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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.

"The Israel Lobby" co-author Stephen Walt. Credit: Maarten via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Eureka! Arab lobby discovered
Unlike the pro-Israel lobby which operates in the open and is transparent, the Arab lobby is a many-headed hydra that is less visible and more difficult to define.
Nov. 17, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Likud Chairman Benjamin Netanyahu addresses supporters at party headquarters in Jerusalem, Nov. 2, 2022. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.
Opinion
Don’t get hysterical over Israel’s election
Despite the panic over Netanyahu’s far-right partners, the U.S.-Israel relationship is unlikely to change.
Nov. 10, 2022
Mitchell Bard
An anti-Israel "apartheid wall" on display at Columbia University during "Israeli Apartheid Week" in 2017. Source: Facebook.
Opinion
Should Jewish students be afraid on campus?
Only when campus authorities treat Jew-hatred with the same aggressiveness as other forms of bigotry will we see improvement.
Nov. 2, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi meets with Russian President Vladimir Putin in Uzbekistan, Sept. 15, 2022. Source: Mehr News Agency.
Opinion
Will US-Russia policy give Iran the bomb and kill the Abraham Accords?
Liberals may blanch at the phrase but an “axis of evil” now exists with Russia, China, North Korea and Iran. It is a severe mistake for the Biden administration to focus all its attention on the first three and stand on the sidelines while Iran joins the nuclear club and aids our enemy in Ukraine.
Oct. 28, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Opinion
The academic boycott folly
The BDS movement has no interest in compelling the Palestinian Authority or Hamas to change their authoritarian ways; the focus is solely on virtue signaling and demonizing Israel.
Oct. 21, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Boalt Hall University of California Berkeley Law School
Opinion
UC Berkeley is enabling the normalization of anti-Semitism
The university’s non-reaction to its student groups’ ban on Jews endangers us all.
Oct. 13, 2022
Mitchell Bard
A sign for "Israeli Apartheid Week," the annual international anti-Israel showcase, on the campus of the University of California, Irvine, in May 2010. Credit: AMCHA Initiative.
Opinion
Academic Israel-haters throw a fit over Israel Studies
That faculty and administrators believe they are entitled to money without any obligation or accountability is an expression of the arrogance of the academy today.
Oct. 6, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Jewish Voice for Peace
Opinion
The tragedy of Jews who can’t stand with Israel
In our polarized nation, is there nothing we can all agree on?
Sep. 29, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Qatari flag. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Social-justice warriors ignore Arab slave masters
According to the Global Slavery Index (GSI), more than 500,000 people are slaves in Arab countries. Many more live in conditions of modern slavery.
Sep. 20, 2022
Mitchell Bard
People attend a protest in Haifa condemning the death of “Al Jazeera” journalist Shireen Abu Akleh, who was killed during a raid of Israeli security forces in Jenin on May 11, 2022. Photo by Shir Torem/Flash90.
Opinion
The US State Department’s glass house
If Israel wanted to kill reporters who write negative things about the country, dozens would be dead.
Sep. 14, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Uranium. Credit: MLS/Shuttestock.
Opinion
J Street lobbies against the Jewish state on Iran
It cherry-picks quotations by supporters of the pact to avoid acknowledging that it opposes the government on its most vital security issue.
Sep. 7, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Students with UC Berkeley’s “Bears for Israel” hold a counter-demonstration at a Students for Justice in Palestine rally in the fall of 2018. Source: “Bears for Israel” via Facebook.
Opinion
Instead of prosecution, BDS gets defense at Berkeley
There are indeed strong opinions about the Middle East, and students are free to express them. But the grown-ups on campus should be teaching rather than making excuses for them.
Aug. 31, 2022
Mitchell Bard
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