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Israel Kasnett

Israel Kasnett

Israel Kasnett, editor at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs, offers expert analysis on Israeli politics, society and regional developments at JNS.org. With a deep understanding of the region, he delivers insightful commentary that challenges media bias and provides a clear perspective on Israel.

Turkey's President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan
World News
Turkey’s regional ambitions and the strategic challenge for Israel
Turkey’s regional ambitions and the strategic challenge for Israel.
Mar. 18, 2026
Israel Kasnett
Natanz Nuclear Facility, Iran
Analysis
Where is Iran’s enriched uranium now?
Mar. 15, 2026
Israel Kasnett
Israeli Air Force F-16 fighter jets during “Operation Roaring Lion” against Iran, March 2026. Credit: Israel Defense Forces.
Analysis
UN Watch: Strikes on Iran are self-defense, not illegal war
Mar. 11, 2026
Israel Kasnett
Israeli Defense Minister Benny Gantz at a plenum session in the Knesset on Jan. 31, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
News
Think tank: Israel’s gift of hundreds of millions of dollars to Palestinians violates law
The Jerusalem-based Kohelet Policy Forum says “transferring funds as an ‘advance’ or as a ‘loan’ or labeling them with any other name cannot permit what the law prohibits, and does not confer authority on anyone, including a minister in Israel, to transfer funds.”
Feb. 3, 2022
Israel Kasnett
Amnesty International Secretary-General Agnès Callamard at a press conference in eastern Jerusalem, Feb. 1, 2022. Photo by Flash90.
Israel News
Legal experts expose biased research, reliance on terror organizations in Amnesty International report
Avi Bell, a professor at the University of San Diego School of Law and at Bar-Ilan University’s Faculty of Law, told JNS “the big challenge would be to find any claims by Amnesty that are defensible from a legal point of view.”
Feb. 2, 2022
Israel Kasnett
Amnesty International
Antisemitism
Israel defenders slam Amnesty International over ‘diplomatic lynch against the Jewish state’
Israeli Foreign Minister Yair Lapid says new report calling Israel an “apartheid state” shows that Amnesty is “another radical organization that echoes propaganda with no serious examination. Instead of seeking facts, Amnesty quotes lies spread by terrorist organizations.”
Jan. 31, 2022
Israel Kasnett
Bachevsk, Ukraine, October 2021: Control sign at the entrance to the Ukrainian checkpoint from Russia. Credit: Fire-fly/Shutterstock.
U.S. News
Ukraine’s Jewish community in danger as Russian troops, supplies mass at border
Due to the sensitivity of the issue and Israel’s good working relationship with the two countries, officials are treading carefully to avoid appearance that they’re taking sides.
Jan. 31, 2022
Israel Kasnett
An illustration of an Iranian ballistic missile. Credit: Allexxandar/Shutterstock.
World News
Israeli researchers: Iran nuclear breakout could occur ‘within a space of weeks,’ regional cooperation necessary
The main threats facing Israel in 2022 include Iran’s nuclear activity, the conflict with the Palestinians and violence among Israeli Arabs. Institute for National Security Studies researchers now contend that these concerns “are equal in their severity, and that the main challenge is to define an integrated way of dealing with all three.”
Jan. 27, 2022
Israel Kasnett
Palestinians with gas cylinders stand on a rooftop of a house being evacuated by Israeli special forces, in the eastern Jerusalem neighborhood of Sheikh Jarrah, on Jan. 17, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Antisemitism
EU tries to twist international law to fight eviction of Sheikh Jarrah squatters in Jerusalem
Professor Avi Bell: “The accusation that Israel is committing war crimes with plans to build an Arabic-language special-needs school for Israeli and Palestinian Arab residents of the neighborhood shows that European officials harbor equal contempt for common sense, international law and the Jewish state.”
Jan. 18, 2022
Israel Kasnett
Israeli Police stand guard during a protest against tree-planting by the Jewish National Fund-Keren Kayamet LeIsrael outside the Bedouin village of al-Atrash in the Negev Desert on Jan. 12, 2022. Photo by Flash90.
Israel News
Has situation between Israeli government and Bedouins reached a breaking point?
Millions of Israelis are furious over the government’s caving to the rioting and its alleged plan to recognize these illegal Bedouin encampments situated on state lands, claiming that such capitulation will only lead to further unrest and violence.
Jan. 13, 2022
Israel Kasnett
Israelis from the tourism industry protest in Tel Aviv against the new COVID-19 regulations preventing non-Israelis from entering Israel on Dec. 27, 2021. Photo by Tomer Neuberg/Flash90.
Culture and Society
Israeli tourism, hit hard by coronavirus closures, optimistically awaits recovery
Even though Israel is now allowing in tourists, “people are still cautious. It will take a few years” before Israel returns to pre-coronavirus numbers, which, in 2019, stood at a whopping 4.5 million tourists, said Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Fleur Hassan-Nahum.
Jan. 11, 2022
Israel Kasnett
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