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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
Arab Israelis protest against the visit of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in Nazareth, Jan. 13, 2021. Photo by Roni Ofer/Flash90.
Opinion
Et tu, Ahmad: The illusion of Arab loyalty
The situation that has arisen in Israel can no longer be seen as one centering on the question of individual rights but of collective survival—and must be treated as such.
May. 16, 2021
Martin Sherman
Gavel, Judge, Law, Court
Opinion
Israel’s pressing ‘bench’ issues
The debilitating deadlock in which the Jewish state’s political system is mired is in large measure the result of judicial disregard—or at least distortion—of the law.
May. 9, 2021
Martin Sherman
Israeli soldiers at the scene of what the Israeli military says was a deliberate car-ramming attack near the Hebron Hills in Judea and Samaria on May 14, 2020. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.
Opinion
When generals stray into politics
Despite the resounding failure of the “land-for-peace” formula, three former Israel Defense Forces generals are urging the Biden administration to “keep open a path to an eventual two-state solution.”
May. 2, 2021
Martin Sherman
Palestinian demonstrators in Nablus burn an Israeli flag during a protest against the U.S. position on Israeli settlements, Nov. 26, 2019. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Opinion
When did Palestine become Palestine?
The Palestinian Arabs’ claim for sovereignty over what they now insist is their long yearned-for homeland arose only after 1967—when it came under Jewish administration.
Apr. 18, 2021
Martin Sherman
King Abdullah II of Jordan addresses the European Parliament in Strasbourg, France, Jan. 15, 2020. Credit: European Parliament via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Jordan’s ‘House of Cards’: The implications for Israel
Israel could face a situation where, along its lengthiest border, there would no longer be a conservative, pro-Western monarchy, but an extreme Muslim regime, with incandescent hostility towards the Jewish state.
Apr. 11, 2021
Martin Sherman
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks during a press conference with Hungarian Prime Minister Viktor Orbán and Czech Prime Minister Andrej Babiš in Jerusalem, March 11, 2021. Photo by Alex Kolomoisky/POOL.
Opinion
Bibi and the Babylonian Talmud
Dispassionate analysis of the political deadlock in Israel will reveal that this state of suspended political animation is the result of nothing more than what the Jewish sages designated as “baseless hatred” among Jews.
Apr. 5, 2021
Martin Sherman
Children with their parents at the U.S.-Mexico border. Source: YouTube.
Opinion
Biden: Making America Mexico?
The inevitable outcome of the sustained application of the policies adopted by the new U.S. administration will be to transform the country into an unrecognizable remnant of its former self.
Mar. 18, 2021
Martin Sherman
President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris. Source: Joe Biden/Facebook.
Opinion
Has the Democrats’ push to depose Biden begun?
The contour lines of a scenario in which Joe Biden is forced to step down and concede the presidency to his vice president are gradually coming into focus.
Dec. 27, 2020
Martin Sherman
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