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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.

Haredi Jews scuffle with police as they protest members of the Women of the Wall movement bringing in Torah scrolls to hold Rosh Chodesh prayers at the Western Wall in Jerusalem on March 4, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Who elected a Jewish pope?
The Kotel does not belong to the Orthodox. It is holy to Jews of all persuasions.
Aug. 25, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Credit: Ryan Rodrick Beiler/Shutterstock.
Opinion
Are college campuses on fire?
Yes and no, depending on the school. But be happy to hear that the situation is not remotely as bad as it is generally advertised.
Aug. 17, 2022
Mitchell Bard
A panel of experts from the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs and the Committee for Accuracy in Middle East Reporting in America (CAMERA) discuss anti-Semitism in the media, campus and public life. Photo by Kineret Rifkind.
Opinion
Who is more anti-Semitic: The right or the left?
Only 93 Jews participated in a new survey on ideological beliefs, but their responses show a high degree of consensus.
Aug. 10, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Kuwaiti youth erupt in cheers with a message of peace during the “50/20” celebration parade honoring 50 years of Kuwaiti independence and 20 years since America’s “Operation Desert Storm,” Feb. 26, 2011. Credit: Photo by Spc. Eric Guzman/Third Army/U.S. Army Central PAO via Wikimedia Commons.
Featured Columnist
Pressure Kuwait to end its boycott
It should not be necessary to remind the country’s leaders that their heads would have been separated from their soldiers and their population would be Iraqi if not for America saving their country from neighboring dictator Saddam Hussein.
Aug. 4, 2022
Mitchell Bard
From the 2022 documentary “The Devil’s Confessions: The Lost Eichmann Tapes.” Source: YouTube.
Opinion
Eichmann tells all
The order to annihilate the Jews was never put in writing, said Adolf Eichmann. Instructions were given orally. He was in charge of managing the deportations.
Jul. 27, 2022
Mitchell Bard
U.S. President Joe Biden meets with Israeli Prime Minister Yair Lapid in Jerusalem on July 14, 2022. Credit: Kobi Gideon/GPO.
Opinion
Partisans can’t accept Biden is pro-Israel
The best indication the U.S. president’s trip was a success was the praise he received in Israel compared to the protests and grumbling from the Palestinians and their supporters.
Jul. 20, 2022
Mitchell Bard
The campus of the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Credit: University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.
Featured Columnist
Do campus BDS campaigns endanger US-Israel relations?
Israel’s detractors haven’t had any serious impact on American business.
Jul. 13, 2022
Mitchell Bard
A protest in London calling for a boycott of Israel. Credit: Claudia Gabriela Marques Vieira via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Losing the semantic battle, winning the war against BDS
The last month may have set a record for BDS failures. Touché.
Jul. 6, 2022
Mitchell Bard
The Monastery, Petra, Jordan, Sept. 30, 2011. Credit: Diego Delso via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Who stole Palestinian land? Jordan
The Hashemites had no connection to the land until the Arab revolt, and then Abdullah was imposed on the residents by imperial Britain.
Jun. 30, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Golf player. Credit: Pixabay.
Opinion
Hypocrisy and the Saudis
Athletes are hardly the first Americans to drink from the Saudi trough but, for some reason, have been singled out for opprobrium.
Jun. 22, 2022
Mitchell Bard
1967 Six-Day War, Israeli Tank
Opinion
A wise voice from history
Writer Christopher Sykes made several keen observations back in 1968 that remain just as relevant today.
Jun. 15, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Palestinian Authority leader Mahmoud Abbas at a meeting of the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah on Sept. 3, 2020. Photo by Flash90.
Opinion
Feeding Palestinian delusions
If the Biden administration were consistent about its claim to be concerned with human rights, it would refuse to provide a nickel to the Palestinians until they ended their abuses.
Jun. 8, 2022
Mitchell Bard
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