Commentary
The UN’s Sordid Embrace of Antisemitism
The following is a speech delivered by Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and the President of...
Hamas Blinked First — for Now
JNS.org - In street terms, Hamas blinked first. Although the Egyptians were behind the scenes trying calm the situation in the Gaza Strip, no formal understandings between the sides were reached, and the shooting was stopped...
SPME BDS Monitor: Antisemitism Rises on Campus
The academic year ended with sudden late pushes for BDS resolutions and associated protests. While there were notable wins for BDS in student government, the larger goal remains shifting campus opinion against Israel and intimidating...
Starbucks and Racism: Why ‘Woke’ Is Not
We now inhabit a new world of identity politics. There have always been identities of religion, nationality, and race. Too often, they have led to war, genocide, and prejudice. Humanity has been divided between those...
The Narrow-Minded View of History
Afua Hirsch is a British lawyer and journalist -- born to a Jewish father whose...
Is a Virginia Democrat Running for Congress an Antisemite? The New York Times Is on It
The New York Times devoted the labor of two reporters, Thomas Kaplan and Michael Tackett,...
Jewish Voices on College Campuses Run Away From the Truth
There Mahmoud Abbas sat in a hospital bed holding a newspaper with a vicious anti-Israel and...
War or Peace? The Choice Rests With Hamas
JNS.org -- This week’s mortar fire on southern Israel is the gravest security escalation on the Israel-Gaza border...
Palestinian ‘Academic’ to Israelis: ‘May You Rot in Hell Along With Your Jewish State’
This is from the Facebook page of Rima Najjar, an American-educated retired professor of English literature at Al-Quds...
The UN’s Sordid Embrace of Antisemitism
The following is a speech delivered by Anne Bayefsky, Director of the Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust and the President of Human...
Hamas Blinked First — for Now
JNS.org - In street terms, Hamas blinked first. Although the Egyptians were behind the scenes trying calm the situation in the Gaza Strip, no formal understandings...
SPME BDS Monitor: Antisemitism Rises on Campus
The academic year ended with sudden late pushes for BDS resolutions and associated protests. While there were notable wins for BDS in student government, the...
Starbucks and Racism: Why ‘Woke’ Is Not
We now inhabit a new world of identity politics. There have always been identities of religion, nationality, and race. Too often, they have led to...
The Narrow-Minded View of History
Afua Hirsch is a British lawyer and journalist -- born to a Jewish father whose family escaped Nazi Berlin in 1938, and an Ashanti Ghanaian...
Is a Virginia Democrat Running for Congress an Antisemite? The New York Times Is on It
The New York Times devoted the labor of two reporters, Thomas Kaplan and Michael Tackett, to a news article about the Democratic nominee for the...
Jewish Voices on College Campuses Run Away From the Truth
There Mahmoud Abbas sat in a hospital bed holding a newspaper with a vicious anti-Israel and antisemitic cartoon. The Algemeiner reported that Abbas may have produced...
War or Peace? The Choice Rests With Hamas
JNS.org -- This week’s mortar fire on southern Israel is the gravest security escalation on the Israel-Gaza border since “Operation Protective Edge” in the summer of 2014, though...
Palestinian ‘Academic’ to Israelis: ‘May You Rot in Hell Along With Your Jewish State’
This is from the Facebook page of Rima Najjar, an American-educated retired professor of English literature at Al-Quds University, now living in Bloomington, Indiana. Can't you feel the love? This...
Is the EU Finally Waking Up to the Dangers of Iran?
When Donald Trump decertified the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA) in October 2017, the EU thought a “solved” problem had returned to the agenda for...
New Israel Fund Grantee Wants US to Stop Supporting the IDF
On May 15, 2018, numerous organizations, including Adalah, a grantee of the New Israel Fund (NIF), submitted a letter to US Secretary of State Mike Pompeo demanding that the...
‘Non-Violent’ Palestinian Rock-Throwers Murder Another Israeli
JNS.org - Another Israeli has been murdered, after having been struck in the head by what Haaretz described as a “heavy brick.” For years, major American news media outlets...
A Lesson From Roseanne: Let’s Abolish Jewish Celebrities
JNS.org - Like any embattled minority that needed positive role models, early- and mid-20th-century Jews living in the United States embraced celebrities with any sort of...
Why International Farhud Day Stymies Invented Palestinian History
When International Farhud Day was proclaimed at a conference convened at the United Nations headquarters on June 1, 2015, its proponents wanted to achieve more than merely...
