Moshe Phillips Archives

Moshe Phillips

Moshe Phillips is a commentator on Jewish affairs. He was previously a U.S. delegate to the World Zionist Congress and served as a member of the board of the American Zionist Movement. The views expressed are his own.

Israeli author Avraham Burg during an interview held on December 17, 2013. Credit: Miriam Alster/Flash9.0

A new challenge for American Zionists

Why is an ostensibly Zionist organization pushing an Israeli anti-Zionist party?

Moshe Phillips

June 11, 2023

The Mordechai Anielewicz statue at the Yad Mordechai kibbutz in southern Israel. Anielewicz was the young leader of the Jewish Fighting Organization, which led the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising against Nazi Germans for a month from April into May of 1943. Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Warsaw Ghetto Uprising: Five facts for its 80th anniversary

Those who fought back against the Nazis were able to obtain guns from criminal sources and from contacts in the Polish resistance Home Army.

Moshe Phillips

April 2, 2023

Political-science professor Ian Lustick speaks at Brown University in 2014. Source: Screenshot.

This is who’s teaching our kids about Israel

The Jewish community needs to take a long, hard look at the role that many Jewish academics have played, and are continuing to play, in influencing Jewish college students to side with the Palestinian Arabs over Israel.

Moshe Phillips

May 10, 2022

Misunderstanding Christian anti-Zionism

Whatever the motivations of Christian Zionists may be, they do not affect us the way Christian anti-Zionists do

Moshe Phillips

April 25, 2022

Christopher Nixon Cox participates in U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's speech at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library, in Yorba Linda, Calif., on July 23, 2020. Credit: U.S. Department of State Photo by Ron Przysucha.

Nixon’s grandson rewrites Israel’s history

Christopher Nixon Cox appears to have a six-day gap in his historical memory.

Moshe Phillips

March 14, 2022

An anti-Israel "apartheid wall" on display at Columbia University during "Israeli Apartheid Week" in 2017. Source: Facebook.

The set-up on ‘Debating Israel and Apartheid’

Members of a four-person panel to speak at a conference sponsored by the American Historical Association essentially hold the same harsh viewpoint towards Israel.

Moshe Phillips

November 29, 2021

Martin Buber (left) and Judah Leon Magnes testifying before the Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry in Jerusalem (1946). Credit: Wikimedia Commons.

Jewish academics promote ‘binationalism’ in place of Israel

The annual convention of the Association for Jewish Studies on Dec. 19 will feature “Binationalism Revisited‒Palestinian, Zionist and Jewish-American Perspectives.” A snapshot of panelists speaks volumes.

Moshe Phillips

October 26, 2021

Henry Kissinger discusses the Vietnam War at the Lyndon B. Johnson Presidential Library in Austin, Texas, April 26, 2016. Photo by Marsha Miller/Flickr via Wikimedia Commons.

Strangle Israel, get a great speaking gig

With his past record on U.S.-Israel relations, why is former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger addressing Temple Emanu-El in New York City?

Moshe Phillips

October 18, 2021

View of a Bedouin campsite in the Judean Desert. Photo by Dario Sanchez/Flash90.

The latest target of anti-Israel academics? The Negev

The same leftist activists who demand that Israel expel “illegal” Jewish settlers simultaneously insist that Israel not expel Bedouin squatters.

Moshe Phillips

October 8, 2021

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