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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
People participate in a street poll ahead of Israel’s upcoming general elections at the Machane Yehuda open-air market in Jerusalem, Oct. 20, 2026. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Editor-in-Chief
Do Americans support Israeli democracy? Then let their voters decide.
While Trump backed Netanyahu, Democrats and the foreign-policy establishment still want to dictate to the Jewish state. They should accept the Israelis’ decision.
October 24, 2026 11:00 PM
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
A view on Oct. 24, 2026, of the scene of a deadly shooting attack at the Yehuda Junction checkpoint near Hebron in Judea, where two Israeli soldiers were murdered and three others wounded by Palestinian gunmen the previous day. Photo by Wisam Hashlamoun/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Where is Europe when Jews are under attack?
International outrage over violence in Judea and Samaria appears to flow in only one direction.
October 25, 2026 12:19 AM
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
Mamdani Bernie Sanders
Politics
The unholy alliance between socialists and Islamists
Iran wants you dead; the socialists want your stuff; they are allies; and you should care.
Oct. 24, 2026
Daniel Winston
Dr. Abdul El-Sayed testifies at a hearing of the U.S. Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions, July 11, 2024. Credit: U.S. Congress/Public Domain via Wikimedia Commons.
U.S. Politics
El-Sayed can dispose of the Muslim Brotherhood question
He doesn’t have to talk about his mother’s past. All he has to do is stand with global jihad victims.
Oct. 23, 2026
Charles Jacobs
Eliezer Avraham
Opinion
Israel’s economy in the age of mega-acquisitions
Eliezer Avraham
Daniel Winston
Opinion
The unholy alliance between socialists and Islamists
Daniel Winston
Simon Deng, an escaped jihad slave from South Sudan, is accompanied in Israel by Dr. Charles Jacobs (pictured), President of the American Anti-Slavery group.
Opinion
El-Sayed can easily dispose of the Muslim Brotherhood question
Charles Jacobs
Opinion
The intelligence victory and strategic trap
Erfan Fard
Rabbi Steven Burg
Opinion
With the encampments gone, the hatred has to follow suit
Rabbi Steven Burg
Gavriel Cohn. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
What did King David mean by ‘trusting in God’?
Gavriel Cohn
Shimon Refaeli. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The fire in Europe’s streets began in the Middle East
Shimon Refaeli
Christoforos Ioannidis. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The NATO ally that gave Hamas a stage
Christoforos Ioannidis
Danny Danon. Credit: U.N. Photo.
Opinion
Israel’s democracy is strong, even though extremists want to test it
Danny Danon
Daniel-Ryan Spaulding. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Kathy Griffin and the end of allyship
Daniel-Ryan Spaulding