Jewish News Syndicate

August 9, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

An open call to murder Jews in a Belgian magazine

The pain caused by contemporary antisemitism is partly rooted in the fact that we can’t ignore it.

August 2, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

Enough is enough: NATO must suspend cooperation with Turkey

Under the brutally authoritarian rule of Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, its diehard Islamist president, it has stood out as the alliance’s greatest liability.

July 26, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

Worrying signals on the Middle East from Britain’s new Labour government

When it comes to Keir Starmer, there is no doubting his personal detestation of antisemitism and his determination to root it out of his party. Still, recent foreign-policy decisions sound alarms.

May 24, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

Why the pro-Hamas demonstrations are different and more dangerous

“It is this movement,” according to a British report on political extremism, “that has proven most willing to use law breaking, intimidation, and at times, violence.”

May 17, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

UNRWA meets the Spanish Inquisition

They may be separated by seven centuries, but a commonality is clearly apparent when it comes to the Jewish people.

April 11, 2024 | Richard Goldberg |

MSCI ESG Ratings May Violate State Anti-BDS Laws

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody and 17 other state attorneys general sent a letter on March 28 to financial analytics firm MSCI Inc. following a report the firm may be imposing punitive environmental,...

July 14, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

States Should Deliver the Final Blow to BDS at Morningstar

It’s up to governors, attorneys general, and treasurers to rid this company of Israel boycotts once and for all.

April 24, 2023 | Richard Goldberg |

Morningstar Blacklist May Violate State Anti-BDS Laws

The Jewish News Syndicate (JNS) this week reported that Sustainalytics — the environmental, social, governance (ESG) ratings arm of Morningstar, Inc. — imposes negative “controversy” ratings on...

December 3, 2021 | Avinoam Idan, Dr. Brenda Shaffer

Israel’s role in the Second Armenia-Azerbaijan War

Excerpt The Republic of Azerbaijan and the State of Israel have enjoyed extensive ties and cooperation since the restoration of Azerbaijan’s independence in 1991 and strategic cooperation since the mid-1990s....

January 8, 2018 | Behnam Ben Taleblu Quoted by Ariel Ben Solomon - Jewish News Service |

Experts debate whether protests can change Iran

Amid the continued popular protests throughout Iran, what will the future hold for the country’s terror-funding Shi’a regime? ... Behnam Ben Taleblu, an Iran...

August 8, 2017 | Behnam Ben Taleblu |

Amid new US sanctions, how much of Iran’s nuclear deal relief funds terrorism?

As the Trump administration ramps up sanctions against Iran, how much of Iran’s sanctions relief from the nuclear deal of 2015 is funding the Islamic Rep...

February 16, 2017 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Trump tells Netanyahu to ‘hold back’ on settlements, vague on two-state solution

President Donald Trump and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu held their first joint press conference Wednesday at the White House, ahead of a private meeting t...

February 9, 2017 | David Weinberg |

Trump’s Iran sanctions realign US Mideast policy back toward Sunnis and Israel

President Donald Trump’s administration issued new sanctions against Iran’s ballistic missile program Friday, marking a major step toward realigning U.S. policy in the Middle East awa...

November 3, 2016 | Tony Badran |

New Lebanese president ‘icing on the cake’ of Hezbollah’s consolidation of power

The Lebanese parliament elected Michael Aoun as its president Oct. 31, ending a two-and-half-year vacuum that threatened to destabilize the highly sectarian country. Aoun, 81, a retired...

April 22, 2016 | Jonathan Schanzer |

As Israel asserts Golan control, the move is a civil war’s one point of agreement

With Syria’s civil war raging on in its sixth year, neighboring Israel has largely managed to keep a comfortable distance from the bloody conflict, in no small part thanks to the Jewish sta...

March 18, 2016 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

With the Russian drawdown in Syria, Israel seeks reassurances

On March 14, Russian President Vladimir Putin made a surprise announcement that he would withdraw the “main part” of Russian forces from Syria, shocking many of the countries concerne...

October 13, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer |

Abbas’s Tongue Targets Temple Mount, and Israel Says the Result is Terror

The Hamas terrorist group is open about its mission of destroying Israel. But the current wave of Palestinian terror consuming the Jewish state has led Israeli leaders to instead blame the unrest...

April 1, 2015 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

Amid Nuclear Talks, Iran Forges Ahead with Middle East Power Play

A March 31 deadline for a framework agreement in the nuclear talks has not yet brought an announcement of a deal, and any pact would be just a precursor to a final deal before a June 30 deadline....

January 2, 2015 | Jonathan Schanzer Quoted by Sean Savage - JNS |

After U.N. Defeat, Palestinian Unilateralism Seen as ‘Losing its Luster’

... “[The resolution’s failure] is no great surprise, since the United States has a veto [at the Security Council],” Jonathan Schanzer, vice president for researc...