President Donald Trump thanked God for the surprise bombing campaign he carried out against Iran Saturday, June 21. In comments to the nation on live TV Saturday evening, Trump ended by saying: “And in particular, God, I want to just…
Iranians and Jews can get along. Go back to the Bible.
You know that line about how even a broken clock can be right twice a day? That is how I feel about Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.
As Trump signals willingness to join Iran fight, tensions roil MAGA movement
If, as Irving Kristol wrote, a neoconservative is a liberal who’s been mugged by reality, then what do you call an “American First” president who is cheering Israel’s attacks on Iran, increasingly claiming credit for them and seemingly leaving the…
Foreign governments seek emergency exits for nationals stranded in Iran and Israel
The Iran-Israel conflict has shuttered airspace across the Middle East as the two bitter enemies launch attacks and reprisals at one another.
Jew? Not a Jew?
Since its founding, Israel’s effort to define Jewish status—codified in the Law of Return, which determines eligibility for Israeli citizenship—has had profound consequences for Jews inside and outside its borders, making it a reliable pain point between Israel and American…
A Jewish group is taking turns fasting to bring attention to starving Gazans
This Friday (June 13), Yehoshua Pinson, an Israeli American Jew living in Durham, North Carolina, plans to fast for 24 hours.
‘This is not the way of peace,’ Boulder Baptist pastor says after attack
The pastor of a Baptist church located just blocks from a violent attack on Jews last Sunday told his congregation, “We must not conflate Jewish people or Judaism with the Israeli government, though we can and should condemn antisemitism and…
Murdered Staffer Had Deep Ties to Messianic Community in Israel
They were just days away from a marriage proposal when a gunman cut their lives short.
Israel bears no responsibility for 50,000 dead Palestinians and those now starving, Huckabee says
Israel bears no responsibility for the 50,000 Palestinians — one-third of whom are minors — killed in Gaza, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee told National Public Radio May 21. Huckabee, a former Southern Baptist pastor, has been described as…
‘Honey, he’s had enough of you’: Trump’s Middle East moves increasingly appear to sideline Israel
On Friday, a popular Hebrew X account called “News From a Year Ago” tweeted a short video of Donald Trump, then running for U.S. president, from May 2024.
50 NGOs protest Israel’s restrictions on aid to Palestinians
More than 50 nongovernmental organizations are protesting new Israeli regulations they contend will further degrade humanitarian assistance to Palestinians and place already endangered relief workers at even greater risk. The international NGOs issued a statement May 6 imploring the world…
The Bitter Wisdom of Moshe Dayan
The eulogy famed Israeli military commander Moshe Dayan delivered for Roi Rotberg on April 30, 1956, sixty-nine years ago today, has been called “the defining speech of Zionism.” Like most things having to do with Zionism, it is complicated, at once aspirational…