Commentary
‘Jewish…Sexual Harassment’ New York Times Story Sparks Complaints
A front-page New York Times-ProPublica article headlined “A Leading Jewish Philanthropist Is Accused of Sexual Harassment,” is triggering complaints. One objection is that that the...
The Story of Purim: A Tale of Two Choices
The story of Purim, as recorded in Megillat Esther, is a very unusual religious scripture. Many aspects of the narrative make no sense when considered from a faith perspective. They seem to be distractions from what is...
The Multiple Faces of Whitewashing Antisemitism
Major cases of antisemitism are usually accompanied by a variety of whitewashing statements. Yet this whitewashing is rarely looked at as a widespread and multi-faceted international phenomenon. After Congresswoman Ilhan Omar made several extreme antisemitic statements,...
Esther’s Way: Unmasking the ‘New Antisemitism’ on Campus
JNS.org - A few weeks ago, I woke up to a flurry of messages from my students in Australia asking how swastikas could taint the iconic Bondi beach where we grew up. One week later, another...
Moshe Feiglin, the Most Dangerous Man in Israel
One of the surprises of the current Israeli election campaign has been the emergence of...
Netanyahu Sets Trump’s White House Guest List, a New York Times Op-Ed Claims
A New York Times op-ed by Ivan Krastev asks “Why Do Central European Nationalists Love...
Treading the Line Between Humor and Antisemitism
JNS.org - Demographic surveys show that many American Jews consider humor key to their identity....
Columbia Professor Whitewashes the Muslim Murder of Jews
Hamid Dabashi, a professor at Columbia University, writes at Al Jazeera that Muslims and Jews should...
Organizations Supported by the New Israel Fund Facilitate the UN’s Anti-Israel Attacks
The investigative commission of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which examined the most recent...
‘Jewish…Sexual Harassment’ New York Times Story Sparks Complaints
A front-page New York Times-ProPublica article headlined “A Leading Jewish Philanthropist Is Accused of Sexual Harassment,” is triggering complaints. One objection is that that the Times...
The Story of Purim: A Tale of Two Choices
The story of Purim, as recorded in Megillat Esther, is a very unusual religious scripture. Many aspects of the narrative make no sense when considered from a...
The Multiple Faces of Whitewashing Antisemitism
Major cases of antisemitism are usually accompanied by a variety of whitewashing statements. Yet this whitewashing is rarely looked at as a widespread and multi-faceted...
Esther’s Way: Unmasking the ‘New Antisemitism’ on Campus
JNS.org - A few weeks ago, I woke up to a flurry of messages from my students in Australia asking how swastikas could taint the...
Moshe Feiglin, the Most Dangerous Man in Israel
One of the surprises of the current Israeli election campaign has been the emergence of the Zehut party. Led by the enigmatic, often disturbingly soft-spoken...
Netanyahu Sets Trump’s White House Guest List, a New York Times Op-Ed Claims
A New York Times op-ed by Ivan Krastev asks “Why Do Central European Nationalists Love Israel So Much?” It reports, “For Central European governments, a special...
Treading the Line Between Humor and Antisemitism
JNS.org - Demographic surveys show that many American Jews consider humor key to their identity. The long history of famous Jewish jokesters and a style...
Columbia Professor Whitewashes the Muslim Murder of Jews
Hamid Dabashi, a professor at Columbia University, writes at Al Jazeera that Muslims and Jews should work together to fight antisemitism. Sounds reasonable, right? But this is a...
Organizations Supported by the New Israel Fund Facilitate the UN’s Anti-Israel Attacks
The investigative commission of the United Nations Human Rights Council, which examined the most recent round of violence on the Israel-Gaza border, presented its findings on...
The Young Insurgents and the Antisemitism Crisis in the Democratic Party
With astonishing rapidity and cravenness, the US Democratic Party has succumbed to Corbynization. Tweets and other statements by a few newly elected members of Congress...
A Moment of Hope — and Change — for Gaza?
Beginning on March 14, a series of protests against the quality of life under Hamas rule have erupted in the Gaza Strip. These have been...
What Is Ilhan Omar Really Up To?
The bipartisan coalition in American politics in support of Israel since 1948 has been a blessing for the Jewish state -- and sometimes even a...
Journalists Say They Were ‘Barred’ From a Roundtable With Mike Pompeo. Here’s the Transcript.
Over the past 24 hours, a minor controversy has been bubbling among members of the Washington, DC press corps over a telephonic roundtable hosted by Secretary...
The New York Times ‘Editor’s Note’ on Jaffa Is Nonsense
The corrections columns of both the Saturday and Sunday print New York Times carried an unusual “editor’s note” about the history of Jaffa. It said, An article...
