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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.

US, Israel Flags
Opinion
What if Israel treated America as America treats Israel?
Consider news reports that sound significantly different.
Jun. 1, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Taylor Force
Opinion
Biden is skirting laws to aid Palestinians
The Taylor Force Act bars U.S. funding to the Palestinian Authority as long as it continues its “pay-for-slay” policy, rewarding terrorists and their families with financial stipends.
May. 25, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Anti-Semitism
Opinion
Anti-Semitism isn’t a strong enough word
BDSers are single-minded; it’s all about the Jews. They could be called “Holocausters.”
May. 19, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu exposes files that prove Iran’s nuclear program in a press conference at the Kirya government headquarters in Tel Aviv on April 30, 2018. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Featured Columnist
Big lies and illogic on Iran
The facts are so straightforward that it’s hard to believe that anyone still takes seriously the arguments for the nuclear deal.
May. 11, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Harvard University Widener Library
Opinion
When will Harvard acknowledge its entanglement with anti-Semitism?
Harvard’s anti-Semitic record goes back to the early part of the 20th century during the tenure of university president Abbott Lawrence Lowell, who proposed a quota on the admission of Jews.
May. 5, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Hundreds of fans and supporters cheer the bicycle riders of the 101st Giro d'Italia, one of the most prestigious road-cycling races in the world, as they begin the race in Jerusalem on May 4, 2018. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Israel: The world’s cleanest country
Anti-Semites are getting increasingly inventive in their campaign to smear Israel in every conceivable way.
Apr. 27, 2022
Mitchell Bard
Palestinians protest against a U.S. announcement of to stop funding the U.N. program for Palestinian refugees, outside U.N. offices in the West Bank city of Hebron, Sept. 8, 2018. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.
Opinion
A reminder about all those Palestinian refugees
Long before most people began to talk about the need for reforming UNRWA, a writer said the organization should stay out of politics and not be subject to Arab supervision, or used for propaganda purposes.
Apr. 20, 2022
Mitchell Bard
A billboard displaying Iranian Ayatollahs Ruhollah Khomeini and Ali Khamenei. Credit: Erdalislakphotography/Shutterstock.
Opinion
Fool me twice, shame on me
The U.S. State Department pays no more attention to what the Iranians say about nuclear weapons than they do when the Palestinians say their goal is a state from the river to the sea.
Apr. 13, 2022
Mitchell Bard
AIPAC
Opinion
They’re pro-Israel, ‘Dayenu’
AIPAC insists that the Jewish community cannot be too selective about its friends.
Apr. 5, 2022
Mitchell Bard
A view of proceeding at the Nuremberg Trials held in Germany between 1945 and 1949. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Prepare a war-crimes tribunal for Putin
Just maybe, a tribunal that shows that unprovoked aggression and the slaughter of civilians will not be tolerated in the 21st century can succeed where Nuremberg failed.
Mar. 30, 2022
Mitchell Bard
U.S. President Joe Biden on June 4, 2021. Source: POTUS/Facebook.
Opinion
It’s demography, stupid!
Pointless as it may be given their myopia, let’s remind the president and his diplomats of life as it is rather than as they would like it to be in Israel and the “disputed territories.”
Mar. 23, 2022
Mitchell Bard
U.S. President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris in the Roosevelt Room of the White House on March 29, 2021. Credit: Official White House Photo by Lawrence Jackson.
Opinion
Is US intel cooking the books on Iran?
President Joe Biden is taking a page out of the Obama playbook and circumventing Congress to make a deal he knows would be rejected if it was submitted—as it should be—as a treaty.
Mar. 16, 2022
Mitchell Bard
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