David Harris
ARTICLES BY: David Harris
Gorbachev: The Man Who ‘Let My People Go’ — With Some Prompting
In October 1986, US President Ronald Reagan and Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev met for a summit in Iceland. A group of Soviet Jewry activists from the...
Jew-Hatred Is on the Rise: 10 Ways to Fight Back
What might have seemed unimaginable to many American Jews just a few years ago has now become all too frequent. Anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and antisemitic incidents...
How We Got to Putin’s War — and What We Must Do in Response
With the brazen Russian invasion of Ukraine, it is important to try to understand how this happened and how to respond. This act of war didn’t...
Ukraine and the Meaning of Israel in 2022
As the crisis targeting Ukraine unfolds, some countries are quietly planning for the prospect of millions of refugees should Moscow launch a full-blown invasion. While not...
It’s Time to Affirm Jewish Pride
Surveys reveal that a disturbingly large number of American Jews feel disconnected from their Jewish identity. How painfully sad. In response, let me share the...
An Open Letter to Former UN Leader Ban Ki-moon
As United Nations secretary-general, you said more than once that you were a friend of Israel. I believed you, because I considered you a fair-minded person....
To Antisemites, a Jew Is a Jew Is a Jew
The antisemites came for Israelis. They relentlessly attacked the lone democracy in the Middle East and the realization of a 3,500-year-old vision, with the aim of...
Ilhan Omar Has a Problem With Jews
Congresswoman Ilhan Omar (D-MN) has a Jewish problem. Despite her repeated denials and the rush to circle the wagons from some left-wing Jews, there's an undeniable...
Where’s the Outrage?
There’s an entire global industry dedicated to vilifying and isolating Israel, the world’s only Jewish-majority nation. Where’s the outrage? Of the 193 UN member states, only one,...
A Letter From a Forgotten Jew
I am a forgotten Jew. My roots are nearly 2,600 years old, my ancestors made landmark contributions from North Africa to the Fertile Crescent -- but...
A Jewish Call to Action: Ten Ways to Fight Back
Seemingly overnight, anti-Israel, anti-Zionist, and antisemitic incidents are being reported near and far. Many American Jews, who not so long ago thought these were threats...
Hamas Then, Hamas Now
It was exactly 20 years ago, when my wife and I were attending a Shabbat dinner in Madrid, that someone gave us the news. A suicide...
No Easy Answers for Hamas-Ruled Gaza
The most recent round of conflict between Hamas and Israel did not come out of the blue. Rather, there is a historical and contemporary context...
Refuting 15 Anti-Israel Lies
As Hamas fired deadly missiles at Israel for 11 straight days, Israel’s critics fired one verbal salvo after another. Unable or unwilling to distinguish between a...
