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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
Palestinian Clashes at Gaza Border
Opinion
Understanding Gaza and the ‘humanitarian’ hoax
The privation in Gaza is not the cause of the enmity towards the Jewish state. Quite the opposite! It is the enmity towards the Jewish state that is the cause of the privation in Gaza.
Jun. 7, 2018
Martin Sherman
Palestinian protesters during clashes with Israeli security forces on the Gaza Israeli border east of Khan Yunis in the southern Gaza Strip on April 20, 2018. Credit: Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Opinion
Palestine: Failing the test of history
After a quarter-century, all the Palestinians have managed to establish is a corrupt kleptocracy under Fatah, and a tyrannical theocracy under Hamas.
Jun. 6, 2018
Martin Sherman
A man walks near an Iron Dome missile-defense system near the city of Sderot in southern Israel on May 29, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Gaza: A ‘simple’ solution?
Denying—or delaying—the inevitable does not make it any less inevitable, only more costly.
Jun. 3, 2018
Martin Sherman
Palestinians in Ramallah wave their national flags and a picture of Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas while they watch a live-screening of Abbas's speech at the United Nations, Sept. 30, 2015. Photo by Flash90.
Opinion
Five mendacious myths of one false narrative
The entire edifice of “Palestinian” national aspirations is a giant political hoax—a massive sleight of political hand designed to serve a more sinister ulterior motive. Five points explain why that is.
May. 29, 2018
Martin Sherman
Thomas L. Friedman
Opinion
Inane, again! Thomas Friedman on Gaza
His latest piece is a “masterful” blend of personal bile and bias, liberally laced with logical inconsistencies, factual inaccuracies and even blatant non sequiturs.
May. 25, 2018
Martin Sherman
Palestinians display a flag with a swastika in the middle during Gaza border protests in April 2018. Credit: IDF via Twitter.
Opinion
Swastikas over Gaza
Nothing could expose the true intent of the Judeocidal riots at the Gaza border more than Nazi-style swastikas on incendiary kites flown into Israel to set Jewish property ablaze.
May. 18, 2018
Martin Sherman
Opinion
Iran and the chilling significance of the ‘No Alternative’ argument
The attempt to justify the 2015 deal with Iran as being the only viable alternative to allowing it to develop nuclear weapons is both infuriating and disingenuous.
May. 6, 2018
Martin Sherman
A school play performed at the UNRWA Nuseirat School in Gaza, in which students hold an Israeli hostage at gunpoint, April 2016. Credit: Center for Near East Policy Research.
Opinion
Outing UNRWA: State Department complicit in weaponizing United Nations against Israel
Expressions of congressional misgivings as to both the intrinsic nature of UNRWA and its aberrant behavior have emerged into the public discourse in the last decade.
Apr. 29, 2018
Martin Sherman
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