June 11, 2020

Netanyahu’s Defining Moment

Last weekend, thousands of Israelis protested Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s plan to apply Israeli sovereignty to parts of Judea and Samaria beginning on July 1. The protest was organized by the far-left Meretz party and the communist wing...

December 25, 2019

Hanukkah and the Occupation that isn't

It looks like the holidays cannot be complete without warped political messages. Representative Rashida Tlaib, a known anti-Semite, wished the Jews of IfNotNow a happy Hanukkah. In doing so, however, she supported the organization’s 2020 goals ...

December 22, 2019

Why NATO Should Expel Turkey

In response to the U.S. Senate recognizing the Armenian Genocide, Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan has threatened to close two military bases (one American and one NATO) on its soil. This led U.S. Defense Secretary Mark Esper to openly q...

September 18, 2019

Women's March gets new roster, still shot through with Jew-hatred

The Washington Post recently reported that the Women's March is replacing original founders Mari Lynn "Bob" Bland, Tamika Mallory, and Linda Sarsour with 16 new board members.  Mallory had been criticized for her relationship ...

August 28, 2019

Israel is a Wedge Issue (and the Democrats Make it One)

Senator Kamala Harris recently said that “the bonds between the people of the United States and the people of Israel are unbreakable and we can never let anyone drive a wedge between us…Israel should never be a partisan issue....

August 18, 2019

Why Israel Made the Right Move with Omar and Tlaib

We all now know that Representatives Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib will not be going to Israel.  Did Israel exercise good judgment in denying them entry?  Absolutely.  Omar's and Tlaib's support for the Boycott, D...

July 17, 2019

The real Palestinian narrative

This month, opining on the long failed Arab-Israeli peace process, former Israeli ambassador to the United States Zalman Shuval quoted former Israeli foreign minister Abba Eban, stating that "the Arabs never miss an opportunity to miss...

March 29, 2019

Why Israel Should Annex at Least Most of Judea and Samaria

On March 27, U.S. secretary of state Mike Pompeo vowed to "broaden the debate" and shed old "parameters" governing negotiations for a final status peace agreement between Arabs and Israelis.  In the spirit of Secretary P...

March 15, 2019

Why the USA Should Recognize the Golan Heights as Part of Israel

On March 12, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) announced that he, along with his colleague Senator Ted Cruz (R-Texas), will lobby the Trump administration to recognize the Golan Heights as sovereign Israeli territory "now and forever." ...

March 6, 2019

Omar, Tlaib, and anti-Semitism

Representatives Rashida Tlaib’s (D-MI) and Ilhan Omar (D-MN) have in their first weeks in the House made their mark as the most blatantly anti-Semitic members of Congress in living memory. Omar and Tlaib’s anti-Semitism is unquestionab...

August 9, 2018

Israeli Aid to Syrians Offers Hope for Future Peace

On August 3, The Times of Israel reported that Israel has frozen its aid to Syrian citizens, dubbed "Operation Good Neighbor," and has begun to dismantle its field clinic used to treat those wounded in the Syrian Civil War....

May 31, 2018

Netflix twice rejects Hebrew’s right to exist

A language with ancient roots that chronicled the foundation of Western civilization, arose as a spoken language after a nearly 2,000-year-old slumber, and now symbolizes the re-establishment of Jewish national sovereignty has reached a new milestone...

September 1, 2017

Grant's Tomb and Other 'Hate Symbols'

Pandering to the regressive mob, Mayor Bill de Blasio refused to give a straightforward answer on how New York City should treat monuments to President and General Ulysses S. Grant, which include a statue of Grant on horseback in Crown Heights, Brook...

August 17, 2017

Those who try to erase history

I can't sympathize with the mob that toppled the statue of the Confederate soldier in Durham, North Carolina on August 14, in what is arguably a well photographed conspiracy to commit vandalism.  Sure, some people who want to keep the statue...

February 26, 2017

Why Israel Should Keep Building the Settlements

An oft-repeated sentiment in the international community, college campuses, and both Democratic and Republican administrations is that Israeli settlements built following the 1967 Six-Day War are inhibiting peace in the Middle East. This sentiment, h...

November 13, 2016

The UN and Temple Denial

On November 8, in a direct attack at the heart of Judaism and the Jewish People, the United Nations General Assembly passed two resolutions that mentioned the “Haram al Sharif” but not its Jewish synonym “the Temple Mount” as ...

July 23, 2016

The Brave Muslim Supporters of Israel

Israel is entering a period of détente with several Muslim nations. On July 7, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu disclosed that he had a phone conversation with the leader of a Muslim African nation with which Israel currently does not have ti...

June 19, 2016

Fatah and the Palestinian Authority’s Jihadist Tendencies

On June 15, Hamas and Fatah began a third round of talks in Qatar towards reconciliation towards a national unity government in the Palestinian Authority. Conventional wisdom places Fatah/the Palestinian Authority (PA) in the “moderate” c...

May 5, 2016

The Labour Party’s Anti-Semitism Reaches Crisis Stage

Anti-Semitism, poetically dubbed “the oldest hatred, forever young,” is rearing its ugly head in a rapidly unfolding scandal within the United Kingdom’s Labour Party.  To clean house and/or try to contain the fallout, Labour ch...

April 27, 2016

Why Israel Should Keep the Golan Heights

On Sunday, April 17, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (“Bibi”) convened a cabinet meeting on the Golan Heights stating that the “time has come for the international community to finally recognize that the Golan Heights will...

April 20, 2016

Bernie Sanders and the Israel Blame Game

Blunders on Israel abound in the Bernie Sanders camp. On April 14, Sanders suspended his new national Jewish outreach communicator, Ms. Simone Zimmerman, after just two days on the job. Her sacking followed discovery of her calling Benjamin Netanyahu...

April 10, 2016

Israel and the Occupation that Isn't

March saw a return of economic warfare against Israel, masked in discontent with Israel’s “occupation” of “Palestine.”  On March 24, the United Nations Human Rights Council voted 32-0-15 to create a database of comp...

March 9, 2016

War, Peace, and Netanyahu

The Frontline documentary "Netanyahu at War", broadcast on January 5, 2016, portrays Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin (“Bibi”) Netanyahu as a “stubborn” peace partner “slow-walking” implementation of ...