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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
Troy Jackson (left), a Democratic politician from Allagash, Maine, who served as president of the Maine Senate from 2018 to 2024, campaigns with Graham Platner, Democratic Party candidate for senator, during a soccer match between the Portland Hearts of Pine and Texoma FC (Portland won by a score of 1-0) on Sept. 27, 2025. Credit: MAINEiac4434/Creative Commons via Wikimedia Commons.
Editor-in-Chief
Why are liberals and Democrats embracing anti-Israel extremists?
Mainstream support for Senate candidates like Graham Platner and Abdul El-Sayed reflects both panic about Trump and the acceptance of antisemitism.
May. 6, 2026
Jonathan S. Tobin
Members of the Iranian security forces stand guard under a portrait of Supreme Leader Mojtaba Khamenei, during a memorial to mark the 40th day since his father, Ali Ayatollah Khamenei, was killed in a joint U.S.-Israel strike, Tehran, April 9, 2026. Photo by Majid Saeedi/Getty Images.
Column
Asymmetric warfare and the ayatollahs
“Our fighter either wins or is martyred,” said the IRGC spokesman. “Martyrdom is happiness for him. In such a situation, our forces do not falter.”
May. 6, 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
Epic Fury
Middle East
Iran’s strategy is patience. Can the West match it?
The contest becomes less about immediate outcomes and more about endurance.
May. 6, 2026
Batya Knebel
A re-enactment shortly after the Santa Cruz massacre that took place on Nov. 12, 1991, in which at least 250 East Timorese pro-independence demonstrators were killed by Indonesian troops. Credit: Mark Rhomberg/ETAN via Wikimedia Commons.
Religion
City councils are the front line in the war against Islamism
America assumes that its scale, constitution and civic ethos insulate it from hostile environments. That’s a fragile assumption.
May. 6, 2026
Nachum Kaplan
Opinion
Schumer’s ‘rabbi’ is an anti-Israel activist
Daniel Greenfield
Opinion
The day after
Chaim Steinmetz
Opinion
Red pins at the Oscars: Is the call for a ceasefire antisemitic?
Marc Erlbaum
Gidi Mark
Opinion
Birthright Israel: Now more than ever
Gidi Mark
Micha Lakin Avni
Opinion
It’s us or them: We can’t let Nasrallah determine our future
Micah Lakin Avni
Arik Barbing
Opinion
Israel’s Ramadan dilemmas
Arik Barbing
Arnold Roth
Opinion
Betrayal, lies, politics and grief
Arnold Roth
Yisrael Medad
Opinion
The Jews have been ‘lulled to sleep by chloroform’
Yisrael Medad
Melanie Phillips
Opinion
The West’s abandonment of the Jews
Melanie Phillips
Meli Siegel
Opinion
As a Zionist
Melisa Siegel
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