Commentary
UK Paper Fails to Challenge the Lies of HRW’s Omar Shakir
The Guardian is adept at amplifying, and failing to critically scrutinize, the unsubstantiated claims and accusations of anti-Israel NGOs, and its recent article about...
An Open Letter to UMass Professors Who Support BDS
Below is an open letter to the faculty members who signed a pro-BDS letter to University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy: We do not know whether you signed the letter because you are knowledgeable on...
The Anglican Church of Canada Prays for Reconciliation with the Jews
When I was a young Jewish boy growing up in Montreal, I remember seeing a woman on the sidewalk of St. Catherine Street, the primary commercial thoroughfare of the city, offering free copies of the...
The Bible and the Demonization of Social Media
In his seminal 1869 essay "The Subjection of Women," the celebrated 19th-century British social philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, “So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses...
Turning Rabbi Firer’s Blessings Into a Feminist Curse
JNS.org - Leave it to Israelis to create and engage in a heated controversy where...
Cultural BDS: Artists Are Under Attack
Proponents of the cultural Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel claim that their...
Remembering Rabin: Own Your Story — and Know the History
The evening of November 4, 1995 was a Saturday night that started off like any...
Parshat Lech Lecha: Fight the Flames of Evil
Why Abraham? That is the question that haunts us when we read the opening of...
Sut Jhally Is Not the Victim
It’s kind of pathetic when a privileged college professor -- who has been allowed to...
UK Paper Fails to Challenge the Lies of HRW’s Omar Shakir
The Guardian is adept at amplifying, and failing to critically scrutinize, the unsubstantiated claims and accusations of anti-Israel NGOs, and its recent article about the...
An Open Letter to UMass Professors Who Support BDS
Below is an open letter to the faculty members who signed a pro-BDS letter to University of Massachusetts Amherst Chancellor Kumble Subbaswamy: We do not know...
The Anglican Church of Canada Prays for Reconciliation with the Jews
When I was a young Jewish boy growing up in Montreal, I remember seeing a woman on the sidewalk of St. Catherine Street, the primary...
The Bible and the Demonization of Social Media
In his seminal 1869 essay "The Subjection of Women," the celebrated 19th-century British social philosopher John Stuart Mill wrote, “So long as an opinion is...
Turning Rabbi Firer’s Blessings Into a Feminist Curse
JNS.org - Leave it to Israelis to create and engage in a heated controversy where it need not exist. The brouhaha surrounding a benefit concert whose...
Cultural BDS: Artists Are Under Attack
Proponents of the cultural Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign against Israel claim that their cause is human rights and their methods are non-violent. Yet...
Remembering Rabin: Own Your Story — and Know the History
The evening of November 4, 1995 was a Saturday night that started off like any other. Immediately upon extinguishing the havdalah candle, my older brother...
Parshat Lech Lecha: Fight the Flames of Evil
Why Abraham? That is the question that haunts us when we read the opening of this week’s parsha. Here is the key figure in the...
Sut Jhally Is Not the Victim
It’s kind of pathetic when a privileged college professor -- who has been allowed to organize two anti-Israel rallies at a state’s “flagship” university --...
It’s Time to Close Down UNRWA
In December 1949, in the wake of the 1948 Arab-Israeli war, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) was established by the UN through...
How BDS Mainstreamed Antisemitism on the American Campus — and Beyond
Antisemitism did not die with the fall of Nazi Germany and its mass murder of six million Jews. The ancient hatred of the Jewish people...
How Hezbollah Recruits Palestinian Terrorists
A lot of attention has been devoted to the Islamic State's use of the Internet to inspire or direct international terrorist attacks. But little has...
Security Tasks Awaiting the Next Israeli Prime Minister
Whichever Israeli government ends up coming to power will be faced with a set of urgent security challenges that are coming from a range of...
Democratic Presidential Candidates and US Military Aid to Israel
Three of the four leading Democratic presidential candidates recently said they would consider cuts in US military aid to Israel as a means to pressure...
