06/03/2022
In the U.S. as in Israel, the polarization between left and right grows from day to day. Our societies have never been more divided. A chief source of the social and ideological divide is the politicization of our countries’ legal systems. Over the past generation, leftist ideologues seized control over our state prosecution and law enforcement agencies and transformed our…
06/01/2022
On May 26, I spoke with historian Victor Davis Hanson at the Tikvah Fund in Israel’s annual conservatism conference. Our conversation focused on his most recent book The Dying Citizen, and the way that Western elites are betraying their nations and ways of life, drawing parallels between the situation in the United States and Israel. You can watch the conversation…
05/27/2022
What do the Australian election mean for the future of Australia-Israel ties?During Jeremy Corbyn’s leadership of Britain’s Labour Party, Australia’s sister Labour Party under then leader Bob Carr, was Britain’s mini-me in terms of its animosity towards the Jewish state. Incoming Australian Prime Minister and Labour Party head Anthony Albanese has a long record of viciously anti-Israel positions and policies.…
05/27/2022
The news this week that U.S. President Joe Biden has decided not to remove Iran’s Revolutionary Guard Corps from the State Department’s list of foreign terrorist organizations shouldn’t have come as a very big surprise. A majority of senators oppose removing the largest and most lethal terror group in the world from the list. And if Biden had crumpled to…
05/27/2022
Almost every day, questions arise about President Joe Biden‘s ability to make presidential-level decisions. The questions stem mainly from Biden’s repeated rhetorical gaffes. In a recent column in the Boston Herald, Howie Carr assembled a sampling of dozens of Biden’s misstatements since the start of May. Among the highlights, Biden told guests at the White House, “I thank all of you for being here,…
05/20/2022
Demonization, the effort to portray a political rival as an inhuman monster, has long been a means to mobilize public support. The ancient Romans did it. The Soviets didn’t know there was another option. While negative campaigning has long been a tried and true method for winning elections in the free world, actual demonization was fairly rare, particularly in the…
05/18/2022
Thanks to EMET – Endowment for Middle East Truth for the opportunity to speak about the strategic and political issues challenging Israel in their webinar last week. The discussion touched on Iran, the Abraham Accords, Israeli Arabs, US military support for Israel, Israeli politics and more. Watch it here:
05/18/2022
In this week’s Middle East News Hour, I was joined by Amnon Lord, senior columnist at Israel Hayom and one of Israel’s foremost experts on the Israeli left. Amnon and I discussed the Palestinian and international community’s use of blood libels to demonize Israel and legitimize the mass murder of Jews, in the context of the death of Al Jazeera…
05/13/2022
Following the Harvard Crimson’s adoption of the BDS movement and its goal of Israel’s annihilation, and in the face of a new act of barbarous jihad by ax-wielding Palestinian terrorists, in this week’s Mideast News Hour, I spoke with Professor Avi Bell of Bar-Ilan University and University of San Diego law schools, and Dan Diker of the Jerusalem Center for…
05/13/2022
The responses elicited by the death of al Jazeera reporter Shireen Abu Akleh were written hundreds of years ago. Blood libels — the practice of using the death of non-Jews as a means set up the Jewish collective for demonization, condemnation, ostracism and mass murder — may vary in their proximate details. But the substance is always the same. The…