09/07/2023
Violent riots by Eritrean asylum seekers; Israel foreign minister Eli Cohen publicizes meeting with Libya and chaos ensues; turmoil and coups in Niger and Gabon. What’s going on in Africa and why does it matter to Israel? To discuss these issues, my guest this week on the Caroline Glick Show is Ambassador J Peter Pham. Pham, who currently serves as…
09/06/2023
Why is the State Department interfering with Yad Vashem? Over the weekend, Ellen Germain, the State Department’s Special Envoy for Holocaust Issues, published a bizarre post on her official Twitter account, expressing the U.S. government’s opposition to any talk of ousting Yad Vashem Director Dani Dayan. Why is anyone thinking about ousting him? Why did the State Department feel the…
09/01/2023
On September 28, Israel’s Supreme Court is expected to rule in favor of a petition from the far-left Movement for Quality Government to overturn the November 1, 2022 elections. In January, MQG petitioned the Supreme Court asking the justices to ban newly sworn in Netanyahu from serving in office. MQG argued that with all due respect to the 2.4 million…
09/01/2023
In my news analysis this week, I showed how the Israeli left, in its effort to unseat the democratically elected Netanyahu government, is now leading the international charge to boycott Israel. I then discussed the Left’s frenzied effort to block the government’s decision to form a commission of inquiry led by a retired judge – to investigate the illegal use…
09/01/2023
With Donald Trump’s fourth indictment handed down a week and a half ago in Atlanta, and his mugshot released the same day, and with the mounting information about Joe Biden’s apparent influence peddling with foreign powers through his son Hunter, there is a growing sense that something fundamental has broken in American politics and American society. Since when the U.S.…
08/20/2023
Campaigners against Israel’s Netanyahu government scored a notable victory on Aug. 4. After a six-month demonization, defamation and harassment campaign against the Kohelet Policy Forum and its chief donor, Arthur Dantchik, Dantchik, a Philadelphia businessman, announced that he was ending his support for the conservative Jerusalem think tank. Moshe Koppel, a Bar-Ilan University professor, founded Kohelet a decade ago as…
08/20/2023
On Friday night August 4, the Israeli media reported that “Jewish terrorists” had entered the Palestinian village Borqa and murdered a Palestinian in a deliberate act of terrorist murder. The problem with the story? It was completely false. The claim was based on the PA’s propaganda organ Wafa “news” service and then presented as fact by the IDF Spokesman, the…
08/20/2023
To talk about the news of the Biden administration’s latest hostages for cash deal with Iran and its implication for Iran’s nuclear weapons program, my guest last week on the Caroline Glick Show this week was Richard Goldberg, a senior fellow at the Washington, DC-based Foundation for Defense of Democracies. Goldberg was the point person in the National Security Council…
08/20/2023
A striking feature of the Left’s anti-government campaign has been the prominence of veterans of the 1973 Yom Kippur War in the effort. Yom Kippur War veterans lead the campaign, plan most of its operations, are its key funders and serve as prominent foot soldiers. The question is why? What happened in that war that radicalized so many of its…
Under the headline, “U.S.-Saudi Deal Sets Path to Normalize Kingdom’s Ties with Israel,” on Wednesday, The Wall Street Journal published a detailed report of the content of U.S.-Saudi discussions. The headline was accurate as far as that goes. But the content of the article made clear that Israel is not the real focus of the discussions. Although the story paid homage to…