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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.

Imagine teaching mathematics without martyrdom, history without erasure, religion without demonization. Imagine classrooms where maps prepare children for coexistence rather than “liberation.”
Hamas, Hezbollah, Syria, Iran: As the region veers toward war and opportunities are lost, chaos is starting to run the bases.
Has there been a single major rally demanding that the Palestinian Authority protect freedom of speech, religion, assembly, women’s rights or gay rights under its own rule?
Feigning interest in peace with Jerusalem has long been a tactic for extracting concessions from Washington and diverting attention from Riyadh’s extremism.
For too long, universal causes have overshadowed Jewish priorities, which need focused communal resources.
Why propose giving up what is, in effect, heavily subsidized access to the world’s best weapons and integration with the U.S. defense ecosystem?
Since the October ceasefire, Hamas has been said to have revived its tax system, expanded revenues and redirected funds to rebuild military infrastructure, including tunnels.
Democracy is not a spectator sport. Donate your time, contribute your energy and urge others to follow suit.
Israel’s enemies have been weakened, but none has been decisively defeated. The prime minister, for all his rhetoric, settled for something less—primarily to accommodate U.S. President Donald Trump.
Over the years, the elite school in the northern Chicago suburbs has become a litmus test for the authoritarian state’s propaganda machine.
They have wanted the benefits of normalization without normalization itself.
Lt. Jack Taylor of the Office of Strategic Services (the precursor to the CIA) is one of many victims of the Holocaust whose story is largely unknown.