David Brog
ARTICLES BY: David Brog
On Israel, the LA Times Promotes an Alternate Reality
Israel can win the battle of ideas, despite press bias and double standards. The only thing that can undermine its winning argument are media that utterly detach themselves from...
The Choice Is Not Between ‘Occupation’ and Peace
Reports from the recent Herzliya Conference have sparked renewed debate over whether the pro-Israel community should partner with J Street in the fight against BDS...
Six Ways to Stop BDS
BDS. For over a decade, this movement slowly spread while most of us in the pro-Israel community underestimated it. Then, almost overnight, we shifted from...
Beware of ‘Friends’ Supporting Boycotts of Israel
Determined enemies launched the movement to boycott, divest from, and sanction Israel (BDS) in order to accomplish through propaganda what they had failed to achieve...
The Media’s True Failure in Gaza
Earlier this week, the United Nations confirmed that the tragic death of 11-month-old Omar al-Mishrawi, previously blamed on Israel, was actually the result...
The Failure of the American Jewish Left
In early September 2012, many in the pro-Israel camp were disturbed by a series of events at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte. First, the...
Is Bigotry Compatible with the Huffington Post?
Author's note: This piece, a response to a factually inaccurate and bigoted op-ed published by the Huffington Post, was originally submitted to that website,...
A Conservative U.S. Foreign Policy: The Israel Model
Twin developments have converged to require an urgent re-examination of America's role in the world. We're saddled with a crushing debt that demands...
Ron Paul and Ghosts of Appeasements Past
Americans have an on-again, off-again love affair with isolationism. Today, it's very much on again. We just completed a nine-year engagement in Iraq...
The Most Endangered Species
It's a sad reality of the Middle East that moderates have short life spans. In the summer of 1951, rumors began circulating that Lebanon and...
The Death of Great Men
Historians have long debated the role that any one individual can play in changing the course of history. Some support the "great man theory" -...
Dana Milbank Loses It
These are dangerous times for Israel and the Jewish people. Anti-Semitism — especially the anti-Semitism that cloaks itself as anti-Zionism — is thriving. Visit the...
One Tough Neighborhood
The Arab Revolt has spread to Syria. And Syria's President - Bashar Assad — is proving himself to be an Arab dictator of the old...
Reflections on the Revolutions in the Arab World
As a popular uprising overthrew the French monarchy in 1789, freedom-loving people throughout the world celebrated. Americans in particular - led by the likes of...
