What Netanyahu didn’t say
What is it about Israel in general and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in particular that leads to so much careless reporting and tendentious commentary? Start with The New York Times,...
African Americans
The Lies American Jihadists Tell Themselves
Just three days before Nicholas Teausant tried to leave the United States -- alle...
Op-eds
The ‘Devil’ We Know
Anti-Semitism has transformed itself over the past two decades into a global scourge, as a resurgent movement of lethal Jew-hatred has led to murders in Europe and elsewhere. According to Daniel...
Op-eds
Being the Jew in the Box
To have conversations with Germans about Jews, I had to become an exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum
Op-eds
Eisenhower’s New Fans
Barack Obama and Chuck Hagel look to the 34th president as a foreign-affairs model. But is it a willful misreading?
Op-eds
If Only France and Germany Were in the Electoral College
The rest of the world adores Obama, but it shouldn't matter when Americans go to the polls
Op-eds
Ayman al Zawahiri’s New Video Messages
Al Qaeda leader Ayman al Zawahiri released a new two-part installment of his video series focusing on Egypt, which was posted on Oct. 24. It seems there was a delay in releasing this installment,...
Op-eds
What Condi Says About Romney
Floating Rice’s name as a possible vice president shows the Romney campaign’s lack of foreign-policy smarts
Op-eds
Are We Too Fair-minded to Take Our Own Side?
In the 20th century, a war was waged against the Jews of Europe. It culminated in the Holocaust. In the 21st century, a war is being waged against the Jews of the Middle East. How that turns out...
Op-eds
The Hitler Test
Why is it that no one bats an eyelash when a former United States national security adviser says...
Op-eds
Among the Truthers
Do we live in the age of conspiracy? In April, after repeated prodding by then-Presidential candidate Donald Trump, Barack Obama felt compelled to release his "long form" birth ce...
Op-eds
Somalia Still Sinking as Eritrea Entertains Enemies
September has not been a good month in the sometime Somali capital of Mogadishu, even by the relative standards of a failed state that has not had an effective central government in the sixteen y...
Op-eds
Botswana’s Success Sparkles amid African Gloom
While the world has been watching the pathetic spectacle being played out in Harare, Zimbabwe, as Robert Mugabe clings desperately to the levers of power he has held for nearly three decades (see...
Op-eds
The Company He Keeps
Meet Obama's circle: The same old America-hating Left.
Op-eds
The Wright Stuff vs. the Woods Model
The same pundits who declared John McCain dead and Hillary Clinton inevitable are now saying Barack Obama has weathered the storm over his association with Jeremiah Wright. Color me skeptical. Th...
Op-eds
LGBT Activists Should Know Friends From Foes
Co-Authored with Stuart Appelbaum Lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender communities in the Muslim world face lethal homophobia. Yet too many LGBT progressives in the W...
Op-eds
Prominent European Islamic Terrorist Renounces Extremism
A key figure in one of Europe's most infamous Islamic extremist networks has written a public letter renouncing whole swathes of the ideology that led him to try to murder non-believers. On...
Op-eds
The Homegrown Terror Threat
Homegrown terrorism has been much discussed on cable news channels and the op-ed pages of major newspapers in recent months. The attention is unsurprising. After all, 2009 saw more homegrown terr...
Op-eds
The Shooting of Luqman Abdullah
Co-authored by Madelein Gruen In late October, a shootout at a warehouse in Dearborn, Michigan, claimed the life of Luqman Abdullah -- the imam of Detroit's Masjid al-...
Op-eds
Cause Célèbre Islam: Racism, Revolution, Black Nationalism
“We can’t just be saying, ‘O.K., everything is run by the U.S. government,’ we got to take out the U.S. government. The U.S. government is nothing but Kuffars.”...