In the wake of the horrific massacre in Pittsburgh on Saturday, many commentators are blaming President Trump for cultivating an atmosphere in which anti-Semitism flourishes. Dana Milbank of The Washington Post went so far as to claim that Jews are not safe in Donald Trump’s America. The problem is that no sound empirical data exists […]

FROM NAGOYA, JAPAN — Rabbi David Wolpe writes about the Japanese Man Who Saved 6,000 Jews With His Handwriting: “Even a hunter cannot kill a bird that flies to him for refuge.” This Samurai maxim inspired one gifted and courageous man to save thousands of people in defiance of his government and at the cost of his […]

By the time the British Labour Party finally bowed to public pressure and adopted the full definition of antisemitism determined by the International Holocaust Remembrance Alliance on Wednesday, the move was no longer meaningful. After a summer of insisting that it’s okay to say Zionism is Nazism and that Zionists have no sense of irony, […]

President Trump signed into law yesterday the John S. McCain National Defense Authorization Act for Fiscal Year 2019, the U.S. defense budget bill for the coming Fiscal Year. Included in this bill are provisions to authorize $500 million for U.S.-Israel missile defense cooperation and up to $50 million for U.S.-Israel counter-tunnel cooperation. It authorizes funding […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu could not have asked for anything more. The Palestinian flags being waved in Tel Aviv’s Rabin Square on Saturday night, from his point of view, said it all. Only a small minority of the estimated 20,000 at the demonstration raised the Palestinian colors – but they knew that they would get […]

The new US ambassador to Germany, Richard Grenell, requested the German government to block Iran’s Mahan Air from flying within German airspace and deny it landing rights in the country because of the airline’s material support for terrorism. In a meeting last week with a senior delegation from the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC), […]

Campus branches of the liberal group J Street have been helping anti-Israel activists gain support for student government resolutions calling for boycotts of Israel, according to a Washington Free Beacon review of BDS campaigns on college campuses during the recently concluded 2017-2018 school year. At many schools where boycott and divestment campaigns have taken place, J Street […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu accused the radical New Israel Fund (NIF) of working through European states to persuade Rwanda to refuse a deal whereby the African nation would take in illegal African migrants deported from Israel. Taking to Facebook, Netanyahu on Tuesday wrote in Hebrew that “The Fund endangers the security and future of the State of […]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Thursday praised Chancellor Sebastian Kurz for the “powerful” speech he gave on Monday marking 80 years since the Anschluss, when Nazi tanks rolled into Austria – greeted by adoring and cheering Austrians – and incorporated the country into the Third Reich. “Austria used to see itself as the first victim […]