Two public figures left the world: One despicable, one inspirational

Over the past few days, two significant public figures passed away. One of them used his towering gifts to help create a better world. The other helped create a better world by leaving it. Read more

Electing a president under an erupting cultural volcano

The U.S. presidential election has illustrated more graphically than ever before that we are living beneath an erupting civilizational volcano. Read more

Why Britain’s Labour Party will struggle to erase its moral stain

The report of an 18-month inquiry into antisemitism in Britain’s Labour Party has now been published. Almost instantly, it produced a dramatic and unexpected result. Read more

What sanitizing Louis Farrakhan tells us about the West

The writer Bari Weiss, who resigned in the summer from The New York Times in protest at its tolerance of antisemitism and refusal to publish opinions which challenge the left-wing consensus, continues on her painful political journey. Read more

The BBC isn’t just too ‘woke’—over Israel, it incites baseless hatred

In recent weeks, there have been indications that the British government intends to try to bring the BBC to heel. Read more

Turning Britain and America into Salem

Much has been written about left-wing antisemitism and the pernicious role played by the universities in fomenting it. Read more

Trivializing the true evil of Nazism

There is clearly no limit to the depths of moral perversity that the enemies of President Donald Trump are prepared to plumb, not least within America’s Jewish community. Read more

RBG: An American Jewish justice warrior

The obituary in Britain’s Guardian newspaper of the iconic liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who died last weekend, provoked outrage among a number of Jews. Read more

The fundamental fracture the Abraham Accords may begin to heal

It’s hard not to get emotional about the deals signed in Washington this week between Israel and its new Gulf partners, the United Arab Emirates and Bahrain. Read more

When rabbis should not keep quiet

The former chief rabbi of the United Kingdom, Jonathan Sacks, has come in for some stick over remarks he recently made about religion and politics. Read more

The West turns a blind eye to Palestinian incitement in word and deed

Why do so many well-meaning people committed to ending abuses of power ignore the evidence of who is actually committing these abuses and blame their victims instead? Read more

The free world’s craven and hypocritical fifth column

When Britain’s foreign Secretary Dominic Raab visited Jerusalem this week, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reportedly chewed his ear off. Read more

The progressive world: An antechamber to evil

After days of antisemitic rants on social media, the “Grime” rapper Wiley has finally been barred from Twitter and Facebook following outrage by Jews and others that he was allowed to use these platforms for his vicious incitement. Read more

Betraying Jewish history by watering down the Holocaust

The British baroness Ruth Deech, whose family were Jewish refugees from Nazism, recently delivered an impassioned address to the Oxford Jewish community about the way the Holocaust is being evacuated of meaning by memorials and museums in its name. Read more

The Jewish surrender to the West’s eclipse of reason

Rarely has a journalist’s resignation from their newspaper created such an impact as the coruscating letter with which Bari Weiss resigned from The New York Times. Read more

Both hero and zero: Israel’s strategic incoherence

While Israelis are increasingly alarmed by the government’s loss of control over the coronavirus crisis, different events suggest that the country may have pulled off a spectacular advance in the battle against another intractable foe. Read more

Why is Israel going to pot?

A bill going through Israel’s Knesset, sponsored by two MKs, would decriminalize the personal use of cannabis. Read more

Junking the Jews is behind our current Hobbesian nightmare

International pressure on Israel not to extend its sovereignty over parts of the disputed territories of Judea and Samaria is increasing. Read more

Don’t identify Jews with ‘white imperialism’

The experience of being an immigrant group and living as a minority in an often hostile culture is, of course, one that Diaspora Jews know only too well. Read more

The unmistakable echoes in the culture war against the West

In Britain, statues of historical figures associated with colonialism or slavery are being pulled down or slated for removal. Read more

Victim culture tears up Jewish moral norms

The appalling rioting that followed the shocking death of George Floyd under the knee of a police officer has left a trail of devastation across America. Once again, however, Jews have found themselves singled out for particular attack. Read more

Is the EU having second thoughts over its hostility towards the Jewish state?

Has the European Union reached a tipping point over Israel? Or to be more precise, is the Europeans’ bluff finally to be called over Israel’s proposal to extend its sovereignty over parts of Judea and Samaria? Read more

Israel-bashers fail to see the Arab train leaving the station

It’s a busy time for Israel-haters. So what’s new? Well, a lot. Read more

A muffled consensus serves not Israel but her enemies

Should Jewish communal organizations aim to achieve consensus above all or bear witness to the truth? Read more

Israel still suffers virus of hate even as it saves Arab lives

While countries around the world struggle to get on top of the COVID-19 crisis, Israel’s achievement so far has been remarkable. Read more

British Jews are too eager to embrace Starmer’s still dubious Labour Party

In both Britain and America, the Jewish community is increasingly badly served by leaders who seem less and less able to distinguish between the friends and the enemies of the Jewish people. Read more

From San Remo to its 72nd birthday, Israel survives the virus of political and moral collapse

One hundred years ago this Sunday, the four principal allied powers involved in World War I signed a resolution at San Remo. Next week, Israel celebrates Yom Ha’atzmaut, the 72nd anniversary of the state’s declaration of independence. Read more

The story that Jews repeat on Passover is the secret of their survival

As Jews around the world celebrate the festival of Passover this week, the ironies are painful. Read more

For Israel, recognizing another enemy is second nature

Among the world’s democracies fighting the coronavirus, Israel has so far been by far the most successful. Read more

Will a microbe seal the fate of Iran’s virulent regime?

The point about events that catch us unawares is that we are never prepared for the unexpected to happen. Who would have thought that the entire world would suddenly be destabilized by one microbe? Read more

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