Commentary
Saudi Religious Diplomacy Targets Jerusalem
A United Arab Emirates-backed Saudi effort to wrest control of Islam’s holy places in Jerusalem from Jordan signals a sharper, more overt edge to...
Parshat Matot-Masei: Miles to Go Before I Sleep
“To be elsewhere -- the great vice of this race, its great and secret virtue, the great vocation of this people.” So wrote the French poet and essayist Charles Peguy (1873-1914), a philosemite in an...
Netanyahu and Macron: Divergences and Convergences
Benjamin Netanyahu’s June 2018 visit to Paris illustrated the complexity of Israel-France relations. On the one hand, there are significant divergences over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and the Iranian nuclear agreement, exacerbated by the growing US-Europe...
Israel-Hamas Reconciliation Is Possible
Any protracted conflict can come to an end under certain circumstances that either evolve over a period of time or are precipitated by one side, including when both sides conclude they can no longer benefit...
Egypt’s Islamist Televangelists Lose Clout
They once captured the hearts and minds of millions of Egyptians, but Islamist televangelists are...
The Episcopal Church’s Royally Anti-Israel 79th General Convention
The Episcopal Church under Presiding Bishop Michael Curry is in the midst of hosting a...
Gazans Put Injured People on a Rickety Boat in Order to Vilify Israel
This week, a Gaza group called National Authority for Return and Breaking the Siege in Gaza...
Birthright Protesters Are Accomplices in Palestinian Authority and Hamas Inhumanity
JNS.org - In a now-viral video, five American girls staged a walkout on the final day of...
Covering Up Robert Kennedy’s Palestinian Murderer
JNS.org - Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, is one of the best-known...
Saudi Religious Diplomacy Targets Jerusalem
A United Arab Emirates-backed Saudi effort to wrest control of Islam’s holy places in Jerusalem from Jordan signals a sharper, more overt edge to Saudi...
Parshat Matot-Masei: Miles to Go Before I Sleep
“To be elsewhere -- the great vice of this race, its great and secret virtue, the great vocation of this people.” So wrote the French...
Netanyahu and Macron: Divergences and Convergences
Benjamin Netanyahu’s June 2018 visit to Paris illustrated the complexity of Israel-France relations. On the one hand, there are significant divergences over the Israeli-Palestinian conflict...
Israel-Hamas Reconciliation Is Possible
Any protracted conflict can come to an end under certain circumstances that either evolve over a period of time or are precipitated by one side,...
Egypt’s Islamist Televangelists Lose Clout
They once captured the hearts and minds of millions of Egyptians, but Islamist televangelists are losing popularity. They started to lose credibility during the June...
The Episcopal Church’s Royally Anti-Israel 79th General Convention
The Episcopal Church under Presiding Bishop Michael Curry is in the midst of hosting a royally anti-Israel 79th General Convention in Austin, Texas. Centered on...
Gazans Put Injured People on a Rickety Boat in Order to Vilify Israel
This week, a Gaza group called National Authority for Return and Breaking the Siege in Gaza put Gazans injured during the current weekly riots on a...
Birthright Protesters Are Accomplices in Palestinian Authority and Hamas Inhumanity
JNS.org - In a now-viral video, five American girls staged a walkout on the final day of their trip to Israel courtesy of Birthright, a not-for-profit educational...
Covering Up Robert Kennedy’s Palestinian Murderer
JNS.org - Sirhan Sirhan, the assassin of Robert F. Kennedy, is one of the best-known killers in American history. Yet two major television networks recently...
Israel on Fire and The New York Times
“All the News That’s Fit to Print,” the venerable motto of The New York Times ever since publisher Adolph Ochs made it his newspaper’s pledge...
France Keeps Blackening Israel
Relations between France and Israel have been ambivalent and complex for decades. Among the most prominent are those where the French government sets out to...
Poles Carry Their Own Hatred for Jews
JNS.org – I know there is a dialogue taking place between the Israeli and Polish governments over Poland’s recently enacted Holocaust law, but a few historical...
The End of the Syrian Revolution
JNS.org - White flags were waved over the weekend in Daraa in southern Syria, precisely where seven-and-a-half years ago, the flags of rebellion and revolution...
Syrians Flee Towards the Hospitals of ‘Enemy’ Israel
JNS.org - The strong winds in the Golan Heights blow pain and come from tent cities in which displaced Syrians are clustered together a few...
