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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.

An Italian flag hangs outside a window in Bologna on March 19, 2020, bearing the slogan “Andrà tutto bene” (“Everything is going to be fine”) during the COVID-19 pandemic in 2020. Photo: Pietro Luca Cassarino via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Ecco lo stato-nazione
The coronavirus crisis has revitalized the national idea and cast into doubt an international unity that has proven to be rhetorical, useless and bureaucratic.
Apr. 5, 2020
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Jaffa Street in downtown Jerusalem on March 28, 2020. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.
Opinion
Watching the world through a window
Alone together, we are all now waiting to find out whether yesterday’s world is still ours.
Mar. 30, 2020
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An Italian government task force meets to face the coronavirus outbreak in the country, Feb, 23, 2020. Source: Italian government via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Coronavirus and the threat to democracy
The coronavirus crisis has made it painfully clear that if the modern democratic nation-state does not grasp the primacy of the right to life over all other human rights, its ideological underpinnings must be reevaluated.
Mar. 26, 2020
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An Italian government task force meets to face the coronavirus outbreak in the country, Feb, 23, 2020. Source: Italian government via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Alone together: The fight against coronavirus
Modern technology allows us to keep in touch with our loved ones in these days of isolation, yet every kilometer separating us still weighs heavily.
Mar. 16, 2020
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U.S. President Donald Trump delivers remarks with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on the details of the Trump administration’s Mideast peace plan on Jan. 28, 2020, in the East Room of the White House. Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.
Opinion
‘Never again’ means standing up for Israel
If there has ever been an opportunity to strike a decisive blow against anti-Semitism, it’s now that Israel is strong, the United States is on its side, and Iran is unmasked and weak.
Mar. 3, 2020
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Pope Francis
Opinion
Papal infallibility? Not when it comes to the Middle East
Why can Pope Francis not recognize the failure of the old peace paradigm and the good will behind the current attempt to construct a new one?
Feb. 25, 2020
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French President Emmanuel Macron with Iran’s President Hassan Rouhani before a meeting in New York on Sept. 18, 2017. Credit: Iran Press.
Opinion
Anti-Semitism can be fought only with policy action, not lip service
The E.U.’s message with regard to the settlements grants tacit permission to blame and hate Israel and, by extension, the Jews. To combat this, words are not enough; action is required.
Feb. 20, 2020
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The “Hall of Names” commemorating victims of the Holocaust at Yad Vashem in Jerusalem. Photo: David Shankbone via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Never again? Only if the Jews never stop fighting
Just like those who in 1936 believed that peace was a universal good and that therefore it made sense to ally with Hitler, those today who think they are defending the Jews by advocating an intersectional anti-oppression front are making a colossal mistake.
Jan. 30, 2020
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Source: Yad Vashem.
Opinion
To combat anti-Semitism, one must first define it
Will the heads of state gathering in Jerusalem for the Fifth World Holocaust Forum be able to come together to fight resurgent Jew-hatred? I fear the answer will be no.
Jan. 21, 2020
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U.S. President Donald Trump addresses the nation on Oct. 27, 2019 in the Diplomatic Reception Room of the White House to announce details of the U.S. Special Forces mission against ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s compound in Syria. Credit: Official White House Photo by Shealah Craighead.
Opinion
Soleimani’s gone: What’s next for Trump?
The U.S. administration is most likely to keep doing exactly what it has been doing: keeping the pressure on Iran.
Jan. 5, 2020
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British Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn. Credit: Sophie J. Brown/Flickr.
Opinion
Corbyn’s anti-Semitism is more important than Brexit
Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn and his acolytes insist that they will defend British Jews from religious and ethnic discrimination because they are opposed to oppression. But it’s not true.
Dec. 11, 2019
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Eli Cohen (pictured), Israel's most famous secret agent. Cohen was executed by Syria in 1965. Photo: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Eli Cohen: One of Israel’s many miracles
Netflix’s new series “The Spy” does justice to the truly incredible story of Israel’s most famous secret agent.
Nov. 12, 2019
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