Opinion

Buzzwords and false allegations are Western human rights inversion - opinion

To fixate on flawed accusations against Israel while ignoring genuine, massive atrocities elsewhere is to repeat ominous historical precedents.

|ByALAN BAKER
Israeli soldiers seen on the Israeli border with the Gaza Strip, January 15, 2026.
Syria's Ahmed al-Sharaa and Turkey's President Tayyip Erdogan arrive for a joint press conference at the Presidential Palace in Ankara, Turkey, February 4, 2025

Turkey is Trump’s Eisenhower moment: Will he set a precedent in Syria? - opinion

Trump now has the opportunity to set a different precedent – one that distinguishes accommodation from endorsement, and allies who constrain instability from strongmen who monetize it.

|ByARIEL HARKHAM
A protester holds a sign with an image depicting Iran's Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei and German Nazi leader Adolf Hitler, in London, Britain, January 18, 2026.

Iran’s mullahs prove how antisemitism is a despot’s best friend - opinion

Americans and Israelis shouldn’t need haters to remind us how closely our two countries are interconnected – with aligned values, overlapping liberal-democratic ideologies, and intertwined fates.

|ByGIL TROY
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a 40 signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 5, 2026.

End of a special relationship: Israel no longer wants to be America’s political football - opinion

Israel can and should move forward on its own – still a close friend of the United States, but an independent friend, not a friend in need.

|ByLEV STESIN

The game is afoot: The race to rebuild Gaza and win its major investment opportunities - opinion

Gaza’s forthcoming regeneration program offers significant investment, industrial, and commercial opportunities for a wide range of potential players, regional and international. The game is afoot.

NOVEMBER 16, 2025ByNEVILLE TELLER
TURKISH PRESIDENT Recep Tayyip Erdogan holds the signed agreement at the international summit on ending the Israel-Hamas War, in Sharm el-Sheikh last month. Despite his hostility to Israel, he demonstrates a calculated pragmatism, the writer notes.

The Druze stood with Israel, now we must champion a state for them - opinion

The Druze stood with us when it mattered. Now we must stand for them and place this initiative firmly on Israel’s diplomatic agenda today.

NOVEMBER 16, 2025ByMICAH AVNI
A WALL is pockmarked by bullet holes inside a house in the predominantly Druze city of Sweida, Syria, in July. Today, the situation for the Druze in Syria is catastrophic, the writer asserts.

Hezbollah leader’s message shows the terror group is under pressure - opinion

However, action must also extend to the social and ideological arenas, not just the military (prevention efforts) and economic (sanctions) fronts.

NOVEMBER 16, 2025ByYOSSI MANSHAROF
HEZBOLLAH LEADER Naim Qassem appears on a screen delivering a speech at a ceremony marking the first anniversary of former leader Hassan Nasrallah’s assassination by Israel, on the outskirts of Beirut in September.

No more splinters: Israel can no longer fund its own vilification by haredim - opinion

The haredi protest, which took place last week, displayed the 'parisitism dressed up as piety' rampant in the haredi institutions which take public funding but revile the IDF

NOVEMBER 15, 2025ByJONATHAN LIEBERMAN
Masses attend ‘The cry of the Torah’ demonstration in Jerusalem last month. What took place was not holiness; it was hypocrisy, the writer charges.

Haaretz’s claims on brit milah: Separating fact from misconception - opinion

That this family continues to have a strong connection to our nation, history, and customs speaks to how brit milah – unchanged itself across millennia – continues to preserve the Jewish people.

NOVEMBER 11, 2025ByHAYIM LEITER
THE WRITER, second from left, performs a circumcision in the presence of four generations, great-grandfather to newborn. Just as much as the Jewish people have continuously kept the commandment of circumcision, the practice has preserved our identity, he asserts.

How we rebuild courage following New York's betrayal - opinion

It hurts to see the city I love lose its moral compass.  The Jewish story has never ended with pain – it always turns toward rebuilding.

NOVEMBER 11, 2025ByMALKA SHAW
SMOKE FROM the ruins of the World Trade Center shrouds Lower Manhattan as the Statue of Liberty stands in the foreground, on September 12, 2001. ‘I remember the unity of the day after the September 11 attack, when strangers looked out for one another,’ says the writer.

It’s time for Israel to recognize the Armenian genocide - opinion

For Israel, a nation forged in the aftermath of the Holocaust, the moral imperative could not be clearer.

NOVEMBER 9, 2025ByMICHAEL FREUND
People gather at a memorial site to commemorate the dead in the 1915 mass killing of Armenians, in Yerevan, 2006

Israel should let journalists into Gaza, and this is why - opinion

The hard questions that come with open press access are preferable to the easy wrong answers that come with restriction.

NOVEMBER 7, 2025ByGIL HOFFMAN
HASSAN ESLAIAH, who worked for the AP and CNN, is kissed by then-Hamas leader Yahya Sinwar.

Diaspora Jews Beware: Psychotherapy can be hazardous to your health - opinion

When such biases infiltrate the helping professions, the harm multiplies: it silences those who need help most.

NOVEMBER 6, 2025ByRENEE GARFINKEL
A depressed woman

Avoid falling into a financial pit: Israel's personal economic crisis - opinion

Do not wait for a letter from the Law Enforcement Authority or a situation where you cannot withdraw money from the ATM. The warning signs are there; pay attention to them and act.

NOVEMBER 6, 2025ByMATAN VARTMAN
RESERVE SOLDIERS arrive at their base in southern Israel ahead of the IDF entry into Gaza City in early September. This is about people serving in reserve duty for months on end and losing their business or being laid off and families whose savings evaporated, says the writer.