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Shoshana Bryen

Shoshana Bryen is senior director of the Jewish Policy Center and editor of inFOCUS Quarterly.

Israeli President Isaac Herzog addresses a joint session of Congress in Washington, with Vice President Kamala Harris and House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy in the background, July 19, 2023. Credit: Screenshot/C-SPAN.

The phone call doesn’t matter

U.S. President Joe Biden's last-minute call to Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu can't undo years of antagonism toward the Jewish state.

July 23, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden delivers a speech to the nation in front of Independence Hall in Philadelphia, Sept. 1, 2022. Source: Twitter/@POTUS.

Biden administration leaves US ally hanging out to dry

How can the United States allow money to go to a regime that hangs its opponents from cranes?

July 16, 2023

Armed Palestinians march after an Israeli military operation in Jenin, July 5, 2023. Photo by Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90.

Making sense of the Jenin raid

There are two things that can be done to improve the situation in the region.

July 9, 2023

Israeli forces operate in Jenin. Credit: IDF.

Making sense of the Jenin raid

There are two things that can be done to improve the situation in the region.

July 6, 2023

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas delivers a speech at P.A. headquarters in Ramallah, May 5, 2020. Credit: Flash90.

Israel’s obligations in Abbas’s war

It should protect its people, not serve as the P.A. leader’s Praetorian Guard.

June 7, 2023

U.S. President Joe Biden speaks on the phone with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on May 12, 2021, in the Oval Office of the White House. Credit: Official White House Photo by Adam Schultz.

Biden should take a leaf out of George Washington’s book

The administration's 60-page National Strategy to Counter Antisemitism is a product of bureaucracy, political head-counting and subgroup management.

June 5, 2023

European Union flags in front of the European Commission in Brussels. Credit: Symbiot/Shutterstock.

Rockets from Gaza and rockets from the EU

The European Union seems ignorant of basic international law.

May 11, 2023

The flags of allied groups: Hamas, Hezbollah, Yemen, Iraq, Fatimids, the popular uprising and the Islamic Republic of Iran, Jan 7, 2020. Credit: Saeediex/Shutterstock.

In all cases, the Hamas/Hezbollah/Iran Ramadan gambit failed.

April 14, 2023

Security personnel at the scene of a terror attack near the entrance to Jerusalem, Nov. 23, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

The Palestinians had a great Thanksgiving, Israel not so much

The Biden administration’s Israel policy is an unholy mess.

November 28, 2022