Academic apologism: How universities are rationalizing terror
Institutions of higher education have long been perceived as bastions of critical thinking and rigorous debate. Yet recent incidents throughout the United Kingdom suggest that some educators may be exploiting their platforms to rationalize...
The US, Ukraine and Israel
The collective gasp that erupted on Friday across European capitals—and echoed in certain circles in Jerusalem—was warranted. Never before had a confrontation like the one between U.S. President Donald Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy in...
Behind the lens of all those terror images
The bodies of Israeli hostages Shiri Bibas, her young sons Kfir and Ariel, and octogenarian Oded Lifshitz were displayed last week by Hamas terrorists on a newly erected “stage” in the Gaza Strip, paraded...
The truth about ‘No Other Land’
The Oscar-nominated documentary “No Other Land” portrays the Israeli-Palestinian conflict through the microcosm of a collection of Palestinian Arab settlements called Masafer Yatta. In that cluster of makeshift villages, the film gives the impression...
Trump, Gaza and false analogies
It was interesting to watch the bemused look on Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s face during a Washington press conference as President Donald Trump floated his harebrained idea of deporting all Gazans. Yet the...
Reflecting on CPAC 2025
Every year, the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) brings together conservative activists and officials from across the United States. Hosted by the American Conservative Union, the first CPAC took place in 1974. Jews and...
So much to mourn …
How does one adequately mourn a baby of barely 9 months, who was just beginning to crawl and eat solid food? How does one mourn a 4-year-old who loved Batman and had sparkling eyes...
Jihadist criminality and Israeli law-enforcement
Immediately following the fall of Bashar al-Assad’s regime in Syria, a reconfiguration of jihadi groups began to take shape. In ways not yet fully understood, this complex reconfiguration is being accelerated by Israel-Hamas hostage...
Who is calling who a Nazi?
The use of Nazi imagery has become so ubiquitous among Democrats that it almost precludes notice. But Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker’s parallels between U.S. President Donald Trump’s political agenda and the rise of Nazi...
The ‘Hezbollahization’ of Gaza
While Israel focuses on completing Phase 1 of the hostage deal and determining the fate of its next stage, the Arab world and Hamas are accelerating discussions on formulas that could lead to "the day after"—without...