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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.

From campuses to newsrooms, the hatred of Jews has become a tool—profitable, fashionable and deadly.
Shared democratic values bind Israel and the U.S., even as war, Hamas and Iran complicate Trump’s vision of peace in the Middle East.
Following the arrest of nine members of a Hamas cell, Rome confronts the cost of tolerating their ideological warfare and antisemitic falsehoods.
The Chanukah massacre on Bondi Beach was the result of sweeping antisemitic darkness. But it won’t douse the eternal Jewish flame.
For Italy’s left, Gaza is less a political cause than a moral substitute—hollowing out youth movements and recasting antisemitism as activism.
As anti-Israel hatred reaches a new high in Europe, a group of Italian Jewish intellectuals has come out against the IHRA definiton.
The $3.6 billion Arrow 3 deal sends a message that Europe can’t ignore.
The murder of Jewish children from Gaza to Rome is not random brutality but an ideological weapon that has failed to destroy the Jewish people.
An attack by a pro-Palestinian mob on an Italian newspaper highlights how Italy’s media have fueled hatred against Jews and Israel.
The Turkish president courts the Vatican and Washington while stepping up pressure on Israel and the region.
Dangerous actors are not puppets; they can easily undermine the American president’s best intentions.
The world is moving down a path toward war or peace unlike anything we have ever known.