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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
Prime Minister and Likud party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu visit the Mahane Yehuda market in Jerusalem, Oct. 22, 2026. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Israel’s election is a geopolitical vote
The world may see Oct. 27 as a referendum on Israel’s longest-serving prime minister. Israelis are deciding what kind of country they want after three years of war.
October 26, 2026 02:37 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
Iranian support for the State of Israel and its military actions against the mullahs' oppressive regime, seen at a march in Toronto, Canada, on April 26, 2026. Photo by Ali Siadatan (@AliSpeaksX).
Middle East
Behind Iran’s Iron Curtain, a quiet Zionism
What should Israel do with that goodwill? That is a question for its planners.
Oct. 25, 2026
Ali Siadatan
Global high-tech. Credit: TungArt7/pixabay.
Technology
Israel’s economy in the age of mega-acquisitions
From cybersecurity to artificial intelligence, Israeli companies have become strategic assets for the world’s largest technology firms.
Oct. 25, 2026
Eliezer Avraham
Duvi Honig. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Europe, stop blaming the Jews!
Duvi Honig
Opinion
How will we remember Oct. 7?
Simmy Allen
Ali Siadatan. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Behind Iran’s Iron Curtain, a quiet Zionism
Ali Siadatan
Rabbi Yaakov Raskin
Opinion
One year after Hurricane Melissa
Rabbi Yaakov Raskin
Darcie Grunblatt. Credit: Courtesy.
CAMERA: Eye on the Media
Amanpour’s journalistic legacy at ‘CNN’: Neither truthful nor neutral
Darcie Grunblatt
Jeremy Havardi
Opinion
How anti-Zionism harms Palestinians
Jeremy Havardi
Barak M. Seener. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Netanyahu Doctrine: How Israeli military primacy could reshape Saudi security
Barak M. Seener
Jeffrey Levine. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
We must not be caught with our pants down again
Jeffrey Levine
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