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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.

Ana Kasparian speaks onstage during the 2019 Politicon at Music City Center on Oct. 26, 2019 in Nashville, Tennessee. Photo by Jason Kempin/Getty Images for Politicon.
Column
An ominous cloud of un-American invective
The resurgence of anti-Israel rhetoric in U.S. discourse reflects deeper and troubling currents in American political culture.
Mar. 17, 2026
Martin Sherman
Masked members of Hamas
Column
The deradicalization of Gaza and other myths
Feb. 19, 2026
Martin Sherman
Palestinians in Gaza
Column
Much to worry about
Jan. 14, 2026
Martin Sherman
Yisrael Beiteinu Party leader Avigdor Lieberman at party headquarters in Jerusalem on election night, Sept. 17, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Israel’s dysfunctional electorate?
To sum up how the third round of elections came about: No one wanted them, almost everyone voted for them, and everyone blamed everyone else, except themselves, for causing them.
Dec. 16, 2019
Martin Sherman
Opinion
Merited mistrust in Israel’s legal system
One thing is beyond doubt: No good result can come out of these indictments.
Dec. 2, 2019
Martin Sherman
Israeli armored vehicles at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with the Gaza Strip on Nov. 13, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
A 660-pound war crime
As long as Gaza remains intact, with an inherently hostile Arab population, the aggression against Israeli population centers will continue, and Israel will eventually be faced with the specter of Jewish depopulation of the south.
Nov. 22, 2019
Martin Sherman
An Iron Dome battery is seen near the town of Sderot in southern Israel, near the border with Gaza Strip, on Nov. 13, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Gaza: Delaying the inevitable ... again
Israel has surged from success to success in virtually every field of human endeavor except in what might turn out to be the most vital: securing its long-term survival as the nation-state of the Jewish people.
Nov. 15, 2019
Martin Sherman
Young protesters in the Gaza Strip take part in the continued “March of Return” riots near the Israeli-Gaza border on March 22, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Opinion
Gaza: A bone in Israel’s throat
One of the few areas in which Gazans have shown expertise and enterprise, ingenuity and innovativeness is in honing their production and procurement of weaponry, with which to assault the Jewish state.
Nov. 8, 2019
Martin Sherman
Then-Justice Minister Amir Ohana speaks during a discussion on the Security Cameras Law at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Sept. 11, 2019. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Democracy devoid of the ‘demos’?
If the Israeli prime minister is not indicted—or if he is indicted and acquitted—then it will be a massive blow to the credibility of the nation’s law enforcement.
Nov. 1, 2019
Martin Sherman
Palestinians fill plastic bottles with drinking water from a public tap in the southern Gaza Strip refugee camp of Rafah, on July 26, 2015. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash 90.
Opinion
Gaza 2040: If not incentivized emigration, then what?
It’s not surprising to learn that accumulating evidence shows more and more Gazans desire to leave the Strip and seek their futures elsewhere.
Oct. 25, 2019
Martin Sherman
The Nobel Peace Prize laureates for 1994 in Oslo, Norway. From left: Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Credit: Israeli GPO.
Opinion
Land for peace: A historical perspective
Shimon Peres wasn’t the only one who eventually supported the land-for-peace doctrine and Palestinian statehood, having previously warned of the deadly perils this would entail.
Oct. 18, 2019
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