James Kirchick

October 25, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Hopeless on Gaza 

No decent person can support terrorism and genocide

November 17, 2015 |

What to Do About the Kidnapping for Ransom Problem

President Obama announced the results of a study to overhau...

April 30, 2013 | |

America’s Inexcusable Inaction

In Syria, we are letting Assad slaughter at will

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 22, 2013 | James Kirchick The Tower |

Has Turkey Betrayed the West?

Once a secular, modernizing country, Turkey’s ruthless assault on journalists raises serious doubts about its future.

April 10, 2013 | James Kirchick Haaretz |

A Friendship Without Prejudice: Thatcher’s Kinship with Jews and Israel

Thatcher’s personal narrative of the determined outsider made good has clear Jewish resonances, and may explain her well-known affinity for Jews and her defense of Israel....

April 9, 2013 | James Kirchick Tablet

Being the Jew in the Box

To have conversations with Germans about Jews, I had to become an exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum

April 2, 2013 | James Kirchick New York Daily News |

Neglecting the Costs of Inaction

We were right to fight in Iraq; we are wrong to stand by in Syria

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...

March 19, 2013 |

Why the Falklands Matter

We should stand up for the United Kingdom in its just claims against Argentina

March 8, 2013 | |

Zionism Isn’t a Dirty Word

Turkish Prime Minister Recep Erdogan has provoked yet another international diplomatic stir with Israel. Speaking, (where else?), at a United Nations conference in Vienna last week, ...

February 19, 2013 |

Mona Eltahawy’s Illiberal Liberalism

The Egyptian activist's position on free speech and protest is troubling

February 7, 2013 | |

For Iran, the Holocaust is Just Another Tragedy – If It Ever Happened

On Monday, I invited Iranian Foreign Minister Ali Akbar Salehi to visit Berlin's Holocaust Memorial....

February 5, 2013 | |

Iran’s Nuclear Lies

A recent trip to Europe by a high-ranking official from Tehran was an exercise in deception

January 25, 2013 |

Dark Past Haunts Czech Election

It’s not often that a 70-year-old political dispute plays a role in a contemporary political campaign. But that’s precisely what is happening in the race for president of the Czech Re...

January 23, 2013 |

The Last Liberal: The Legacy of Joe Lieberman

In January 2004, the New Republic endorsed Joe Lieberman for president. By this time, recriminations against Democrats who had supported the Iraq War (or, in the parlance of the American...

January 10, 2013 |

Al Gore’s Al Jazeera Sellout

It was July 18th, 2008, the birthday of Samir Kuntar, and so Al Jazeera naturally had a birthday celebration. Fortuitously, Kuntar had been...

January 2, 2013 |

Chuck Hagel’s History of Homophobia

In June 1999, President Bill Clinton named Jim Hormel Ambassador to Luxembourg. Ambassadorships to cushy places like Luxembourg — a landlocked country of 1,000 square miles with half a mill...

December 21, 2012 | James Kirchick American Institute for Contemporary German Studies - Johns Hopkins University

Germany’s Circumcision Debate: A Personal Reflection

I never imagined that my existence as a Jew in Germany would be challenged by an advertisement in the Berlin U-Bahn. But there it was, staring at me on the U2 line on my way home one afternoon, a...

December 12, 2012 | James Kirchick Forward

South Africa’s ANC Lurches Into Anti-Semitism

Ruling Party Tarnishes Nelson Mandela's Legacy of Tolerance