Israel dodges bullet

A nightmare has been averted, both for Israel and the West. Read more

The killing of Yahya Sinwar

Some people here in Israel reportedly cried tears of joy over the killing by the Israel Defence Forces of Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar in the Rafah area of Gaza on Wednesday. Others were jubilant. Read more

The Jewish moment

Earlier this week, there was a sound that has become all too rare. It was a Western political leader expressing unequivocal moral clarity. Read more

Eye-witness to atrocity at Supernova

An important, extraordinary and shattering film started screening this week. Surviving October 7th: We Will Dance Againis about the massacre at the Supernova music festival during the Oct. 7 pogrom in southern Israel. Read more

An explosive moment of clarification

The Iranian war of extermination against Israel continues to be a clarifying moment for the supposedly civilized world. Read more

The media war against Israel

The apparent bias of the US-based ABC TV moderators in failing to call out the falsehoods reportedly spoken by U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democratic Party presidential candidate, in the debate with former President Donald Trump this week has attracted much critical comment. Read more

The anti-Jewish candidate

Lauren Holtzblatt, a rabbi in Washington, D.C., caused outrage at her synagogue earlier this month when she declared that American Jews need to elect Kamala Harris as president of the United States to comply with “sacred texts.” Read more

Israel’s treacherous frenemies

At time of writing, Israelis are bracing for a possible direct and multi-front attack by Iran. Read more

Netanyahu’s hour

For the better part of an hour on Wednesday, it was possible to believe that the Western world had not lost its mind. Read more

The war against the Jews

We have to face without flinching what is now undeniable: There is a war across the globe raging against the Jewish people. It’s a war not just to destroy their national homeland but to drive them out of people’s heads, their conscience and their world. Read more

Can Israel afford to stand up to America?

There’s no denying the severe tensions between the Biden administration and the Israeli government over the war being waged against Israel by Iran and its proxies. Read more

The driver of Western Jew-hatred

Jew-hatred in the Diaspora is out of control and escalating. Read more

The ‘Gaza famine’ myth

It’s now quite clear that there are simply no facts at all—none—that will alter the fixed narrative of lies, distortions and blood libels with which the liberal internationalist order is demonizing and delegitimizing Israel. Read more

The looming choice for Diaspora Jews

Is it time for the Jews of Britain, Europe and America to leave? Read more

The Middle East’s fateful moment

If people think the war in Gaza is intolerable, they should buckle up for what may now be coming. Read more

Buried facts about the Gaza war

The extent to which the political class and the media are burying facts that undermine their poisonous narrative in order to defame and undermine Israel’s war of survival has become simply jaw-dropping. Read more

Buried facts about the Gaza war

The extent to which the political class and the media are burying facts that undermine their poisonous narrative in order to defame and undermine Israel’s war of survival has become simply jaw-dropping. Read more

The ivory tower jihad

The shocking scenes on campus over the past few days are far more significant than mere student demonstrations getting out of hand. Read more

The surreal echo chamber of lies

Deeply traumatised by the Oct. 7 massacre, the unthinkable plight of the hostages and the relentless uptick of dead and wounded soldiers in this seemingly endless war, Israelis are bracing themselves for even worse. Read more

The global onslaught against Israel

As Israel battles for survival against Iran and its proxies, it is being subjected to a virtual auto-da-fé by its supposed allies. Read more

Israel’s Orwellian nightmare

For the Jewish world, these are nightmarish, hallucinatory times. Israel is fighting a hydra-headed genocidal enemy that not only slaughtered 1,200 women, children and men and took more than 240 hostages but intends to repeat such atrocities until Israel is destroyed. Read more

The American betrayal of Israel

As some of us have long feared, and that has now become undeniable, Israel is fighting not one but two wars of defence against a malevolent foe. Read more

The West’s abandonment of the Jews

With every day that passes, it becomes ever clearer that Western civilization is no longer civilized. Read more

The scapegoating of Israel

The name of David Cameron, Britain’s foreign secretary, is on course to become a synonym for infamy in Britain’s Jewish community to rival that of Ernest Bevin. Read more

The terror of the right

There’s a fixed belief in progressive circles that if only Israel’s prime minister, Benjamin Netanyahu, were to be removed from office, there would be at least a sporting chance of peace in the Middle East. Read more

The antisemitism crisis is out of control

The war in Gaza is prying open a potentially game-changing fissure in British politics that has wider implications for the Western world. Read more

America and Britain cross a treacherous red line

Fears that the Biden administration’s bear hug of embattled Israel is the prelude to eating it alive were dramatically enhanced this week. Read more

The West’s lethal error in the war against Israel

In the current war in the Middle East, it’s a given that a distinction must be drawn between Hamas and the “ordinary” Palestinian Arab residents of Gaza. Read more

The revival of an ancient calumny

There’s an unmistakable drumbeat to the antisemitism that’s erupted across the West in the wake of the Oct. 7 pogrom. In response to the genocidal Jew-hatred fuelling Hamas and the Palestinian Arabs, an even older form of the oldest hatred has surfaced—Christian hostility to the Jews. Read more

The persistent ‘two-state’ delusion

The simmering tensions between Israel and the Biden administration over the plan for post-war Gaza have now come to a boil. Read more

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