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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.

Smoke rises from oil tanks beside the Suez Canal hit during the initial Anglo-French assault on Port Said, Egypt, in November 1956. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Presidents, not prime ministers, end Israeli wars
Israel and many of its supporters continue to make the mistake of believing that the Jewish state is a superpower. If only it were true.
Nov. 8, 2023
Mitchell Bard
Tulane Anti-Israel Protest
Opinion
If Israeli teens can fight, why can’t Americans?
We are now paying for our decades of failure to teach students Jewish history, advocacy tools and the art of protest.
Nov. 1, 2023
Mitchell Bard
Kibbutz Be'eri Destruction
Opinion
Stop linking antisemitism and Islamophobia
Rabbis do not call from their pulpits for the extermination of Muslims or compare them to apes and pigs. Islamist imams do.
Oct. 25, 2023
Mitchell Bard
Palestinians in Gaza Laud Terror
Opinion
Who are the Gaza civilians?
As children, they are exposed to anti-Israeli textbooks and terrorist training camps. As adults, they allow Hamas to use their schools, mosques and hospitals for arsenals and rocket launch sites.
Oct. 18, 2023
Mitchell Bard
A road near the Israeli-Gaza border, in southern Israel, Oct. 10, 2023. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Opinion
Now, it’s personal
The usual pundits bloviate about a “cycle of violence,” equating the arsonists of Hamas with the Israeli firefighters. They pontificate about ending the “occupation” and implementing a two-state solution. They are lunatics.
Oct. 11, 2023
Mitchell Bard
Moses parting the Red Sea. Credit: Mashosh/Shutterstock.
Opinion
Jewish students need role models
If they can’t find someone to look up to at the national level, it would be nice if they could discover some on campus.
Oct. 4, 2023
Mitchell Bard
Top Egyptian leaders of the Arab Socialist Union (ASU) in Alexandria in the late 1960s (from left): President Gamal Abdel Nasser; Speaker of Parliament Anwar Sadat; ASU head Ali Sabri; and Vice President Hussein el-Shafei, Aug. 18, 1968. Credit: Sarooky1996 via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Could the 1973 war have been avoided by accepting Sadat’s peace offer?
The Egyptian leader had to negotiate from a position of strength; to do that, he had to overcome the country’s loss in 1967.
Sep. 27, 2023
Mitchell Bard
A poster typical of “Israeli Apartheid Week” at U.S. college campuses. Credit: Carlos Latuff via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
The elephant outside the room
No one in the Israeli government cares what academics think, but we should be concerned about how their anti-Jewish bias is reflected in the classroom.
Sep. 20, 2023
Mitchell Bard
U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, June 7, 2023. Source: Twitter.
Featured Columnist
‘See no evil,’ ‘hear no evil’ US State Department
The Saudis care about one thing and one thing only: keeping their royal heads connected to their royal shoulders.
Sep. 15, 2023
Mitchell Bard
Jewish participants on a Birthright Israel trip. Credit: Birthright Israel Foundation.
Featured Columnist
Engaging with Israel at the micro and macro levels
Instead of trying to convince young Jews why they should support Israel, we should be making a greater effort to connect them to the country based on their specific interests.
Sep. 6, 2023
Mitchell Bard
The Nobel Peace Prize laureates for 1994 in Oslo, Norway. From left: Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Credit: Israeli GPO.
Opinion
History and revisionism about Oslo
Although still technically in effect, the Palestinians have violated their obligations almost from the day the agreement was signed.
Aug. 30, 2023
Mitchell Bard
College Campus, University
Featured Columnist
How to make the case for Israel
Attention should be focused on uninformed/disinterested and liberal/progressive students.
Aug. 23, 2023
Mitchell Bard
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