasonable chance...
Fighting BDS at the UN, ICC, and on Campus
The leading BDS event of February was the long awaited publication by the United Nations' Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights of a...
A Silenced View From Inside Egypt: The Problem of Egyptian Identity
I am an Egyptian, and I have some inconvenient questions. How did Egypt descend from the status of a great civilization that once fascinated the world...
Trump, Netanyahu, and Obama
The close relationship between President Trump and current Israel Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has steadily intensified ever since December 6, 2019, when Trump became the...
Iran’s Useful Idiots and the Coronavirus
Pity poor E. Michael Jones, the professional antisemite from South Bend, Indiana, who blames Jews for every problem afflicting humanity. In addition to his obsession...
Bernie Sanders Is the Wrong Choice for Democrats and Jews
On Tuesday, I will be voting in the Massachusetts Democratic presidential primary. As a young American Jew whose family emigrated from the Soviet Union, one...
The US ‘Ally’ That Protects Killers of Americans
JNS.org - At first glance, you might not think there was anything very significant about the recent trial of a little-known Muslim imam in the...
There Is No Effort to ‘Ban Criticism of Israel’
A Guardian article ("New York: college volleyball players kneel during Israeli national anthem," Feb. 29) by Victoria Bekiempis began straightforwardly enough: Two Brooklyn College volleyball players...
Defending the Families of Terrorists? Shameful.
On August 23, 2019, a 17-year-old Israeli, Rina Shnerb, was killed by a roadside bomb while hiking with her father and brother. A family went...
Israel: The One Middle East Country With True Religious Freedom
Christians would rather stay out of the Middle East’s raging conflict, but they invariably become the most prominent victims. Even in the region’s quieter countries,...
Iran Works to Overcome Losing Soleimani
The US drone strike killing of Iranian Quds Force commander Qassem Soleimani on January 3 has the real potential to dent Iran's malign activity in...
AIPAC Rewards Cory Booker for Abandoning Israel
In the fall of 2008, I traveled with Senator Cory Booker to Chicago and presented him to the prestigious AIPAC summit. He then delivered a...
For Bernie Sanders, AIPAC Is Worse Than North Korea or Cuba
According to AIPAC, more than two-thirds of Congress were in attendance at its annual policy conference this week. Senator Bernie Sanders was not among them. Sanders’...
