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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.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a conference of the Likud Party, presenting the list of candidates, in Ramat Gan on March 4, 2019. Credit: Aharon Krohn/Flash90.
Opinion
You call that an interview?
A journalist doesn’t patently agree with his enemies. It’s not professional. It’s political.
Mar. 27, 2019
Fiamma Nirenstein
Israeli Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit at a ceremony at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Nov. 14, 2016. Photo by Flash90.
Opinion
Making news, rather than dealing with real problems in Israel
It’s not surprising that the timing of Attorney General Avichai Mandelblit’s decision has people talking about a political putsch.
Mar. 1, 2019
Fiamma Nirenstein
Israel Parliament members pose for a group picture at the entrance to the Auschwitz concentration camp in Poland on International Holocaust Remembrance Day, Jan. 27, 2010. Photo by Isaac Harari/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The growing pains of the Poland-Israel relationship
Poland needs to shed its guilty conscience with regard to the Holocaust and move on, for the attitude of Viségrad Group is crucial for Israel in the face of the European Union’s incessant criticism of the Jewish state.
Feb. 20, 2019
Fiamma Nirenstein
“Yellow-vests” protestrs in France on Dec. 29, 2018. Photo by Thomas Bresson via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Underneath the yellow vests breeds the stench of anti-Semitism
In Europe, while social movements and parties become more extreme in the effort of challenging populist movements, anti-Semitism increasingly takes the form of liberal movements that blame the old-party structures and consolidated elites.
Feb. 19, 2019
Fiamma Nirenstein
Selection Birkenau Ramp
Feature
Author Iddo Netanyahu and his perception of a meaningful life
“Frankl instead tries to convince Betty that her imagination is simply running wild; that with the defeat of Nazism, good has now defeated evil. He refuses to confront reality: Anti-Semitism is forever present in Vienna, and elsewhere. It’s an incurable disease.”
Feb. 11, 2019
Fiamma Nirenstein
Anti-Semitic graffiti equating Judaism with Nazism and money, found in Madrid in 2003. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Holocaust denial, purposeful dementia and Israel
I think about my dear relatives who were murdered at Sobibor and Auschwitz. They included Poles and Italians, as well as my father’s little brothers who, while my father just barely escaped deportation, were killed, and my heart is filled with unbearable pain.
Jan. 28, 2019
Fiamma Nirenstein
Demonstration in Iran on Sept. 8, 1978. The sentence on the placard read: “We want an Islamic government, led by Imam Khomeini.” Credit: Islamic Revolution Document Center via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
40 years later, Iran still waits for its freedoms
In 1979, the Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini, in his writing preparing a return to Tehran, established the Islamic Republic and with it, a constitution calling for the “continuation of the revolution at home and abroad.”
Jan. 21, 2019
Fiamma Nirenstein
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan during the general debate of the United Nations General Assembly on Sept. 20, 2016. Credit: U.N. Photo/Cia Pak.
Opinion
Head to head: Bolton and Erdoğan on Syria
Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan has faith in the once widely spread idea that America has confidence that Turkey can act as a bridge to the Muslim world. Erdoğan, however, is no bridge to anyone.
Jan. 11, 2019
Fiamma Nirenstein
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks with Israeli soldiers during his visit at the Northern Command base in Tzfat on Dec. 11, 2018. Photo by Basel Awidat/Flash90.
Senior Contributor
A lion by day, a fox by night
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s innate drive is identity and security; he has chosen to avert the existential threat posed by Iran and to create a secure situation with the Palestinians without falling prey to any illusions.
Jan. 1, 2019
Fiamma Nirenstein
Amoz Oz. Credit: Michiel Hendryckx/Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
Outlived, always, by the power of his words
Amos Oz came to embody the ideal of a “virtuous Israel”—namely, of a man who works the fields by day and writes novels at night, and who dreams of peace and must go to war.
Dec. 31, 2018
Fiamma Nirenstein
On May 25, 2014, Pope Francis touches the wall that separates Israel from the disputed Palestinian territories on his way to lead a mass in Bethlehem. The pope's stop at the Israeli security fence, which led to a photo op next to anti-Israel graffiti, was unscheduled and ignited a media firestorm. Credit: Nour Shamaly/POOL/Flash90.
Opinion
Pope Francis, the politician
He related only to immediate consensus—the most obvious, simplest of all lies, completely outside of any realistic analysis, a pointlessly ceremonial act of homage to the so-called “Palestinian cause.”
Dec. 5, 2018
Fiamma Nirenstein
Airbnb logo. Credit: Screenshot.
Senior Contributor
Airbnb joins the lineup of classic anti-Semites
When it comes to double standards, Israel is the ideal target for every kind of persecution.
Nov. 22, 2018
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