Commentary
Don’t Forget Christian Community Helped Push Trump on Jerusalem Decision
JNS.org - President Donald Trump’s recent announcement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital -- and declaring that the US will eventually move its embassy from Tel Aviv...
Palestinian Hostility to Peace Overlooked Following Trump’s Jerusalem Decision
Commentators far and wide have made it sound like President Donald Trump's decision to formally recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital is the death knell of the Palestinian-Israeli peace process. In the process, they are perpetuating their continual...
Top 7 Guardian Anti-Israel Errors, Lies and Deceptions of 2017
Narrowing down an entire year of Guardian anti-Israel reporting is not an easy task -- but, as a public service to our loyal readers, here are some errors, deceptions and outright lies about Israel in 2017 that especially stood...
Assessing the Islamic World’s Ho-Hum Response to Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration
Ominous warnings about Arab fury characterized the reactions of most Arab and Western leaders to President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, despite Trump’s clear statement that the decision in no...
Second New York Times Obituary of Harvard Figure Again Omits Clashes With Jews
Back in July, when the New York Times ran a sanitized, highly laudatory obituary of...
Five Key Moments in US-Israel Relations in 2017
JNS.org - Love him or hate him, 2017 was a year dominated by President Donald Trump. The...
Trump Is Right: Terrorism and Iran Are the Middle East’s Major Problems
Are we on the threshold of a new era in US Middle East policy? Perhaps. A draft...
Lorde Is Swimming in Antisemitic Waters
JNS.org - On December 14, the singer-songwriter Lorde tweeted, not uncharacteristically, “my cutie tour mate covered the heart...
Trump’s Recognition of Jerusalem: The View from Beijing
On December 6, 2017, US President Donald Trump signed a declaration that said: “We finally...
Don’t Forget Christian Community Helped Push Trump on Jerusalem Decision
JNS.org - President Donald Trump’s recent announcement recognizing Jerusalem as Israel’s capital -- and declaring that the US will eventually move its embassy from Tel Aviv to...
Palestinian Hostility to Peace Overlooked Following Trump’s Jerusalem Decision
Commentators far and wide have made it sound like President Donald Trump's decision to formally recognize Jerusalem as Israel's capital is the death knell of the Palestinian-Israeli...
Top 7 Guardian Anti-Israel Errors, Lies and Deceptions of 2017
Narrowing down an entire year of Guardian anti-Israel reporting is not an easy task -- but, as a public service to our loyal readers, here are some errors, deceptions...
Assessing the Islamic World’s Ho-Hum Response to Trump’s Jerusalem Declaration
Ominous warnings about Arab fury characterized the reactions of most Arab and Western leaders to President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of...
Second New York Times Obituary of Harvard Figure Again Omits Clashes With Jews
Back in July, when the New York Times ran a sanitized, highly laudatory obituary of S. Allen Counter, who was director of the Harvard Foundation...
Five Key Moments in US-Israel Relations in 2017
JNS.org - Love him or hate him, 2017 was a year dominated by President Donald Trump. The US-Israel relationship was no stranger to that phenomenon, ranging from...
Trump Is Right: Terrorism and Iran Are the Middle East’s Major Problems
Are we on the threshold of a new era in US Middle East policy? Perhaps. A draft of President Donald Trump’s new national security strategy, which makes...
Lorde Is Swimming in Antisemitic Waters
JNS.org - On December 14, the singer-songwriter Lorde tweeted, not uncharacteristically, “my cutie tour mate covered the heart song.” A week later, she was taking a crash course on the Israeli-Palestinian...
Trump’s Recognition of Jerusalem: The View from Beijing
On December 6, 2017, US President Donald Trump signed a declaration that said: “We finally acknowledge the obvious: that Jerusalem is Israel’s capital.” In doing...
Defining ‘Occupied’ — and the Semantic Battle for Peace
JNS.org - In a demonstration of how completely at odds his views are from those of the foreign policy establishment, US Ambassador to Israel David Friedman reportedly...
The Power of an Oath
Over the past few decades, a new area of psychological research has emerged that has changed the way that psychologists understand a very familiar aspect of human...
Threats of 2017 — Mideast, Terror, Weapons — Will Linger in the New Year
Domestically and internationally, President Donald Trump finished 2017 in dramatic fashion. Obtaining the most sweeping tax cuts in 30-plus years (and repealing Obamacare’s most philosophically...
US-Russia Relations Plunge Still Further
Relations between Moscow and Washington are at their lowest point since the end of the Cold War. This state of affairs was vividly reflected at...
Who Truly Occupies Whom?
Who truly occupies whom? Palestinians occupy Jewish land. Jews are the true indigenous people and owners of the land of Israel. The ancient Philistines have long disappeared from...
