No permanent allies or enemies: only permanent interests

Aware that President Erdogan remains an aggressive Islamist and presumably harbors as much love for Israelis as we do for him, the government was strongly criticized for the unpalatable concessions it granted in order to restore economic and diplomatic relations with Turkey…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

The scandal-ridden chief rabbinate must be restructured…writes Isi Leibler

The depths to which the haredi extremists have sunk with their scandalous abuse of their rabbinical authority seem limitless. It is high time for Jews in Israel and the Diaspora to publicly vent their rage and insist that these shenanigans must cease. Read more

Herzog’s intolerable deceit

Zionist Union Chairman MK Isaac Herzog is the scion of one of Israel’s most distinguished families…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Jews and Israel in a threatened, leaderless and delusional world

The painful lesson of the Orlando massacre is that no place in the world is immune to fanatical religious extremists willing to kill themselves to achieve heavenly salvation…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Israel and Diaspora Jewry – a Looming Crisis

The Jewish world, both in Israel and the Diaspora, is undergoing dramatic demographic and ideological changes. Read more

American Jewish leaders fail to confront the anti-Israeli bandwagon…writes Isi Leibler

The confusion and uncertainty arising from the presidential election campaign, together with the hostility generated by the changes in the Israeli coalition, has emboldened a number of prominent Jewish progressives to initiate a new crusade implicitly criticising the security policies of the democratically elected Israeli government. Read more

I stand by my critique of ADL’s Jonathan Greenblatt…writes Isi Leibler

Jonathan Greenblatt’s response to my criticism of his embrace of J Street, alleging that I distorted his message, is disingenuous and reaffirms my assessment.

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A morally and politically dysfunctional Government…writes Isi Leibler

The recent shenanigans of the government sickened even those reconciled to the reality that a total lack of ethics pervades the Israeli political arena. Read more

ADL applies moral equivalence to Israelis and Palestinians

The Anti-Defamation League’s new National Director, Jonathan Greenblatt, previously a special assistant to U.S. President Barack Obama, has begun to court the liberal glitterati and their media by following the Obama lead and creating daylight between the ADL and the Israeli government…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

On celebrating Independence Day…writes Isi Leibler

Last week, we commemorated the genocidal murder of 6 million Jews – the most barbaric episode in our 2,000 years of exile which was sporadically interspersed with discrimination, persecution, expulsion and pogroms. Read more

The erosion of Holocaust memory

My grandparents and many members of my family were exterminated by the Nazis…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Passover, our festival of freedom and miracles

On the first night of Passover, the festive meal is preceded by the Seder, which chronicles our emergence from bondage into a nation and recounts the miracles associated with the Exodus from Egypt…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Anglo-Jewry confronts Labour antisemitic surge

Ten years ago, I was accused of pandering to hysteria when I praised Melanie Phillips’ groundbreaking book, “Londonistan,” detailing the alarming growth of antisemitism in the U.K. and predicting further deterioration unless the British government drastically altered its approach…writes Isi Leibler.
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The United Nations sanctifies evil…writes Isi Leibler

The United Nations is an evil body dominated by Islamic nations and tyrannies. Read more

American Jews face dilemma in presidential elections

The turmoil associated with the American presidential elections has impacted on much of the nation, and certainly on the Jews. Many, both liberal and conservative, feel that their traditional political affiliations have been destabilised. Read more

The fallout of the Obama doctrine: Global chaos and its implications for Israel and the Jewish people

President Barack Obama’s determination to downgrade U.S. international power has generated massive global instability and chaos with especially ominous implications for Israel…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

A time for unity against dangerous new Obama initiatives…writes Isi Leibler

U.S. President Barack Obama continues to ignore the catastrophic global repercussions of his flawed policies toward the Middle East, where hundreds of thousands of Arabs have been butchered in civil wars and millions displaced from their homes. Read more

Rivlin’s regrettable cancellation of Australian state visit

Israel today has few genuine friends willing to stand up and defend the Jewish state and counter the many nations that apply bias and double standards in ongoing harassment. Read more

The European implosion obliges new alliances for Israel and Jews…writes Isi Leibler

The mass migration of Muslim “refugees” to Western Europe could result in one of the most significant global demographic upheavals in history. Read more

The tragedy of Ehud Olmert in retrospect

The image of former Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, now 70, entering Maasiyahu Prison to serve a 19-month sentence for bribery and obstruction of justice is a shocking stain on the entire nation…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Should we stand by knowing that Hamas intends to attack us?…asks Isi Leibler

Few envy the painful decisions that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu will be obliged to make in the months to come. Read more

No more illusions: Come home

Objectively analysing recent events can only lead to the dismal conclusion that the status of Diaspora Jewry, bad as it is, is only likely to deteriorate…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

The requiem for the Oslo Accords warrants a unity government

The controversy over the Oslo Accords, which bitterly divided the nation over the past quarter century, is no longer a contentious issue…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

The challenge facing Israel’s Education Minister Naftali Bennett

Anyone following the leftist media in Israel could be forgiven for believing that Israel is undergoing a Kulturkampf and that a desperate struggle is taking place in the secular school stream to retain freedom of expression from an extremist government seeking to subvert democracy and promote fascism…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Israeli Chief Rabbinate seeks to emulate role of the Vatican

The tensions created by the ultra-Orthodox Chief Rabbinate within Israeli society have extended to the Diaspora and are now undermining relations with the Jewish state…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Thinking out of the box needed to combat terror

The “lone-wolf” stabbings, shootings and other actions by individuals designed to kill Israelis are not a new phenomenon…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

Jewish terrorism must be cauterized like a cancer…writes Isi Leibler

Israelis shuddered when viewing the widely publicised extracts of the wedding video in which youngsters in large white knitted kippot brandished knives like savages, sang a hymn of vengeance and gleefully danced around photographs of the victims of the fatal Duma arson attack.

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Jews and the global tilt towards conservativism and populism

Since the emancipation of the eighteenth century, Jews traditionally supported liberal, reform and even revolutionary movements which, in most cases, paved the way for them to achieve equality…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

President Rivlin must eschew politics

Prime Minister Netanyahu was widely criticised last year for his efforts in trying to prevent Reuven Rivlin from being elected president…writes Isi Leibler. Read more

British Jews under pressure…writes Isi Leibler

Reviewing the status of Anglo-Jewry can lead to diametrically opposing conclusions. Read more

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