The lethal miscalculations over Vladimir Putin

In the Middle East, where two earth tremors this week shook northern Israel and sounded an ominous warning of a major earthquake in the near future, the geopolitical tectonic plates also continue to shift in startling fashion. Read more

How America is helping Iran get a nuclear arsenal

As Iran reportedly reaches the brink of obtaining enough fissile material for a nuclear weapon, the Biden administration is now astoundingly colluding with this lethal rogue state against the interests of Israel and America’s allies in the region. Read more

Whoops, Whoopi: The Holocaust is all about race

Whoopi Goldberg has got herself into a terrible mess. She was suspended from her role as co-host of ABC’s “The View” talk show after saying that the Holocaust wasn’t about race. It was instead, she said, about “man’s inhumanity to man” involving “white people doing it to white people.” Read more

How the West’s appeasement mentality brings not peace, but war

As the Ukraine crisis continues, one question, in particular, poses itself: How can it be that having defeated the Soviet Union in the Cold War, the West is now unable to get the better of the leader of the bankrupt kleptocracy that replaced communism in Russia? Read more

The unspoken truths behind the Texas synagogue attack

The attack on Congregation Beth Israel in Colleyville, Texas, where the rabbi and three other Jews were taken hostage until they managed to escape unharmed, was shocking enough. Read more

The emergence of Arab Zionism?

While Western liberals and the U.N. Human Rights Council double down in their determination to demonize, delegitimize and destroy Israel, support for that beleaguered country is coming from a surprising direction. Read more

The most important conversation the Jewish world needs to have

Links between Israel and Diaspora Jews have been put under increased strain by the coronavirus pandemic. Read more

New Year’s resolution? Abolish the UN Human Rights Council

At the turn of a new year, people traditionally make resolutions to improve themselves. So, what is the United Nations setting itself to do better in 2022? Read more

A Christmas crusade: scapegoating the Jews

Christian churches, seemingly deaf to baleful historical and theological echoes, have decided to mark Christmas 2021 by scapegoating the Jews. Read more

Trump and Netanyahu: Allies no longer?

For both fans and foes of America’s former President Donald Trump and Israel’s former Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, the two leaders appeared to share certain features. Read more

Double standard of antisemitism and Islamophobia

One of the most obvious characteristics of antisemitism is the double standards it perpetrates, through which Jews are singled out for harmful assumptions and treatment directed against no other people in the world. Read more

‘Imagine’ all those people …

Diaspora Jews have a collective history of constant migration. Read more

Why Israel needs a strategy to shape the narrative

A fascinating BBC TV series has explored the way in which Britain’s former Labour prime ministers, Tony Blair and his successor Gordon Brown, revolutionized their party to create the election-winning machine of “New Labour.” Read more

Keir Starmer’s Labour antisemitism problem

The leader of Britain’s Labour Party, Sir Keir Starmer, was the guest of honour at this week’s annual Labour Friends of Israel lunch in London. Read more

The most alarming threat of all to the Jewish people

The violent scenes surrounding this week’s appearance by Israel’s ambassador to the United Kingdom, Tzipi Hotovely, at the London School of Economics shocked decent people in Britain. Read more

The inconvenient truths behind the hysteria over climate change

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, got himself into an unfortunate mess during this week’s COP26 conference on climate change held in Glasgow, Scotland. Read more

The crucial but underrated gift of being ‘a people apart’

Distressingly, more and more Jews are turning against Israel and recycling anti-Jewish narratives. Read more

The baleful consequences of failing to deal with Islamist extremism

On both sides of the English Channel, the failure to grasp the nettle of Islamist extremism and the frightening consequences of that failure are sounding an urgent alarm for the whole of Western society. Read more

The real reason for Western support of the Palestinians

Michael Oren, Israel’s former ambassador to the United States who is now a candidate to head the Jewish Agency, has rightly said that the decline in support for Israel among American Jews has reached a crisis point. Read more

In the face of European hypocrisy, time for Israel’s supporters to remake the cultural weather

The European Commission released on Tuesday its first official strategy on fighting antisemitism and promoting Jewish life. Read more

The false accusation of ‘Israel apartheid’

The campaign to demonize and delegitimize Israel has recently moved into a higher gear with the increased use of one particularly vicious falsehood. Read more

The baleful significance of the Democrats’ Iron Dome fiasco

According to House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, when the Democrats withdrew from their embattled spending bill $1 billion in emergency funding for Israel’s Iron Dome defence system, this was merely a “technicality” that would be reversed. Read more

The hate-fest that is Durban rears its ugly head again

Next week, the United Nations is set to reinforce infamy. In the wings of the U.N. General Assembly meeting in New York, it is to hold a 20th anniversary summit of its so-called World Conference against Racism that took place in Durban, South Africa, four days before the terror attacks of Sept. 11, 2001. Read more

Two decades on, the West’s cultural fault line exposed by 9/11 remains

Few of us, if any, will ever forget those terrible images of the 9/11 attacks on America. Twenty years on, it’s painfully clear that many Westerners still don’t grasp the full nature and scope of what they witnessed when the twin towers of the World Trade Center in Lower Manhattan fell. Read more

When the Jew-bashers are Jews

The latest move by President Joe Biden to appal many American Jews as an act of wanton hostility is his appointment of the progressive rabbi, Sharon Kleinbaum, to the U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom. Read more

Envoy will first need to root out antisemitism in the Democratic Party

U.S. President Joe Biden’s choice of Emory Professor Deborah Lipstadt as America’s Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism has not been greeted with the unqualified approval that might have been expected for such an appointment. Read more

The invisible victims of jihadi violence

The death of Ruth Pearl at the age of 85 reminds us once again of the unspeakable horror that was visited upon Ruth and her family, and which served as a particularly dreadful wake-up call for the Western world. Read more

The real scoop? How Jews won’t lick the demonization of Israel

In attempting to defend itself against persistent bigotry, the Jewish Diaspora repeatedly thinks with its heart, rather than its head, and consequently misses the key point. Read more

The real challenge of reconciling Christians and Jews

The Archbishop of Canterbury, Justin Welby, has announced that the Church of England plans to offer its “repentance” over antisemitic church laws that were passed in the 13th century. Read more

Media malpractice in the West has caused permanent harm to Israel

This week, Israel signed a deal for the immediate transfer to South Korea of 700,000 doses of the Pfizer coronavirus vaccine, which are due to expire at the end of this month. Read more

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