American Jews

May 10, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

What Biden didn’t say about antisemitism

What aspects of the surge in hatred would have convinced a besieged Jewish community that the leader of the free world is not just an ally, but someone who fundamentally grasps the nature of contemporary threats?

April 21, 2023 | Sinan Ciddi |

What does Turkey’s Erdogan want with Israel?

Following the recent escalation of violence in Israel, particularly at Jerusalem’s Al-Aqsa Mosque, President Recep Tayyip Erdogan of Turkey used a telephone conversation...

July 28, 2021 | Mark Dubowitz |

How to Use Antisemitism Against Antisemites

Jewish power in America? When Sapir approached me to contribute an essay to this issue, my first instinct was to decline. I was born in South Africa and raised and educated in Canada. I became a U.S. citizen...

July 7, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The Divided Self of John le Carré

The death of perhaps history’s greatest espionage writer John le Carré in December 2020 sparked a series of lively debates about the British novelist’s contradictory views toward Zionism, Jews and...

February 24, 2020 | David May |

Palestinians and the ICC play a cruel game with international law

The Palestinians say they are merely pursuing justice but it is increasingly clear the Palestinians are using the court as a weapon.

March 6, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

In a first, U.S. calls on German banks to close BDS accounts

The account in question belongs to the Jewish Voice for a Fair Peace in the Middle East and is used to raise funds to promote BDS.

February 22, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German Foundation Under Fire for Awarding Prize to Antisemitic BDS Group

The group is called Jewish Voice for a Just Peace in the Middle East and is an energetic supporter of Boycott, Divestment, and Sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting the Jewish state.

January 7, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Exclusive: PayPal Closes Nazi Party Account Linked to Hezbollah, Assad, BDS

A range of German and American politicians over the years have urged PayPal to terminate the The Third Way account.

August 8, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

German governor boycotts anti-Israel music festival affiliated with BDS

Armin Laschet, the governor of Germany’s most populous state, North Rhine-Westphalia, announced on Tuesday that he will not attend the Ruhrtriennale arts and music festival because it has n...

January 6, 2017 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

Protecting Palestine

Not long ago, I was talking to a Fatah official about Palestinian aspirations, especially his party’s sharp emotions about Hamas, the Palestinian fundamentalist movement that rules Gaza and...

April 7, 2016 | Aykan Erdemir |

Real Rapprochement with Israel Requires Turkey to Tackle Anti-Semitism

Turkish and Israeli negotiators are having talks at an undisclosed location in pursuit o...

September 23, 2015 | Clifford D. May |

Why Republican Presidential Candidates Support Israel

So last week during the Republican debate, hundreds of thousands of people read your tweets lambasting four of the candidates — Gov. Chris Christie, former Gov. Mike Huckabee and Senators M...

October 27, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

The Italian Exception: Defeating the Anti-Semites

The headlines from Europe are all grim. Synagogues assaulted in France, Jews murdered at the Jewish Museum in Brussels and savagely beaten in the streets of Great Britain and Scandinavia, mobs of...

August 25, 2014 |

James Foley is a Martyr For a Civilization That Has Renounced Martyrdom

A decade from now, will anyone remember the name James Foley? We should. Everyone should. The 40-year-old American freelance journalist was doing something brave when he was kidnapped in...

July 23, 2014 | Michael Ledeen

What Are the Jews Supposed To Do?

Missiles over and into Israel. Violent demonstrations in London, Paris and Vienna. Violent demonstrators in Boston and on innumerable university campuses. Calls of "Death to the Jews." W...

March 7, 2014 | Reuel Marc Gerecht |

A Baleful Peace Process

To be outrageously iconoclastic among the Washington foreign-policy crowd is easy: Just suggest that the Israeli-Arab peace process is not merely pointless but actually damaging to America’...

July 4, 2013 | Clifford D. May |

History of the World, Winged Camels, and an Israel-Palestine Peace

Tel Aviv, Israel — Israel’s military is unusual in many ways, but start with this: A patch on Captain Omri Levy’s sleeve alludes to a Mel Brooks j...

April 25, 2013 |

The Ron Paul Institute: Be Afraid, Very Afraid

In December 2011, when Ron Paul was leading the Republican presidential-primary pack in the Iowa caucuses, the former Texas congressman’s notorious newsletters resurfaced in the national de...

April 1, 2013 | James Kirchick Commentary |

Gay—or Left?

On July 19, 2005, authorities in the Iranian city of Mashhad publicly lynched two teenagers, Mahmoud Asgari and Ayaz Marhoni, for the alleged crime of raping a 13-year-old boy. Horrific pictures...

December 28, 2012 | Benjamin Weinthal

Books: Stand-Outs in Their Field

IN his 1980 autobiography, Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture, 1960s American Jewish counter-cultural revolutionary Abbie Hoffman – who participated i...