Jimmy Carter, the 39th president of the United States, established a consequential record, at least insofar as the Middle East was concerned. Carter, who passed away on December 29 at 100, was the only former president to reach that age. He will be buried in a state funeral on January 9. By any measure, he […]
The roads of southern Israel were death traps for motorists on October 7, 2023, when roughly 1,200 Israelis and foreigners were murdered by hordes of Hamas and Islamic Jihad terrorists who had invaded the country. In an unprecedented rampage that summoned up dark and unspeakable memories of the Holocaust, heavily-armed gunmen in pickup trucks and […]
For reasons that have yet to be explained, a Canadian government agency has rebuffed a request by B’nai Brith Canada and its supporters to release a list of suspected Nazi war criminals who were permitted to settle in Canada following World War II. Among them were Germans who served in the German army and Ukrainians […]
They were burdened with the most gut-wrenching, repulsive job a Jewish inmate in the Auschwitz-Birkenau extermination camp in Poland could possibly be assigned. Their gruesome task was to escort Jewish deportees into the gas chambers, remove their lifeless bodies, salvage valuables, transport the corpses to the crematoria, and destroy all evidence of their murders. Known […]
Hamas, in a long-established and self-defeating practice, has unconscionably misused schools in the Gaza Strip as command centers, weapons depots and hiding places. This has forced Israel to bomb scores of schools, resulting in the tragic deaths of Palestinian civilians who have sheltered there during the still ongoing Israel-Hamas war. In one of its most […]
A chilling slogan that was often heard at Palestinian demonstrations this year, “From the river to the sea,” is rife with far-reaching political implications. This euphemism is conveniently downplayed by Palestinians as merely “aspirational.” But what it really means is beyond dispute: The replacement of Israel by a Palestinian state stretching from the Jordan River […]
I have lived in Canada nearly all my life, but the Canada I know has been vanishing under the impact of a sharp resurgence of antisemitism. Although I have not personally felt its sting, its echoes are unmistakable, underscoring the unsettling fact that Jews are the primary victims of hate-motivated crimes in Canada. Newspaper stories […]
The Houthis are recklessly exposing Yemen — a poor and underdeveloped country still caught up in a civil war — to economic ruin. Unprovoked Houthi attacks targeting Israeli cities have driven Israel to retaliate with punishing air raids aimed at Yemen’s critical infrastructure. This can only be detrimental to Houthi interests and the people of […]
What university would allow an American neo-Nazi like David Duke to teach a course on Jewish history? What university would hire a Ku Klux Klan bigot to deliver a lecture on the African American experience in the United States? None, it is safe to say. Yet disappointingly enough, Columbia University has deviated from that sacred […]
Israel made a foolish mistake by closing its embassy in Ireland, a decision that Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar announced on December 15. It comes across as a gratuitous public relations stunt that can neither benefit Israel nor its bilateral relations with Ireland. He resorted to this drastic and unnecessary step after Ireland joined South Africa’s […]