Column
The late Kofi Annan was personally respected, but his failures as U.N. Secretary-General explain why the institution remains a sad farce.
One might counter that not everyone who presents Israel as a “racist endeavor” is driven by the same motives—strategic, diplomatic, ideological—that the USSR was when it adopted anti-Semitism in the name of anti-Zionism.
Criticism of a Trump aide for policies that would have excluded his family a century ago may make him a hypocrite, but doesn’t mean all of his arguments are wrong.
It’s up to liberals to ensure that U.S. Democrats don’t follow the same path as the British left.
Arabs didn’t come to the protest in Tel Aviv as proud Israelis who felt that Israel was betraying its best values; they came because they oppose the very existence of a Jewish state, up to and including its most innocuous symbol.
Profiling real security threats is right. Interrogating the Jewish state’s critics is wrong.
A protest against Israel’s new law points to problems with its critics more than the arguments against its passage.
If support for the Jewish state is declining, it may have more to do with American Jews than the Israelis they claim to deplore.
No matter how the latest exchange of fire between Israel and Hamas ends, the standoff in Gaza raises serious questions about faith in reviving the peace process.
The 70 representatives who signed a letter calling for restoring U.S. aid to Gaza seem oblivious to the fact that doing so aids a terrorist group. Is that what their party’s base wants?
The government of the Jewish state is not trying to suppress “any kind of inquiry,” but rather is grappling with the daily reality of Palestinian Arabs trying to stone, burn and shoot Jews to death.
The resumption of U.S. aid to Egypt shows that the Trump administration has learned some bitter lessons from Obama’s blunders.