Bar-Ilan University

October 15, 2024 | Ariel Admoni, Natalie Ecanow

Only the UN Could Present Qatar as a Champion of Human Rights

The United Nations just re-elected a veteran human rights abuser to a seat on the Human Rights Council. That tends to happen every year, but there is special cause for concern when the abuser is Qatar,...

July 19, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

An ‘abject, squalid, shameless’ debate at the Oxford Union

An Israeli professor strikes back at the Union's disgraceful attempt to paint Israel as a genocidal, apartheid state.

October 25, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Hopeless on Gaza 

No decent person can support terrorism and genocide

December 5, 2022 | Shany Mor, Einat Wilf

Will Bibi Make the Left’s Nightmares Come True? It’s Never Happened Before

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September 30, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir |

Spectacles of Tolerance: The Precarity of Turkey’s Religious Minorities in the Era of Neo-Ottoman Delusions

Excerpt Turkey watchers continue to debate whether neo-Ottomanism, an ideological proclivity to exalt and revive an imagined Ottoman past and its traditions of religio-political authority and domination,...

June 3, 2020 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Book Review: “Arafat and Abbas: Portraits of Leadership in a State Postponed”

Bar-Ilan University professor Klein had a front row seat for the collapse of the Oslo process, having advised the Israeli government when talks with the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) imploded...

April 7, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Notable German Journalist Under Fire for Comparing Israel to its Enemies

Professor Steinberg added “ If Schapira is seriously interested in the treatment of minors worldwide, including by Israel, she should look at the facts, and not propaganda. And she should apologize."

January 4, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

In strong attack on Israel, German foreign minister says settlements jeopardize peace

German Foriegn Minster Frank-Walter Steinmeier, a staunch proponent of the Iran nuclear deal, has slammed Israel in a series of tweets and statements since last Friday’s Security Council re...

November 15, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: What can be done about Europe’s listless pursuit of Hezbollah terrorists?

After murdering five Israelis and their Bulgarian bus driver in 2012, two Hezbollah...

August 2, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: The rise of German academic BDS

A German university seminar designed to teach that Israel harvests Palestinians&...

July 21, 2016 | Aykan Erdemir |

Despite detente, Erdogan may find Israel too good a scapegoat to resist

Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is likely to start blaming Israel for the attempted coup that threatened to depose him over the weekend, due to a perceived connection between the Jewish st...

July 5, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

Germany harbors 300 Hamas, 950 Hezbollah members and activists

Some 300 Hamas members and supporters – as well as 950 Hezbollah activists and members – are operating in Germany, the country’s domestic intelligence agency said in its annual...

November 11, 2015 | Clifford D. May

A Suggestion for the Islamic State Book Club

After a long week of slitting throats, smashing antiquities and raping infidel slave girls, how do the Islamic State’s barbarians unwind? Some, apparently, discuss the finer points of histo...

October 8, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Report Card on 50 Years of German-Israel Relations

Prime Minister Netanyahu’s cancellation of Thursday’s sixth joint cabinet consultation between Israel and Germany because of the domestic security situation comes at the end phase of...

September 8, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Iran Sanctions Relief Will Feed Europe’s Syrian Refugee Crisis

While Germany and Austria are in a celebratory mood about absorbing Syrian refugees, European politicians have ignored Iran’s role in producing the waves of desperate Syrians fleeing to Eur...

July 16, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: German-Iran Business Ties Complicate Relations With Israel

With the adoption of the Iran nuclear deal by world powers – including Germany – on Tuesday, Chancellor Angela’s Merkel administration issued a full-throated endorsement of the...

May 21, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Mideast Experts Blast European Group’s Call to Punish Israeli Government

Responding to a group calling itself the European Eminent Persons Group on Middle East issues (EEPG),which urged the EU to take unilateral actions against the Jewish state for the stagnate peace...

April 8, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

The Iranian Nuclear Threat and Greek-Israeli Relations

Two items in the March 7 issue of The National Herald, an editorial, “Netanyahu’s Pyrrhic Victory” and an opinion piece, “A National Disgrace: Boehner Undermines the Presi...

March 16, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

A House Undivided: Israel’s New Consensus Politics

Israelis go to the polls on March 17, and in a time-honored tradition, international pundits are hopin...

February 16, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal

Denmark Terror: Making Sense of the Continuation of European Lethal Anti-Semitism

BERLIN - The specter of lethal anti-Semitism has once again engulfed Europe, with the latest murder of the Danish Jew Dan Uzan who was guarding the Copenhagen synagogue. His death along with anot...