Commentary
Hamas Praises Human Rights Watch – and Shooting Rockets at Israel
On Sunday, Hamas issued a press release praising Human Rights Watch (HRW)'s latest report blaming Israel for responding to the violent Gaza riots: The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) received great...
Why Does the New Israel Fund Oppose Home Demolitions?
This week, a petition by Hamoked -- a grantee of the New Israel Fund -- was denied by Israel’s High Court of Justice. The petition sought to “cancel a punitive demolition order” for the home of a Palestinian terrorist. Who was the...
Clarifying the IDF’s Record During the Gaza Riots
The past few months have posed unprecedented challenges for Israel and the IDF in its ongoing struggle with Hamas. In the face of Hamas provocations, it has been difficult for Israel as a democracy to strike...
Hamas’ Kite Terrorism Requires a Decisive Response
Hamas’ setting of wildfires on thousands of hectares of natural woodland and farmland on the Israeli side of the Gaza border is a calculated and organized strategy. The immense damage being caused to property, wildlife,...
The Situation in Germany Is Deteriorating for Jews — and Everyone
"The twelve years of national socialist rule was a speck of bird poop compared to...
Parsha Chukat: The Consolations of Mortality
Parsha Chukat is about mortality. In it, we read about the death of two of Israel’s three...
Gaza, Israel, and the Palestinians: The Three-State Solution
Given the Gaza Strip’s sharp deterioration over the past 25 years, first under the Palestinian...
Why Do Anti-Israel ‘Peace’ Groups Never Support Actual Peace?
One of the more bizarre contradictions from supposedly pro-Palestinian groups like Jewish Voice for Peace,...
Once Again, the BBC Misleads on Gaza Violence
Recently, BBC Watch demonstrated how a backgrounder on Jerusalem produced by the BBC World Service’s BBC Minute...
Hamas Praises Human Rights Watch – and Shooting Rockets at Israel
On Sunday, Hamas issued a press release praising Human Rights Watch (HRW)'s latest report blaming Israel for responding to the violent Gaza riots: The Islamic Resistance Movement (Hamas) received great satisfaction...
Why Does the New Israel Fund Oppose Home Demolitions?
This week, a petition by Hamoked -- a grantee of the New Israel Fund -- was denied by Israel’s High Court of Justice. The petition sought to “cancel a punitive demolition...
Clarifying the IDF’s Record During the Gaza Riots
The past few months have posed unprecedented challenges for Israel and the IDF in its ongoing struggle with Hamas. In the face of Hamas provocations, it...
Hamas’ Kite Terrorism Requires a Decisive Response
Hamas’ setting of wildfires on thousands of hectares of natural woodland and farmland on the Israeli side of the Gaza border is a calculated and...
The Situation in Germany Is Deteriorating for Jews — and Everyone
"The twelve years of national socialist rule was a speck of bird poop compared to the more than thousand years of Germany's glorious past." This graphic...
Parsha Chukat: The Consolations of Mortality
Parsha Chukat is about mortality. In it, we read about the death of two of Israel’s three great leaders in the wilderness -- Miriam and Aaron -- and the...
Gaza, Israel, and the Palestinians: The Three-State Solution
Given the Gaza Strip’s sharp deterioration over the past 25 years, first under the Palestinian Authority's rule, then under Hamas’s control, it is time to...
Why Do Anti-Israel ‘Peace’ Groups Never Support Actual Peace?
One of the more bizarre contradictions from supposedly pro-Palestinian groups like Jewish Voice for Peace, the International Solidarity Movement, and others is that while they...
Once Again, the BBC Misleads on Gaza Violence
Recently, BBC Watch demonstrated how a backgrounder on Jerusalem produced by the BBC World Service’s BBC Minute misled its target audience of “young people” on the 1949 armistice...
The Spy Who Sold Out Israel to Iran
JNS.org - It is difficult to find better words than “treason” and “espionage” to describe the offenses attributed to former Israeli minister Gonen Segev. This man, who was...
Charles de Gaulle and David Ben Gurion’s Defense of Israel
One of the most passionate and eloquent cases for the State of Israel is virtually unknown. Prior to the Six Day War, France had been...
New York Times Describes CAIR as ‘Civil Rights Group’
A long New York Times feature article and photo essay about “American Muslims and Their Guns” describes the Council on American-Islamic Relations as “a national...
The Syrian Intervention: Following the Wingate Model
British Maj. Gen. Orde Charles Wingate’s approach to the liberation of Ethiopia from Italian occupation in 1941 provides a useful model for modern-day intervention in...
The Horrors of Honor Violence in the West
She was a 15-year-old student at San Antonio's Taft High School with a soft smile and dark eyes. Like most girls her age in Texas,...
