Star of David

February 19, 2025 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Trump has handed Bibi free rein on Gaza – he now needs to figure out a strategy

Removing Hamas requires a vision to prevent the territory becoming a source of more extremism and terror

May 16, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

Notes from the Gaza border – 7 months on

Reporter's notebook: People here are still on edge and they wonder whether Israel will defeat Hamas. The promises of the war have not been fulfilled.

March 7, 2024 | David May, Sabrina Soffer

Anti-Israel faculty group adds fuel to a raging fire

“It’s not safe to be a Jewish student at UC Berkeley.” That was the message a Jewish student delivered before the House of Representatives’ Education and the Workforce Committee last...

February 2, 2024 | Seth J. Frantzman |

This man is Israel’s face and voice to the Arabic-speaking world

Avichay Adraee is Israel’s face to the Arab world, as the country seeks to confront Hamas lies with truth.

January 17, 2024 | Sinan Ciddi |

Israel Should Boycott Turkey

Insult is continuously added to injury. Since the October 7 terror attacks on Israel, Turkey’s Recep Tayyip Erdogan has used every opportunity to shore up his support for Hamas, while vilifying Jerusalem....

January 15, 2024 | |

Turkey Targets Israeli Soccer Player for Supporting Hostages

Turkish authorities detained and ordered the deportation an Israeli player on a Turkish soccer team on January 15 for displaying solidarity with Israeli hostages in Gaza. After scoring...

November 17, 2023 | Ivana Stradner, Jason Jay Smart

Russia’s Weaponization of Antisemitism

We must inoculate the world’s nations as to the Moscow-origins of the recent spike of antisemitism and make clear that only our enemies win through this dangerous unruliness.

May 21, 2020 | Alireza Nader, Benjamin Weinthal

Iran’s new push to erase its millennia of Jewish history

The story of the biblical queen Esther and her cousin Mordechai is among the most dramatic and moving in the Old Testament: After the pair learn of a plot to destroy the Jews hatched by the evil ­vizier...

May 26, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal

Kippah Belongs to Germany, Declares Leading German Paper ‘BILD’

“Bild printed a kippah to cut out” because “it should not be allowed” that Jews in Germany have to hide after the Holocaust in order to be safe.

April 27, 2019 | Benjamin Weinthal

No Future For Jews In Germany,’ Says German Jewish Teenager

German Jews explain why they are relocating to Israel.

July 10, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

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...

June 11, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Second German Intelligence Report says Anti-Israel Boycott is Antisemitic

A German intelligence agency announced for the second time in 30 days that the boycott, divestment, sanctions (BDS) campaign targeting the Jewish state is an example of contemporary antisemi...

May 18, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

Antisemitism czar slams German cartoon as ‘Nazi propaganda’

The federal commissioner for combating antisemitism in Germany, Felix Klein, blasted Germany’s largest broadsheet paper Süddeutsche Zeitung (SZ) on Wednesday for publishing an antisemi...

April 2, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal

NGO Monitor urges Germany to halt antisemitic aid arm in Gaza, West Bank

The Jerusalem-based NGO Monitor called on the German government on Friday to immediately halt the activities and funding of its Corporation for International Cooperation operating in Jordan, the...

March 28, 2018 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Exclusive: German Company Fires Employee in Jordan for Defending Israel

The German Corporation for International Cooperation in Amman fired an employee for her pro-Israel comments on a Facebook page in December. The former employee, who asked not to be...

June 26, 2017 | Benjamin Weinthal |

Berlin Mayor Allows Hezbollah to March in ‘Zionists out of Israel’ Rally

Posters with anti-Israel slogans and Israeli flags with crossed out Stars of David blanketed the streets of Berlin on Friday. Mayor Michael Müller permitted nearly 600 Hezbollah sup...

June 7, 2017 | Clifford D. May

The Six-Day War and the 50-year occupation

Fifty years ago this week, the young state of Israel faced the threat of extermination – a second Jewish Holocaust in a single century. Egyptian President Gamal Abdel Nasser stated candidly...

May 15, 2017 | Aykan Erdemir |

A Turkish TV blockbuster reveals Erdogan’s conspiratorial, anti-Semitic worldview

“The Last Emperor” is Turkey’s newest television blockbuster, consistently rating among Turkey’s ...

September 29, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal |

City of Munich cancels BDS event due to antisemitism

Munich's cultural affairs department pulled the plug on an anti- Israel lecture slated for Friday in a city-subsidized building, because the talk would have crossed the line into antisemitis...

June 6, 2016 | Benjamin Weinthal

German trade union fights promotion of anti-Semitic member

A German Labor federation has taken legal action to block the promotion of an employee who engaged in anti-Semitic activity on his Facebook page. The case against the union member, who c...