Commentary
American Islamic Group Preaches Tolerance, but Doesn’t Practice It
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) leaders have a peculiar way of expressing their oft-preached virtues of inclusion, pluralism, and participation -- as evidenced by...
It’s Time to Break the Barriers to Researching Prison Radicalization
As more foreign fighters return from the ISIS battlefields to their home countries -- and face possible prosecution and imprisonment -- the European Union continues to wrestle with how to deal with Islamic radicalization within...
The Connection Between the World War I Armistice and Kristallnacht
JNS.org - Two grimly sobering anniversaries fall in November. On the 9th and 10th, we will mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht -- the orgy of murder and violence that devastated Jewish communities across Nazi...
Hamas’ Double Message for Egypt and Israel
JNS.org - The double, deceitful game played by Hamas and Islamic Jihad was exposed on the morning of October 17, when they fired two rockets from the Gaza Strip towards Israel. One rocket hit a...
Universalism, Particularism, and Enduring Antisemitism
Antisemitism is the world’s oldest hatred. This hatred has been justified on religious, economic, political,...
How Turkey Is Spreading Its Radical Islamist Agenda to Europe
With less than two million people, Kosovo, which declared its independence from Serbia in 2008,...
New Palestinian Islamic Jihad Leader ‘Will Seek to Satisfy Iran’
JNS.org - Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the second-largest armed terrorist faction in the Gaza Strip,...
Iran, Assad Regime Using Palestinians to Train Bahraini Terrorists
Palestinian terrorists belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), the...
Conspicuous Irony: Lecturing to a Trump Rally Against ‘Mob Rule’
President Donald Trump and his supporters were largely correct that Judge Brett Kavanaugh had been treated...
American Islamic Group Preaches Tolerance, but Doesn’t Practice It
Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) leaders have a peculiar way of expressing their oft-preached virtues of inclusion, pluralism, and participation -- as evidenced by a...
It’s Time to Break the Barriers to Researching Prison Radicalization
As more foreign fighters return from the ISIS battlefields to their home countries -- and face possible prosecution and imprisonment -- the European Union continues...
The Connection Between the World War I Armistice and Kristallnacht
JNS.org - Two grimly sobering anniversaries fall in November. On the 9th and 10th, we will mark the 80th anniversary of Kristallnacht -- the orgy...
Hamas’ Double Message for Egypt and Israel
JNS.org - The double, deceitful game played by Hamas and Islamic Jihad was exposed on the morning of October 17, when they fired two rockets...
Universalism, Particularism, and Enduring Antisemitism
Antisemitism is the world’s oldest hatred. This hatred has been justified on religious, economic, political, and social grounds. A cogent philosophical theory of antisemitism is...
How Turkey Is Spreading Its Radical Islamist Agenda to Europe
With less than two million people, Kosovo, which declared its independence from Serbia in 2008, is the home of over 800 mosques. Now the Islamic...
New Palestinian Islamic Jihad Leader ‘Will Seek to Satisfy Iran’
JNS.org - Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ), the second-largest armed terrorist faction in the Gaza Strip, announced at the end of last month that it had...
Iran, Assad Regime Using Palestinians to Train Bahraini Terrorists
Palestinian terrorists belonging to the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine-General Command (PFLP-GC), the Palestine Liberation Army (PLA), and Hezbollah have trained Bahraini Shiite...
Conspicuous Irony: Lecturing to a Trump Rally Against ‘Mob Rule’
President Donald Trump and his supporters were largely correct that Judge Brett Kavanaugh had been treated shabbily and without proper regard for due process. Still, this ought...
A New Neighborhood in Hebron
The upcoming Torah reading on Shabbat -- Chaye Sarah -- recounts Sarah’s death in “Kiryat Arba, now Hebron.” Abraham, in his grief, approached Ephron the...
Is Canada Knowingly Funding Extremism and Terrorism — Including Through UNRWA?
Canadian taxpayer money may be finding its way to Hamas, a known and documented terrorist group. The Criminal Code of Canada forbids funding terrorism, as...
Billy Rose — and Why We Can’t Write Off ‘Secular’ and Non-Religious Jews
Who was Billy Rose? If you have visited the museum complex in Jerusalem, not far from the Knesset, you will be familiar with the Billy...
Lech Lecha: How Abraham Learned to Speak
In the summer of 1725, a group of hunters near Hamelin, Lower Saxony, spotted a strange looking creature, unlike any animal they had ever seen...
Pressure Mounts on New York Times to Cancel Its Iran ‘Journeys’
Pressure is mounting on The New York Times to cancel its money-making trips to Iran. The “Times Journeys” tours are back in the news after the...
