Pardoning Netanyahu is wrong – and exactly what Israel needs right nowEnding the trial could help break Israel’s political deadlock and toxic polarisation, opening the way for a unity government finally able to confront the country’s real challengesBy Yaakov Katz3 min read
By Melissa Langsam BraunsteinThe US moves toward a reckoning with the Muslim BrotherhoodWith Texas leading an unprecedented state-level terror designation and federal scrutiny intensifying, America is edging toward a decisive showdown with the Islamists and their network of affiliates3 min read
By William HagueAs Oxford Chancellor, here’s my plan to confront extremism in UK and make free speech flourishLord Hague’s address to Oxford Chabad Society on antisemitism and free speech17 min read
By Melissa Langsam BraunsteinThe Democrats’ ominous anti-Zionist turnAIPAC is increasingly becoming a lightning rod. The question is whether the party will allow its extremist fringe to define its position on Israel, or whether the silent majority will finally speak out3 min read
By Yaakov LappinHamas is looking at the 60,000 dead and the Western hatred of Israel and thinking: job doneWith the terror group having survived the war, another meeting with the US in the bag and Israel-hate peaking in the West, Hamas sees the last two years as a success3 min read
By Benjamin BirelyHow Italy became the dark heart of European Israel-hateAnti-Zionism now permeates all levels of Italian society, says an American-Israeli academic living in Naples who has faced relentless prejudice6 min read
By Aharon LapidotHow a US-Saudi F-35 deal could shatter Israel’s aerial dominanceWill Washington find a way to preserve the additional edge on which Israeli security policy has relied for decades?5 min read
By Melissa Langsam BraunsteinNY Jews prepare to fight back against anti-Zionist mayor Zohran MamdaniFrom schools and policing to business regulation, communal groups are bracing for a hostile City Hall2 min read
By Jacob JaffaMamdani’s victory is not the only pro-Palestine earthquake shaking American politicsOmar Fateh, who has accused the Jewish state of ‘genocide’, has forced a run-off in the race to be the next mayor of Minneapolis2 min read
AmericaFollow Tucker Carlson and you’ll fall off a cliffHeritage Foundation must show better judgement or risk destroying all they should stand forBy Melissa Langsam Braunstein3 min read
By Melissa Langsam BraunsteinThe Republicans’ choice: Copy the Democrats or reject extremists?A racist Young Republican chat has triggered a fight on the US right: Should they pursue unity at any cost, or learn from the left’s collapse and reject radicals within their own camp2 min read
By Jason BurkePaying a diplomatic price for hitting its enemies is a high-wire act that Israel has long had to performThe brutality deployed against Israel by the likes of the ‘Black September’ group persuaded the Jewish state that it had to ‘terrorise the terrorists’6 min read
By Melissa Langsam BraunsteinThe myth of ‘Jewish power’: How AIPAC became America’s bogeymanThe pro-Israel lobby is painted as uniquely sinister on the far left and far right. In truth it speaks for millions of Americans, Jewish and non-Jewish, who simply support a strong US-Israel relationship2 min read
By Yaakov LappinThe real bottleneck in the Gaza deal is coming upA failure of phase two could lead to resumption of war, former Israeli national security adviser Yaakov Amidror warns4 min read
By Yossi MelmanHow the Israeli air strike on Hamas in Doha helped pave the way for the peace dealThe failed Israeli attack on Hamas pushed Qatar into the hands of Trump, whose price for protection was a demand to help force the terrorists to the table3 min read
By Kasra AarabiPrepare for a weak but reckless Iran to go on the front foot against IsraelThe return of snapback sanctions hurt but, for the regime, Israel and the US are the immediate threats4 min read
