April 4, 2024

Trump’s recent interview: Is he really abandoning Israel?

U.S. President Donald Trump carry a speech during an official welcoming ceremony on his arrival in Israel at Ben-Gurion International Airport, May, 22 2017. Credit: Muhammad Aamir Sumsum/Shutterstock. by Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — Has Donald Trump turned on Israel? That’s […]
April 3, 2024

Future U.S. diplomats being trained by Israel-hating faculty at Georgetown

Georgetown University. Credit: Weerawich/Shutterstock. by Mitchell Bard In the first week of the war, U.S. State Department officials began to protest their boss’s support for Israel. Since then, dozens more have sent dissent cables and signed statements criticizing U.S. policy, […]
March 30, 2024

The role of a wartime journalist is to convey the context of war

by David Bedein It is the role of a wartime journalist to convey the context of war. The Palestinian Authority, part of the Palestine Liberation Organization, makes it clear: it is in a full state of war to obliterate the […]
March 26, 2024

Biden’s UN betrayal endangers Israel, hands Hamas a major victory

The U.N. Security Council adopts Resolution 2728 (2024) 14-0, demanding an immediate ceasefire to Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip during Ramadan and immediate release of all hostages taken from Israel and being held in Gaza, with Washington […]
March 22, 2024

Pushing a two-state solution neither Israelis nor Palestinians want

U.S. President Bill Clinton looks on as Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin and Palestine Liberation Organization head Yasser Arafat shake hands at the signing of the Oslo Accords on Sept. 13, 1993. Credit: William J. Clinton Presidential Library/National Archives & […]
March 22, 2024

Biden, Schumer pivot away from Israel is already backfiring

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister’s Office in Jerusalem, June 18, 2023. Photo by Amit Shabi/POOL. by Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — The trouble with living in a bifurcated political culture isn’t just that everyone seems to be […]
March 18, 2024

There are limits to how many insults from Washington that Netanyahu will put up with

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a conference in Jerusalem, Feb.18, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90. by Ruthie Blum (JNS) — Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (Bibi) Netanyahu’s angry response to recent comments emanating from Washington is as welcome as it […]
March 16, 2024

The bitter truth about where anti-Zionism and antisemitism “collide”

A person holds a sign reading “Another Jew Against Zionism, Colonialism, Apartheid, Occupation, Genocide” at a protest at the Alberta Legislature in Edmonton, Canada, on Oct. 18, 2023. Credit: Jenari/Shutterstock. by Ben Cohen (JNS) — Collisions are often unintentional. Bumping […]
March 16, 2024

Ceasefire calls at Oscars: Antisemitism or naive idealism?

Oscar given at the Academy Awards. Credit: LanKS/Shutterstock. by Marc Erlbaum (JNS) — A handful of celebrities wore ceasefire pins to the annual Academy Awards ceremony in California on March 10. The red pins represent the organization Artists 4 Ceasefire, […]
March 15, 2024

The West’s Abandonment of the Jews: Human rights culture mainstreams Hamas lies

Samantha Power, USAID administrator, speaks at the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., on Aug. 1, 2023. Credit: Chuck Kennedy/U.S. State Department. by Melanie Phillips (JNS) — With every day that passes, it becomes ever clearer that Western civilization is […]
March 14, 2024

The problem is Hamas continuing to rule, not a lack of humanitarian aid

Displaced Palestinians pitch tents next to the Egyptian border with the city of Rafah in the southern Gaza Strip on March 8, 2024. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90. by Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — After months of pressure from left-wing critics […]