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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
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Likud Party election campaign event in Tel Aviv ahead of the upcoming general elections in October, Sept. 17, 2026. Photo by Flash90.
Editor-in-Chief
Netanyahu isn’t the reason pop singers spout blood libels
Attacks on musician Ed Sheeran after his craven apology for rapper Macklemore’s firing demonstrate that the mainstreaming of antisemitism fuels Israel’s unpopularity.
September 22, 2026 02:00 PM
Jonathan S. Tobin
Zionism Is Racism Poster
Senior Contributing Editor
Lying for a standing ovation won’t protect the screenwriters of ‘NAZA’ from the Israel-haters
Yuval Avraham and Rachel Szor are nothing more than useful idiots in the service of antisemites.
September 17, 2026 04:30 AM
Ruthie Blum
Trump MBS Saudi Arabia
Senior Contributing Editor
Saudi Arabia discovers the value of a strong Israel
Mohammed bin Salman thought he could stay out of the region’s widening war. Now the Houthi threat is pushing Riyadh back toward Israel.
September 17, 2026 12:30 AM
Fiamma Nirenstein
Israeli journalist and filmmaker Yuval Abraham and journalist and director Rachel Szor attend the “NAZA” screening during the 83rd International Venice Film Festival at Sala Grande in Italy, Sept. 10, 2026. Photo by Carlo Paloni/Getty Images.
Senior Contributor
The malignancy of the left
An astonishing ovation revealed the importance of anti-Zionist Israelis to the global campaign to destroy the Jewish state.
September 17, 2026 01:30 PM
Melanie Phillips
Ben Cohen. Credit: Courtesy.
Ben Cohen
Featured Columnist
Israeli journalist Amit Segal in Tel Aviv, Sept. 15, 2024. Photo by Yehoshua Yosef/Flash90.
Amit Segal
Guest Columnist
Benjamin Kerstein. Credit: Courtesy.
Benjamin Kerstein
Featured Columnist
American and Iranian flags. Credit: Dmitriy Prayzel/Shutterstock.
Iran
The Mossad, the CIA and the day Tehran starts to fall
The greatest intelligence failure would not be missing Iran’s collapse. It would be failing to prepare for what comes afterward.
Sept. 22, 2026
Erfan Fard
Princess Maha Chakri Sirindhorn of Thailand, March 22, 2011. Credit: Abhisit Vejjajiva/Government of Thailand/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.
Asia
Thailand’s Jewish story
Long before all the Israeli tourists, Thai and Jewish lives were intertwined.
Sept. 22, 2026
Michael Freund
Jeff Ballabon
Opinion
Norway’s ban on Jews
Jeff Ballabon
Michael Freund
Opinion
Thailand’s Jewish story
Michael Freund
Opinion
The Mossad, the CIA and the day Tehran starts to fall
Erfan Fard
Adam Levick. Credit: Courtesy.
CAMERA: Eye on the Media
The premise of ‘NAZA’ doesn’t hold up
Adam Levick
Mike Holmes. Credit: Courtesy.
Walter E. Block
Opinion
Challenging the one-sided boycott of ‘West Bank’ exports
Mike Holmes, Walter E. Block
Eliezer Avraham
Opinion
The Indian Jewish general who shaped the birth of Bangladesh
Eliezer Avraham
Joseph Rozen. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
Pacific partnership: India, Japan and Israel
Joseph Rozen
Jeffrey Levine. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
An encounter with ‘teshuvah’
Jeffrey Levine
Micha Danzig. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The shofar calls you
Micha Danzig
David B. Marcu. Credit: Courtesy.
Opinion
The ‘kol dichfin’ call of Sukkot
David B. Marcu