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Gerald M. Steinberg

Demonstrators protest against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in New York City, Sept. 20, 2023. Photo: Luke Tress/Flash90

Countering antisemitism can’t wait until Israel’s crisis is resolved

The NGO-led efforts to weaken and replace the IHRA working definition— the most effective means of countering modern antisemitism—need to be countered effectively before they become dominant.

Gerald M. Steinberg

September 28, 2023

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with Azerbaijani President Ilham Heydar Oghlu Aliyev, on December 13, 2016. Photo: Haim Zach / GPO

The Azerbaijan-Armenia peace talks

Lessons from Israel and Egypt.

Gerald M. Steinberg

May 29, 2023

Then-director of Human Rights Watch Kenneth Roth at the Media Security Conference in Munich, Feb. 19, 2017. Credit: Kuhlmann/MSC via Wikimedia Commons.

Ken Roth’s main contribution is to antisemitism, not human rights

A complete listing of Roth’s vituperous attacks, lies, distortions and unverifiable accusations would fill volumes.

Gerald M. Steinberg

January 16, 2023

A rally in Gaza City organized by the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP), on Aug. 31, 2019. Photo by Hassan Jedi/Flash90.

Looking beyond the NGO halo effect

The evidence of the extensive links to the PFLP of the NGOs outlawed by Israel is too blatant to be erased or hidden forever.

Gerald M. Steinberg

August 28, 2022

Human Rights Watch executive director Kenneth Roth. Source: Screenshot.

After Kenneth Roth, can Human Rights Watch be repaired?

Restoring their lost credibility, if it can be done, will require a major effort taking many years.

Gerald M. Steinberg

May 22, 2022

An Israeli tank near the Syrian border in the northern Golan Heights. Aug. 18, 2021. Photo by Michael Giladi/Flash90.

What Israel must learn from Ukraine’s war

Israelis recognize that no outside power, not even the U.S., can be relied on to guarantee survival in the face of a powerful threat.

Gerald M. Steinberg

February 27, 2022

Members of the Popular Front for the Liberation of Palestine (PFLP) take part in a military show in Khan Younis in the southern Gaza Strip to celebrate the 47th anniversary of the group's founding, Dec. 11, 2014. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.

Willful blindness on the Palestinian NGO terror connection

The NGO industry has a great deal to lose if the Israeli government convinces officials and the wider public in these countries to take the links to terror seriously.

Gerald M. Steinberg

November 11, 2021

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.

Durban IV: The UN’s festival of hate

Now, as in 2001, many of those who claim to speak in the name of morality and law continue to support the perpetrators of inhuman brutality, and erase the victims of terror and injustice.

Gerald M. Steinberg

September 22, 2021

European Union flags in front of the European Commission building in Brussels. Credit: Amio Cajander via Wikimedia Commons.

The end of Europe’s romance with Palestinian terror?

In recent years, E.U. recognition of the damage done by and the need for independent oversight of Europe’s relationships with NGOs in Israel has been increasing.

Gerald M. Steinberg

May 9, 2021