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Joe Rogan on the set of his popular podcast, “The Joe Rogan Experience.” Credit: Courtesy.

Open letter to Joe Rogan on antisemitic tropes

Please consider this letter in the spirit it is written—as the correction your guests should have made.

February 14, 2023

The U.N. General Assembly. Credit: U.N.

Lies, libels and the justification of terror

The past week presents a valuable lesson on how dangerous lies can easily lead to the justification of deadly violence.

December 8, 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.

Congress must defund the UN’s poisoned Pillay report

Discriminatory commissions that blame Israel for the world’s ills or scapegoat the Jewish state are simply not acceptable.

June 19, 2022

The 2018 AIPAC Policy Conference in Washington, D.C. on March 6, 2018. Photo by Haim Zach/GPO.

The latest ‘acceptable’ anti-Semitism targets AIPAC

To single them out for opprobrium based on double standards is discrimination—and wrong.

May 26, 2022

An Amazon office building in Silicon Valley. Credit: Sundry Photography/Shutterstock.

Dear Amazon: Nazis are bad

Why is Amazon still “the world’s largest purveyor of original Nazi propaganda films”?

January 13, 2022

United Nations headquarters in New York City. Credit: blurAZ/Shutterstock.

Real solidarity with the Palestinians must include honesty

Standing with the Palestinian people does not mean offering empty platitudes, but also facing the real-world consequences of bad decisions.

December 1, 2021

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.

If you care about human rights, stop supporting terror

Israel outlawed the six Palestinian NGOs because it is attempting to uphold, not repress, human rights and fundamental freedoms.

November 3, 2021

Israelis wave flags at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City on the eve of Jerusalem Day, May 9, 2021. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

Israel’s fresh start and the media’s missed opportunity

No sovereign nation should need to consult with terrorists about whether they can hold a parade in its own capital city.

June 23, 2021

Former U.S. Vice President Joe Biden speaks at the 2019 Iowa Democratic Wing Ding at Surf Ballroom in Clear Lake, Iowa, Aug. 9, 2019. Credit: Gage Skidmore via Wikimedia Commons.

The Biden administration is breaking the law by restoring Palestinian aid

The resumption of aid to the Palestinians, including to the U.N. agency for Palestinian refugees, is shameful. Congress should not let it happen.

April 8, 2021