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Yosef Y. Jacobson
Israel’s Greatest Mistake, Repeated Six Times, Will It Act Differently This Time?
Israel is, thank G-d, a strong country, with an exceptional military that combines courage,...
Dovid Efune
Ed Koch on Chuck Hagel Nomination: Obama’s Reneging on His Conveyed Support for Israel Has Come Earlier Than I Thought
In an interview with The Algemeiner, former Mayor of New York, Ed Koch, a lifelong Democrat...
Shmuley Boteach
Peter Beinart’s Attack on Me and Cory Booker
Last week Peter Beinart wrote a column on The Daily Beast called “Cory Booker’s Rabbis”...
Ed Koch
It is Time to Close the Gun Show Loophole
The National Rifle Association which announced it had enrolled 100,000 new members in one...
Simon Jacobson
Responding to Sandy Hook: Is Our World Safe for Children?
So much grief has been poured out in the last week over the six and seven year olds who were...
John Bolton
Who Tries Gadhafi’s Son Could Determine Future of Concept of National Sovereignty
Since 2011, when Libyans overthrew and killed Moammar Gadhafi, a little-noticed but highly...
Elie Wiesel
Exclusive by Elie Wiesel: The Tragedy in Toulouse
Will the hatred of the Jews ever finally vanish? Will Jewish children always be in danger? This...
Shlomo Shamir
Countries Intimidated Into Supporting Palestinian UN Bid
Diplomats in the UN said their support for the Palestinianstatehood bid stems from fear of...
Anne Bayefsky
Turning “Human Rights” Into a Weapon Against Israel
Today at the United Nations in New York City, the UN’s top women’s rights body, the Commission...
Clemens Heni
Did Quentin Tarantino Promote Antisemitic Ideology?
Antisemitism is a very flexible ideology. We know of Islamist antisemitism, the Iranian threat,...
Dore Gold
The Arab World Fears the ‘Safavid’
In an interview on Al-Jazeera this past May, the commander of the Free Syrian Army, Brig....
Nazee Moinian
With a Sense of Resolve
It is hard not to see the parallels between Egypt and Iran and draw the conclusion that history...
Isi Leibler
Implications for Israel in the US Global Retreat
The appointment of Samantha Power as America’s UN ambassador combined with recent US foreign...
Winston Pickett
Talking About Antisemitism
I have a confession: I am obsessed with antisemitism. Try as I might, I can’t get away from...
Steve Rothman
Foreign Aid Cuts Jeopardize U.S. National Security
America’s national deficit will burden future generations and hurt the long term well-being...
Melvin Konner
Israel, The Long View
I’m sitting on the porch of the home of my friends the Selas, in Binyamina, south of Haifa,...
Don Seeman
There are no more “Risks for Peace” and we all had better get used to it
It is time for everyone to grow up and recognize that the favorite slogan of would-be peacemakers...
Steven Emerson
Canadian Intelligence Sees AQ to Shift to Smaller Attacks
Al-Qaida’s (AQ) international terrorist network will rebound but shift tactics – seeking...
Daniel Pipes
‘Rooting for Jalili’ in the Iranian Elections
Four years ago, almost to the day, I wrote a blog, “Rooting for Ahmadinejad,”...
Kenneth S. Abramowitz
12 Reasons Why Jerusalem Must Remain Under Israeli Control
1. Jerusalem has been the capital city of the Jewish people (but no one else) for 3,000 years,...
Eli Hertz
How Israel’s Enemies Misrepresent the Geneva Convention
Background The language of Article 49 of the Geneva Convention was crafted in the wake...
Raymond Ibrahim
The ‘Sex Jihad’
The Shahada written in white on a black background. News emerged a few weeks ago...
Jacob Septimus
Oy-Bama – Where’s the Love?
Upon returning from this year’s AIPAC convention Rabbi David Wolpe ascended the pulpit at...
Alon Ben-Meir
Mastering The Nuclear Chess Game
Iran may have not invented chess, but it has nevertheless demonstrated unsurpassed skills...
Brett Joshpe
Despite Israel’s Win the ICC Remains a Dangerous Institution
Israel, like the U.S., is not a member of the International Criminal Court (ICC) for good...
Daniel S. Mariaschin
Palestinian Shameless Twisting of History at the U.N.
It’s a shame to have to re-visit history for the umpteenth time, but Palestinian revisionism...
David Patterson
How Anti-Semitism Prevents Peace
Despite the obsessive preoccupation with Israeli building activities in the West Bank and...
Howard Grief
Article 80 and the UN Recognition of a “Palestinian State”
In the entire debate now taking place on whether the United Nations Security Council or General...
Alan Dershowitz
Samantha Power Will Wow Them at the United Nations
President Obama’s decision to nominate Samantha Power as the United States representative...
Morton A. Klein
Abbas’ Fatah Praises Hamas’ Call For Israel’s Demise
Much of the world appears to believe that Israeli/Palestinian peace is there for the making....
Oleksandr Feldman
First They Came for Mila Kunis
One of the most recognizable figures of Ukrainian Jewish descent, the beautiful and talented...
Simon Deng
The Victims of UN hatred of Israel
Adapted from an address to the Durban Conference in NY. I want to thank the organizers...
Danny Danon
Remembering Shamir: The Integrity of “No”
The people of Israel lost a true leader with the passing of Yitzhak Shamir. Before assuming...
Abraham Foxman
Pope Francis and the Argentine Rabbi
One of the first things Argentinian native Cardinal Jorge Bergoglio did after being elected...
Malcolm Thomson
Humor Me – Michelle Obama and the Chief of Staff
In the intense discussion at Saturday night’s dinner the Obama case was cause celebre....
Robert S. Wistrich
Threatening Shadows Over Egypt
The Muslim Brotherhood did not initiate the current upheavals in the Middle East, but the...
Tamar Sternthal
Let’s Get the Facts Straight About Ethiopian Jews and Contraception
As a bat mitzvah girl in suburban Philadelphia, I was riveted by the plight of Ethiopian...
Irwin Cotler
Why I’m ‘Adopting’ an Iranian Prisoner
This week, parliamentarians in Canada and the United States have been focusing attention...
Danny Ben-Moshe
Europe’s Future, 70 Years After Wannsee Confererence
On January 20, 1942, the Nazi leadership gathered in a villa on the outskirts of Berlin and...
Dexter Van Zile
Egyptian Politician Talks of War With U.S., Media Yawns
This is getting ridiculous. You’d think the media has an agenda or something. On...
Alan Elsner
The Hagel Nomination and Monty Python
The furor that has surrounded the nomination of former Sen. Chuck Hagel to be President Obama’s...
Yedidya Atlas
Why I Didn’t Attend The “Suckers” Demonstration
Why I didn’t attend last week’s “Draft the Haredim” mass protest demonstration is...
Per Anders Rudling
The Waffen-SS as Freedom Fighters
Despised and ostracized, the Swedish community of Waffen-SS volunteers long gathered in secrecy...
Rami Shapiro
What Are You Teaching Your Children?
There are two ways to raise your children: you either shut them down or you open them up....
Walid Phares
U.S. and Syria: Strategic Choices
Two years and three months after the start of the Syrian revolution and its subsequent transformation...
Seth J. Frantzman / JointMedia News Service
Egypt’s ‘Economic Woes’ Distract From Religious Extremist Reality
As the one-year anniversary of Egypt’s Tahrir Square uprising came and went, many commentators...
David Meyers
Iran Could Use a Nuclear Weapon Against Israel and Get Away with It
Last week’s IAEA report offered more proof than ever that Iran is racing towards a...
Heather Robinson
Goodbye for the Present
My mother is fond of saying that with one body, you can’t be everywhere. And although in...
Joel Mowbray
The Friends of Bill Pascrell
Because of redistricting, Rep. Bill Pascrell (D, NJ) is running for re-election this coming...
Denis MacShane
Latvia Still Honors the Biggest Jew-Killing Machine in World History
On March 16 2012, a 47-year-old British woman, Monica Lowenberg, placed a wreath at the foot...
Devorah Halberstam
Remembering Ari Halberstam, 18 Years Later
March 6 is a day that etched indelibly into my heart and soul. In 1994, my son Ari was shot...
Jerold Auerbach
Pacifists at War
“We utterly deny all outward wars and strife . . . for any end, or under any pretense whatever;...
Alan Mendoza
Norman Finkelstein: The BBC Legitimizes a Crank
The BBC has a strange set of editorial guidelines. According to a leaked memo sent to BBC...
Marek Halter
Exclusive by Marek Halter: The Jews, Israel and the New French President
The day following the French presidential election, I received a phone call: “This is the...
Arthur Lenk
Israel and Protecting Refugees
Israel, like many other developed countries has a migrant problem. As in most European countries,...
Eric Ehrmann
Cuba’s China Card and Pan-Islamism in Latin America
A real sweet deal last week featuring interest-free loans between China and Cuba is redoubling...
Mordechai Tokarsky
The Hidden 36 – Zev Wolfson’s Powerful Lessons in Jewish Leadership
Do you believe in the Kabalistic Jewish tradition of the 36 hidden Tzadikim - saintly...
Yoram Ettinger
Israel – a Global Leader in Bio-Tech and Defense Products
1. Google is acquiring Israel’s Waze for $1.1BN. Microsoft controls 10% of Waze....
David Mermelstein
Jewish Organizations, Others Must Stop Interfering With Holocaust Survivors’ Rights
The JTA recently published an op-ed by Menachem Rosensaft which gratuitously offers an “alternative”...
Arthur Schneier
Salzburg Music Festival Address by Rabbi Arthur Schneier
The following is a transcript of an address given by Rabbi Arthur Schneier at the Salzburg...
Aaron Klein
Exclusive Excerpt: Obama Views Arab Spring Through Lens of Climate Change (VIDEO)
The following is an exclusive excerpt from “Fool Me Twice,” released today, the book...
Edward Alexander
From Ambivalence to Betrayal: The Left, the Jews, and Israel, by Robert Wistrich (REVIEW)
“We Shall Build Ramallah in England’s Green and Pleasant Land” From Ambivalence to Betrayal:...
Adin Even-Israel Steinsaltz
Approaching the High Holy Days as Jews…or as People
The start of the Jewish New Year, the month of Tishrei, is filled with holy days, among them...
Tal Ofer
Unilateral Action at the UN is Counter-Productive for the Peace Process
An American website has leaked an official document from the Observer Mission of Palestine...
Alan Steinberg
ALGEMEINER LIVE BLOG: Presidential Election Results 2012
The Algemeiner is live blogging the 2012 presidential election results. Commentary is by...
Rachel Ehrenfeld
Opinion: Clueless, Obama Harms the U.S. Without & Within
Imagine, the White House and Iran’s president-elect agree. Both congratulated the Iranian...
Nitsana Darshan-Leitner
If Abbas and Haniyeh Turn to The Hague, They Will be Met With Thousands of Countersuits
For months now, the Palestinian Authority has threatened to file for membership at the International...
Denis MacEoin
On Stephen Hawking and Israel, an Open Letter
Prof. Malcolm Levitt Dept. of Chemistry Southampton University 11th May 2013 Dear Professor...
John-Paul Pagano
Support for Israel and American Identity
The news has no regard for ratings. No matter how grand, shocking or strange life may be,...
Alex Safian
Jodi Rudoren Won’t be ‘Schooled’
When billionaire businessman and philanthropist Sheldon Adelson was honored in Jerusalem recently,...
Raheel Raza
Combating Political Islam: Follow Israel’s Lead
Political Islam is the major force shaping the Middle East region today, and a dangerous one...






