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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 Nimrod lookout at Rosh Pina. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Delta couldn’t keep us from Israel
As you can imagine, getting into Israel was not easy and only possible at all because of our son being an Israeli citizen, since tourists were not being permitted to visit.
Sep. 1, 2021
Mitchell Bard
U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to deliver remarks to essential and frontline workers and military families attending the Fourth of July celebration on July 4, 2021, on the South Lawn of the White House. Credit: Official White House Photo by Katie Ricks.
Opinion
Biden’s untenable foreign policy
The president pledged to put advocacy for democracy and human rights at center stage. It’s a noble idea, but a hypocritical and self-defeating basis for pursuing America’s national interests.
Aug. 25, 2021
Mitchell Bard
“The New York Times” building in Midtown Manhattan. Credit: Ajay Suresh via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
All the anti-Israel news fit to print
What country, including the United States, does not fail to come close to its ideals?
Aug. 18, 2021
Mitchell Bard
U.S. President Joe Biden arrives to deliver remarks to essential and frontline workers and military families attending the Fourth of July celebration on July 4, 2021, on the South Lawn of the White House. Credit: Official White House Photo by Katie Ricks.
Opinion
Biden should reiterate Bush policies he supported
That includes disabusing the Palestinians of the notion that the United States will support their territorial demands.
Aug. 11, 2021
Mitchell Bard
Islamic girls in Morocco wear hijabs. Credit: Michal Osmenda from Brussels, Belgium, via Wikimedia Commons.
Opinion
Imagine the reaction if Israel decided to …
Advocates of Israel can complain about the double standards, but they are not going away.
Aug. 2, 2021
Mitchell Bard
Israeli riot police clash with Muslim worshippers at the al-Aqsa Mosque compound in Jerusalem's Old City on June 18, 2021. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.
Opinion
It’s the religion, stupid
You cannot reach compromises with people who believe that Allah has given them marching orders to reconstitute the Islamic empire and, ideally, expand it throughout the world. For them, Israel is a cancer in the Islamic body that must be excised.
Jul. 28, 2021
Mitchell Bard
Map with the flag of Israel. Credit: Vrezh Gyozalyan/Shutterstock.
Featured Columnist
Israel education needed, but can it be trusted?
Students, especially self-described liberals, wanted to look at the issues in a Tevye-like fashion—on the one hand, Palestinians do bad things, but, on the other, so do the Israelis—even if the facts are not symmetrical.
Jul. 21, 2021
Mitchell Bard
Former Rep. Ron Klein (D-Fla.), chairman of the Jewish Democratic Council of America (JDCA), speaks at the “No Fear: A Rally in Solidarity With the Jewish People” on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., on July 11, 2021. Standing at right is former Sen. Norm Coleman (R-Minn.), chairman of the Republican Jewish Coalition (RJC). Credit: Chris Kleponis.
Opinion
The ‘not enough fear’ rally
The country’s largest and most active organizations, which are spending millions of dollars to fight anti-Semitism, failed to convince their members it was worth their time to show the American public that Jewish lives matter.
Jul. 14, 2021
Mitchell Bard
J Street President Jeremy Ben-Ami addressing the 2019 J Street National Conference in Washington. Source: J Street/Flickr.
Opinion
Two-state simpletons
The pro-Palestinian lobby advocates the ethnic cleansing of Jews from their historic homeland. How many Jews are to be removed?
Jul. 7, 2021
Mitchell Bard
Blinken Abbas
Opinion
US taxpayers shouldn’t subsidize Palestinian corruption, terror and intransigence
How does a president supposedly interested in democracy and human rights justify violating U.S. law, strengthening an autocracy, subsidizing terrorism and anti-Semitism and undermining his own goal of a two-state solution?
Jun. 30, 2021
Mitchell Bard
IDF Artillery Corps seen firing into Gaza near the Israeli border on May 20, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Opinion
Is the IDF impotent?
It’s not a lack of firepower that has limited Israel’s ability to win decisive victories.
Jun. 23, 2021
Mitchell Bard
Weapons
Opinion
The Palestinian culture of violence
I used to believe that when the founding generation of the PLO died, a new generation that grew up in “Palestine” and was not committed to Cold War-era, anti-Western Communist dogma and fantasies about a state from the river to the sea would emerge.
Jun. 16, 2021
Mitchell Bard
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