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A ballistic missile fired from Iran significantly damages a high-rise building in Ramat Gan, Israel, June 19, 2025. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
The return of the neocon canard
Israel’s war with Iran has given an ancient blood libel a new lease of life.
Melanie Phillips
June 19, 2025
U.S. President Donald Trump walks along the West Colonnade on the way to the Executive Residence for an event, in Washington, D.C., May 21, 2025. Photo by Daniel Torok/White House.
Isolationists relitigate the Iraq War to let Iran go nuclear
The arguments against the 2003 invasion are irrelevant to today’s threat. They serve instead to let the “woke right” invoke antisemitic tropes about Jews manipulating Trump.
Jonathan S. Tobin
June 19, 2025
Anti-judicial reform protesters and activists clash with Israeli police as they block Begin Road near the Knesset in Jerusalem on July 24, 2023. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
JNS panel warns judicial overreach real threat to Israeli democracy
"We live in a sort of anarchy. We pretend we have an executive branch and a parliament."
David Isaac
April 27, 2025
Marine Le Pen, president of Rassemblement National parliamentary group, arrives at a session of questions to the government at the National Assembly, France's lower house parliament, in Paris on April 1, 2025. Photo by Anne-Christine Poujoulat/AFP via Getty Images.
Lawfare around the globe is a threat to democracy
Doubts about Qatargate are a reminder that liberal establishments are using courts to delegitimize opponents in France and Israel, just as they did in the United States against Trump.
Jonathan S. Tobin
April 3, 2025
MK Simcha Rothman during the hearing at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on the "reasonableness law," Sept. 12, 2023. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.
Israeli lawmaker pranks left with ‘democracy memorial’ bill
Simcha Rothman's mock bill also states that the law allowing freedom of the press is 'canceled.'
Canaan Lidor
April 1, 2025
Police confront protesters as thousands of people demonstrate in front of the Istanbul Metropolitan Municipality in Sarachane Square against the arrest of Mayor Ekrem İmamoğlu, March 21, 2025. Photo by Sercan Ozkurnazli/dia images via Getty Images.
Inside Turkey’s uprising against Erdoğan 
Istanbul: The street protests don't yet threaten the president's rule, but they give hope to diverse crowds that this is the beginning of change.
Neta Bar
March 29, 2025
U.S. Vice President JD Vance speaks at the 61st Munich Security Conference in Germany on Feb. 14, 2025. Photo by Sean Gallup/Getty Images.
JD Vance and the defense of democracy
The vice president’s challenge to Europe appalled its establishment. But his address was an apt critique of illiberal policies, not an insult or green light to antisemitism.
Jonathan S. Tobin
Feb. 16, 2025
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin and Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant meet at the Pentagon on March 26, 2024. Credit: U.S. Navy Petty Officer 1st Class Alexander Kubitza/U.S. Department of Defense.
The ultimate shared values
A strong U.S.-Israel relationship has become as American as baseball and apple pie.
Rabbi Uri Pilichowski
Feb. 11, 2025
Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas attends the general debate of the General Assembly’s 79th session on Sept. 24, 2024. Credit: U.N. Photo.
Congratulations, Mr. Dictator: PA chief starts his 21st year
While billions from the U.S. and the E.U. have kept flowing to build democracy in the P.A., everyone has turned a blind eye to the bleak reality.
Lt. Col. (res.) Maurice Hirsch
Jan. 6, 2025