Alan Baker Archives

Alan Baker

Muslims attend Friday prayers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem, March 24, 2023. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

Does the Jordanian smuggling incident reflect a dangerous development with Amman?

The kingdom's officials have joined in the incitement, including broadcasting the lie that Israel seeks to destroy the Al-Aqsa mosque.

Alan Baker and Lenny Ben-David

April 27, 2023

Visitors walk by the water tower in the ruins of the former community of Homesh, Aug. 27, 2019. Photo by Hillel Maeir/Flash90.

Israel’s legal rights to rescind articles of its 2005 disengagement law

The concern and exasperation voiced by U.S. administration spokespersons would appear to be misplaced.

Alan Baker

March 23, 2023

A wide view of the General Assembly meeting that heard a report of the Human Rights Council. Credit: U.N. Photo/Eskinder Debebe.

The annual UNGA resolution on Israeli nuclear weapons – much ado about nothing.

Despite attempts by Israeli and some Arab and Iranian media outlets to dramatize it, the resolution merely copies the eight previous identical resolutions that have been adopted since 2015.

Alan Baker

December 13, 2022

Amnesty International. Credit: www.amnestyusa.org/about-us/.

Amnesty International’s hypocrisy and double standards

The NGO claims to be impartial, yet it condemns Ukraine while ignoring abuses committed by Palestinian terror groups.

Alan Baker

September 1, 2022

A fisheye view of the Palais des Nations, the United Nations Headquarter in Geneva, Switzerland. Credit: LO Kin-hei/Shutterstock.

Eight false and malicious anti-Israel catchphrases and buzzwords

It is high time that the international community cease allowing themselves to be blindly manipulated by terminology generated and employed to maliciously weave a false narrative.

Alan Baker

August 17, 2022

Navi Pillay, former U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights, addresses the ninth session of the Human Rights Council. Credit: U.N. Photo/Jean-Marc Ferré.

The UN ‘Commission of Inquiry’ into the Israel-Gaza conflict abuses the UN Charter

The continued functioning of the commission and the continued engagement of its members places in question the very credibility of the United Nations.

Alan Baker

August 16, 2022

Eid al-Adha prayers on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City, July 20, 2021. Photo by Jamal Awad/Flash90.

It’s time for a new ‘status quo’ on the Temple Mount

The current arrangement is anachronistic, discriminatory and contradicts today’s international norms.

Alan Baker

August 10, 2022

Criticizing Israel has become a permanent obsession

The Jewish state is being persecuted worldwide by an international community fixated on making it look as bad as possible.

Alan Baker

April 28, 2022

A Hamas parade in Gaza, May 2021. Source: Screenshot.

The Russia-Ukraine war and Israeli-Palestinian conflict cannot be compared

Attempts to do so are artificial and contrived to the point of being willful and malicious.

Alan Baker

April 13, 2022

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