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Points of view from across the Jewish world

Jonathan S. Tobin
Jonathan S. Tobin
Editor-in-Chief
Ruthie Blum
Senior Contributing Editor
Fiamma Nirenstein
Fiamma Nirenstein
Senior Contributing Editor
Melanie Phillips
Melanie Phillips
Senior Contributor
United Arab List (Ra’am) party chairman Mansour Abbas stands alongside fellow party members on stage following the release of exit poll results in the northern Israeli city of Sakhnin, on Israel’s general election night, Oct. 27, 2026. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.
Editor-in-Chief
Who gets a veto over Israeli action against Hamas and Iran?
Contrary to Netanyahu’s detractors, opposition to forming a government that includes Arab anti-Zionist parties isn’t a question of racism but of rational national security concerns.
October 28, 2026 07:00 AM
Jonathan S. Tobin
Navi Pillay, chair of the United Nations Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory, including East Jerusalem, and Israel, addresses a press conference. Credit: Jean-Marc Ferré/U.N. Photo.
Senior Contributing Editor
A ‘peace prize’ for the vilification of Israel
Honoring Navi Pillay highlights the moral rot of the United Nations and Nobel Committee.
October 9, 2026 08:34 AM
Ruthie Blum
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at his Likud Party’s election headquarters at Binyanei HaUma in Jerusalem, following Israel’s general elections, early on Oct. 28, 2026. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Democracy as common sense
Beyond the noise and character assassination, the election results show the enduring strength of Netanyahu’s strategy and persona at the center of Israel’s political battle.
October 28, 2026 02:00 PM
Fiamma Nirenstein
American photojournalist Heidi Levine receives medical treatment at a hospital in Ramallah after being injured in an attack by extremist Jewish settlers during the annual olive harvest in the village of Abu Falah near Ramallah, Oct. 16, 2026. Photo by Flash90.
Senior Contributor
The war against the Jews in Judea and Samaria
“Settler violence” is a malevolently distorted canard.
October 22, 2026 11:30 AM
Melanie Phillips
Mitchell Bard
Mitchell Bard
Featured Columnist
Ben Cohen. Credit: Courtesy.
Ben Cohen
Featured Columnist
Rabbi Yossy Goldman. Credit: Ricci Goldstein Photography.
Rabbi Yossy Goldman
Featured Columnist
Benjamin Kerstein. Credit: Courtesy.
Benjamin Kerstein
Featured Columnist
Yisrael Medad. Credit: Courtesy.
Yisrael Medad
Featured Columnist
Israeli journalist Amit Segal in Tel Aviv, Sept. 15, 2024. Photo by Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90.
Amit Segal
Guest Columnist
Israel elections
Israeli Elections
The paradox of the polls
Those who calculate the candidate numbers may have advanced mathematics, yet too little social understanding.
Oct. 28, 2026
Ronen Itsik
Jon Kyl speaks at an event in Phoenix, Ariz., on April 13, 2017. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.
U.S-Israel Relations
Remember his name ...
Sen. Jon Kyl, an extraordinary legislator, was a man of brilliance and ethics.
Oct. 27, 2026
Farley Weiss
Catherine Perez-Shakdam. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
I heard it in Iran. Europe chose not to listen
Catherine Perez-Shakdam
Mark Kelton. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
A digital blood libel with Soviet roots
Mark Kelton
Col. (res.) Ronen Itsik. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The paradox of the polls
Ronen Itsik
Shoshana Siegel. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
How El-Sayed is importing the world’s oldest hatred to Michigan
Shoshana Siegel
Angelo Leone. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The University of Bari and the Italian scientist boycotted for working in Israel
Angelo Leone
James Sinkinson. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Palestinians again break vows to reform, proving again they can’t handle statehood
James Sinkinson
Eyal Dror. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Europe is watching the rioters, but it should fear who comes next
Eyal Dror
Farley Weiss. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Remember his name ...
Farley Weiss
Steve Wenick. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Oct. 7 and the enduring mystery of antisemitism
Steve Wenick
Micha Danzig. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Mehdi Hasan and Cenk Uygur’s misleading math meets El-Sayed’s platform
Micha Danzig