Jewish identity

February 21, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

The dreaded moment is finally here

An eerie ceremony that Palestinian Arabs held in Gaza as two small caskets were shown mocked the youngest of the remaining hostages, little Ariel and Kfir Bibas, even in death.

January 31, 2025 | Ben Cohen |

The right to exist

Out of more than 200 states in the international system, the survival of only one of them—the State of Israel—seems to be up for debate.

August 4, 2023 | Hussain Abdul-Hussain |

Can Saudi normalization with Israel hurt Palestinians?

Riyadh has rightly stopped handing out free money to Palestinians unwilling to help themselves

January 21, 2018 | Grant Rumley

The Tragedy of Mahmoud Abbas

Picture a Palestinian leader in the twilight of his reign. Besieged on all sides and challenged by younger upstarts, he lashes out against Israel, his Arab bret...

January 15, 2015 | Benjamin Weinthal The Philadelphia Inquirer

Are Jews Safe in Europe?

Co-authored by Asaf Romirowsky Last week's terrorist attack on a kosher supermarket in Paris underscored a fear that has been growing in recent years: Europe is n...

August 4, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal

Behind Europe’s Anti-Semitic Slurs

A Belgian doctor refuses to provide emergency medical care to a Jewish woman, telling her, “I’m not coming . . . Send her to Gaza for a few hours, then she’ll get rid of the pai...

July 29, 2014 | Benjamin Weinthal

Why Anti-Zionism Is Modern Anti-Semitism

Israel’s defensive Operation Protective Edge against Hamas rocket fire revealed that it took a military conflict to show that anti-Zionism cannot be decouple...

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’...

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

December 27, 2010 | The Weekly Standard

Gitmo Is Not al Qaeda’s ‘Number One Recruitment Tool’

During a press conference on December 22, President Obama was asked about the difficulties his administration has encountered in trying to close Guantanamo. The president explained (emphasis adde...