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Mitchell Bard

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

Top Egyptian leaders of the Arab Socialist Union (ASU) in Alexandria in the late 1960s (from left): President Gamal Abdel Nasser; Speaker of Parliament Anwar Sadat; ASU head Ali Sabri; and Vice President Hussein el-Shafei, Aug. 18, 1968. Credit: Sarooky1996 via Wikimedia Commons.

Could the 1973 war have been avoided by accepting Sadat’s peace offer?

The Egyptian leader had to negotiate from a position of strength; to do that, he had to overcome the country’s loss in 1967.

September 27, 2023

A poster typical of “Israeli Apartheid Week” at U.S. college campuses. Credit: Carlos Latuff via Wikimedia Commons.

The elephant outside the room

No one in the Israeli government cares what academics think, but we should be concerned about how their anti-Jewish bias is reflected in the classroom.

September 20, 2023

U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, June 7, 2023. Source: Twitter.

‘See no evil,’ ‘hear no evil’ US State Department

The Saudis care about one thing and one thing only: keeping their royal heads connected to their royal shoulders.

September 15, 2023

Jewish participants on a Birthright Israel trip. Credit: Birthright Israel Foundation.

Engaging with Israel at the micro and macro levels

Instead of trying to convince young Jews why they should support Israel, we should be making a greater effort to connect them to the country based on their specific interests.

September 6, 2023

The Nobel Peace Prize laureates for 1994 in Oslo, Norway. From left: Palestinian Liberation Organization (PLO) chairman Yasser Arafat, Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres and Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. Credit: Israeli GPO.

History and revisionism about Oslo

Although still technically in effect, the Palestinians have violated their obligations almost from the day the agreement was signed.

August 30, 2023

College campus. Credit: Pixabay.

How to make the case for Israel

Attention should be focused on uninformed/disinterested and liberal/progressive students.

August 23, 2023

American and Israeli flags. Credit: ChiccoDodiFC/Shutterstock.

How good are US-Israel relations?

We are nations of immigrants that believe in free markets. The idea that America will turn on Israel over judicial reform is nonsense.

August 16, 2023

George Orwell's former home at 77 Parliament Hill, Hampstead, England. Credit: Deben Dave via Wikimedia Commons.

Orwell’s view on antisemitism was not Orwellian

For him, Zionism was another movement to gain power and dominate others.

August 9, 2023

The entrance to a terror tunnel discovered underneath the al-Ansar mosque in the Jenin refugee camp, July 4, 2023. Credit: IDF Spokesperson.

Doesn’t anyone ask why there is a refugee camp in Jenin?

Confining people in wretched conditions serves the interests of the Palestinian Authority and Hamas in maintaining breeding grounds for terrorists.

August 2, 2023