Getting at the Truth

by Alan Baker (JNS) — Over the years, states, leaders, international organizations, and the international and Israeli media have developed a tendency to endlessly repeat certain internationally recognizable catchphrases and buzzwords with the aim of dictating and influencing a distinct, […]

by Micha Danzig (Jewish Journal) — So much of what has happened surrounding the death of Shireen Abu Akleh is emblematic of the entire Arab-Israeli conflict. If you have been hiding under a rock for the past few days, here […]

by Stephen Flatow (JNS) — With news of war in Ukraine grabbing all the headlines, Palestinian Arab officials and advocates are straining to find comparisons between the Ukraine-Russian crisis and their own cause. There are indeed some comparisons, though not […]

by Steven Emerson (IPT) — Less than four days after a gunman held four Jews hostage inside a Texas synagogue in a doomed attempt to free a convicted terrorist, the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) thinks it is ready to […]

by Stephen M. Flatow (JNS) — There are some pretty nutty conspiracy theories about Covid-19 going around these days. The nuttiest ones are coming from Palestinian Arab leaders. When you hear the details of what they’re claiming, it’s tempting to […]

by Alan Dershowitz (JNS) — At a time when the statues of good people who had done bad things are being torn down, the world must reckon with the mixed legacy of Bishop Desmond Tutu, even in the immediate aftermath […]

by James Sinkinson (FLAME) — Despite the daily stream of lies from Israel’s critics that the Jewish state practices apartheid, genocide, illegal land grabs and the slaughter of children, most Arabs living in Israel tell researchers they prefer Israeli rule […]

by James Sinkinson (FLAME) — While Jews have been persecuted over the centuries more than perhaps any other people, they can take at least cold comfort in the fact that their enemies almost always rely on outright lies to attack […]

by Steven Emerson Investigative Project on Terrorism The Washington Post posted a profile on Oct. 25 about the police chief of a small Georgia town who has a fairly revolutionary training program. Rather than teaching his officers to shoot at a […]

Photo by Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90 by Larry Brook (This is part of an ongoing series that goes behind partisan gotchas and hot-button takes on issues — because there are enough accurate outrageous stories about the Middle East, it does no good […]

The Free Library of Philadelphia. Credit: Tupungato/Shutterstock. by Dmitriy Shapiro (JNS) — A public library system in Philadelphia is promising to make operational changes after drawing criticism for what some community members are considering an effort to indoctrinate children and […]