The News

January 17, 2023

Why did Harvard’s Kennedy School reject HRW’s Ken Roth?

by Richard Cravatts (JNS) — For three decades under the leadership of Kenneth Roth, Human Rights Watch has obsessively and relentlessly targeted Israel. Roth’s fixation on libeling the Jewish state was so blatant that even the organization’s founder and chairman, […]
January 17, 2023

Ethnic Studies activists pushing anti-Israel agenda into K-12 schools

(CAMERA) — American educators have long taught about the history, accomplishments and struggles of ethnic groups under the rubric of multicultural education. In this process, the American mosaic is presented as complex, hopeful, and as reinforcing the national credo, “E […]
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 15, 2023

New York New Year’s machete attacker had motive: U.S. support of Israel

Trevor Bickford by Sean Durns (CAMERA) — A man who allegedly attacked several New York City police officers on New Year’s Eve was reportedly motivated by American support for Israel. Some in the press, however, have been mum about Trevor […]
January 14, 2023

Global Christian media personalities reflect on Jerusalem media summit

Participants visited the Gaza border and heard from Israelis who live near there about the issues they face from the Hamas-controlled strip by Jonathan Feldstein Last month, Israel’s Government Press Office hosted the sixth Christian Media Summit in Jerusalem, the […]
January 12, 2023

The New York Times’ Orwellian obsession with demonizing Israel

“The New York Times” building in Midtown Manhattan. Credit: Ajay Suresh via Wikimedia Commons. by Phyllis Chesler (JNS) — Are things really as bad as I think they are regarding propaganda against Israel and Jews, a subject I began closely […]
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 5, 2023

Bedein: Palestinian Authority is first entity in the world to endorse murder of Jews

Israel Behind the News David Bedein, director of the Israel Resource news agency at the Nahum Bedein Center for Near East Policy Research, has a strong message for the new right wing Israeli government — to be very careful regarding […]
January 4, 2023

Ben-Gvir visited the Temple Mount. Why is this a problem, or even news?

Hezbollah leader Hassan Nasrallah during a speech, Jan. 3, 2023, where he says Ben-Gvir’s visit to the Temple Mount could “explode” the Middle East. Credit: Screenshot/Al-Manar. by Jonathan Feldstein This week, much of the world got uptight over the visit […]
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 […]