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Mitchell Bard

Mitchell Bard

Mitchell Bard is a foreign-policy analyst and an authority on U.S.-Israel relations. He has written and edited 22 books, including The Arab Lobby, Death to the Infidels: Radical Islam’s War Against the Jews; After Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine; and Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler’s Camps.

Visitors gather ahead of the Board of Peace meeting during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on Jan. 22, 2026. Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images.
Column
The folly of negotiating with Islamists
Societies that celebrate violence, reward terrorism and teach successive generations that coexistence is treason cannot produce leaders capable of making peace.
Aug. 5, 2026
Mitchell Bard
A view of the United Nations headquarters building in New York City in the 1950s. Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images.
Column
The most successful political campaign of the modern era
No nationalist movement in modern history has captured the world’s attention as successfully as the Palestinian movement.
July 22, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Israelis supporting the conscription of Haredi men into the Israeli military protest in the city of Bnei Brak, in central Israel, against road blockades by ultra-Orthodox demonstrators following the arrest of draft evaders, June 26, 2026. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Column
The Haredi challenge is becoming Israel’s national security crisis
Demographics, not missiles or terrorists, may pose the greatest threat to the Jewish state’s future.
July 15, 2026
Mitchell Bard
The exterior of the main entrance of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, taken on March 5, 2018. This part of the building was opened in 2010. Credit: VCUarts Qatar/Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License via Wikimedia Commons.
Column
The Doha deal: How Qatar purchased academic prestige
Neetu Arnold, a research fellow with the National Association of Scholars, noted that universities with campuses there demand “nothing of Qatar beyond its money: the nation can preserve its illiberal quasi-absolute monarchy and traditional Islamic mores and still escape criticism.”
July 1, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Part of an Iranian ballistic missile lodged in the desert near Vered Yeriho in Judea and Samaria, after being fired toward Israel, June 8, 2026. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Column
Trump’s capitulation will finance Iran’s revival
The U.S. president has agreed to a deal that doesn’t require the Islamic Republic to end its ballistic-missile development, sponsorship of terror or support for proxies.
June 24, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Ilhan Omar
Column
The day the Democrats endorsed antisemitism
What was once disqualifying gradually became acceptable in mainstream political discourse.
June 17, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Trump
Column
Trump, the betrayer-in-chief?
What began as a campaign against Iranian aggression has devolved into accommodating Iranian demands.
June 11, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Greta Thunberg
Opinion
How to win back Democratic support for Israel
Let’s stop pretending their demands are merely “policy changes.” The logical conclusion is far more sweeping.
June 3, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Witkoff Kushner
Column
Trump is not a potted plant
Multiple advisers said the president’s thinking aligned with Israel’s independently; it confirmed what he already believed. That is very different from manipulation.
May 20, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Newspaper. Credit: moritz320 via Pixabay.
Column
Hey, Bret, why not close ‘The New York Times’?
There is a word for journalism that systematically suppresses evidence of terrorist crimes. That word is not bias. It is not sloppiness. It is complicity.
May 13, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Wendy Sherman signs her appointment papers to become the U.S. deputy secretary of state at a ceremony at the U.S. Department of State in Washington, D.C., on April 14, 2021. Credit: U.S. State Department Photo by Mark Stewart/Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
Column
The woman who made Iran’s bomb possible
Wendy Sherman and her foreign-policy team decided that nuclear restrictions alone were worth the price of releasing $150 billion and legitimizing the Iranian regime as a threshold nuclear state.
May 6, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Pro-Palestinian demonstrators, students and faculty members have set up tents on the front lawn at King's College Circle at the University of Toronto, May 10, 2024. Credit: Can Pac Swire/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.
Column
The false equivalence of campus hatred
Discomfort is not the same as persecution. There is a difference between feeling targeted and being targeted.
April 29, 2026
Mitchell Bard