War and symbols

Wars today are not fought only on the battlefield; they are fought on the airwaves, in newspapers, on social media feeds and in United Nations chambers. Read more

The E1 battle: Why Israel can’t bow to Macron’s Palestinian fantasy

Israel’s recent approval of 3,401 housing units in the strategic E1 corridor has unleashed the usual chorus of outrage from world leaders and Palestinian statehood advocates. Read more

When a ‘journalist’ wages war for Hamas

By any normal standard of journalism, Anas al-Sharif was no reporter. Read more

‘It will not be an occupation; the goal is to eliminate Hamas’

It was an unusually candid moment. Speaking to a small group of journalists before Thursday night’s Security Cabinet meeting—a rare move in itself—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu made something crystal clear: Israel’s upcoming operation in Gaza is not about permanent occupation. Read more

The war Hamas wants; the war Israel is fighting

While humanitarian aid drops from the sky, hundreds of trucks carrying the same supplies sit idle at the Gaza border. The failure is not logistical—it is political and moral. Efforts to divide the Gaza Strip into humanitarian zones have collapsed. Read more

The progressive myth of Francesca Albanese

UN Special Rapporteur Francesca Albanese is not a scholar. She’s not an expert. She’s not even an honest broker. What she is—and what she has always been—is a progressive denialist with a platform. Read more

Israel’s role in Trump’s vision for the Mideast

Two major misconceptions continue to distort the conversation about the Middle East, Israel and the war in Gaza. Read more

The willing executioners of today’s anti-Israel hatred

The danger is no longer lurking; it’s here, clear and undeniable. What happened recently in Italy is just another alarming signal. Read more

From Rome to Jerusalem: the unfinished dialogue between Jews and the Vatican

When Pope Pius XII, Eugenio Pacelli, died in 1958, the debate over his silence during the Holocaust had already spanned continents and consciences. Read more

Netanyahu besieged: Israel’s endless revolt

They call it a revolution—the ceaseless internal upheaval, the persistent subterranean tremor that has characterised Israel’s history in these long months, as much as the war fought across seven fronts. There is, however, an eighth front: the war waged against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu. Read more

Israel’s global battle against antisemitism—and the divisions within

Israel, under the leadership of the Minister of Diaspora Affairs and Combatting Antisemitism Amichai Chikli, has extended an invitation to political and cultural leaders worldwide: Attend an “International Conference to Combat Antisemitism” in Jerusalem. Read more

From Auschwitz to Gaza: The unfolding horror and its implications

In late February 1945, among the first reports on the horrors of Auschwitz was one by a Polish officer, Lt. Wacław Lipiński, who wrote in the Polpress Bulletin, “Those who have survived don’t look like human beings, they are mere shadows.” Read more

The walls around Israel’s enemies keep falling

The current negotiations for the release of the hostages, whether finalized or still in progress, are quite significant, akin to the sudden fall of the Bashar Assad regime and the collapse of Hamas and Hezbollah, as they are another wall falling within the fierce and determined front aimed at the destruction of the State of Israel. Read more

As goes Hezbollah ….

As Israel pounds Hezbollah targets in Lebanon, it appears that Israel’s actions on the northern front will change the situation in the Middle East. Read more

The Israeli Air Force strikes

Where is the Air Force? Read more

All of France raped a 12-year-old Jewish girl

The 12-year-old Jewish girl just raped in Paris had committed two mortal sins in the eyes of the rapists: She was Jewish. Read more

The UN’s bankrupt persecution of Israel

The U.N.’s persecution of Israel continues apace. Last week, a U.N. commission endorsed the usual slanders about supposed Israeli “crimes against humanity” and genocide. Read more

On Independence Day, Israelis choose life

The people of Israel are different. Despite a terrible war, on Israel’s 76th birthday, nothing is clearer than the strength of its extraordinary young people. Read more

Anatomy of an antisemite

Francesca Albanese is at it again, cloaking her Jew-hatred in legalese and justifying it through denial. Read more

Antisemitism’s point of no return

We have reached the point of no return, of zero tolerance. There can be no further conciliation with antisemitism, not even in our personal lives. Read more

Can an earthquake bring Middle Eastern enemies together?

There is nothing that makes the human condition more visibly fragile than the kind of massive natural disaster that Turkey and Syria are now facing in the wake of a massive earthquake. Read more

The Russia-Iran axis may prompt the West to see Israel with new eyes

Media claims that last weekend’s terror attacks in Jerusalem were an act of revenge for the deaths of nine members of Islamic Jihad during an IDF raid in Jenin are false. The attacks were a product of hateful ideology and antisemitic incitement. Read more

Is the world waking up to the atrocities of the ayatollahs?

It is about time the media and the international community woke up to the fact that the Iranian regime is an oppressive, violent tyranny that loathes women, dissidents and anyone who does not conform to its theocratic ideology. Read more

Giorgia Meloni and other female conservatives are today’s feminists

There is no doubt that, in historical terms, one of the left’s most important and beloved causes has been women’s emancipation, and rightly so. Read more

Double-edged antisemitism

The Oct. 9, 1982 Palestinian terrorist attack on the Great Synagogue of Rome, in which two-year-old Stefano Gaj Tachè was killed, and the blood of 37 others who were wounded flowed on the stones of the building that should have been the safest refuge for Jews in the Italian capital, was a double slap in the face—not only by the murderers but by those who didn’t lift a finger to defend their victims. Read more

A referendum on Netanyahu

Israel is trembling with uncertainty ahead of today’s election, whose outcome nobody can predict. But, unlike previous Knesset elections, this one—the fourth in two years—is not seeing the arrival in droves of foreign journalists. Read more

Israel’s miraculous vaccination campaign

Throughout history, vaccines have proven miraculous, virtually eliminating smallpox, diphtheria, polio and other diseases. Today, they are on the verge of liberating us from COVID-19. Read more

The third wave of antisemitism is upon us

Imagine that a prestigious international research institute concludes that the new wave of antisemitism is fuelled and perpetuated chiefly by the physical characteristics of the Jews–their noses, for example–or by their insularity in relation to the general society. Read more

Looting American culture

If George Floyd, the African-American strangled to death by the knee of Minneapolis policeman Derek Chauvin, had been white, his death would have elicited the same horrified reaction on my part. Read more

How COVID-19 has sparked antisemitic conspiracy theories

It’s easy to see how the coronavirus pandemic has sparked antisemitic conspiracy theories. Read more

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