Jonathan Harounoff: Commentary on Jewish Issues and Politics

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Jonathan Harounoff

Jonathan Harounoff is Israel’s international spokesperson to the United Nations and author of forthcoming release Unveiled: Inside Iran’s #WomanLifeFreedom Revolt.

Security personnel at the site of a car-ramming attack in Jerusalem that wounded three Israelis on April 22, 2024. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.

New Year’s resolution? Condemn ‘Globalize the Intifada’

The heart of New York can never be the stage for anti-Israel activists to galvanize people from around the globe to participate in violence.

Jonathan Harounoff

Jan. 6, 2025

Pro-Palestinian demonstrators rally in front of the Israeli consulate in San Francisco two days after Hamas massacred 1,400 men, women and children in southern Israel, Oct. 9, 2023. Credit: Phil Pasquini/Shutterstock.

The pandemic of academic antisemitism

America’s schools must take action against antisemitism or face the consequences.

Jonathan Harounoff

Dec. 6, 2023

Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University in New Haven, Conn., with a statue of Moses with horns protruding from his head. Photo by Karyn Bell.

Yale should look in the mirror, and at its buildings, to address anti-Semitism surge

The university has had ample opportunity to address the horned Moses—not necessarily by removing it, but at least by offering a historical context to remind passers-by that Jewish men don’t, in fact, cover their heads with a kippah to keep their horns at bay.

Jonathan Harounoff and Stephanie Posner

Oct. 19, 2021

A political cartoon published by the Anderson County Review equated Kansas Gov. Laura Kelly's order requiring state residents to wear masks to help protect residents from the spread of the coronavirus with the Holocaust, July 3, 2020. Credit: The Anderson County Review/Facebook.

Fighting virus-spawned hate

The world is thinking about ways to prepare for future outbreaks, but we must also be ready for the scapegoating that accompanies them.

Jonathan Harounoff, Stephanie Posner and Arman Amini

July 13, 2020