Opinion

Welcome to Trump's peace: This is what 'total victory' for Turkey looks like - opinion

Five months after Netanyahu sketched his five principles for ending the war, the ones defining “total victory,” it turns out it was all 'kalam fadi', empty talk.

TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan attends the G20 Summit in Rio de Janeiro. Turkey’s irredentist policies, from its actions in Cyprus to its growing involvement in Syria, highlight a policy of territorial expansion and ethnic dominance, the writer maintains.

Khamenei's gamble: Iran admits to the slaughter and counts on the world to look away - editorial

Iran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei speaks after casting his ballot during the runoff presidential election in Tehran on July 5, 2024.

Good news for Israel is standing tip-toe on the misty mountain tops - opinion

MK Efrat Rayten at a July press conference in the Knesset.

Lessons about life I learned on a Jerusalem rooftop - opinion

The Jewish Quarter in Jerusalem's Old City invites a stroll.

Donald Trump saved Iran's Khamenei once before, will he do it again? - comment

Trump claims to have called off strikes on Iran's supreme leader back in June 2025. Now the protesters in Iran hang in the balance as he appears to give Khamenei another lifeline.

JANUARY 18, 2026ByALEX WINSTON

L to R: Iran Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and US President Donald Trump against backdrop of respective flags and missile strikes.

Sovereignty first: Why Israel is right to abandon the UN’s ‘Bureaucratic Jihad’ - opinion

Israel is not retreating from the world. It is asserting its right to shape its future on its own terms – as a secure, victorious, and unapologetically Jewish state.

JANUARY 18, 2026ByAMINE AYOUB

An illustration of the flags of the United Nations and Israel.

If the world wants to help Iran's protesters, it needs a long-term plan - opinion

Any actor hoping to help the protesters is going to need a long-term strategy before jumping in.

JANUARY 18, 2026ByTZVI JOFFRE

Mourners carry a coffin during a funeral procession for members of security forces and civilians said to be killed in protests on Sunday, amid evolving anti-government unrest, in Tehran, Iran, in this screengrab from a video released on January 11, 2026.

MLK was clear: Anti-Zionism is antisemitism - opinion

The question is not what Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. would say today – he already told us. The question is whether we are prepared to listen.

JANUARY 18, 2026ByMARC SCHNEIER

DR. MARTIN Luther King, Jr. addresses the crowd from the steps of the Lincoln Memorial, during the March on Washington on August 28, 1963.

‘Never again’ is a test, and October 7 exposed who failed it - opinion

'Never Again' was never intended as a ceremonial phrase, recited once a year and then set aside. It was meant as a warning.

JANUARY 18, 2026ByWILLIAM DAROFF

As International Holocaust Remembrance Day approaches we ask whether the lessons of the past have taught us anything?

This was not protest, it was a threat to New York’s Jewish community - opinion

New Yorkers, whether Jewish or not, must be willing to disavow what is being touted as a moral equivalence of something that is actually a precursor to forced expulsion.

JANUARY 18, 2026ByCOOKIE SCHWAEBER-ISSAN

Mayor Zohran Mamdani announces the appointment of Christine Clarke as chair and commissioner for the New York City Commission on Human Rights at Diversity Plaza in Jackson Heights, Queens in New York City, New York

Every generation must be taught that 'never again' is not just a slogan - opinion

The Holocaust didn’t start with gas chambers; it is important to remember that it began with words.

JANUARY 18, 2026ByABE HAMADEH

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum.

From October 7 to reversal: The greatest Jewish turnabout since Israel’s founding - opinion

Israel is more united than it has been in years. Numerous wars, missiles falling, and victorious battles have brought the people together in ways unimaginable just a few years ago.

JANUARY 18, 2026ByURI PILICHOWSKI