Don’t know much about Middle Eastern history
The appalling ignorance of Hamas supporters
Holy Land
Shabaab celebrates Hamas-led invasion of Israel, calls people to jihad
Joining other al-Qaeda branches around the world, Shabaab, al-Qaeda’s branch for East Africa, expressed jubilation for the Hamas-led invasion of Israel in a new statement. Shabaab thus joins al-Qaeda’s...
Op-eds
Memo to Biden: The United Nations Won’t Love You Back
Another loss for the U.S. at the U.N. shows the folly of engaging with the body for engagement’s sake.
Op-eds
Israeli and Ukrainian Relations Are Essential; Is Rosh Hashanah Development a Hopeful Sign?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, in order to come to an agreement on Jewish pilgrims visiting the Ukranian town...
Op-eds
Israel’s long, hot summer
The Jewish state faces intensifying threats and internal divisions
Op-eds
UN ‘Nakba’ Day devolves into antisemitism
Palestinian National Authority President Mahmoud Abbas used his United Nations speech last week to accuse Israelis of systematically lying, likening the Jewish state to Nazi propagandist Joseph...
Op-eds
Members of the Clergy Politicize Holy Week in the Holy Land
Christians are flourishing in Israel, yet before Easter, some members of the clergy exploited the period of heightened religious emotion to level false accusations of systemic oppression against Israel. Meanwhile, others spread conspiracy theories that mirror the blood libel sermons taught about the Jews during Holy Week in previous centuries.
Op-eds
UN Human Rights Council report aims to put Israelis behind bars
The United Nations Human Rights Council’s Commission of Inquiry on the May 2021 Israel-Hamas conflict released its highly anticipated report on Tuesday. The commission distorts history and erases Jerusalem’s...
Op-eds
Merkel needs to end support for terrorist Iran’s regime
Germany’s next government (elections are set for September) must break from its unsavory romance with Tehran and start to show a little more love towards Israel.
Op-eds
Sheikh Jarrah is the latest ‘single point of failure’ fiction
This is certainly not the first time that the “single point of failure” narrative has been wielded to explain a campaign of organized Palestinian or Arab-Israeli violence.
Op-eds
The Biden Agenda: Eyes on Iran
Look for plans to return the U.S. to the JCPOA while concerns about regional aggression, terrorism, and more are shunted to the side.
Op-eds
Bringing the Middle East Back Home
The American Orientalist Class attempts to paint a fantasy Middle Eastern landscape on the American canvas
Op-eds
The Israeli–Palestinian Struggle, Continued.
Whenever the Israeli–Palestinian question arises in Washington, an assumption inevitably precedes it: the United States has an important and unique role to play in advancing peace between these two...
Op-eds
Some ‘Modernizer’
Is Saudi Arabia’s crown prince joining a long line of absolutist rulers in the Middle East?
Op-eds
In the Mideast, Trump Gives Reality a Chance
A lot of people are in a funk over President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as Israel’s capital. The liberal media, most former government officials who’ve dealt with t...
Op-eds
German University Town Under Fire For Boycott Activity Against Israel
The Simon Wiesenthal Center, the Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor and pro-Israel advocates in Germany have expressed their disgust and outrage at the southern German city of Heidelberg for its activit...
Op-eds
Replacing patriotism with tribalism
Just after last week’s terrorist attack in Barcelona, a pro-Islamic State website posted video from the scene along with a message in Arabic saying, “Terror is filling the hearts of t...
Op-eds
Kerry’s Address: More Posturing Than Policy
Secretary of State John Kerry, in a speech...
Policy Briefs
Jobless and Desperate Palestinians
A few years ago, Daniel Birnbaum, an Israeli businessman, had an odd idea: “I decided I wanted to employ Palestinians.” So he took over a factory on the West Bank -- where un...
Op-eds
Cutthroats of the Holy Land
Over the years, Israelis have had to defend themselves from foreign armies, suicide bombers and missiles. Over recent weeks, they’ve been confronting a new threat: young Palestinians wieldi...