The severe hunger crisis in the Gaza Strip has blackened Israel’s reputation, left Israeli hostages in the lurch, and diverted attention away from the war Israel has been assiduously waging against Hamas for almost the past two years. In a bid to improve its battered image, which ties into false assertions that Israel is committing […]
There has been a noticeable shift among some young American Jews regarding their attitude to Israel. In short, they are far more critical of Israel than their fathers or grandfathers. This seismic transformation, having brewed for years, has accelerated since the Hamas atrocities of October 7, 2023 and Israel’s ferocious military response, which degenerated into […]
When Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau appointed seasoned diplomat Deborah Lyons to a two-year term in 2023 as Canada’s envoy to combat antisemitism and preserve Holocaust memory, he accentuated the positive. “Ms. Lyons will be a critical voice in fighting antisemitism and preserving the memory of the Holocaust so that younger generations know the truth […]
Something is terribly amiss with the food distribution system Israel and the United States created in the Gaza Strip a few months ago to alleviate hunger and starvation among its 2.2 million inhabitants. The Gaza Humanitarian Foundation (GHF), conceived by Israel and managed and financed by the United States, was established to avert endemic food […]
If Israel was a normal country, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would have resigned almost immediately after the Hamas attack on October 7, 2023, the greatest single catastrophe in Israel’s seven-decade history. It would have been unreasonable for him to have stepped down so soon after this unprecedented disaster, which resulted in the deaths of about […]
This week’s sectarian violence in the southwestern Syrian province of Suweida, which ended on July 18 with a ceasefire brokered by the United States, has temporarily upended Israel’s plan to improve relations with the new government in Syria. Syrian President Ahmed al-Shara deployed forces to Suweida in mid-July to quell tensions after clashes broke out […]
Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has floated a trial balloon that had no business being launched in the first place. Katz told journalists recently that he is promoting a plan to squeeze the 2.2.million Palestinian Arab inhabitants of the Gaza Strip into a “humanitarian city” that will be built on the ruins of Rafah. A […]
Hezbollah, having been degraded by Israel during the low-intensity war of attrition in 2023 and 2024 and the all-out two-month war in 2024, is reeling from its defeat as it attempts to regroup and recover. But the path forward will be exceedingly difficult for Hezbollah, an Iranian proxy which, until last year’s conflict, was Israel’s […]
The Palmach, the elite fighting unit of the Haganah self-defence force in British Mandate Palestine, is at the core of Palmach Rising, a 95-part Israeli television series now available on the Izzy streaming platform. Described as a teen drama, each episode is about 20 minutes in length. Judging by the first five, they are likely […]
I last saw Judgment At Nuremberg years ago, when I was a teenager. Some films age badly, but after watching it again recently on the Turner Classic Movie channel, I can confidently say that it stands the test of time. It is a fine film that deals accurately and seriously with a historically important subject. […]