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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
Yechiel Leiter, Israel's ambassador to the United States, speaks to the media after a meeting with U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Nada Hamadeh, Lebanon's ambassador to the United States, outside the U.S. State Department in Washington, D.C., April 14, 2026. Photo by Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90.
Editor-in-Chief
Israel’s envoy spoke a hard truth that needed to be said
Groups like J Street and Jews who support New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani aren’t just criticizing Jerusalem. They are assisting a globalized intifada against their own people.
May. 20, 2026
Jonathan S. Tobin
Comedian and television talk-show host Bill Maher attends the 2026 Vanity Fair Oscar Party hosted by Mark Guiducci at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in California, March 15, 2026. Photo by Lionel Hahn/Getty Images.
Senior Contributing Editor
Bill Maher deserves praise, not gratitude, for telling truth about Israel
Jews shouldn’t need to treat intellectual honesty as heroism. Nor does it behoove us to grab any morsel of sympathy with the hunger of a hostage.
May. 18, 2026
Ruthie Blum
“The New York Times”
Column
‘New York Times’ and the oldest blood libel
When facts collapse, a darker myth emerges.
May. 16, 2026
Fiamma Nirenstein
A placard pictured during a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Antisemitism outside Downing Street in London. marking one week since the car and knife attack on Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, England, which resulted in the deaths of two Jewish men, Oct. 9, 2025. Photo by Chris J. Ratcliffe/AFP via Getty Images.
Column
A dangerous dividing line
Diaspora Jews cannot properly be defended if a number of them can’t or won’t understand the full monstrosity of the scapegoating and demonization of Israel.
May. 21, 2026
Melanie Phillips
People participate in an “Anti-Zionism=Terrorism” protest, organized by the pressure group Stop the Hate in Golders Green, following the stabbing of two people in the Golders Green area of North London on April 29, 2026. Photo by Carl Court/Getty Images.
Hate in America
Confronting the poison of anti-Zionism
Maureen Galindo, a Texas Democrat running for Congress, is not an outlier, but a faithful representative of the monstrosity this scourge has become.
May 21, 2026
Ben Cohen
A placard pictured during a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Antisemitism outside Downing Street in London. marking one week since the car and knife attack on Heaton Park Hebrew Congregation in Manchester, England, which resulted in the deaths of two Jewish men, Oct. 9, 2025. Photo by Chris J. Ratcliffe/AFP via Getty Images.
Hate in England
A dangerous dividing line
Diaspora Jews cannot properly be defended if a number of them can’t or won’t understand the full monstrosity of the scapegoating and demonization of Israel.
May 21, 2026
Melanie Phillips
James Sinkinson. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
How the Palestinians got their name
James Sinkinson
Opinion
A tale of two settlements
Daniel Greenfield
Opinion
Palestinian nationhood? What does that mean?
Nadav Shragai
Clifford D. May. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Alternatives to ‘peace through strength’
Clifford D. May
Douglas Altabef
Opinion
Will the judicial reform hiatus be the pause that refreshes?
Douglas Altabef
Opinion
American leaders must stand up to antisemitism
Yoni Michanie
Dr. Eric R. Mandel
Opinion
Is Iranian-Arab reconciliation a mirage?
Dr. Eric R. Mandel
Nave Dromi
Opinion
The IDF must be kept out of the political debate
Nave Dromi
Opinion
The new Freud revival can only be good for the Jews
Benjamin Kerstein
Stephen M. Flatow. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
What the Palestinian terrorist’s mother told him …
Stephen M. Flatow
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