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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
Hollywood actress Natalie Portman and Israeli actor Gilad Kahana seen in Jerusalem's Nachlaot neighborhood, filming a movie based on Israeli author Amos Oz's book, “A Tale of Love and Darkness,” February 2014. Photo by Hadas Parush/Flash 90.
Opinion
Natalie Portman as a symptom
It is patently absurd to refuse to attend a national (or quasi-national) event, in which a democratically elected prime minister participates on the grounds that such attendance endorses him—or his policies.
Apr. 27, 2018
Martin Sherman
A picture taken from the Israeli side depicts smoke rising near the Israeli-Syrian border in the Golan Heights during fights between the rebels and the Syrian army, June 25, 2017. Photo by Basel Awidat/Flash90.
Opinion
Reaping the storm Obama sowed when it comes to Syria
Much like nature, politics abhors a vacuum. So when U.S. reticence created a power vacuum in Syria, it was Putin and the ayatollahs who were only too eager to fill it.
Apr. 13, 2018
Martin Sherman
Palestinian protesters attempt to blind Israel Defense Forces with mirrors, as they demonstrate and burn tires near the border with Israel in the Gaza Strip, as seen from the Israeli side of the border on April 6, 2018. Credit: Hadas Parush/Flash90
Opinion
In Gaza, the collapse of ‘the land-for-peace’ concept
Israel must convey that it will consider the continuation of the “March of Return” an overt act of war, and all the participants in it enemy combatants who must expect to face all the risks that entails.
Apr. 9, 2018
Martin Sherman
Ronald S. Lauder (left), president of the World Jewish Congress, and Sivan Shalom, Israeli Minister of National Infrastructure, Energy and Water, and Minister of Regional Cooperation, at a Nov. 21 conference at the United Nations on the plight of Jewish refugees from Arab countries. Credit: World Jewish Congress.
Opinion
Lauder’s lame lament
According to Ronald Lauder, Israel must be either perilously insecure or demographically untenable. This is an utterly false dichotomy.
Mar. 26, 2018
Martin Sherman
AIPAC, Netanyahu
Opinion
AIPAC and the progressives ‘uncompelling’ case
In pursuit of bipartisanship, AIPAC should strive to persuade “progressives,” not pander to them, and to convert them, not co-opt them.
Mar. 19, 2018
Martin Sherman
Opinion
To AIPAC’s CEO: Picture the perils of ‘Palestine’
Palestinian statehood and a secure Israel are mutually exclusive goals. This was always the accepted wisdom in Israel until the discourse was hijacked by the tyrannical diktats of politically correct dogma.
Mar. 8, 2018
Martin Sherman
Hezbollah flag
Opinion
The perils of postponing preemption
Israel is approaching a point when it must decide to destroy the capabilities of Hezbollah, rather than attempt to deter the enemy from using them.
Mar. 6, 2018
Martin Sherman
Opinion
A politicized coup by the Israel police?
It’s difficult to avoid the distinct impression that the unrelenting drive to bring an indictment—any indictment—against Netanyahu has long exceeded the bounds of reasonable law enforcement.
Feb. 26, 2018
Martin Sherman
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