Jimmy Carter’s personal virtue didn’t ensure a virtuous or successful presidency

The stock of historical figures rises and falls with the changing times that follow them. Read more

A necessary though imperfect deal caps Netanyahu’s finest hour

There are many reasons to worry that the impending ceasefire with Hezbollah terrorists that Israel has chosen to accept is a bad bargain. Read more

Jewish liberals should follow ‘Morning Joe’ and drop the ‘resistance’

Maybe he isn’t Hitler after all. That’s the upshot of the announcement by political talk-show hosts Mika Brzezinski and Joe Scarborough after they journeyed to Mar-a-Lago this past weekend for a chat with President-elect Donald Trump. Read more

The Amsterdam pogrom is what happens when the world tolerates antisemitism

Much like the reaction to the Hamas massacre of 1,200 citizens in Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, it didn’t take long for some in the media and on the anti-Israel left to try to flip the narrative about what took place in Amsterdam on the night of Nov. 7. Read more

Affirming the ‘genocide’ smear against Israel fuels antisemitism

It’s ironic. Vice President Kamala Harris’s efforts to ingratiate herself with her party’s Israel-hating left wing are being drowned out on social media by criticisms that she is too pro-Israel. Read more

What could Israel expect from a Harris administration?

The path to the Oval Office has seemingly been strewn with roses for Vice President Kamala Harris since she emerged as the chief beneficiary of the Democratic Party establishment’s coup d’état against President Joe Biden. Read more

Democracy suffers when the media can’t be trusted

Believe it or not, journalists are not at the bottom of the barrel when it comes to being trusted the least by the American public. Read more

Is Doug Emhoff a Jewish role model or a partisan prop?

In a presidential election year unlike any other, the late-summer mainstream corporate media push to remake the image of Vice President Kamala Harris must rank as one of the most extraordinary stories in American political history. Read more

Josh Shapiro and the unmaking of a vice president

There was probably more than one reason why Vice President Kamala Harris chose Minnesota Gov. Tim Walz rather than Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro to be her running mate. Read more

Sifting through the bias about Netanyahu, Hamas and Harris

The search for objective truth is both difficult and by nature a subjective exercise. Read more

Kamala Harris wants it both ways on Israel

Since she became the presumptive nominee of the Democratic Party for the presidency in the last week, backers of Vice President Kamala Harris have been doing their best to redefine her image. Read more

Were Americans listening to Netanyahu’s message?

What Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said in his address to a joint meeting of Congress was important. Read more

Understanding the importance of J.D. Vance

If there’s one political story that never gets as much attention as it deserves, it’s the choice of a vice-presidential nominee. Read more

The problem is what Biden remembers, not what he forgets

Reviews of President Joe Biden’s much-anticipated July 11 NATO press conference were mixed. Read more

Kamala Harris thinks campus antisemites are very fine people

One of the inevitable results of President Joe Biden’s disastrous debate performance last month and subsequent refusal to drop out of the 2024 presidential race in November is the increasing attention being paid to his running mate. Read more

In 21st-century Europe, Jews need new allies

The shock and dismay about the results of the first round of the French parliamentary elections held last weekend on the part of most liberal observers of European politics is palpable. Read more

Time to unmask the pro-Hamas thugs

Americans have seen this movie before. Politically motivated masked thugs who gather to intimidate, silence and sometimes inflict violence on the objects of their hate are nothing new in this country. Read more

Biden’s double game on Hamas should fool no one

When President Joe Biden wants to say the right things about Israel and antisemitism, he knows how to do it. Read more

Don’t compromise with pro-Hamas students; expel or suspend them

Negotiating with mobs is always a fool’s errand. Read more

‘Pro-Palestine’ campus mobs think Jew-hatred is progressive

Ideas that reduce complex problems into simple mantras are always popular. Read more

Is Trump really abandoning Israel?

Has Donald Trump turned on Israel? That’s the question some people have been asking in the wake of an interview he gave to Israel Hayom. Read more

Photographers who joined the Oct. 7 pogrom deserve censure, not awards

What is the obligation of a reporter or news photographer covering an act of terrorism or warfare? Read more

Israel’s global isolation is caused by antisemitism, not bad policies

Israel’s critics and outright foes are right about one thing: Nearly six months after the Oct. 7 massacres, its isolation is growing. Read more

Laughing at our foes is good therapy during Purim

Perhaps the best news I’ve heard out of Israel in recent months concerned the renaming of a holiday pastry. Read more

The problem in Gaza is Hamas, not how to provide aid

After months of pressure from left-wing critics and liberal media outlets that seem to only highlight the suffering of Palestinians since Hamas started a war on Oct. 7, President Joe Biden felt he had to respond with something big. Read more

‘As a Jew’ Oscar moment shows how woke antisemitism works

Unless you’re a film buff, you may not have heard of Jonathan Glazer before his viral moment at this year’s annual Academy Awards ceremony. Read more

Biden’s and Blinken’s words do real harm

Words matter. That’s the thing to remember about the libellous descriptions of Israel’s efforts to eradicate Hamas terrorists that came forth from both U.S. President Joe Biden and Secretary of State Antony Blinken in recent days. Read more

It’s Biden who’s playing politics with the Gaza war, not Bibi

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reputation as a master political schemer and a cynical seeker of power is so deeply embedded in the public consciousness that there is literally nothing he can do without being accused of acting only to seek some sort of advantage over his opponents. Read more

UNRWA exists to help fight the war to eradicate Israel

Let’s not get caught up in the details of the controversy that made headlines this past weekend about the fact that 12 employees of UNRWA—the U.N. refugee agency dedicated to assisting the Palestinians—took part in the Hamas pogroms in southern Israel on Oct. 7. Read more

A hollow Holocaust Remembrance Day

It’s an important date on the international community’s calendar. Every year, the United Nations and many other institutions and organisations hold ceremonies on Jan. 27 commemorating the Holocaust. Read more

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