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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
Israeli National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir raises the Jewish state's national flag on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, May 14, 2026. Photo by Avraham Yitzhak Grossman.
Column
Ben-Gvir made a mistake, but Israel isn’t the villain
The reaction to the latest Gaza flotilla reveals a familiar pattern: outrage at the Jewish state, silence on terrorism and indifference to the region’s real aggressors.
May. 23, 2026
Fiamma Nirenstein
A sign raised during a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Antisemitism outside Downing Street in London, marking one week since a 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.
Senior Contributor
A dangerous dividing line
Diaspora Jews cannot properly be defended if they do not or fail to comprehend the 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 North London residential area 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. She is a faithful representative of the monstrosity that this scourge has become.
May 21, 2026
Ben Cohen
A sign raised during a demonstration organized by the Campaign Against Antisemitism outside Downing Street in London, marking one week since a 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 they do not or fail to comprehend the monstrosity of the scapegoating and demonization of Israel.
May 21, 2026
Melanie Phillips
Salem al-Ketbi.
Opinion
The year Iran lost normalcy
Salem al-Ketbi
Opinion
The Temple Mount could be Israel’s symbol of victory
Tom Nisani
Opinion
The New York Times’ Orwellian obsession with Israel
Phyllis Chesler
Thane Rosenbaum
Opinion
The invisible Jews
Thane Rosenbaum
Opinion
Key factors behind the improvement in Israel-India relations
Jonathan Spyer
Nathan Lewin
Opinion
It’s about time to ‘shackle’ Israel’s Supreme Court
Nathan Lewin
Opinion
‘Al-Aqsa is in danger’
Dr. Alex Sternberg
Stephen M. Flatow. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Ambassador Nides’ delusions about Palestinian terrorism
Stephen M. Flatow
Opinion
Jewish students are ‘falling through the cracks’
Richard L. Cravatts
Opinion
A winning manifesto for the new Israeli opposition
Benjamin Kerstein
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