Month: 14 Adar II 5784 (March 2024)

U.S blacklisted seven Israelis pursuant to a Feb. 1 Executive Order • Does reveal how it determined they are “undermining peace, security and stability” in Judea and Samaria.

The Five Love Languages of Purim by Sara Lamm

The Five Love Languages of Purim I love giving people gifts. There’s something about picking out the perfect present that’s totally exhilarating. I enjoy it so much my family jokes that I’m the “official” gift-giver of the family (sadly, not a paid position). It’s not that I know the best stores to shop at or […]

Alan Dershowitz responds to Melanie Phillips' Spectator blog post of 9 July 2009.

The suggestion that Israel is no better than Hamas is a pernicious lie spread by those who want Israel gone.

We’re seeing lots and lots of it these days. It’s worth recalling what a blood libel really is.

Released with fanfare at a high-wattage press conference every year, the World Report is Human Rights Watch’s flagship annual review of global human-rights abuses. For 13 years I was its editor, overseeing a six-month production cycle that involved hundreds of staff and resulted in some 100 country chapters. I was the only person in the […]

I was recently told a story about a Jewish professor of Islamic studies who, some years ago, was seen standing bewildered outside the hotel gift shop at the annual conference of the Middle East Studies Association (MESA) in a North American city. When asked what he was doing there, the professor responded in a mystified […]

If I had only a glancing knowledge of American history, I would never guess that black Americans and Jewish Americans had ever clashed. After all, both groups understand what it’s like to be a despised minority, both groups have been reliable Democrat voters for the better part of the past century, and both groups share […]

The Germans will never forgive the Jews for Auschwitz,” runs a bizarre quip ascribed to the Israeli psychiatrist Zvi Rex. To deconstruct it, consult Dr. Freud. “A convenient way to dispatch guilt,” he might expound, “is to project it onto your victim” — like a schoolyard bully who huffs that the fight started when the other guy […]

You can't spell 'psychotherapist' without psycho.

Adi Schwartz and I had just exited another frustrating meeting with a smug European diplomat. Turning to an exasperated me, Adi — co-author of our book The War of Return: How Western Indulgence of the Palestinian Dream Has Obstructed the Path to Peace — offered an odd sort of comfort by pointing out that, at a minimum, we are […]