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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.

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How out of touch with reality is J Street?
Leaders of this organization believe that the Oct. 7 massacre was a horrific interruption on the road to peace, rather than evidence that the road itself may lead to another catastrophe.
Oct. 14, 2026
Mitchell Bard
A “Welcome to Michigan” sign on U.S. Highway 8 in Dickinson County, Mich., in 2009. Credit: Royalbroil via Wikimedia Commons.
Column
Will Michigan Jews vote for antisemitism?
If polls and pundits are to be believed, they don’t have to swallow their pride and vote for Dr. Abdul El-Sayed since Democrats are favored to win the Senate.
Sept. 30, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Edward Miliband, Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs of the United Kingdom, attends a bilateral meeting between Britain and America in conjunction with the 81st session of the U.N. General Assembly at its headquarters in New York City, Sept. 22, 2026. Photo by Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.
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Does the British foreign secretary know British history?
Borders cannot resolve a conflict when one party refuses to accept the other’s national legitimacy.
Sept. 23, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Members of an Israeli emergency squad take part in a military drill at an abandoned hotel in Safed, northern Israel, on June 7, 2024. Photo by David Cohen/Flash90.
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Broadcasting anti-IDF propaganda
Must Israel be constrained by moral, strategic and political considerations when confronted by an enemy that deliberately strikes civilians in the most brutal way?
Sept. 16, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Zionism
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Zionism won. Debate over.
Instead of flagellating ourselves, let us bask in the glory of our accomplishments.
Sept. 9, 2026
Mitchell Bard
Pro-Palestinian Rally at Columbia University
Column
Should we trust what students tell us about Israel?
A new study shows more about what young people don’t know than what they do—or why.
Sept. 2, 2026
Mitchell Bard
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.
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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.
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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
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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.
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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.
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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