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Mitchell Bard

Mitchell Bard

Mitchell Bard is a foreign-policy analyst and an authority on U.S.-Israel relations. He has written and edited 22 books, including The Arab Lobby, Death to the Infidels: Radical Islam’s War Against the Jews; After Anatevka: Tevye in Palestine; and Forgotten Victims: The Abandonment of Americans in Hitler’s Camps.

A Palestinian man and boy walk among the rubble of destroyed buildings in Khan Yunis, in the southern Gaza Strip, on Oct. 21, 2025. Photo by Abed Rahim Khatib/Flash90.
Column
Why the Gaza plan is doomed to fail
You cannot educate children for conflict and expect them to grow up committed to peace.
Aug. 26, 2026
Mitchell Bard
A demonstrator holds a poster reading “UCLA Faculty for Free Palestine” as UCLA faculty and staff members demonstrate next to the pro-Palestinian encampment on the campus of the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), May 1, 2024. Photo by Etienne Laurent/AFP via Getty Images.
Column
Faculty have long been a problem for Jews on campus
Besides being decades late, the most disappointing aspect of a newly released ADL report is that it offers no solutions.
Aug. 19, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Epic Fury Iran US Navy
Column
Can the US win a bloodless war?
Conflicts don’t always require destroying an army on the battlefield. But failing to do so can plant the seeds of the next war.
Aug. 12, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Visitors gather ahead of the Board of Peace meeting during the World Economic Forum annual meeting in Davos on Jan. 22, 2026. Photo by Fabrice Coffrini/AFP via Getty Images.
Column
The folly of negotiating with Islamists
Societies that celebrate violence, reward terrorism and teach successive generations that coexistence is treason cannot produce leaders capable of making peace.
Aug. 5, 2026
Mitchell Bard
A view of the United Nations headquarters building in New York City in the 1950s. Photo by H. Armstrong Roberts/ClassicStock/Getty Images.
Column
The most successful political campaign of the modern era
No nationalist movement in modern history has captured the world’s attention as successfully as the Palestinian movement.
July 22, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Israelis supporting the conscription of Haredi men into the Israeli military protest in the city of Bnei Brak, in central Israel, against road blockades by ultra-Orthodox demonstrators following the arrest of draft evaders, June 26, 2026. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Column
The Haredi challenge is becoming Israel’s national security crisis
Demographics, not missiles or terrorists, may pose the greatest threat to the Jewish state’s future.
July 15, 2026
Mitchell Bard
The exterior of the main entrance of the Virginia Commonwealth University School of the Arts in Qatar, taken on March 5, 2018. This part of the building was opened in 2010. Credit: VCUarts Qatar/Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License via Wikimedia Commons.
Column
The Doha deal: How Qatar purchased academic prestige
Neetu Arnold, a research fellow with the National Association of Scholars, noted that universities with campuses there demand “nothing of Qatar beyond its money: the nation can preserve its illiberal quasi-absolute monarchy and traditional Islamic mores and still escape criticism.”
July 1, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Part of an Iranian ballistic missile lodged in the desert near Vered Yeriho in Judea and Samaria, after being fired toward Israel, June 8, 2026. Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90.
Column
Trump’s capitulation will finance Iran’s revival
The U.S. president has agreed to a deal that doesn’t require the Islamic Republic to end its ballistic-missile development, sponsorship of terror or support for proxies.
June 24, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Ilhan Omar
Column
The day the Democrats endorsed antisemitism
What was once disqualifying gradually became acceptable in mainstream political discourse.
June 17, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Trump
Column
Trump, the betrayer-in-chief?
What began as a campaign against Iranian aggression has devolved into accommodating Iranian demands.
June 11, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Greta Thunberg
Opinion
How to win back Democratic support for Israel
Let’s stop pretending their demands are merely “policy changes.” The logical conclusion is far more sweeping.
June 3, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Witkoff Kushner
Column
Trump is not a potted plant
Multiple advisers said the president’s thinking aligned with Israel’s independently; it confirmed what he already believed. That is very different from manipulation.
May 20, 2026
Mitchell Bard