A Year of Meming Dangerously: Iranian Influence Operations Targeting Israel Since October 7
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Orthodox Judaism
Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu removes Defense Minister Gallant
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu removed Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on November 5, shaking up Israeli politics in the midst of a multi-front war. Netanyahu’s decision came after months...
Op-eds
Chicago Plays Down an Antisemitic Hate Crime
The suspect, an illegal immigrant, shouted ‘Allahu Akbar.’ The victim was headed to synagogue.
Op-eds
Knesset Advances Contested Conscription Law
Israel’s parliament approved moving ahead on a contested conscription law on June 11. In a vote of 63 lawmakers in favor and 57 opposed, the Knesset plenum approved applying continuity...
Flash Briefs
Palestinian Teen Stabs Two Israelis at West Bank Checkpoint
A Palestinian teen stabbed two Israelis at a checkpoint along a West Bank highway leading to Jerusalem on March 13. Israeli police said in a statement that soldiers from the Israel...
Flash Briefs
Terror in Jerusalem shows spillover from Gaza threat
The attack on Thursday morning took place at the same bus stop at the entrance to the city as the November 2022 bombing attack.
Op-eds
Israeli and Ukrainian Relations Are Essential; Is Rosh Hashanah Development a Hopeful Sign?
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s spoke with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky last week, in order to come to an agreement on Jewish pilgrims visiting the Ukranian town...
Op-eds
‘Caught Between a Hammer and an Anvil’
Israel’s in a difficult position when it comes to the war in Ukraine
Op-eds
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?
Op-eds
The Congressman Who Hated Israel
Before Ilhan Omar, there was Paul Findley
Op-eds
Violent attacks committed against Jews in Berlin and Zurich
German and Swiss media Sunday reported several violent attacks on Jews in Berlin and Zurich over the weekend. On Saturday, three Germans and six Syrians were detained for allegedly assau...
Op-eds
The Face-Off
Donald Trump has promised a foreign policy of muscular retrenchment, in which a better-resourced U.S. military intimidates our enemies without serving as a global cop. More than any pr...
Op-eds
Larijani’s Evasive Interview Shows Iran’s Policies Remain Unchanged
Iran’s Speaker of Parliament Ali Larijani was in New York on Wednesday to attend a U.N.-sponsored conference of parliamentary speakers...
Policy Briefs
Sandstorm
The great medieval historian Ibn Khaldun centered his understanding of history on asabiyya, which is perhaps best translated as esprit de corps mixed with the will to power. In his maste...
Op-eds
Being the Jew in the Box
To have conversations with Germans about Jews, I had to become an exhibition at Berlin’s Jewish Museum
Op-eds
The Jew in a Box
What does it say about Germany today that in order to see some Jews you’ve got to go to a museum?
Op-eds
US State Dept. Reports Growing Global Anti-Semitism
The US State Department’s report on religious freedom described a “global increase” in anti-Semitism and said the “rising tide of anti-Semitism” was among the key tr...
Op-eds
Pink Eye
In June 2007, I marched in Jerusalem’s gay pride parade. To do so was a risk. A group of ultra-Orthodox rabbis had issued a hex on t...
Op-eds
Turning Holocaust Remembrance Into Israel Bashing
The German Holocaust foundation Remembrance, Responsibility, Future - EVZ - is in a state of denial concerning misuse of public funds meant to largely compensate the victims of the Shoah but used...
Op-eds
Mad TV
Testifying under oath recently, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice misled Congress in her strong defense of Al-Hurra, the taxpayer financed Arab TV network. It was unwitting, though. She herself...