Eugene Kontorovich

October 21, 2024 | |

Israel SitRep: October 21, 2024

Today’s Issue: | IDF Strikes Hezbollah Financial Targets in Lebanon Overnight | Al-Qard al-Hassan Association: A Hezbollah Financial Institution Used to Launder Money | IDF Operating in Northern, Central,...

May 6, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

The ICC Had Better Be Ready to Reap the Whirlwind

Biden thought an olive branch would keep the court within its jurisdictional bounds. He was wrong.

July 8, 2022 | David May, Richard Goldberg

Earth to Executives: Boycotts of Israel Backfire

Letter to the Editor

May 21, 2022 | David May |

End the WHO’s Unhealthy Obsession With Israel

Eliminating the World Health Organization’s double standard will not only ensure Israel’s fair treatment but allow the WHO to address the world’s true health problems.

February 3, 2021 | Clifford D. May |

Recalling the Holocaust is insufficient

The UN fails to name those threatening genocide or threatened by genocide

May 20, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

Israel’s daunting decision

Calculating the benefits and risks of drawing permanent borders

February 2, 2017 | Jonathan Schanzer

Israel, the Palestinians and the United Nations: Challenges for the New Administration

Download the full testimony here Chairm...

January 4, 2017 | Orde Kittrie |

What UNSCR 2334 Could Mean Beyond the United Nations, and How the Trump Administration Can Respond

Notwithstanding the distractions of the holiday season, a considerable debate has erupted over the significance of U.N. Security Council ...

July 25, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Analysis: Is the BDS movement facing economic warfare?

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement is staring down the barrel of economic warfare with financial assaults on BDS, replicating in many ways the sanctions architecture imposed on Iran t...

June 15, 2016 | Clifford D. May

Terrorism and economic warfare

Tel Aviv’s Sarona Market bills itself as the “heartbeat of Israeli culinary art.” Dozens of small restaurants and shops offer cheese, wine, bread, fish, olives, pasta, burgers &...

December 8, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal

Analysis: Are EU Labels On Settlement Products Triggering Anti-Semitism?

Nearly a month after the European Union imposed special sanctions on Israeli products from disputed territories, there is a growing sense that the penalty is a shot in the arm for hardcore anti-I...

November 10, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Label Europe anti-Israel

On Wednesday, the European Union is slated to officially announce guidelines mandating the labeling of products from Israeli settlements. This form of economic warfare unfairly targets the Jewish...

August 5, 2015 | Clifford D. May

Mounting a Defense Against Economic Warfare

Attempts to exterminate Israel through what we have come to call “kinetic warfare” began immediately following Arab rejection of the UN Partition Plan of 1947 -- the first offer of a...

May 27, 2015 | Clifford D. May

The Longest Hatred

Robert S. Wistrich, who died suddenly last week, was considered the foremost scholar of anti-Semitism, which he called “the longest hatred,” one that appears to be metastasizing in th...

January 30, 2015 | |

FDD Vice President to Testify Before Congress Wednesday on Palestinian Authority’s Bid at the ICC

Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for research of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, will testify before the House Committee on Foreign Affairs Wednesday on “...

September 21, 2004 | |

Presbyterian Preachiness

Authored by Eugene Kontorovich What do the Presbyterian Church and the Syrian Baathist dictatorship have in common? They have both pledged themselves to cutting off tie...

July 31, 2004 |

Reform Strategy of Saudi Arabia

Authored by Eugene Kontorovich The Bush administration has a unique opportunity to promote peace in the Middle East and further the war against terrorism. That opportunity is ba...