Judaism

November 1, 2024 | David Daoud |

Naim Qassem’s inaugural speech as Hezbollah’s new secretary-general

One day after his surprise appointment as Hezbollah’s new secretary-general, Naim Qassem delivered his inaugural speech from that post—his fourth speech since Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination. Qassem’s...

August 30, 2024 | Ben Cohen |

The Nazification of anti-Zionism

It’s designed to make audiences, aided by the ubiquitousness of social media, despise all Jews.

August 21, 2024 | |

U.S. Lawmaker Highlights Plight of Christian Man Imprisoned in Egypt Over Facebook Posts

The plight of a Yemeni man imprisoned in Egypt for participating in a Facebook group composed of Muslim converts to Christianity has been highlighted by a prominent U.S. lawmaker....

July 31, 2024 | David Daoud |

War of attrition: U.S. can deter Hezbollah by showing support for Israel

Excerpt If Israel and Lebanon had been teetering on the brink of war for nearly a year, Hezbollah’s strike in Majdal Shams on Saturday, which killed 12 Israeli children, could tip matters over the...

July 2, 2024 | |

American October 7 Victims File U.S. Lawsuit Against Iran, Syria and North Korea

The Anti-Defamation League (ADL), a U.S.-based Jewish civil rights organization, submitted a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court in Washington, DC, on July 1 targeting the regimes in Iran, Syria, and North Korea for enabling Hamas’s terrorist atrocities in Israel on October 7...

September 11, 2023 | |

Israel, Partners Foiled 27 Iranian Terror Plots in Last Year 

Latest Developments  Israel’s intelligence services and their foreign partners have foiled 27 Iranian-orchestrated terrorist plots over the last year, Mossad director David Barnea revealed on...

May 3, 2023 | Tony Badran |

The New Herodians

Herod the Great’s alignment with the Roman empire led to both the high-point of Jewish power and the destruction of the Jewish state.

April 10, 2023 | Enia Krivine, Shannon Walsh

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.

April 4, 2023 | |

Jordan’s King Incites Anti-Israel Sentiment

Jordan’s King Incites Anti-Israel Sentiment Latest Developments King Abdullah II of Jordan on Sunday told a visiting Palestinian Authority (PA) delegation, led by President Mahmoud Abbas, that...

March 22, 2023 | |

Israel Braces for Violence During Ramadan

Latest Developments  Israeli police plan to deploy thousands of additional officers in Jerusalem ahead of Ramadan in anticipation of recurrent violence on the Temple Mount. Police forces will bulk up...

March 21, 2023 | David May, Richard Goldberg

How to Keep Antisemitism Away From Turtle Bay

Another antisemite has turned up in the ranks of senior UN officials — this time in the body’s human rights arm, no less. Craig Mokhiber heads the New York section of the Office of the High Commissioner...

January 11, 2023 | Clifford D. May |

Walk like an Israeli

Why a Jew’s visit to the holiest Jewish site provokes outrage

January 3, 2023 | |

Israeli Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir Visits Temple Mount

Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir made an unannounced visit on Tuesday to the Temple Mount, Judaism’s holiest site, drawing protests from the Palestinians, Jordan, the United Arab Emirates, and Saudi Arabia. Jews maintain a 3,000-year-old connection to the Temple Mount, where the two ancient Jewish temples once stood, and toward which Jews around the world face during prayer. The site is also sacred to Muslims, who call it the Noble Sanctuary, and houses the Al Aqsa Mosque, an icon of Palestinian nationalism. Ben-Gvir’s visit did not alter the mount’s status quo arrangement, which permits Israelis to visit but not pray at the site, and simply affirmed that Jews have the right to visit it.

July 28, 2021 | Mark Dubowitz |

How to Use Antisemitism Against Antisemites

Jewish power in America? When Sapir approached me to contribute an essay to this issue, my first instinct was to decline. I was born in South Africa and raised and educated in Canada. I became a U.S. citizen...

April 29, 2021 | Aykan Erdemir, Nadine Maenza

Turkey Needs to Change its Policy and Rhetoric Toward Religious Minorities

Turkish president Recep Tayyip Erdogan stunned his country’s Christians and Jews by publicly using the slur “gavur” (infidel), a pejorative designation for non-Muslims, to criticize...

February 23, 2021 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Oberlin ‘professor of peace’ called for destruction of Israel in 1989 speech

Former Iranian ambassador-turned-academic defended violent Palestinian intifada in 1989

November 24, 2020 | Richard Goldberg |

What Saudi Arabia Is Thinking

There’s talk of the new American administration moving closer to Iran. Could a Saudi step toward peace with Israel protect Riyadh from the troubles that might ensue?

November 23, 2020 | Aykan Erdemir |

Washington Can Help Free Turkey’s Highest-Profile Prisoner of Conscience

Among advocates for Turkey’s minorities, Osman Kavala is a secular saint. As a philanthropist, he has been the benefactor of initiatives to document and restore heritage sites, support arts and...

August 19, 2020 | Clifford D. May |

With friends like these…

Key European allies side with Tehran, Moscow and Beijing

July 25, 2020 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Iran stokes antisemitism about ‘Esther, The Girl who became Queen’

“A Zionist hero has infiltrated our streaming services” in Iran