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As Arabs increasingly turn towards Israel and survival, the West continues in the opposite direction.
The anti-Semitic advocacy group CAIR issued a report intended to intimidate Jewish institutions into defunding organizations that monitor hate. It shouldn’t be taken seriously.
Desmond Tutu’s legacy is much more than that of a mere bigot. He was one of the main architects of a movement to reframe the Jewish state as the antagonist in the global battle against oppression.
While the current situation in Syria does not threaten Israel, the moderate Arab states are pursuing a path of diplomacy that, if successful, is likely to result in an Iran-controlled deep state alongside a nominal government.
Historian Deborah Lipstadt’s nomination to be State Department envoy shouldn’t be held hostage to partisan anger. Still, her own outrageous partisanship undermines outrage about what’s happened.
The “quiet” on the northern and southern fronts that Israel’s leaders point to is the result not of Israeli deterrence, as they claim, but deterrence by our enemies.
Sheldon Adelson wasn’t like the others on the Forbes’ list of the world’s wealthiest people. And he didn’t care if his efforts to help the Jewish state thrive made him unpopular.
The poisoning of our society’s discourse with pseudo-scientific claims and conspiracy theories—often rooted in medieval prejudices about Jews—is destroying trust in education, in government and worst of all, in each other.
The Jan. 6 anniversary ought to make us ask why the nation is stuck in a partisan tribal culture war. Instead, leading Jewish groups are taking sides and fueling the fires of division.
While Israeli Prime Minister Naftali Bennett can effectively hold off formal negotiations, his left-wing colleagues are laying the groundwork for a return to the two-state follies of previous left-wing governments.
The entitlement of shared peoplehood does not negate the particular compact of citizenship made between Israel’s government and its citizens alone.
Talk about goblins in the series about magical wizards being stand-ins for Jews or the product of anti-Semitic memes is a distraction from a necessary discussion of real Jew-hatred.