September 10, 2023

Oslo at 30: What went wrong

Israeli Defense Forces Chief of Staff Yitzhak Rabin with members of the IDF senior command in 1964 — almost 30 years before the signing of the Oslo Accords. Photo by Avraham Vered/Israel Defense Forces and Defense Establishment Archive from the […]
July 20, 2023

Is the U.S. losing Israel?

U.S. President Joe Biden with Israeli President Isaac Herzog during a ceremony at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, July 14, 2022. Photo: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90 by Lawrence Solomon (JNS) — The mantras that “the U.S.-Israel relationship is rock solid” and “the […]
July 8, 2023

Ben & Jerry’s Hypocrisy over Indigenous Rights

Ben & Jerry’s ice-cream in a grocery-store freezer. Credit: Ho Su A Bi/Shutterstock.com. by Farley Weiss and Leonard Grunstein (JNS) — On July 4, 2023, the board of the ice cream giant Ben & Jerry’s made headlines by declaring, “The […]
April 19, 2023

Why the financial crisis in UNRWA? It’s self-inflicted

UNRWA textbook featuring Palestinian terrorist Dalal Mughrabi as a role model for children. (Photo: https://www.bnaibrith.ca/) by David Bedein This week, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East discerned that the United States will […]
April 14, 2023

“Occupation” myth drives antisemitic terrorism

Press briefing by Francesca Albanese, special rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the occupied Palestinian Territories at the United Nations in New York City, Oct. 27, 2022. Credit: Lev Radin/Shutterstock. by Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — Anger at the […]
March 30, 2023

Who is really “pro-Palestinian?” Not the terror apologists

File photo. by Bassam Tawil (Gatestone Institute) — An anti-Israel group called Palestinian Solidarity Forum on March 20 invited officials from the Iranian-backed Palestinian terror groups Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad to speak at an event at the University of […]
February 16, 2023

Why do so many pretend that Jews building homes is preventing peace?

A view of Efrat’s Dagan (foreground) and Tamar (background) neighborhoods, near Bethlehem in Judea and Samaria, Nov. 10, 2020. Credit: Gershon Elinson/Flash90. by Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — When the spokespersons for the U.S. State Department and the foreign ministries of […]
January 16, 2023

Reforming Israel’s Supreme Court is perfectly reasonable

by Rabbi Dov Fischer (JNS) — I approach the topic of the reform of the Israeli judicial system not merely as a rabbi who has spent 40 years engaged in Jewish public policy issues, but also as a recent retiree […]
January 8, 2023

What killed the two-state solution? Cheers and cash for terrorists

by Jonathan Tobin (JNS) — In his initial phone conversation with new Israeli Foreign Minister Eli Cohen, to congratulate him and the rest of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government on taking office, U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken conveyed two […]
January 2, 2023

Dangerous to label young Palestinian terrorists as innocent “children”

by Stephen Flatow (JNS) — I’ve written previously about the folly of treating violent Palestinian Arab teenagers as if they are innocent children. Now we have yet another real-life example of the dangers involved. A terrorist named Nasser Abu Hamid […]
January 1, 2023

Does Jordan’s King Really Protect Christians in the Middle East?

Jordan’s King Abdullah II address to the U.N. General Assembly on Sept. 20, 2022. Source: Youtube. by Jonathan Feldstein I was disappointed to read of Jordanian King Abdullah II warning Israel not to cross “red lines” on Jerusalem, during a […]