National Post

October 10, 2013 | |

Canadian Activists are Finally Learning that Israel Isn’t the Middle East’s True Villain

At the time of their release from Egyptian custody this past weekend, filmmaker and pro-Palestinian activist John Greyson and his traveling companion Tarek Loubani were just ...

September 11, 2013 | Jonathan Kay |

Bombing Syria Would Be Bound to Backfire

The case for bombing Syria comes in two flavours — left and right. But they boil down to the same bad argument. Liberal interventionists echo Barack Obama’s declaration that...

September 6, 2013 | Jonathan Kay |

‘Responsibility to Protect’ is No Basis for Bombing Syria

In the Saturday edition of the National Post, eminent human rights advocate Irwin Cotler wrote that “if mass atrocities in Syria are not a case for R2P [the Responsibility to Protect doctri...

June 19, 2013 |

Heads Held High in Afghanistan

Of all the books that have come out of the Afghanistan war since 9/11, one of the finest is The Outpost: An Untold Story of American Valor, Jake Tapper’s recently published ac...

June 3, 2013 |

Build, Baby, Build

For those of us old enough to remember the 1973 oil crisis, the current North American oil-and-gas boom has a slightly surreal quality: The familiar problem of high energy demand and low supply i...

May 9, 2013 | |

Stephen Hawking Should Go to Israel — and Gaza

The Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions movement against Israel has done nothing to cripple the Jewish state’s economy. But it has scored a few big symbolic victories. This week, it...

April 29, 2013 | Emanuele Ottolenghi |

The Problem with Iran Sanctions

In Today’s National Post, Sara Akrami and Saeed Ghasseminejad highlight the challenge of Western s...

April 29, 2013 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Connecting the Dots: Hezbollah, Iran’s Web of Plots

As the European Union grapples with a ban of the Lebanese Shi’ite organization Hezbollah within its territory, reports emerged last week of foiled Iranian and Hezbollah terror and criminal...

April 29, 2013 | The Long War Journal |

Details Emerge on Suspects in Canadian Terror Plot

By David Barnett On April 22, Canadian officials said the plotting of Chiheb Esseghaier and...

April 9, 2013 | Jonathan Kay National Post |

The BDS Movement Against Israel has Accomplished Less Than Nothing

The student union at York University in Toronto has voted...

April 5, 2013 | Jonathan Schanzer National Post

Why is the West Doing Business with Sudan?

What does Canada have in common with the regime in Sudan, which perpetrated genocide in Darfur, while allying with Iran and providing weapons to the Palestinian terror group Hamas? In pr...

April 1, 2013 | Jonathan Kay National Post

What Pakistan Needs is a South Asian Anwar Sadat

Power is an addictive drug. And like all addictions, it can drive men to reckless, even suicidal risks. Of this, there is no better example than Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan’s Presid...

March 1, 2013 | |

A Look Inside the Monstrous North Korean Gulag System that Dennis Rodman Will Never See

Dennis Rodman — former basketball player, pro wrestler, cross-dresser, boyfriend to Madonna, B-movie performer and reality-show star — is man who will play to any audience. That appar...

February 27, 2013 |

Can a Scarred Muslim Nation Ever Get ‘Truth and Reconciliation’?

No one knows when or how Syria’s civil war will end. Nor Afghanistan’s fight against the Taliban. Nor Pakistan’s struggle against jihadis in its northwestern border region. Iran...

February 26, 2013 |

Ahmadi Muslims, Killed in Pakistan but Welcomed Here, Perfectly Symbolize Our Canadian Values

Last week, when Canadians learned that the federal government was set to announce the creation of a new “Office of Religious Freedom,” CBC reported the news with...

January 14, 2013 | Thomas Joscelyn

Al-Qaeda and the Arab Spring

Sitting in his Abbottabad, Pakistan, compound just days before his demise in May 2011, Osama bin Laden surveyed the political turmoil in the Middle East. In a memo dated April 26, 2011, the terro...

December 19, 2012 | |

FDD Applauds Canada for Designating Iran’s Quds Force a Terrorist Group

PRESS RELEASE FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Washington, DC – The Foundation for Defense of Democracies congratulates Canada for designating the Iranian regime&rsquo...

December 10, 2012 |

Jeane Kirkpatrick Goes to Tahrir Square — Two starkly Different Visions of the Arab Spring

Thirty-three years ago, Commentary magazine published an article by Jeane J. Kirkpatrick that stands as one of the most influential essays in the history of American foreign policy....

December 3, 2012 | |

Exhuming Yasser Arafat

Khaled Mashal is known to the world as the leader of the Palestinian terrorist group Hamas. What is less well known is that Israel once saved the man’s life — after trying to kill him...

November 21, 2012 | Jonathan Kay National Post |

Israel’s Just War

This is the third time the world has seen this tragedy performed. Act I was in 2006, during Israel’s Lebanon War with Hezbollah. Act II played out in 2008 and early 2009, with the first Gaz...