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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
Iran blockade Epic Fury
Editor-in-Chief
Defeating Iran’s regime requires patience, but shouldn’t take ‘forever’
Given enough time, a combination of economic and military pressure may be enough for Trump to topple the Islamist terrorists. The question is whether he has it.
Apr. 30, 2026
Jonathan S. Tobin
Yair Lapid and Naftali Bennett speak during a press conference announcing a joint list named “Together” ahead of upcoming elections, to be led by Bennett, in Herzliya, April 26, 2026. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Senior Contributing Editor
The fallacy of ‘unity’
Israelis with contradictory views on crucial matters are never going to cease battling one another ideologically, and no constellation of musical chairs in the Knesset is going to alter that reality.
May. 3, 2026
Ruthie Blum
European activists on board the Global Sumud Flotilla to Gaza intercepted by the IDF near Crete, May 1, 2026. Credit: Israel Foreign Ministry/X.
Senior Contributing Editor
The deafening lies about Israel and the Jews
From Lebanon to a Gaza flotilla, distortion dominates public discourse while reality is cast aside.
May. 3, 2026
Fiamma Nirenstein
Mark Rowley Golders Green attack Jews UK United Kingdom
Column
The Palestinian laundromat
Shockingly, the West has framed antisemitism and anti-Zionism as conscience itself.
Apr. 30, 2026
Melanie Phillips
Chassidic Jews in the Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn, N.Y. Credit: Agsaz/Shutterstock.
New York City
Racial gerrymander and the Jewish vote
The enactment of civil-rights election laws and the issuance of many Supreme Court opinions in recent decades have driven into obscurity my 1967 personal experience with this issue.
May. 4, 2026
Nathan Lewin
Exterior views of OPEC (Organization of the Petroleum Exporting Countries) headquarters in Vienna on April 28, 2026. The United Arab Emirates left the cartel of oil producers on May 1. Photo by Christian Bruna/Getty Images.
Middle East
UAE takes a page from the Arab playbook: Using oil as a bludgeon
It did something without precedent in the history of petro-statecraft, converting abundance into a weapon of war.
May. 4, 2026
Amine Ayoub
Clifford D. May. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Biden wavers
Clifford D. May
Donna Robinson Devine
Opinion
Oct. 7 is apocalypse now
Donna Robinson Divine
Opinion
Israel making moves to secure the ties that bind
Charles O. Kaufman
Dr. Sheila Nazarian
Opinion
It’s time to be honest about radical Islam
Dr. Sheila Nazarian
Fiamma Nirenstein
Senior Contributing Editor
Six months of valor and suffering
Fiamma Nirenstein
Thane Rosenbaum
Opinion
The ghost of the Goldstone Report
Thane Rosenbaum
Jacques Neriah
Opinion
From ‘Lebanese Resistance’ to ‘Islamic Resistance’
Jacques Neriah
Jason Shvili. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Will new lipstick on the PA fool Congress?
Jason Shvili
Ran Bar-Yoshafat
Opinion
Surprised at anti-Israel hatred?
Ran Bar-Yoshafat
Rabbi Uri Pilichoski. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Accusing Israel of immorality is despicable
Rabbi Uri Pilichowski
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