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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
U.S. Vice President JD Vance delivers remarks at CompoTech, a defense technology and advanced manufacturing company, in Brewer, Maine, on Aug. 24, 2026. Photo by Anna Moneymaker/POOL/AFP via Getty Images.
Editor-in-Chief
The clock is ticking on the chances to stop JD Vance
The veep informally began his 2028 campaign with a fundraiser hosted by Tucker Carlson’s financier. It’s not too early to start thinking about how to defeat him.
August 27, 2026 07:00 PM
Jonathan S. Tobin
Labor Party leader Yair Golan following the approval of the merger agreement with the far-left Meretz Party, at a party conference in Tel Aviv, July 12, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
Jingle hell
The score of Yair Golan’s latest campaign clip is music that freed hostage Rom Braslavski’s terrorist captors in Gaza listened to as regularly as they tortured him.
August 21, 2026 10:30 AM
Ruthie Blum
U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson addresses a group of U.S. civil-rights and human-rights activists who presented her with a petition appealing to the United Nations to look into racial discrimination in the administration of the death penalty, as well as racial profiling and the lack of police accountability in the United States. The event was in connection with the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, planned for Aug. 31 to Sept. 7, 2001, in Durban, South Africa. Credit: U.N. Photo/Ron da Silva.
Senior Contributing Editor
Durban: A milestone in the new antisemitism
The 2001 U.N. conference transformed Israel into the supposed embodiment of racism, colonialism and genocide. The consequences are still with us.
August 28, 2026 01:53 AM
Fiamma Nirenstein
Andy Burnham
Senior Contributor
Britain’s moral depravity
The campaign against the Israeli “settlers” amounts to racist ethnic cleansing.
August 27, 2026 03:30 PM
Melanie Phillips
Ben Cohen. Credit: Courtesy.
Ben Cohen
Featured Columnist
Israeli journalist Amit Segal in Tel Aviv, Sept. 15, 2024. Photo by Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90.
Amit Segal
Guest Columnist
Benjamin Kerstein. Credit: Courtesy.
Benjamin Kerstein
Featured Columnist
Caine Qatar
Middle East
Don’t trust Doha when it comes to US-Iran negotiations
This is not unbiased mediation. Qatar is trying to save Iran from further setbacks.
Aug. 27, 2026
Ahmed Y. Obali
Department of Homeland Security DHS
Diaspora Jewry
Synagogues and churches to Congress: Protect us now
Government must do more to meet the urgency of the times we live in.
Aug. 26, 2026
Nathan Diament
Efrat Last. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
A sunken ship raises an Israeli divide from the depths
Efrat Last
Lyn Julius. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Why Mizrahi Jews are fighting erasure in New York City
Lyn Julius
Paul Schneider. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Omer Bartov’s genocide libel
Paul Schneider
Ahmed Y. Obali. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Don’t trust Doha when it comes to US-Iran negotiations
Ahmed Y. Obali
Stephen M. Flatow. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
E1 and the question nobody asks
Stephen M. Flatow
Farley Weiss. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
AIPAC: Spend your dollars more widely … and wisely
Farley Weiss
James Sinkinson. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
No vote for genocide liars
James Sinkinson
Douglas Altabef
Opinion
‘Hell, no! We won’t go’
Douglas Altabef
Nathan Diament. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Synagogues and churches to Congress: Protect us now
Nathan Diament
Karen Lehmann. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
American Jews need a new activism
Karen Lehmann