Over the past few weeks, dozens of Palestinian migrants from the Gaza Strip have been killed or injured while trying to reach Europe by sea. At least 500 Palestinians have gone missing after the boats carrying them sank in the … Continue reading
Anti-Semitism is on the rise in Germany. But is Angela Merkel doing anything about it? With anti-Semitism on the march, Germany’s politicians and opinion makers are grappling with what went wrong with the country’s seven-decade-long struggle to come to terms … Continue reading
The most unconscionable form of child abuse is perhaps the least addressed by human rights organizations: the recruitment and indoctrination of children by jihadi extremists who transform them into suicide bombers and child soldiers. Hamas’s intentional targeting of Israel by … Continue reading
As ISIS slaughters its way though Syria and Iraq, it became inevitable that we’d hear from apologists who claim that ISIS is not in fact “true Islam,” and that its depredations are due to something other than religious motivation. Those motivations, say … Continue reading
The National Lawyers Guild—a hard left assortment of radical lawyers and “legal workers”—is seeking to have President Obama, Secretary of Defense Hagel and members of Congress indicted by the International Criminal Court for “aiding and abetting” genocide, crimes against humanity … Continue reading
Last week, before the Islamic State beheaded its third Westerner, U.S. President Barack Obama announced that, “ISIL is not Islamic. No religion condones the killing of innocents.” Well, not exactly. How often — despite the current spectacle of the Islamic … Continue reading
The hostilities in Gaza between Israel and Hamas persist and the diplomatic war at the United Nations continues, also without resolution. While there is no shortage of opinions on the way forward, the most obvious solution is strikingly absent — … Continue reading
When I read the title of the Italian daily La Repubblica, “Gaza, more than 300 Holocaust survivors against Israel”, I thought, wow! Sorry, the survivors were not “more than 300, not even “300”. There were 20. The others were children … Continue reading
If the West Bank had one quarter of the weapons that the Gaza Strip has, Israel would be eliminated in one day. This is what Hamas leader Mahmoud Zahar told worshippers during a sermon he delivered on September 5. Zahar, … Continue reading
