By: Andrew C. McCarthy – nationalreview.com – October 31, 2023 Our David Zimmermann has reported on FBI Director Chris Wray’s acknowledgment in today’s Senate testimony that antisemitic threats are reaching historic highs. Wray has further testified that terrorist threats against the United States have also skyrocketed. The increase is obviously triggered by the outbreak of war in the Middle East,...

Your intentions were noble. You wanted to make the country and the world a better place.  You wanted to be more enlightened than your narrow-minded parents. From your perspective — influenced by teachers and professors — your parents and grandparents are the reason we live in a systemically racist, oppressive country.

By: Rich Lowry – nationalreview.com – October 29, 2023 The Al-Aqsa Mosque compound in the Old City of Jerusalem sits atop the site of the Second Temple, the central place for Jewish worship before its destruction during the Roman siege of Jerusalem in 70 C.E. One wonders if any of the people braying about the alleged “settler colonialism” of Israel...

By: Charles C. W. Cooke – nationalreview.com – October 26, 2023 Do you remember what it was like to visit a website in the summer of 2020? It didn’t matter what the purpose of the site was — banking, shopping, cloud services. For a while, it was almost guaranteed that, somewhere on the homepage or the log-in screen, there would...

For Israel, more delays in invading Gaza and destroying Hamas’ ability to commit new acts of terror against the Jewish state is only one of several considerations faced by Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his military leaders.

With one exception, nothing about Oct. 7 surprised me. The one exception was Israel’s unpreparedness.

By: Lance Morrow – wsj.com – October 24, 2023 A decent conscience, uncontaminated by ideology, knows what it is looking at. The torments that Hamas “militants” inflicted on Oct. 7—mass slaughter, rape, the beheading and incineration of babies—amounted to behavior that the high court of any uncorrupted intelligence in the world would describe as evil. What other word would be...

Just as mainstream Republicans confronted right-wing antisemitism after the Charlottesville rally, mainstream Democrats must now confront left-wing antisemitism.

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – October 18, 2023 The mainstream-media outlets that raced to affirm Hamas’s version of events in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday afternoon now appear to be complicit in an unmitigated debacle. The New York Times, Reuters, the Associated Press, PBS, the BBC, and many others raced to repeat with utterly undue credulity the claim that...

By: Noah Rothman – nationalreview.com – October 23, 2023 The 18-to-24 cohort isn’t evaluating events in Israel on their merits but filtering them through the intellectual ‘framework’ of lies they’ve been taught. The monthly Harvard/Harris survey conducted in the wake of the Hamas-perpetrated massacre of over 1,400 Israelis on October 7 has good news and bad news for those who...