AT HIS DEATH, Yasser Arafat was viewed in Europe–always his most important constituency outside the Middle East–as the humble and pitiable leader of the dispossessed Palestinian people. But this image does little justice to the magnitude of his achievements. Arafat was the father of modern terrorism, and leaves behind a people ruined almost beyond salvation, […]

Four Israelis were wounded by terrorist gunfire Wednesday evening while travelling on the Kissufim Road – the main vehicular artery serving Gush Katif residents. Terrorists opened fire on Jewish passenger vehicles just west of the Mor Bridge, at the Gush Katif junction, near the entrance to the cluster of Jewish communities in Gaza. The attack […]

Counterterrorism efforts got a major boost last week when an American district court found three Muslim organizations and one individual, mostly based in the Chicago area, guilty of funding Hamas and fined them an astonishing US$156 million. The four were found liable for their roles in the murder of an American teenager, David Boim, on […]

The Muslim Public Affairs Council (MPAC), one of the most adroit and deceptive Islamist groups in America, is preparing its fourth annual convention, which will be held in Long Beach, CA on December 18. It is beyond predictability that this unfortunate event, with participation by some of America’s worst apologists for and adherents of Islamist […]

WASHINGTON, Dec. 13 (JTA) ‘ A Jewish community initiative to bring to justice those who kill Americans overseas has become law. Provisions of a bill spearheaded by the Zionist Organization of America, dubbed the Koby Mandell Act, were incorporated into the omnibus spending bill President Bush signed last week. The provisions would create an Office […]

Even now \u2014 after Arafat, after thousands of Israeli men, women and children have been systematically dismembered, burned and mutilated by the most barbaric terrorist movement in recent memory \u2014 much of the world remains willfully impervious to geopolitical truth. Understood from the standpoint of Biblical imagery, the media generally continues to portray the Palestinians […]

(Washington, D.C.): The plight of Israelis today calls to mind the tongue-in-cheek prayer of Tevye, the hero of “Fiddler on the Roof” who, in light of his people’s suffering, asks the Almighty if someone else could be the chosen people for a while. For years, the people of Israel have voted for leaders who promised […]

So, let us see if we have this straight. The anti-Zionists claim that the Jews have no right to the land of Israel because before Israel was re-created in 1948, it had been almost 1,900 years since the last time the Jews exercised sovereignty over the Land of Israel. And the anti-Zionists claim that it […]

My wife Suri and I moved to the .Big D. four years ago with our children and joined the growing Dallas Jewish community. But our family connection to the big D is older than four years and more than geographic. I am the son of a Democrat, grandson of a Democrat, and great-grandson of a […]

Controversy continues to swirl around the revelations that during the 1930s, Harvard University president James Conant forged friendly ties with senior Nazi officials and Nazi-controlled universities, and even urged a major US corporation not to hire a German Jewish refugee scientist because he was “very definitely of the Jewish type.” At a recent Boston University […]