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Martin Sherman

Martin Sherman

Martin Sherman spent seven years in operational capacities in the Israeli defense establishment. He is the founder of the Israel Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS), a member of the Habithonistim-Israel Defense & Security Forum (IDSF) research team, and a participant in the Israel Victory Project.

Masked members of Hamas
The Column
The deradicalization of Gaza and other myths
The recipe for deradicalizing the Strip may be a dangerous pipe dream.
Feb. 19, 2026
Martin Sherman
Palestinians in Gaza
The Column
Much to worry about
Jan. 14, 2026
Martin Sherman
Tucker Carlson
The Column
Strange bedfellows in hate: From Carlson to the Caucasus
Dec. 12, 2025
Martin Sherman
Flag of the UAE. Credit: Free Wallpaper.
Opinion
UAE-Israel pact: Sacrificing substance for ceremony?
The agreement is merely a prop in the choreography for a much bigger drama. It’s still early days to break open that champagne and celebrate.
Aug. 21, 2020
Martin Sherman
Israeli security forces. at the scene of a Palestinian car-ramming attack on soldiers in Mateh Binyamin in Judea and Samaria (the West Bank), on March 4, 2019. Photo by STR/Flash90.
Opinion
Commanders against Israel’s sovereignty: Look us in the eye …
Even a cursory analysis of the “Commanders for Israel’s Security” plan, perversely titled “Security First,” will reveal that it is not a security plan composed by military experts, but a political manifesto drafted by amateur politicians.
Aug. 9, 2020
Martin Sherman
Peter Beinart
Opinion
Israel and the perverse paradox of Jewish ‘liberals’
Israel should be a source of pride for all Jews—but particularly for Jews who espouse liberal values of tolerance and pluralism, of individual liberty and of human advancement.
Jul. 22, 2020
Martin Sherman
A Black Lives Matter protest in Minneapolis. Credit: Andy Witchger via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
De-Americanizing America
Americans seem swept up in a movement bent on jettisoning a paradigm that brought resounding success, while embracing one that wrought failure wherever implemented.
Jul. 5, 2020
Martin Sherman
Israeli Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut arrives at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 3, 2020, to hear a petition against the coalition agreement between the Blue and White and Likud parties. Photo: Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL.
Opinion
Judicial overreach and the Israeli sovereignty imperative
Excessive intervention by the courts into what is seen as the purview of the legislature is likely to have some unintended consequences: Energizing the drive to extend Israeli sovereignty over Judea-Samaria—and sparking far-reaching judicial reform.
Jun. 15, 2020
Martin Sherman
Amiram Ben-Uliel, the main suspect in the July 2015 Duma arson murders in which three members of the Dawabshe family were killed, arrives at the Lod District Court in central Israel to hear his verdict, May 18, 2020. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/POOL.
Opinion
Duma guilt by conjecture?
The case comes with deeply troubling questions, which should be a source of grave concern to every fair-minded citizen of Israel and its advocates abroad.
Jun. 2, 2020
Martin Sherman
The Israeli Supreme Court in Jerusalem on May 4, 2020. Photo by Oren Ben Hakoon/POOL.
Opinion
A choreographed coup with the law as a prop
The weight of public disapproval of what is perceived as arrogant judicial insensitivity to public sentiment is finally beginning to tell.
May. 28, 2020
Martin Sherman
A map posted by Yamina Party member Naftali Bennett, reportedly showing what Israel and the Palestinian Authority will look like under the Trump administration's Mideast peace plan. Source: Screenshot.
Opinion
The imperative to annex; the irrelevance of innocence
Annexation (or “extension of sovereignty,” as semantic purists prefer) would make a self-governing Palestinian-Arab entity unattainable. It is difficult to conceive of any other measure that could do more to bring home to the Palestinians that their hostile endeavor is futile.
May. 24, 2020
Martin Sherman
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