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Fiamma Nirenstein

Fiamma Nirenstein

Fiamma Nirenstein is an Italian-Israeli journalist, author and senior research fellow at the Jerusalem Center for Security and Foreign Affairs (JCFA). An adviser on antisemitism to Israel’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, she served in the Italian Parliament (2008-2013) as vice president of the Foreign Affairs Committee. A founding member of the Friends of Israel Initiative, she has written 15 books, including October 7, Antisemitism and the War on the West, and is a leading voice on Israel, the Middle East, Europe and the fight against antisemitism.

Marco Carrai. Credit: Courtesy.
Senior Contributing Editor
When Palestinianism becomes a political weapon
The persecution of Israel’s honorary consul in my Florence shows how the Palestinian cause can be used to mobilize voters and punish those who stand with Israel.
Aug. 29, 2026
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U.N. High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson addresses a group of U.S. civil-rights and human-rights activists who presented her with a petition appealing to the United Nations to look into racial discrimination in the administration of the death penalty, as well as racial profiling and the lack of police accountability in the United States. The event was in connection with the World Conference against Racism, Racial Discrimination, Xenophobia and Related Intolerance, planned for Aug. 31 to Sept. 7, 2001, in Durban, South Africa. Credit: U.N. Photo/Ron da Silva.
Senior Contributing Editor
Durban: A milestone in the new antisemitism
The 2001 U.N. conference transformed Israel into the supposed embodiment of racism, colonialism and genocide. The consequences are still with us.
Aug. 28, 2026
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U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres congratulates Annalena Baerbock following her election as president of the 80th session of the U.N. General Assembly on June 2, 2025. Credit: Manuel Elías/U.N. Photo.
Senior Contributing Editor
Don’t answer the antisemites; it’s a political war
Arguing against antisemitic lies is futile. Antisemitism must be confronted for what it has become: a political weapon against Jews and the Jewish state.
Aug. 24, 2026
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A Ryan Air passenger jet at Alghero Airport in Cagliari, Italy. Photo by EyesWideOpen/Getty Images.
Senior Contributing Editor
Keeping Israelis out: The new antisemitic boycott reaches Italy’s airports
Anti-Israel activists are targeting Israeli travelers at airports, turning freedom of movement into the latest front in the campaign to ostracize the Jewish state.
Aug. 20, 2026
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Former Italian Prime Minister and Five Star Movement President Giuseppe Conte participates in the "Truth Day" event of the newspaper La Verità at the Roman Aquarium, June 23, 2026, in Rome, Italy. Photo by Simona Granati-Corbis/Corbis via Getty Images.
Senior Contributing Editor
At the site of a Nazi massacre, the Jews are forgotten
Former Italian Prime Minister Giuseppe Conte invokes Gaza at Sant’Anna di Stazzema while ignoring the antisemitic hatred behind the Oct. 7 massacre.
Aug. 14, 2026
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An anti-Israel protest in Chania on the Greek island of Crete, Oct. 5, 2024. Credit: Gastarbeiter21/Wikimedia Commons.
Senior Contributing Editor
No holiday from antisemitism
For Jews and Israelis, the summer vacation season has become another arena of exclusion, intimidation and increasingly open hatred.
Aug. 12, 2026
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Guided-missile destroyer USS Pinckney (DDG 91) observes a merchant vessel while on patrol enforcing the U.S. blockade against Iran, May 4, 2026. Credit: U.S. Central Command.
Senior Contributing Editor
The time factor
Iran may be weakened, but the regime is using every pause to rebuild its weapons, proxies and alliances—and time could become its most potent weapon.
Aug. 10, 2026
Fiamma Nirenstein
Hamas weaponry seized by Israeli troops in the Gaza Strip and the border area, Oct. 6, 2024. Credit: IDF.
Senior Contributing Editor
Want peace with Israel? Lift the siege
Nearly eight decades after its founding, the Jewish state remains surrounded by forces committed to its destruction.
Aug. 8, 2026
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Bulgarian nationalists march through Sofia on Feb. 18, 2017. Credit: Screenshot.
Senior Contributing Editor
The antisemites are converging—and Jews will not be fooled
The neo-Nazi siege of Jewish teens in Bulgaria exposed a disturbing reality: Jew-hatred from the far right and far left is increasingly feeding off the same hatred.
Aug. 4, 2026
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Trump Camp David
Senior Contributing Editor
The illusion of peace cannot erase the reality of war
Diplomatic initiatives have not changed the strategic reality facing either Iran or Hamas.
Aug. 2, 2026
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Netanyahu Witkoff Kushner
Senior Contributing Editor
Israel cannot accept a Gaza deal without Hamas truly disarming
Direct talks on Gaza’s future involving only Jared Kushner and Mohammed Dahlan have reportedly achieved a breakthrough, leaving Jerusalem to decide whether their initiative meets Israeli security requirements.
July 30, 2026
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his wife, Sara Netanyahu, talk with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy and Foreign Minister Andrii Sybiha at the funeral service for Sen. Lindsey Graham at the Washington National Cathedral on July 28, 2026. Photo by Ma'ayan Toaf/GPO.
Senior Contributing Editor
Jew-hatred’s deadly return and the rise of two Jewish warriors
As a new ADL report documents a surge in antisemitism, two Jewish warriors stand at the center of world affairs, defending democracy and freedom against the axis of evil.
July 29, 2026
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