Commentary
Ten Questions for Malcolm Hoenlein on Qatar
The story in The Jerusalem Post that Conference of Presidents Executive Vice Chairman Malcolm Hoenlein has broken ranks with Jewish leaders and decided to visit Qatar, meet...
The First Amendment Doesn’t Protect Hate Speech at Rutgers
If Rutgers University President Robert Barchi wants to defend recent antisemitic speech from his professors by hiding behind the skirts of the First Amendment, he may want to bone up on his knowledge of constitutional...
The Taylor Force Act Has Been Gutted
JNS.org - The Taylor Force Act started out as a powerful and long-overdue tool for pressuring the Palestinian Authority (PA) to stop paying terrorists. But the legislation has been diluted, weakened and compromised in so many...
Despite His Flaws, Defending Trump on Jerusalem
JNS.org - In the end, perhaps only a president so completely divorced from diplomatic reality and utterly indifferent to international opinion could do it. Despite the difficulties and the manifest dangers involved with keeping America’s promise -- enshrined...
Bedeviled by Anti-Israel Boycotters at Duke
I recently met a couple who told me that their Jewish daughter attends Duke University,...
Alan Dershowitz: Why Did Flynn Lie and Why Did Mueller Charge Him With Lying?
Reprinted from "The Hill” with permission. Copyright 2017. Capitol Hill Publishing Corp. The charge to which retired...
Solidarity With Terror and Its Enablers Isn’t Social Justice
JNS.org - On July 25, 2017, in what appeared to be an unprecedented event in American...
Salon Mainstreams the Vile Antisemitism of Max Blumenthal and Joseph Massad
There is a German expression about framing something odious -- like antisemitism -- in a way that...
Trump’s Broken Embassy Promise
JNS.org - Well, it's that time of year again. No, not Hanukkah or Christmas, but the...
Ten Questions for Malcolm Hoenlein on Qatar
The story in The Jerusalem Post that Conference of Presidents Executive Vice Chairman Malcolm Hoenlein has broken ranks with Jewish leaders and decided to visit Qatar, meet the...
The First Amendment Doesn’t Protect Hate Speech at Rutgers
If Rutgers University President Robert Barchi wants to defend recent antisemitic speech from his professors by hiding behind the skirts of the First Amendment, he...
The Taylor Force Act Has Been Gutted
JNS.org - The Taylor Force Act started out as a powerful and long-overdue tool for pressuring the Palestinian Authority (PA) to stop paying terrorists. But the...
Despite His Flaws, Defending Trump on Jerusalem
JNS.org - In the end, perhaps only a president so completely divorced from diplomatic reality and utterly indifferent to international opinion could do it. Despite the...
Bedeviled by Anti-Israel Boycotters at Duke
I recently met a couple who told me that their Jewish daughter attends Duke University, which they believe to be a great school for Jewish...
Alan Dershowitz: Why Did Flynn Lie and Why Did Mueller Charge Him With Lying?
Reprinted from "The Hill” with permission. Copyright 2017. Capitol Hill Publishing Corp. The charge to which retired Lt. Gen. Michael Flynn has pleaded guilty may tell us...
Solidarity With Terror and Its Enablers Isn’t Social Justice
JNS.org - On July 25, 2017, in what appeared to be an unprecedented event in American Jewish history, a group that came into existence as a front...
Salon Mainstreams the Vile Antisemitism of Max Blumenthal and Joseph Massad
There is a German expression about framing something odious -- like antisemitism -- in a way that would make it “salonfähig,” i.e. fit for the living rooms...
Trump’s Broken Embassy Promise
JNS.org - Well, it's that time of year again. No, not Hanukkah or Christmas, but the Jerusalem Embassy Act waiver deadline. It comes around every six...
The Crime: Walking While Jewish
JNS.org - Back in the 1990s, civil rights activists coined the term “DWB” (driving while black) to highlight the frequency of incidents in which African-American motorists...
Pro-Palestinian Groups Attack Administration Nominee for Opposing Israeli Boycott
JNS.org - Leaders of major American Jewish organizations are rallying around Kenneth L. Marcus, the nominee for Assistant Secretary of Education for Civil Rights, as pro-Palestinian...
Victimized Again: The Jews of Arab States and the June 1967 War
Fifty years after the June 1967 War, the Israel State Archives in Jerusalem released scores of classified files related to this historic event. While most...
Experts: No Chance Hamas Will Disarm, Despite Unity Government
JNS.org - As a joint Palestinian government seems poised to take control of Gaza, Hamas has defied calls to disarm -- and has vowed to move its battle against...
Sinai — The Descent Into Depravity
“Militants detonated a bomb inside a crowded mosque in the Sinai Peninsula on Friday and then sprayed gunfire on panicked worshipers as they fled, killing...
