The Israel-Hamas war is far from over and may last for many more weeks or months despite the forthcoming pause to facilitate the release of hostages. But already Israel and the United States, its chief ally, are openly discussing the endgame. U.S. President Joe Biden and American Secretary of State Antony Blinken, who have both […]
Israelis were shocked by the ease with which Hamas terrorists broke past Israel’s high-tech billion dollar border fence along the Gaza Strip on October 7. They should also have been surprised by a related event — the appearance of antisemitic rhetoric on Chinese social and state media from that date forward. This pernicious phenomenon caught […]
Elon Musk, the owner of the X social media platform, formerly known as Twitter, is a hard man to pin down. In terms of his scattershot views, he is all over the place. Which begs the question: where does he really stand? On the one hand, Musk endorsed a foul antisemitic conspiracy theory dear to […]
Contrary to conventional wisdom, Hamas’ murderous assault in southern Israel on October 7 was not entirely surprising. Indeed, the Israeli government was forewarned in 2016 and 2017 that a devastating attack on this scale could be in the offing. These warnings were issued by the then defence minister, Avigdor Liberman, and by two Bar-Ilan University […]
Israel’s current offensive in the Gaza Strip may well be limited by time constraints, despite insistent statements by Israeli leaders from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defence Minister Yoav Gallant on down that Israel will require months or even years to complete its mission. More than thirty days into the war, Israel has taken control […]
Unless you are like the storied Rip Van Winkle, you know it in your bones that there has been a disquieting upsurge of antisemitism in Canada since the outbreak of the Israel-Hamas war last month. Wars pitting Israel against its Arab enemies always bring antisemites and their cheerleaders out of the woodwork. The latest conflagration […]
As the Israel-Hamas war grinds on, claiming yet more lives, Canadians are sharply divided over one explosive issue in particular. Should Canada, one of Israel’s best friends, support an immediate ceasefire? Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau has so far declined to adopt this controversial position, knowing full well that a truce would benefit only Hamas, […]
As the Israel-Hamas war in the Gaza Strip rages, Emannuel Macron, the president of France, has been speaking from both sides of his mouth, undermining the clarity and sincerity of his vision. On a “solidarity” visit to Tel Aviv on October 24, just two weeks after Hamas terrorists killed 1,200 Israelis and foreigners in southern […]
The fallout from Israel’s war with Hamas in the Gaza Strip, the fifth and most serious one in fifteen years, has spilled into university campuses in the United States. The discord, splintered with antisemitic shards, has spawned shouting matches, ignited threats of violence between students, and resulted in arrests. The tension coincides with a rising […]
The eighty fifth anniversary of Kristallnacht, the Nazi pogrom in Germany that signified a prelude to the Holocaust, was marked yesterday. Anders Ostergaard’s documentary, Winter Journey, a heart-wrenching account of Jewish displacement in Nazi Germany, touches on this castrophic event within the context of a German Jew’s flight from marginalization, torment and persecution in his […]