Opinion

October 7: Rape as an Instrument of Genocide

By Ben Cohen As the world marked International Women’s Day on March 8, the various social-media platforms lit up with posts from pro-Israel celebrities and...

Disgruntled Palestinian Laborers Turn Against Hamas

By Khaled Abu Toameh Public opinion polls may indicate an increase in Hamas’ popularity among Palestinians in the West Bank after the Oct. 7 massacre,...

A New Law Is Needed To Fight Campus Antisemitism

By Nathan Lewin Jewish students at nine leading American universities testified on Feb. 29 at a bipartisan “roundtable” conducted by the House of Representatives’ Education...

‘Cease-Fire Now’ Is Not Humanitarian Enough

By Sarah Grace Victor The statistics don’t lie: In the two weeks following Oct. 7, the United States saw a 360% increase in antisemitic incidents....

Dueling ‘Red Lines’

Amid mounting concern of signs that President Joe Biden is beginning to soften his historic support for Israel and its mission to defeat Hamas...

What is the Death Toll in Gaza?

By all accounts, the devastation in Gaza since the commencement of Israel’s retaliation for the horrific Hamas attack on Oct. 7. has been significant....

TikTok Under Fire

Last week, in response to mounting national security concerns stemming from China’s involvement in ByteDance, the owner of TikTok, the leadership of the House’s...

Flashbacks of the Furrows of Strength

By Karin Tulchinsky Cohen Kibbutz Nir Oz is like the mythical shtetl Anatevka from “Fiddler on the Roof.” Just as the film’s characters loved Anatevka,...

How to Ensure That There Is No Day After

By Michael J. Koplow When Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu issued a one-page-plus-one-paragraph document encompassing his plan for what should happen next in Gaza, it was...

Israel’s Ally Against Antisemitism

By Ayoob Kara As the war in Gaza continues, calls to boycott Israel are increasing. Activists in North America are calling for boycotts of Starbucks,...