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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
Screenshot of the Likud Party campaign video clip, released on the eve of Shavuot, May 21, 2026.
Senior Contributing Editor
Funny, you don’t look like a Bibi supporter!
The left grows ill when it gets a taste of its own medicine. In this case, the culprit is a hilarious clip that’s going viral, inducing incurable pearl-clutching.
May. 24, 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
Damage caused by an Israeli military operation in Ayta ash Shab in Southern Lebanon, May 17, 2026. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
Middle East
Make this occupation of Lebanon the last
Legally speaking, Beirut and Jerusalem have been at war since 1948, two societies ruptured by Islamist forces beyond their control.
May 24, 2026
Joel M. Margolis
US Marines Epic Fury
Iran
Regime radicals in Tehran believe Trump will blink first
They suspect that U.S. President Donald Trump will, in short order, cave under pressure from the American people, who are dealing with a rise in food and fuel prices.
May 22, 2026
Joseph Puder
Opinion
Will Abbas and PA leaders face ICC prosecution for murder?
Yoni Ben Menachem
Steven Emerson
Opinion
Indiana University apologizes for hosting antisemitic terror-supporter
Steven Emerson
Clifford D. May. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Strategery 101
Clifford D. May
Thane Rosenbaum
Opinion
The real woke Jews
Thane Rosenbaum
Opinion
Bidding farewell to the rabbi who defined religious Zionism
Elhanan Glat
Opinion
A new report exposes endemic campus Jew-hatred
Richard L. Cravatts
Mitchell Bard
Opinion
Stupid is as stupid does, Part III: Ignoring failures
Mitchell Bard
Dan Diker. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The EU’s secret Palestinian building plan for Area C
Dan Diker
Jason Shvili. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Palestinian death culture to blame for teen’s death in Jenin
Jason Shvili
Clifford D. May. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Abdullah in the middle
Clifford D. May
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