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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.

View of a tent camp of Syrian refugees near the Syrian village of Burayqah as it seen from the Israeli side of the border on July 1, 2018. Photo by Basel Awidat/Flash90.
Opinion
Syrians flee towards hospitals of the ‘enemy’
Tens of thousands of refugees pile up along the Golden Heights, and Israel opens its doors (with caution) to take care of the wounded.
Jul. 9, 2018
Fiamma Nirenstein
From left, Italian politicians Giorgia Meloni, Matteo Salvini and Silvio Berlusconi, on April 12, 2018. Credit: Presidenza della Repubblica/Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributor
Who’s right? Not the left in Europe!
The Jews are always very attentive to any signs of right-wing anti-Semitism, but they aren’t so vigilant when it comes to the daily, deafening, anti-Semitic attacks that—disguised as criticism of Israel—come these days from the left.
Jul. 4, 2018
Fiamma Nirenstein
Bernard Lewis. Credit: Agence Opale-Alamy.
Opinion
The extraordinary life of Bernard Lewis, 1916‒2018
The renowned Middle East scholar passed away in the United States on May 19, just 12 days shy of his 102nd birthday.
May. 22, 2018
Fiamma Nirenstein
Israel contestant Netta Barzilai after the first semi-final round of the 2018 Eurovision Song Contest on May 8, 2018. Credit: Wouter van Vliet, EuroVisionary via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
On Israel’s Netta Barzilai, celebrating ‘otherness’
Her song, “Toy,” is the most feminist-inspired song you could imagine—an ultimate declaration of independence.
May. 15, 2018
Fiamma Nirenstein
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the annual meeting of the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, on Jan. 23, 2014. Photo by Kobi Gideon/GPO/Flash 90.
Opinion
All these years later, Netanyahu is finally vindicated
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has been acknowledged for his role in understanding, like Winston Churchill did in relation to Hitler, the real danger in the world while everyone else denied it.
May. 14, 2018
Fiamma Nirenstein
An aerial photo released by the Israeli Defense Forces on May 11, 2018, showing Iranian intelligence sites in Syria. (IDF Spokesperson)
Opinion
Israel and Iran engaged in a shadow war in Syria
At least for now, America and Europe—and even the majority of the Arab world—recognize that Israel has the right to defend itself. This is new, and it signifies a huge shift.
May. 14, 2018
Fiamma Nirenstein
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exposes files that prove Iran’s nuclear program in a press conference at the Kirya government headquarters in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2018. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Opinion
Iran’s and Abbas’s ‘truths,’ revealed
Only Israel was able to read reality correctly and try, subsequently, not to jeopardize its national security. Now the United States is realizing this, too.
May. 4, 2018
Fiamma Nirenstein
The internal courtyard of Risiera di San Sabbio, the five-story compound in Trieste, Italy, that functioned during World War II as a Nazi concentration camp for the detention and killing of political prisoners and Jews, most of whom were eventually deported to Auschwitz. The remains of the crematorium used by the Nazis, who destroyed it before escaping, can be seen on the wall. (Wikimedia Commons)
Senior Contributor
Ghosts of the past?
Maybe the Europeans just didn’t understand it. But they, too, will be victims because anti-Semitism is the engine behind history’s greatest tragedies.
Apr. 27, 2018
Fiamma Nirenstein
The Syrian Tiyas Military Airbase, also known as the T-4 Airbase, in Homs Province. Source: Screenshot via Wikimapia.
Opinion
A wakeup call on the bog that is Syria
There’s not much to say beyond what’s evidently clear at this point: It will be difficult to reverse course now.
Apr. 18, 2018
Fiamma Nirenstein
The Syrian Tiyas Military Airbase, also known as the T-4 Airbase, in Homs Province. Source: Screenshot via Wikimapia.
Opinion
Israel, Syria and those ‘red lines’
As the nation marks Holocaust Remembrance Day, it offers lessons on what human beings can and cannot allow.
Apr. 12, 2018
Fiamma Nirenstein
Senior Contributor
Leaving the fate of Syria to an imperialist trio is a recipe for disaster
America’s exit from Syria would allow the expansion of its worst enemies in a volatile and extremely dangerous area, while abandoning the Kurds, Yazidis, dissident Sunnis and Christians to Turkey, Iran and Russia.
Apr. 8, 2018
Fiamma Nirenstein
Palestinian protesters during clashes with Israeli security forces near the border with Israel, east of Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on April 1, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90
Opinion
New tactic by Hamas: Using human matchsticks to fuel the fire
After the missiles and tunnels, terror comes in the form of masses of people sent to storm the Israel-Gaza border in another instance of using Palestinians as pawns.
Apr. 3, 2018
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