Posts Tagged: europe
The EU Offers a ‘Birthright’ Trip to Palestine
Birthright Israel has been offering free educational trips to Jewish youths since 1999. The purpose is to help Jewish young adults from around the world...
Why Europe and Israel Need Each Other
Europe’s well-intentioned but obsolete strategy has dramatically contributed to the prolongation of the Arab-Israeli conflict. The Israeli elections scheduled for March 2 provide yet another...
The Hazards of Holocaust Remembrance in Europe
It is ironic that French President Emmanuel Macron and the UK’s Prince Charles took advantage of their participation in an unprecedented gathering of world leaders...
Who Controls International Bodies?
JNS.org - The International Criminal Court’s chief prosecutor recently accused Israel of committing war crimes. Her statement underscores a much wider phenomenon: The structural faults in...
The New EU Push for Palestinian Statehood Is Dangerous for Israel
JNS.org - Following the US recognition in November of the legality of Israel’s West Bank settlements, Luxembourg’s Foreign Minister Jean Asselborn is advancing an initiative...
In Europe, Israel Needs a Bottom-Up Approach to Diplomacy
JNS.org - For years, I considered Europe a lost cause from Israel’s perspective and decried the Israeli Foreign Ministry’s Euro-centric focus, arguing that it should...
‘Smokescreening’ — Anti-Israel Sentiment Expressed Through False Friendship
Smokescreening, the false pretense of friendship toward Israel, is a common practice. Practitioners include US Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, former US president Barack Obama,...
Jewish Predicaments: 1939 and 2019
The American novelist F. Scott Fitzgerald, not noted as a political thinker, nevertheless knew something about political paradoxes. Fitzgerald wrote: “The test of a first-rate...
Remembering D-Day and the Holocaust: Fighting Nationalism With Remembrance
On Tuesday, June 6, 1944, a massive Allied landing operation commenced on the beaches of Normandy, in northern France. In one of the largest military...
What the Kippa Controversy Says About Europe and Its Jewish Population
Yet another public taboo about antisemitism in Germany has been broken. The country's antisemitism commissioner, Felix Klein, recently said: “I cannot advise Jews to wear...
Why Is Europe Burying Its Head in the Sand on Jihadi Terror?
JNS.org - The jihadist war being waged by radical Islamist groups across the globe has never stopped at the gates of holy sites and places...
European Hypocrites on US Peace Plan for Israel
Donald Trump’s Mideast peace plan has yet to be published, but that hasn’t stopped 37 former Europeans politicians and officials from publishing a joint letter...
Antisemitism Is Alive and Well in Europe — If It Ever Left
Saying that antisemitism is integral to European culture does not make one popular in Europe. This does not change if one notes that articulating this...
After Antisemitic Attacks, Are Jews Safer in the East Than the West?
JNS.org - The October attack on the Tree of Life synagogue in Pittsburgh put a renewed spotlight on antisemitism in the United States, which has...
