Is America Complicit in the Syrian Genocide?
(Previously published in The Jerusalem Post) Until President Barack Obama, American foreign policy interests were aligned with the Sunni fundamentalists of the Arabian Gulf, who share nothing in common with…
Is Path Forward a Revised Arab Peace Initiative?
(Previously published in The Jerusalem Post) In 2002 Saudi Arabia proposed the Arab Peace Initiative (API), which seemed at first to promise an end to the Arab world’s rejection of…
Can a ‘Pro-Israel’ Progressive Still Ignore SJP’s True Agenda?
(Previously published in The Jerusalem Post) How does the anti-Zionist Students for Justice in Palestine (SJP) that traffics in anti-Semitic boycott advocacy, become so popular on US college campuses? Until…
Is there a Role for Holocaust Education in Fighting BDS?
(Previously published in The Jerusalem Post) The BDS movement’s contemporary anti-Semitism and boycotts of businesses doing business with Israel are sadly reminiscent of yesterday’s Nazis. The question of what if…
A Great Teaching Moment
(Previously published in The Jerusalem Post) Being heckled for speaking against BDS. “He is brainwashing you, don’t believe anything he tells you, it’s all lies.” This was the parting diatribe…
Legitimizing Iran: The US Administration’s Middle East Agenda
(Previously published in The Jerusalem Post.) The time is now for Congress to act, to assert its constitutional responsibility regarding foreign policy in the name of American national security interests.…
Will Free Speech on Israel Survive Progressive Censorship?
(Previously published in The Jerusalem Post) Jewish liberals and activists from the ACLU defended the Nazis’ right to march and display the swastika as a form of free speech. I…
Will Senate Democrats take Violations of the Iran Deal Seriously?
(Previously published in The Jerusalem Post) Will Democratic senators and members of the House follow their consciences and defend American national security interests, or will they march in step with…
The Obama Doctrine and Israel
(Previously published in The Jerusalem Post) None of this was a surprise to anyone who was paying attention. More than any other American president, Barack Obama seemed to be thinking…
US Elections: Who is Best for Israel, America and the World?
In such uncertain times, it’s important to have someone leading America and the free world who will try to balance American strength, American interests and pragmatism for the greater good.…