Will Israel lock out UNRWA over Oct. 7 complicity?
Like many others, Yonatan Samerano was murdered during Hamas's Oct. 7, 2023 massacre and his body abducted to Gaza, where it remains to this day.
According to Israel, his killers were employees of UNRWA, the United Nations...
Jewish anti-Zionists can’t be part of our ‘big tent’ community
Historical memory lies at the heart of most Jewish holiday commemorations. During Sukkot, for example, Jews daily welcome ushpizin—“guests” or ancestors, including the patriarchs of Judaism—into their sukkahs, which themselves are a remembrance of the...
Negotiating what with whom?
U.S. Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin is a decorated retired Army officer. He was supportive of Israel’s foray into Lebanon in the beginning. It would have been hard for him not to be, as...
It’s already a regional war
It’s time to confront the reality: We are already in a regional war. So why do officials and analysts insist that Israel must de-escalate to avoid further conflict?
U.S. President Joe Biden and his merry...
Hamasticide: Apocalyptic barbarians at the gates of Israel
The following is an abridged excerpt from JNS columnist Fiamma Nierenstein’s essay in "Extreme Trauma: October 7 as an Outlier in the Range of Human Potential," a new book compiled by Moshe Kaplan and...
Israel, Iran and Nuclear Deterrence: What Happens “Where There Is No Common Power”
Abstract: Israel and Iran remain poised for a multi-level war. Such conflict could become nuclear even if Iran were to remain non-nuclear. This generally-overlooked observation owes to an inevitably ensuing competition in risk-taking. To wit,...
‘New’ antisemitism sure sounds like the old kind
Is it just me, or is the “new” antisemitism starting to sound a lot like the old kind?
In recent weeks, The New York Times has twice published remarks that directly invoked classic antisemitic stereotypes. Many of us...
On Yom Kippur, the Jewish establishment should come clean
Israelis have been calling for an accounting from their leaders for the catastrophic intelligence failure on Oct. 7. They want this now, even in wartime, and even after those same failed leaders and institutions...
Palestinian Authority education: No room for a two-state solution
The current war in the Middle East often leads policymakers to think of a two-state solution as a panacea for peace.
However, Palestinian Authority texts feature three fundamentals which belie any possibility of peace:
1. Delegitimization of...
J Street Chooses Palestinian State Over the Hostages
Why is J Street making the creation of a Palestinian state a higher priority than the hostages in Gaza?
That question was raised on October 7, in Washington, DC by Jonathan Dekel-Chen, whose son Sagui...