Commentary
What the Khashoggi Murder Means for the Middle East
The death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on the premises of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul threatens to upend the fault lines across the...
Pro-Israel Attorneys Get PayPal to Cut Off British Charity with Palestinian Terror Ties
Pressure from pro-Israel attorneys convinced PayPal to cut off donations to the British social justice group War on Want due to alleged ties to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) terrorist group. UK Lawyers...
HRW Report: Palestinian Authorities Systematically Torture and Oppress Their People
Both the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas use systematic torture and repression to stifle any dissent from their rule, a two-year investigation by Human Rights Watch (HRW) found. The PA in the West Bank and Hamas...
The Curse of Religious Boredom
"Man is the only animal that can be bored." -- Erich Fromm Psychologists tell us that one of man's greatest enemies today is boredom. Sometimes, when reading a paper or popular journal, watching television or a...
America Should Use the Khashoggi Killing to Pressure Saudi Arabia on Human Rights
On October 2, Saudi-born journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who had been sharply critical of the Saudi...
A Jordanian Move Spells Weakness
JNS.org - The late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin saw the 1994 peace treaty with...
The Washington Post Soft-Pedals the BDS Movement
JNS.org - Washington Post coverage of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement is,...
The Right to Criticize Israel Is Beside the Point
JNS.org - In an election season in which we are awash in polls, we’ve now...
A Call to GA Participants
First, permit me to open this column by expressing my distress that for the first...
What the Khashoggi Murder Means for the Middle East
The death of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi on the premises of the Saudi consulate in Istanbul threatens to upend the fault lines across the Middle...
Pro-Israel Attorneys Get PayPal to Cut Off British Charity with Palestinian Terror Ties
Pressure from pro-Israel attorneys convinced PayPal to cut off donations to the British social justice group War on Want due to alleged ties to the Popular...
HRW Report: Palestinian Authorities Systematically Torture and Oppress Their People
Both the Palestinian Authority (PA) and Hamas use systematic torture and repression to stifle any dissent from their rule, a two-year investigation by Human Rights...
The Curse of Religious Boredom
"Man is the only animal that can be bored." -- Erich Fromm Psychologists tell us that one of man's greatest enemies today is boredom. Sometimes, when...
America Should Use the Khashoggi Killing to Pressure Saudi Arabia on Human Rights
On October 2, Saudi-born journalist Jamal Khashoggi, who had been sharply critical of the Saudi government in his writings, entered the Saudi consulate in Istanbul...
A Jordanian Move Spells Weakness
JNS.org - The late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin saw the 1994 peace treaty with Jordan as one of his most important diplomatic achievements, if...
The Washington Post Soft-Pedals the BDS Movement
JNS.org - Washington Post coverage of the anti-Israel boycott, divestment, and sanctions (BDS) movement is, with growing frequency, violating the newspaper’s own policies and standards....
The Right to Criticize Israel Is Beside the Point
JNS.org - In an election season in which we are awash in polls, we’ve now been given one more telling us something that everybody already...
A Call to GA Participants
First, permit me to open this column by expressing my distress that for the first time, the Jewish Federations of North America (JFNA) are holding...
Media Story on Australian Election Contains Blood Libel
An Australian by-election has taken on local, national, and international significance, as Australia’s ruling Liberal party fought to hold its a one-seat majority in the...
Latest Attack, Travel Warning, Expose Depth of Holland’s Terror Threat
Mention Holland, and most people think of brightly-colored tulips, gently-flowing canals, legal marijuana, and Rembrandt. But there is an underside. The US State Department issued a travel...
The Russian Perspective on the Downing of Its Plane Over Syria
The Russian press and overall public opinion in Russia has been exceptionally negative towards Israel over the past few weeks, following the downing of a...
Parshat Vayera: Sometimes We Must Put Humans Before God
God appeared to Abraham by the oaks of Mamre, as he sat at the entrance to his tent in the heat of the day. He...
For Palestinians, Selling Land to a Jew Is Punishable by Death
After the barbaric story we have all followed of Jamal Khashoggi and his horrific murder at the hands of admitted Saudi agents, we can see...
