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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.

Israeli and American Flags
Opinion
How good are US-Israel relations?
We are nations of immigrants that believe in free markets. The idea that America will turn on Israel over judicial reform is nonsense.
Aug. 16, 2023
Mitchell Bard
George Orwell's former home at 77 Parliament Hill, Hampstead, England. Credit: Deben Dave via Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
Orwell’s view on antisemitism was not Orwellian
For him, Zionism was another movement to gain power and dominate others.
Aug. 9, 2023
Mitchell Bard
The entrance to a terror tunnel discovered underneath the al-Ansar mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, July 4, 2023. Credit: IDF Spokesperson.
Featured Columnist
Doesn’t anyone ask why there is a refugee camp in Jenin?
Confining people in wretched conditions serves the interests of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in maintaining breeding grounds for terrorists.
Aug. 2, 2023
Mitchell Bard
A giant billboard outside the offices of The New York Times, put up by CAMERA. Source: CAMERA.
Opinion
The paper of record becomes more desperate to smear Israel
Add that to the fact that there has been no shortage of stories about how Palestinians are suffering.
Jul. 26, 2023
Mitchell Bard
Judicial Reform Protests
Opinion
The Israeli right and left have selective memories
The good news is that the Jewish state has survived such turbulence before, though not without collateral damage.
Jul. 19, 2023
Mitchell Bard
Some 10,000 demonstrators march on the White House in Washington, D.C., to protest Israel's offensive in Gaza known as “Operation Protective Edge,” Aug. 2, 2014. Credit: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Shutterstock.
Opinion
Biden joins hands with the antisemites
The boycott of Israeli academic institutions is just the latest example of how the U.S. State Department has all but declared war on Israel.
Jul. 5, 2023
Mitchell Bard
Palestinians outside the headquarters of the U.N. Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in the Askar refugee camp, east of Nablus, on May 8, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.
Opinion
Biden’s glass White House
Israel is a convenient punching bag to divert attention from the administration’s failed policies.
Jun. 28, 2023
Mitchell Bard
Paul McCartney in Tel Aviv. Credit: DMY/Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
The antisemitic BDS war on celebrities
“Artists are public figures who need audience support to succeed, making them particularly vulnerable to attacks on their character,” says Lana Melman.
Jun. 21, 2023
Mitchell Bard
Healy Hall at Georgetown University. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
What are Arab donors to universities buying for $10 billion?
Sadly, most faculty who agitate against Israel do so without needing such funding as motivation.
Jun. 14, 2023
Mitchell Bard
Artificial Intelligence
Opinion
Forget Biden’s strategy, (A)I have the solution to antisemitism
I couldn’t have said it better myself—my genuine self. These are precisely the steps needed.
Jun. 7, 2023
Mitchell Bard
Zahra Billoo, executive director of CAIR in the San Francisco Bay Area. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Biden’s antisemitism program defends antisemites
More significantly, the administration made no commitment of money to this new strategy.
May. 31, 2023
Mitchell Bard
People marching from Manhattan to Brooklyn to protest the rise in antisemitism in New York, Jan. 5, 2020. Photo by Christopher Penler/Shutterstock.
Opinion
Biden antisemitism strategy is futile without the IHRA definition
The biggest red herring of antisemites is that adopting it will unconstitutionally deny people their right to free speech by prohibiting or chilling criticism of Israel.
May. 24, 2023
Mitchell Bard
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