Getting at the Truth

by Meira Svirsky (JNS) — Human Rights Watch released a new report documenting rocket and mortar attacks launched in May by Palestinian terror groups in the Gaza Strip against Israel. In that conflict, “Operation Guardian of the Walls,” the terror […]

Jerusalem Mayor Mordechai Weingarten is accompanied by Arab fighters at the end of May 1948 to sign surrender documents to the city, specifically to the Jewish Quarter, where generations of Jewish families had lived and were forced to evacuate. It […]

by Mitchell Bard (JNS) — For many of us, the world’s hypocrisy when it comes to Israel is self-evident, and the double standards applied to the only Jewish state are clearly anti-Semitic. Typically, we think about these biases when issues […]

by Alex Safian (CAMERA) — Human Rights Watch has just published Gaza: Apparent War Crimes During May Fighting, supposedly examining Israeli strikes in Gaza, and it comes as little surprise that their conclusion is that Israel committed significant war crimes. […]

by James Sinkinson (FLAME) — Israel’s enemies have accused it of many outlandish transgressions over its 73 years. It has been called an offspring of Nazi Germany, a socialist outpost, a “Crusader nation” and an apartheid state. The Palestinian Arabs […]

Mansour Abbas, head of the Ra’am Party, arrives for coalition talks at the Maccabiah Village in Ramat Gan on June 2, 2021. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90. by Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — While addressing Congress last month, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.) […]

by Rabbi Daniel Rowe (JNS) — Despite everything you may have been reading or hearing these last few weeks, Israel has delivered the greatest moral miracle in the history of warfare. The conduct of the Israel Defense Forces vis-à-vis the […]

by Joshua Washington Right now, Israel is at war with Gaza again. What seemingly began with an ongoing court case that was set to adjourn this year, has grown into a full-out war by Hamas, the ruling party in Gaza, […]

Despite protests over their Gaza office being destroyed, the Associated Press is still managing to get the news out by Richard Friedman So figure this one out. On May 15, after warning those inside to evacuate, Israel demolished a Gaza […]

Piles of stones inside the Temple Mount mosques, in preparation for unrest against Israel. Photo courtesy Ambassador Gilad Erdan’s Twitter feed. by Larry Brook On May 12, our friends at the Birmingham Islamic Society issued a statement about the current […]

Image from the Israel Defense Forces website by Richard Friedman I have a good friend, a very thoughtful person who I’ve known for a long-time. She and I were reporters together at the Birmingham News and she went on to […]