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Fiamma Nirenstein

Fiamma Nirenstein

Fiamma Nirenstein is an Italian-Israeli journalist, author and senior research fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA). An adviser on antisemitism to Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she served in the Italian Parliament (2008-2013) as vice president of the Foreign Affairs Committee. A founding member of the Friends of Israel Initiative, she has written 15 books, including October 7, Antisemitism and the War on the West, and is a leading voice on Israel, the Middle East, Europe and the fight against antisemitism.

Russian President Vladimir Putin. Credit: Photographer RM/Shutterstock.
Opinion
Putin’s unpleasant surprise at the West’s resounding ‘no’
What Ukraine has shown, and Europe may be starting to understand, is that nationalism can be a force for good and democracy.
Mar. 1, 2022
Fiamma Nirenstein
Negotiations in Vienna between Iran and the P5+1 (U.S., U.K., France, Russia, China and Germany) along with the European Union. Feb. 11, 2022. Source: E.U. delegation in Vienna/Twitter.
Opinion
A disastrous Iran deal in the making
The developing war in Ukraine is drawing America’s attention away from Iran’s pursuit of nuclear hegemony.
Feb. 22, 2022
Fiamma Nirenstein
Amnesty International Secretary-General Agnès Callamard at a press conference in eastern Jerusalem, Feb. 1, 2022. Photo by Flash90.
Opinion
Amnesty International’s moral turpitude
The world should demand an apology from the “human rights” NGO for its blatantly false accusations of Israeli “apartheid.”
Feb. 3, 2022
Fiamma Nirenstein
Anti-Semitic Grafitti in Toronto
Opinion
‘Never Again’? Really?
While marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day, we should not forget that the battle against anti-Semitism still rages.
Jan. 27, 2022
Fiamma Nirenstein
The Great Synagogue of Rome. Credit: Livioandronico2013 via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Double-edged anti-Semitism
A scoop in the Italian daily, “Il Riformista,” reveals decades of silence surrounding a deal to enable Palestinian terrorists to target Jews in Rome.
Dec. 12, 2021
Fiamma Nirenstein
Israeli police and rescue teams at the scene of a Palestinian terrorist attack on worshipers at the Kehilat Yaakov synagogue in Jerusalem's Har Nof neighborhood, Nov. 18, 2014. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
A terrorist organization by any other name
It worth reminding those defending the targeted NGOs that the groups’ mother organization, the PFLP, is responsible for a torrent of terrorist activity, including the 2014 ax, knife and gun attack on the Kehilat Yaakov synagogue in Jerusalem’s Har Nof neighborhood.
Oct. 26, 2021
Fiamma Nirenstein
European Union flags in front of the European Commission in Brussels. Credit: Symbiot/Shutterstock.
Opinion
Is Europe using Afghanistan as an excuse for a new explosion of anti-Americanism?
Rather than criticize the Biden administration for the Kabul debacle, Europeans are reverting to their misplaced contempt for the United States.
Sep. 6, 2021
Fiamma Nirenstein
U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan meets with PLO chairman Yasser Arafat during the U.N. Racism World Conference in Durban in 2001. Credit: U.N. Photo.
Opinion
It’s Italy’s turn to shun the Durban conference
Prime Minister Draghi, please let us turn off this tap of hatred, which over the years has passed into the hands of Libyan dictator Muammar Qaddafi and Iran’s former president, Holocaust-denier Mahmoud Ahmadinejad.
Aug. 23, 2021
Fiamma Nirenstein
Guests at the swearing-in ceremony of Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi. The front row includes representatives of terrorist organizations, such as Naim Qassem, deputy head of Hezbollah, Hamas Politburo chief Ismail Haniyeh and Ziad Nakhla, leader of Palestinian Islamic Jihad. Aug. 5, 2021. Source: X.
Opinion
Europe kneels before Raisi
How can the E.U. pay homage to a country that has made the destruction of the Jewish state and hatred of America its principal banner?
Aug. 9, 2021
Fiamma Nirenstein
Palestinians in Gaza City protest against U.S. President Donald Trump's Peace to Prosperity conference in Bahrain, June 25, 2019. Photo by Hassan Jedi/Flash90.
Opinion
The EU should stop proposing peace summits and promote the Abraham Accords
All an umpteenth conference will achieve is to dash any hope for peace that the Palestinian people might have, but are not able voice in the earshot of their leaders.
Jul. 1, 2021
Fiamma Nirenstein
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a Likud Party meeting at the Knesset, June 6, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Friends, Israelis and countrymen, lend me your ears
Outgoing Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has pushed Israel on the path of its long-term mission as a small but great beneficent power indispensable to the entire world.
Jun. 13, 2021
Fiamma Nirenstein
Hamas political chief Ismail Haniyeh (left) with Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei in Iran in January 2018. Credit: Iran Times via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
It’s Iran, stupid!
The continued use of the hundreds of millions of dollars that the ayatollah-led regime in Tehran provides to the Gaza war spans decades. And it hasn’t been humanitarian aid.
May. 19, 2021
Fiamma Nirenstein
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