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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
Palestinians cross the Kalandia checkpoint on their way into Jerusalem June 10, 2016. Credit: Flash90.
Opinion
The ‘depraved indifference’ of the two-state paradigm
In light of the grim precedents provided by previous land-for-peace experiments, together with the no less grim trends in much of Arab society in general and Palestinian society in particular, continued insistence on this fatally flawed formula is both gravely irrational and grossly irresponsible.
Mar. 7, 2019
Martin Sherman
Professor Alan Dershowitz speaks at a conference in Tel Aviv, Dec. 11, 2016. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Opinion
Will the ‘deep-state’ destroy democracy?
Indeed, it is perhaps the very success of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu that has generated such raw rancor against him.
Mar. 4, 2019
Martin Sherman
Benny Gantz and Yair Lapid of the Blue and White Party make a joint a statement in Tel Aviv on Feb. 21, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Opinion
Gantz and Lapid: A fragile, directionless, ad hoc political concoction
Of course, the purported electoral appeal of the Blue & White line up is that it included three former IDF chiefs of staff (Gantz, Ya’alon and Ashkenazi). However, there is great doubt as to both how much of a political asset former generals really are, and just how much political acumen they display once elected.
Feb. 24, 2019
Martin Sherman
Palestinian protesters during clashes with the Israel Defense Forces following a demonstration along the border with Israel in the southern Gaza Strip, on Jan. 18, 2019. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Column
The 2019 Intelligence Assessment: The policy implications for Gaza
The penury in Gaza is not the cause of enmity towards the Jewish state. It’s enmity towards the Jewish state that’s the cause of penury in Gaza.
Feb. 15, 2019
Martin Sherman
Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a joint press conference with Yoav Galant, Newly appointed Israeli Minister of Immigrant Absorption at the Kneeset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on January 9, 2019. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
Opinion
Unilateral concessions: The latent agenda for Israel’s April elections
The rivalrous political alignments is still likely to be shaped by differing attitudes towards the Palestinian Arabs, the territories in Judea and Samaria and the fate of the Jewish settlements, rather than on issues such as education, transport or health services.
Feb. 10, 2019
Martin Sherman
Trump, Netanyahu
Opinion
Will Trump’s Mideast deal naturalize Palestinians in Arab countries?
This salutary U.S. initiative has the potential to rescind the recognition of the bulk of the Palestinian diaspora as “refugees.”
Feb. 6, 2019
Martin Sherman
Nakba
Opinion
Benny Morris: An unlikely proponent of incentivized Arab emigration
There is a policy paradigm that addresses both geographic perils of the two-state and the demographic perils of the one-state.
Feb. 3, 2019
Martin Sherman
The United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) building in Rafah, the southern Gaza Strip, July 26, 2018. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Opinion
The emerging inevitability of the Palestinian paradigm
The dismantling of UNRWA, the naturalization of stateless Palestinian residents in Arab countries and the emigration of Palestinians from Judea-Samaria and Gaza are slowly emerging as realistic outcomes.
Jan. 27, 2019
Martin Sherman
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