Commentary
Congress Is Complicit in Mass Shootings
Once again, we are faced with another mass shooting. This time the cold-blooded killings took place at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 14...
Europe’s Populist Right-Wing Parties Are Like the GOP in America — and Jews Should Engage With Both
The surge of right-wing populism in Europe is often compared to the rise of Fascism during the 1930s. Jewish community leaders have thus rushed to attack and boycott parties such as the Front National in France, the Alternative...
Dear Sarah Silverman: Amnesty Is Lying About the Tamimis
Dear Sarah Silverman -- it seems that you have been taken in by Amnesty International’s cynical campaign for Ahed Tamimi. A few days ago, you linked to Amnesty’s “urgent” demand to “release Palestinian teen activist Ahed Tamimi,”...
New York Times Blames Netanyahu for Snubbing Obama
A New York Times “news analysis” that appears under the byline of the newspaper’s Jerusalem bureau chief and one of its Israel-based reporters inaccurately rewrites the history of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s relations with former...
Narendra Modi’s Visit to Ramallah
Narendra Modi recently achieved the distinction of becoming the first Indian prime minister to visit the...
Poland and Its Jews
Poland recently passed a law making it illegal and a criminal offense to claim that the Nazi death...
By Focusing on Humanitarian Aid, Israel Can Still Win in Syria
JNS.org - Despite working for several years with international and regional partners to limit Hezbollah and...
The Outrageous Case of Ahed Tamimi
What did Ahed Tamimi expect would happen when she hit and punched two Israeli soldiers? Did...
Are Russia and Israel on a Collision Course Over Syria?
Russian politicians have been surprisingly mute on the Israeli airstrikes in Syria that took place...
Congress Is Complicit in Mass Shootings
Once again, we are faced with another mass shooting. This time the cold-blooded killings took place at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, killing 14 innocent...
Europe’s Populist Right-Wing Parties Are Like the GOP in America — and Jews Should Engage With Both
The surge of right-wing populism in Europe is often compared to the rise of Fascism during the 1930s. Jewish community leaders have thus rushed to...
Dear Sarah Silverman: Amnesty Is Lying About the Tamimis
Dear Sarah Silverman -- it seems that you have been taken in by Amnesty International’s cynical campaign for Ahed Tamimi. A few days ago, you linked to...
New York Times Blames Netanyahu for Snubbing Obama
A New York Times “news analysis” that appears under the byline of the newspaper’s Jerusalem bureau chief and one of its Israel-based reporters inaccurately rewrites...
Narendra Modi’s Visit to Ramallah
Narendra Modi recently achieved the distinction of becoming the first Indian prime minister to visit the Palestinians' de facto West Bank capital Ramallah. During his discussions with...
Poland and Its Jews
Poland recently passed a law making it illegal and a criminal offense to claim that the Nazi death camps built during the Second World War on Polish territory...
By Focusing on Humanitarian Aid, Israel Can Still Win in Syria
JNS.org - Despite working for several years with international and regional partners to limit Hezbollah and Iranian gains at the expense of the Syrian people -- and investing...
The Outrageous Case of Ahed Tamimi
What did Ahed Tamimi expect would happen when she hit and punched two Israeli soldiers? Did she think that they would kill her? After all, they...
Are Russia and Israel on a Collision Course Over Syria?
Russian politicians have been surprisingly mute on the Israeli airstrikes in Syria that took place on February 11. Nothing notable has been said beyond an...
No Hate of Halimi? The French Won’t See Antisemitism for What It Is
JNS.org - Flush from his victory over far-right candidate Marine Le Pen in the French elections last July, President Emmanuel Macron decided to address head-on the...
Preventing and Reducing Deaths From Mass Shootings — In and Out of Jewish Institutions
Here we find ourselves again -- a tragic mass shooting with both sides of the gun lobby trading barbs with each other. We see a rerun of...
The New York Times Says Gaza Poverty Causes War With Israel. Sorry, That Doesn’t Make Sense.
One of the ways the New York Times demonstrates bias in news reports from the Middle East is with unstated, and unquestioned, assumptions. In two recent...
Israeli-Palestinian Security Coordination Is Working — for Now
JNS.org - For years now, a fairly quiet security coordination agreement has been in place between the Israel Defense Forces and the Palestinian Authority -- a setup that...
The Demand for Sovereignty Over Judea and Samaria Is a Waste of Zionist Energy
JNS.org - The longing for Jewish sovereignty over the historic homeland of the Jewish people is understandable. Nevertheless, the recent attempt to pass a law declaring...
