Throwing around barbs falsely accusing Israel of committing genocide during its two-year war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip is an exercise in insensitivity and ignorance. Politicians, in particular, should be careful to reject this vile slander, which has been largely disseminated by Israel’s enemies. If they act recklessly, it may cost them votes in […]
You never know what lies around the corner. Zohran Mamdani was an obscure New York assemblyman six months ago. Today, he is famous, his name splashed across newspaper headlines. Mamdani is now poised to become New York City’s first Muslim mayor, having won a watershed election on November 4. He roared to victory by trouncing […]
Some dates in history are seared into the consciousness of a nation and remain indelible. Thirty years have elapsed since Yitzhak Rabin’s assassination on November 4, 1995, but many Israelis remember it as if it had happened yesterday. I heard the awful news on the radio on that grey autumn day in Toronto. When I […]
Gilad Kariv, the chairman of the Knesset’s Immigration and Absorption Committee, minced no words. “This is not a wave of emigration,” he said last week. “It’s a tsunami of Israelis choosing to leave the country.” He was referring to the jolting news that roughly 125,000 Israeli citizens emigrated between 2022 and mid-2024, the largest ever […]
Turkey, a key Middle East state, seeks to play a significant role in postwar Gaza. Turkey’s aspirations are understandable. Its president, Recep Tayyip Erdogan, was instrumental in coaxing Hamas to accept the U.S.-brokered ceasefire, which seems to have ended the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip, but which is still very fragile. And Erdogan attended […]
Parisa Liljestrand, the minister of culture in Sweden, put it succinctly. “This is an absolute catastrophe for Swedish society,” she said, not mincing her words. She was referring to the recent decision by the Jewish International Film Festival in Malmo, Sweden’s third-largest city, to cancel its event due to its inability to secure a venue. […]
Two years ago today, I was awakened by my wife with the startling news that Israel was at war. Hamas had attacked southern Israel in an unprecedented rampage of murder, rape and pillage that caught Israel unprepared in an intelligence failure of epic proportions. The invasion launched by 3,800 Hamas terrorists led to the deaths […]
Since 1973, Israel has won the Eurovision Song Contest four times. At the last competition in May, the Israeli singer Yuval Raphael finished in second place. Yet due to the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip and the outrage over the humanitarian crisis there, the public broadcasters of Ireland and the Netherlands recently announced that […]
President Emmanuel Macron of France has initiated a diplomatic process that brings Palestinian statehood one step closer to fruition yet still very far from realization. Yesterday, at a followup United Nations conference on a two-state solution, Macron spelled out his objective. “The time has come to do justice for the Palestinian people and thus to […]
Maliciously false accusations that Israel is committing genocide against the Palestinians in the Gaza Strip have been flying thick and fast since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war in October 2023. South Africa levelled that calumny at the International Court of Justice more than a year ago. A few days ago, Bernie Sanders became the […]