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

The devastating Hamas weapon of war

Hamas, the genocidal jihadi force responsible for the barbaric Oct. 7 pogrom in Israel, has a devastating weapon of war. That weapon is the Western media. Read more

The infernal choice behind the hostage deal

As if Israelis weren’t traumatized enough by the depraved Hamas pogrom on Oct. 7, the hostage deal concluded this week cruelly deepened their agony. Read more

Is Britain going wobbly on Israel?

After the Oct. 7 Hamas pogrom, Britain’s Conservative Prime Minister Rishi Sunak came out in emotional support of Israel, stating that it had “an absolute right to defend itself.” Read more

Spitting in God’s eye

Earlier this week, ultra-Orthodox Jews parading through Jerusalem’s Old City passed a group of Christians bearing a large wooden cross. Some of the Jews spat on the ground in the Christians’ direction. Read more

Musk vs. Greenblatt is the unspeakable vs. the uneatable

The cage fight now taking place between the U.S. Anti-Defamation League and the world’s richest man Elon Musk is, as Oscar Wilde might have observed, a contest between the unspeakable and the uneatable. Read more

Israelophobia is the newest form of the oldest hatred

Antisemitism is a rotten term for the “longest hatred” that targets the Jewish people. For a start, there is no such thing as “semitism” to be “anti.” Read more

Why compromise is unlikely in Israel’s crisis

The night before Monday’s Knesset vote on the first of the government’s proposed judicial reforms, a video filmed on the escalators in Jerusalem’s central train station went viral on social media. Read more

Herzog’s lamentable performance

Far from the diplomatic triumph that some are making it out to be, Israeli President Isaac Herzog’s address to Congress this week left a bad taste in the mouth. Read more

The real crisis in the West

Over the past six months, the mass protests in Israel over judicial reform have elicited loud cries in the West that Israel is “in crisis.” Read more

It’s time to dismantle the United Nations

The malevolent scapegoating of Israel by the United Nations has long been a scandal.

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Challenging the BBC on Israel

For decades, the Western media has acted as a malevolent echo chamber for the demonisation of Israel. Read more

The Biden administration’s anti-antisemitism travesty

What’s the use of the definition of antisemitism by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance? Read more

Jew-hatred struts the stage in Berlin 

The unspeakable performance by Roger Waters in Berlin last week crossed a number of new red lines, even for him. Read more

The weaponisation of antisemitism against conservatives

A conference held in London this week was subjected to an extraordinary onslaught on social and mainstream media from people who weaponised antisemitism against it. Read more

The coronation of King Charles will be more than an amazing spectacle

On Saturday, Britain’s King Charles III will be crowned in London’s Westminster Abbey. Read more

The antisemitism that drives identity politics

A furore over a British Labour Party politician tells us a great deal about the tsunami of Jew-hatred rolling across Britain, America and the West. Read more

Israel’s post-democracy moment

The political crisis in Israel over the government’s judicial reforms has deepened. Read more

Israel’s two-faced allies

America and Britain claim to be allies of Israel. There is no gainsaying the deep links between them of military assistance, intelligence and trade. Israel is an invaluable strategic asset for America and Britain in the Middle East, a crucial bulwark in the defense of the West. Read more

The urgent need for Israeli electoral reform

Democracy is currently being undermined in many parts of the free world. Read more

The real threat to Israeli democracy

The huge demonstrations that continue in Israel and turned violent this week are fueled by the claim that the government’s judicial reform package spells the end of Israeli democracy. Read more

Biden’s less than ironclad commitment to Israel

Forget the bromides about America’s “unbreakable bond” with Israel and how the United States is Israel’s “greatest friend.” Over the past week, the Biden administration has crossed two ominous red lines. Read more

Can the whole world be wrong?

One of the mysteries of the war against Israel is the extent to which a monstrously twisted narrative about Israel and the Palestinian Arabs—casting the former as evil and the latter as sanctified victims—has been absorbed by so many people. Read more

How Britain has failed to prevent Islamist extremism and to protect Jews

While events in Israel continue to attract disproportionate and distorted global attention, Islamic extremism remains a threat inside Western society. Read more

The entrenchment of Western Jew-hatred

In Britain’s House of Commons this week, MP Kim Johnson launched an attack on the “fascist Israeli government” and its “apartheid” policies. Read more

Netanyahu at bay, but what about the facts?

So, how’s Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu faring in his supposed program to smash democracy at the behest of the religious extremists in his government? Read more

The unhinged reaction to the new Israeli government

The unhinged reaction to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government represents a crisis for the Jewish people both in Israel and in the Diaspora. Read more

The Israeli canary in the West’s cultural coal mine

Those scratching their heads over the way Western liberals have lost all connection with reason over issues of race, gender and Western “colonialism” might usefully look at the reaction to Itamar Ben-Gvir’s visit to Jerusalem’s Temple Mount last week. Read more

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